Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-09
GRANITE MINERS UNION.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED RELATIVE
TO THE WARDNER AFFAIR.

AZ A11H NAfOON EH Ar <A1Ibs
The following resolutions We're passed
by the Granite Miners union at its last,
meeting: i
Realizing that the very existence TT lib
erty depends upon the united action of
those opposed to tyranny n oppression,
We, the Granite Miners union of Gigantic,
Montana, define our position on the at
tempt to subjugate our brother miners in
the adjoining state of Idaho, as follows:
Believing that on the present struggle
depends the very right to life of those
who toll. we assert that the time is past
for Indifference and inaction on u part,
and we wish to be placed on the side of
those who are suffering for the cause of
human liberty. For years capitalists
have been using the fruits of labor to
degrade the laborer and to fasten upon
him a system of slavery of the most
dangerous type that ever threatened
the people, yet disguised in its insidious
nature and defended by the sophistry of
those who believe it's continuance to be
to their profit, thus making; radical ac-
ton necessary to arouse the public mind
and fix the public eye upon the enOrmi-
ties of the system which is degrading our
manhood, d~ebauching our womanhood,
filling jails, poor houses and dens of har-
lotry, placing a premium on perjury,
lultN6Uy anu all else lldU is VIE anu ue-
| grading.
We fully realize that the evils of injus-
tice may be remedied by just legislation,
but we know also that just legislation has
sometimes been frustrated to such an
/! extent by the wiles of avarice and OPP
preston that physical force becomes nee
essary to remove the obstruction. Should
| such an mergenc arise we shall try to
prove ourselves liberty-loving to the same
extent as those Of &c, who endured the
privations of seven years of war for the
sake of liberty.
In order that those who are directly in
terested in the present struggle may have
the full assurance of our hearty sympa-
thy n that the blame for the preser1
conditions in Idaho may be placed where
it belongs, we hereby append the follow
ing resolutions:
Resolved. That while we regret at all
times the destruction of life and property,
we feel that the responsibility should rest
with those who, taking advantage of a
position obtained by unjust laws, are
grinding the faces of the poor.
Resolved, That we hereby tender our
sympathy to the brave boys who are
suffering imprisonment at Wardner and
elsewhere, and call upon you to stand
firm, be the cost what it may, remember
ing that at all times liberty is preferable
to slavery. Hf.t :
heSoiNGu, ludL we urge our DrOtherS
throughout the union to reflect on the ex-
%perience of the union men of Leadville,
in the Occur d'Alenes, Homestead, Ha-
zelton and in every instance where the
laboring man, battling for his very life,
has been opposed by the capitalist, bat
Ting for dividends. We entreat the
w%orkingmen to give the question of self
preservation that consideration which it
deserves. We beg emembrance Of the
fact that blood has been poured out like
water in deliverance of one foreign peo-
pie and the attempted ~subjugation of
another; that the uplifting of American
manhood is at least worthy of as great a
sacrifice as We're the half-caste natives
of Cuba or the extention of our CONNER
cial territory into the Philippines, and
we urge every brother to prepare him
self, in contemplation at least, for the
crash that must inevitably come before
liberty, humanity and justice can resume
their sway on this continent. We de-
plore the fact that our western work
insmen, though guiltless of aught save
membership in a noble organization, have
been denied rights which are granted to
even the lowest criminals: that they have
been kidnapped and dragged beyond the
jurisdiction of our courts and the con-
fines of our state by the Representatives
OLA shoulder-strapped brute, acting un-
der instructions of a political mounte-
Jain \WHo YVES ILLS cleN dtlOH 10 the votes
of W~orkingmen and incidentally to the
protecting folds of a magnificent set of
false colors, which he has lately doffed),
whose sworn duty it was to protect them
in the enjoyment of the privileges of
American citizenship. We extend our
sympathy to other citizens of the State of
Montana on having as chief executive one
whose actions are more in keeping with
the behavior of a ward heller than with
that Of a governor of a great common
wealth., n we desire to express lin SO
far as the English language will permit
of our contempt and loathing for an Of
ficer who will violate his solemn oath of
office in his frantic desire to curry favor
with the classes, and who, as if to show
his ability to fathOm the lowest depths
of dishonor, sits smirkingly and receives
congratulations on the possession OF a
virtue that is as foreign to him as wool ia
a pigs back. May we never see his like
again."