Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-30

law. to rob an innocent man of his lib
erty Is a graver crime than the BLOWN;
up of a mill. 1t is pleaded in extenuatio,
.hat II the arrests had not been mad,
ny the wholesale the guilty men woul,
nave escaped. The probability of escap,
is attendant upon every crime. The al
most impossibility of securing evidenc,
mere without some coercion may also b.
Dreaded in palliation, or as an excuse
but with all that, liberty is supposed tC
De a sacred thing and there is no gainsay.
ing the fact that men who were not con.
cerned in that riot and knew nothing OF
IL were cast into prison on the hypothesis
that probably they might know.
1t is not at all improbable that some of
the innocent men, to which Mr.. Hamilton
alludes, We're the parties arrested inMon-
taha and dragged out of the state. in VIC
iatlon of law, on the grounds that pos
slbly they might know something direct
ly or indirectly about the Bunker Hill af-
fair. and Who will be permitted to rot in
the bull pens at Wardner before the DEM
ocratic governor of this state will insti-
tute an investigation to see whether an
injustice is being done a sovereign citizen
of this imperial commonwealth. ri
rs one of the results Of his careful and
systematic investigation into the Idaho
troubles, Mr.. Hamilton finds that behind
the movement which ~inaugurated martial
law lies Governor Steunenberg's plan to
destroy the Miners union. He says:
Having the military force here the gov
ernor put in charge men who are thor
oughly hostile to the miners. thoroughly
in harmony with the effort of the nine
owners to crush out the union. The has
been little masking of the fact thai one
great object of the present movement is
10 drive most of the union miners now
mere out OF the country and supply their !
places with non-union men. Whether the
accomplishment of hat object would bet
Ter conditions here need not be discussed. /,
While Mr.. Hamilton finds the forego-
ing true, and that union miners are not
to work unless they renounce
the union, he also discovers that the
union cooks and the union pumpmen are
compelled to work, whether or no.. for
people must eat and the water must be
kept out of the mines. The Examiners
representative does not blame the mine
owners for taking advantage of the stu
alton brought about by Governor Steun-
snberg, as the following indicates:
They hardly can be blamed, for the
union rode them with whip and
spur when the union was in power and
control.
According to Mr.. Hamilton, opinions
AIRY as to the duration of martialtilaw in
county, ranging from two to-
i've years. 1t is quite likely, in view Of
he situation outlined by that gentleman,
nat the governor of Idaho will insist
pom the necessity of federal protection
ntil after the next Legislative assembly
t that state shall have had an opport1inE s
Y to amend the laws governing the rela-
lons of min owners and their employees.
he permit system now in operation un- t
err martial law is in direct violation of .
ne Idaho statutes, and can be main |
aimed only while the state laws are sus- /
ended. 1t is undoubtedly the purpose Of !
the powers that be" to revise the state I
SO as to destroy the influence of the .
Mon in the Occur d'Alenes after the s
lilitary shall have been finally with $
rawn. To this end the democratic adj Y
Illustration of that state is diligently
orking. '