Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-23
In the Chinese Boycott Cases
Of This City.
COL. SANDERS AT THE BAT
He ROasts the Labor Organizations
and Newspapers in His
Usual Vein,

Judge Henry n. Blake. special examiner
in the Chinese boycott cases., testimony IN
which was taken several months ago,
heard the tina arguments in the matter
in the United States court room this
morning.
The arguments We're made by Col. w. F.
Sander who represented the Chinese and
]. L.. Wines who appeared for BALDWIN,
Walters, Weldon ct al, the defendants.
Col. Sander in his remarks paid his re-
spects to the labor organizations of the
district, which he said were responsible
for a reign of terror in Butte, and also
denounced the newspapers, which, he
said, had cowardly refrained FROM conn
menting on the gross injustices to which
the Chinese were subjected.
THAT is only a feeble expression of
the facts tina exist here" said the colo
mel. Il hope to be able to convince my
friend Judge Blake and Judge Knowles
that we live in a community where the
rights of the humble people are just as
sacred as the rights of the millionaire. The
community in which they (the Chinese)
live has reached such a conclusion and
the ~disgraceful proceedings which were
conducted up to April 1897 will no longer
be tolerated.. The redress which the Chin
ese ask should be granted. AS to the
question of damages done by reason of the
boycott l desire to say that this is not an
action to recover damages. Damages
We're alleged merely to show that there
was a basis upon which to rest al i%njunc-
finr 7 licrpicC uithn1t nnn,r mont fbn at.
tempt made to saddle the boycott on dead
men, on Walters who committed suicide
and on others who ran away and left the
country. l maintain that all the defend
ants were in the conspiracy"
Attorney j. l.. Wines said that it would
be idle for him to claim that a Chinaman
had a less right in this country than 9TH
ers. That was not the law, but in a case
like his one, before a court of equity can
interfere there must be certain well es-
tablished facts brought out before the re-
lief is granted. The creation of labor Or
CARNATIONS is not unlawful in this state,
regardless of the business Of such organi-
cation. 1t is declared, in his state
that organizations have the right to
make rules for the maintenance of wages
and they are also permitted to fix the
hours of labor. One of the defendants may
be a membe Of the Cooks and Walters
union, announcer may DelOnS TO the Laun-
drymen's Union, another to the Clerks
Assembly, but Mr.. Wines maintained that
it must be shown by evidence hat that
particular defendant has in some way vio-
lated the laws of the country. The fact
that a banner was carried through the
streets of the city proclaiming a boycott
on the Chinese was not sufficient. 1t must
be shown that every member of such a
union was a party to the boycott.
Mr.. Wines said that the gist OF the
complaint was that a conspiracy had been
formed, or a combination Of purpose n
intent entered into in the doing of these
things. The testimony, he said, had failed
to show that the defendants with one or
two eXceptions) had anything to do with
the carrying of banners through the
streets. The evidence, he claimed showed
that with tho exception of Baldwin, Wal
ters and Shafer, the other defendants had
no connection whatever with the printing
Of dodgers, the printing or carrying of
banners or the hiring of men to stand in
front of the business Houses of the Chin
csc to prevent customers pa tronizing them.
After the arguments had been conclud-
ed the attorneys agreed to present briefs
within the next ten days for the purpose
of agreeing upon the findings of fact.