The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
THE IDAHO
OUTRAGE
The Public Should Know That the
Mckinley Administration Is Fight
ing Standard Oil Battles Against
Labor With Union TrOOps-DO We
Want Standing Army:

That you play the part of mounte-
bank of sentiment-of an apostle of
clap-trap in your message, when you
SO mourn over the grievous conditions
of things Cuban and Filipinan, has
proof of what has for six months and
more gone forward in Idaho, under
your own eye and by your own COM
mand. The Verdict will not trust it.
self to tell the tale. 1t will turn over
that story's infamies and crimes and
yillianies in their recital to the more
gloved and wool-footed methods Of the
New York World. That publication
and it has been long enough by months
In getting to this story-says:
Three days after the blowing up Of the
mill 70 men were arrested on blanket war
rants" day or two later 100 regular
soldiers and number Of deputies went
from Wallace to Burke a mining camp
where the union miners were dominate.
Deputies swept the town. taking every man
In stght-miners, doctors, gamblers,
school teachers, saloon keepers, merchants
Migrants ~and unfortunate drummers who
happened to be on the streets. Some $50
WcI0 lAhcu III lulS maui. Inc pOpuIatlOn OF
Burke is perhaps 600. The raid at Burke
was repeated at Gem, Mullen and Wardner.
Wallace, being more commercial town,
escaped the dragnet Nobody was arrested
here who was careful not to criticise the
coup Dictate or to express sympathy for
organized labor, Prisoners came in fast,
and 1t became a serious question how to
house them. For three weeks hundreds
were kept In box cars on the track at
Wardner, guarded by negro troops. For
weeks others were crowded into two STORY
barn. One cannot more than hint at the
conditions prevailing from this herding of
men E5th9qs seniaEx H aEEnaangsmsnta ara a., ia a
indigestible food Not one Of these men
was indicted not one was given opportunity
to communicate with counsel. Among them
were probably the men who blew up the
mill, but there were hundreds who were
wholly innocent, and these were held weeks
and months without recourse to the courts.
In New York now and then a respectable
man or woman gets locked up in a police
station over night through the stupidity or
malice of a policeman. Here in the Occur
d'Alene nearly 1000 men have been impris-
oned for terms ranging from three weeks
to seven months. Less than so were ever
indicted. NJ. J. Devine. a miner and pros
pector, was out in the mountains at the in
ception Of the labor troubles. When the
Bunker Hill mill was destroyed he was in
the hospital ill, and was wholly ignorant of
the hospital still weak, but convalescent
He was arrested in Wallace, imprisoned
first in freight car, then in the pen, re-
fused transfer to the hospital, and at last
died OF neglect: No inquest was ever held
on the body of Devine, nor has any effort
been made to fix the responsibility for his
death Thomas Heeney was sheriff Of
Shoshone, his term expiring Jan. 1, 1892
He is a man of substance, an owner of
mining property and improved real estate
10 hac hoo
mine owner no more bitter condemnation of
the men who blew up the mill than from
him. Il had been away on a business trip
several weeks before the trouble he said
'On the day of the outrage l was attending
to my own affairs at Wallace, did not 20
to Wardner, and was never accused Of
having been there. After the trouble
went on with my usual work until the 23d
OF June, or nearly two months later, when
l met two deputies on the street. one of
whom was the man l beat when l ran for
ONCE He put me under arrest at once and
took me down to the prison. didn't bother
much, for had plenty of influential friends
and that l could show myself clear of any
completely in the dynamiting; but I
found out my mistake pretty quick I
couldn't get any talk with the mine man.
ayers. When one of my friends, man who
employs 90 or 20 men, talked to them about
me he was told, You shut up or we'll put
you where he is.' The prison-bull pen
they call twas worse than any description
l have ever seen printed Of it. The court
yard was so small that it was almost i'm
possible to move about, and in midsummer
the rays OF the sun and the stencil of the hip
gang Of prisoners made the air intolerable
We slept on board shelves covered with
straw. There was no way for air to get
into the shacks, and hot nights they were
nninhabitable When it came time for
raticns we all fell into line and our DOR
tions were showed out of a window as we
passed. There was no mess hail. so men
ate wherever they could find room, with
the result that the yard and the sleeping
rooms We've always Uttered with scraps OF
Iood which purified. Part Of the time I
was tnere the colored troops guarded the
pen. those fellows were mere brutes.
Iney had no pity or fellow feeling for
prisoner, but beat and cursed them with
=. pull.y n Inc omcers at no time seemed
10 snow tne slightest interest in the con-
o1tion OF the prisoners. We seldom saw
commissioned officer, and dared not sneak
TO one II he appeared.
HOW ABOUT THAT "BARBARIsM9v
< You are and were responsible for tho
: a0ove villiany. You were commander
1n-cn1ef of the army, and take occasion
IN your message to remind congress Of
tnat SAD yet military fact. And YOU
personally knew of all that's above re-
iated at the time, for United States Sem
ator Heitfield, with a committee. noti-
neo you And you did nothing. And
Jou say nothing about this brilliant
1dano campaign. where the federal
oayonet by your decision fought tho
Iascai battle OF the Standard Oil, and
trampled the law and the constitution
into the mud to do it. Speaking Of the
constitution! did you ever read that
neglected document? Tell one. if Won
nave now you could arrest and hold
men days, weeks months. without pro-
cess, charge or trial; hold them till thev