Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13

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trust that is prosecuting them. The halls
OF the various unions were entered, their
furniture smashed, their safes taken to
military headquarters and money and
DOCKS co~nfiscated in hopes of finding or
manufacturing evidence sufficient to Sc
cure a conviction.
IN Ohlo tins same company refused to
produce it's books in court when ordered
to do so. and openly defied the attorney
general TO compel them to produce any
OF their records. Afterwards, according
TO the of this grand officer,
the trust officials tried to bride him., but
he spurned their bride and refused to be-
tray the people. In this he is different
from the Idaho officials. In all ages the
courts have been the bulwarks of plu-
tocraoy. Behind their silken robes the
lesalized robber found a safe retreat
IRON the wrath of an outraged people,
where ne could with impunity transgress
upon their most sacred rights and feel
perfectly secure. But the people will not
always continue to build palatial man
SONS for the lords of horded wealth, while
they live in novels. They will not con-
tlnue to cultivate the magnificent valleys
and surrender the product to those who
neither SOW nor reap, to live in luxury,
while they starve for the necessaries of
life. The miners Will not forever continue
to delve down into the rocky chambers
VI thSSV SISdl IlOulltd!IlS dlteIueu ny
all the danger of their vocation and with
their strong. brawny arms drag forth
treasures to fill the Golfers of Shylock in
ms ellded den on Wall street, while many
or their comrades are tramps on the high
way. pursued by a cruel and damnable
blacklist from which there is no escape.
1jey Will not always stand idly by and
see 400 of their fellow men incarcerated in
a stockade built by the Standard Oil
trust. guarded by colon'ed troops, denied
the Ugh to consult with counsel or to
see their wives and children. Surely the
day is not far distant when men will not
be forced to sign away their independ-
ence IN order to obtain permission to seek
employment in any portion of this once
land of freedom. Surely the day is not
far distant when a working man will not
be compelled to organized labor
as a criminal association to keep the
famls'led Wolf Of hunger from the door.
The conduct of Governor Steunenberg
and General Merriam surpasses anything
that has ever been attempted in the
world. History does not record an in
stance when it WAS necessary for a work.
ing man TO secure a permit to seek en-
5ploymen in any country under the sun,
except IN ldaio. where a democratic gov
erncr has descended to the lowest depths
of depraNlty in conjunction with a gem
aral Of the army to compel workingmef
to first obtain their permission before ac-
cepting employment.
Should a wOrkilgrnan violate this edict
he is arrested and thrown INTO a filthy
bastlle and treated 10 the severest cru
city, from its effects FIVE have already
died-and kept there without further
hearing. We fiatter ourselves that we
are not as other people are, tamely sub-
hitting to oppressiOn; yet we sit idly by
and witness such acts Of insolence and
barbarlsm. which, if attempted in Eng
land, the people would rise in their wrath
and upset the throne if the wrong were
not adjusted. But here we 60 no fur
Their than to resolve that we are not in
favor Of such cruel treatment Of prison
ers, and order the resolutions published
in the plutOcratic press that never neg
lects an opportunity to vilify labor, and
another sent to the president at Wash
lngton, a nan who is owned body and
soul by the capitalistic classes, and by
his sanction upholds the action of General
Merriam in his attempt to disrupt organ
lied Tabor. and keeps part of the regular
army in Idaho for tina purpose. But
neither the regular army nor the Stand
ard Oil trust can disrupt orga nized labor
in that state. There the miners know
their rights and will not surrender them
to any trust. though they lay in Jail al
their lives.
Those men are denounced, ridiculed and
apoSS" ~ q tl1c pltSS Nlle Ddpc1S VI
your city excepted-they lave upon this
occasion os on others treated organized
labor honOrablS), because they refused tC
surrender every right that belongs tc
free men and accept the edict of the
Standard Oil trust. and in the same issue
write meaningless editorials against
trusts in order to deceive and blindfold
the public.
Notwithstanding this TRADE of abuse
organized labor in every state in the
union is in full sympathy with those
brave men and good women: inside of 81
days the name of each prisoner viii
decorate the halls of every labor organ.
ization in the United States, to be pre-.
served and honored by future generations
who will point to them with the same
kindly feeling as we love to point to thu
names of John Brown, Lincoln, Phillips
Garrison, LoNejoy and teach each gen.
GRAFTON how those noble men fought fol
the liberation of four million slaves. how
they We're hated by the tories of theil
time and abused by the plutocratic press
how they We're mobbed executed and as.
sassinated for declaring that property ir
man was a crime and slavery should
never exist on American soil. The name.
of the martyrs in the Standard Oil stock.
AIDE will go down in history as the heroe:
of the closing days of the nineteenth cen.
fury from whence shall spring an i'm
petus that will cement the laboring mel
together. and if bound by hooks of stee
and in a forward movement guided b,
wisdom and intelligence construct the
fire upon which organized greed which
has deSpoiled American freedom and de
faced the goddess of liberty by legalizet
robbery shall pass beyond the lines o
our great country. the richest under tn,
SUM-. l do not claim that laboring mel
are infailible and incapable of commit
ting wrong. they have for years com
mitted an objectionable wrong for which
there is no excuse, for such commission
generations yet unborn shall suffer. the!