Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-26
Saturday Evenings Great In
dignati0n Meeting.
BREEN MAKES A SPEECH
Says a Mistake Was Made When the
Bunker Hill Officers We're Not
Blown Up With the Mill.

which vigorous speeches, antagonistic to
military rule in the Occur d'Alenes, were
! made and strong resolutions, requesting
the withdrawal Of the federal troops from
the scene of the disturbance. We're adopt
ed at the conclusion of the meeting,
! and telegraphed to President Mckinley.
1t was the biggest labor demonstration
that has been held in Butte for some time.
The Boston & Montana band was in at
tendance, parading the streets prior to
the meeting and finally taking it's station
at the foot of the temporary speakers
stand, which had been erected just in
front Of the Hamilton block. The street
was packed with men who We're evidently
thoroughly in sympathy with the senti-
| ments Of the speakers.
The meeting was presided over by
Mayor Mccarthy and on the platform
with him We're Secretary Of State I. s.
Hogan, Judge William Clancy, Ed. Boyce
plesiden: of the Western Federation of
| Miners, Dan Mcdonald, president Of the
Western Labor Union, and Hon. Peter
Breen, prominent in labor circles. Presi-
| dent Mcdonald called the meeting to or
der and introduced the chairman Mayor
Mccarthy. who after a brief speech Of
! welcome, introduced the first speaker,
Judge Clancy.
Touching upon the Occur d'Alene
troubles Judge Clancy said that at Ward
ner some hot-headed miners destroyed
some property, but the Miners Union had
nothing to. do with this lawless act, and
did not. advise or direct it. He was Of
the opinion that the object of Governor
Steunenberg's call for federal troops was
the breaking up of the Wardner Miners
union. Governors said he "are sworn
to see to the enforcement of these laws,
and yet you see how the governor Of
Idaho sets this law aside. Down with all
such governors! Workingmen, stand to
your unions. Stand by the men in the
wealth are worse than the crazed mob
who destroyed the works at Wardner."
Secretary OF State, Hogan, was then in
troduced. He said it should not be an
appeal but rather, a demand, that inno-
cent prisoners be released and that the
soldiers be Withdrawn from Idaho. The
constitution of the United States did not
warrant the present condition of affairs
IN Idaho, mo man." said he "believes in
Wanton destruction, but we know that
no less a parsonage than George Wash
lngton destroyed property. Rather
stain the canyons of Idaho with the
blood of innocence than permit men to
be harnessed like mules to the cart of
corporate oppression and greed. This
is a question of human rights and in
dividual liberty
The Hon. Peter Breen spoke for imme-
diate action. He said a principle was at
stake and 10 one regretted the existent
Mckinley.
He would call off his dogs if he could
do SO gracefully. 1t is universally Begin
ming to be understood that military rule
is being riveted upon the people all over
the country. Men who stand high in the
councils Of the nation are protesting
against military and despotic rule II y
- General Merriam and Governor
Steunenberg made the excuses that they
are acting in the capacity of protectors
of the people and of their property. but
the fact is they are committing misde-
meanors. l respect their authority, but
l respect the men and women of Idaho
more"
Mr.. Breen said the only mistake made
was that the officers and owners Of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill did not go
up with the mill.
I'VE all looked at our papers to see how
much destruction our navy had wrought
to the Spanish boats and other property.
l say, if all the officers and owners of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan property had gone
up in the explosion, there would not be
this handshaking and congratulating
among those autocrats who are today
glorying in the face Of the distress they
have occasioned in Wardner. Conditions,
l say. might have been different, but as it
is this state of affairs will continue just
as long as we allow it to exist
The speaker referred to Governor
Smiths action in permitting the arrest of
laboring men in Montana by federal au-
thorities and predicted that if President
Mckinley paid no attention to the protest
he would meet the same fate as befell
Harrison inc Cleveland. He then read
the following resolutions:
Whereas, AT a mass meeting of the
citizens of Butte. Mont, called by the
Miners union and the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor assembly Saturday evening,
June "a. 1889, in the interest Of the iinp,is.
oned citizens of Wardner, IDAHO. the sew
eral speakers presented the horribly bru-
tai and unprecedented conditions and
sufferings of the imprisoned men and the
%tyrannical, unjust and un-American man.
date of that military despot, General
Merriam, permitted and encouraged by
Governor Steunenberg, to-wit: That
American citizens presumed to be entit-
led to the full enjoyment of their consti-
tutional rights, against whom there is not
the slightest evidence of the commission
of any offense against the laws of the
land and who are held in the Wardner
"bull pen" for no other reason than that
they belong to a labor organization, are
so held and tortured to wiring from their
lips words which might be used to estab-
lish their guilt, under conditions which
makes the Spanish inquisition pale into
insignifcsnce, conditions that have re-
suited in the untimeiy death Of the fol-
lowing named men: Thomas Cavan-
augh, Matt Johnson. Michael Devine,
Frank BaIonia and Charles McMiilen;
the brutality exercised by the military
authorities over these men in their dying
moments by being denied the visits of
friends and the hereto inalienable right