The record-union., 1899-06-22

the Occur d'A1enes knows It was con-
ceived, planned and executed by the
Miners Union of the Coeur d Alenes
All of the unions in that region met
in respective lodgeroonns on the morn
ing Of April 10Th, at which meetings
resolutions were passed to proceed to
Wardners to give the Wardner Union
their moral support.
The Mullan Union marched on foot
seven miles to meet the stolen train at
the proper time. Members of the
Wardner Union were instructed to go
up the road to meet the train and
board it.
The Mullan Union started from Null
Ian unarmed, but before reaching Wal
lace they debouched to field where ri
fies We're cached, rifles stolen from the
militia armory some time before, and
after arming and masking, resumed
their journey to meet and board the
train. On arriving at Wardner they
"Wardner to the front" then Burke,
by which names the unions were called.
Ascertaining that the. mill was aban-
doned, orders were given to bring
in the powder. The result is the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan office was
Quilted, all the valuable records anu
papers of the company were wantof1ly
destroyed, coal oil was poured on this
building and the boarding house, and
the match was applied. Two men were
murdered.
The official organ of the western
Federation of Miners, edited by Sover-
eign, who accompanied the rioters and
was an eye witness, boldly claimed for
the miners unions credit for the
magnificent demonstration
These are facts susceptible of demon
stration and proof Are you prepared
to say that Governor Steunenbers
erred in declaring shoshone County in
a state of insurrection? Are you pre-
pared, from your standpoint of journal
ist, to follow the lead of Sovereign and
Royce in their un-American anarch-
istlc declarations? Can the Examiner"
afford to uphold such crimes and ap-
plaud such methods?
For seven years reign of terror has
existed in Shoshone County, This is
the second time mills have been blown
up and men have been murdered by
such magnificent demonstrations and
the second time that region has been
placed under martial law The labor
agitators of the Western Federation of
Miners assert that the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan Company is responsible for all
this because that company has persist
emily refused to recognize the miners
unions or acceded to their demands.
Leaving out of consideration whether,
under the Constitution, an individual
or company may be permitted to op-
crate his or it's mines according to the
dictates of his or it's own Judgment;
leaving out of consideration the justice
or injustice of the demands of the min
ers' unions. can you justify or palliate
the acts of July, 1892, or April 20,
1899, and give countenance to this
method of redressing real or imaginary
wrongs?
With regard to the suppression of the
Mullan Mirror can you conceive Of
a newspaper, in the strained conditions
existing in Shoshone County, malicious
ly endeavoring to incite new violence,
applauding murdererS as heroes, be-
coming so intolerabl a nuisance and
a threat, attempting by every means
within its power to thwart the restora-
tion of order and preservation of peace.
that the exigencies Of martial law
might demand its suppression? Such
a paper is the Mullan Mirror" and
such were the reasons for it's suppress
sion. No good citizen objects to labor
organizing for lawful purposes, but
when a, few isolated organizations, hav-
ing the power by reason Of the defense
xI-a
they are lodged, take the law into their
own hands and perpetrate such crimes
as were committed in the name of or
ganized labor at Wardner on April
29th, it is high time that a drastic REM
edy should be applied.
And when a newspaper published in
community which is under martial
law, declared and maintained by the