The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
BUTTE NEWS.
BREEN HAS ONE REGRET
Officers of the Bunker Hill Should
Have Been Killed.
VIGOROUS PROTEST MADE
Judge Clancy and Others Denounce Mil
itarlsm in the Occur d'Alenes
and Defend the
Union.
VIGOROUS PROTEST MADE

night under the auspices of the labor
unions for the purpose of protesting
against the military rule in the Occur
dAlene country and to call on President
Mckinley to withdraw the troops was
an emphatic demonstration. The meet
ing was held in the open air at the cor
ner of Broadway and Hamilton streets,
where a stand for the speakers had
been erected When the speaking be-
gan a mass of people filled the street
The speeches were vigorous and the
resolutions that We're adopted and later
telegraphed to the president were en-
phatic and to the point.
Mayor Mccarthy presided and opened
the meeting with a brief statement of
the objects of the popular gatherlng.
The speakers were Judge W1iilain
Clancy, Secretary of State T. S. Hogan
and Hon. Peter Breen. Judge Clancy
was the first speaker introduced and he
spoke, in substance, as follows:
Judge Clancy.
yellow Citizens: I will address you
briefly tonight on the labor troubles at
wardner, Idaho There was an ancient
refoTmer-a Nazarene-WhoS spoke OF the
laborers hire. He said the lord of the
vineyard went early in the morning to
hire Iaborers to work all day in his
vineyard and he did hire them to work
all day for a penny. And again, he
went out at the 18th hour and hired
more laborers. and paid the last first,
penny, the same as those who labored
all day. Those who labored all day
murmured and complained and went
on strike. Here was the first labor
strike ! know of, and it was about the
hon Of nrty Thnxy
and the laborers only got penny
day, and had to work whatever hours
the boss said they must work. The
strife has been going on ever since. On
the part of the lord of the vineyard he
has been contending for longer hours
of labor and less pay, and the laborer
has been contending for shorter hours
and better pay.
THE strife between capital and Ia
Dor was sharp and fierce long before
Columbus discovered the new world.
Long years ago, before the United
States government was formed, the rich
lords in England and other nations of
Europe had laws passed making 1t a
felony to be a member of a working
mans union. But about a hundred
years ago those laws We're repealed and
ever since workinmen's unions have
been gaining favor and their wages
have been steadily advancing upward
from a penny a day, and the hours are
shorter than they used to be. AS wages
are good and times prosperous working
mems unions multiply and numbers in
crease. Now in most of the states of
the union we have laws protecting en-
ployers and employees. They have such
law in our neighboring state of Idaho.
You will find the law at page 1852 of
Session Laws, Idaho, 1885, AS it is
only of two sections will read it:
"'Section l. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to
make or enter into any agreement, either
oral, or in writing, by the terms of
which any employe of such person, firm
or corporation, or any person about to
enter the employ of such person, firm
or corporation, as condition for continu-
ing or obtaining such employment, shall
promise or agree not to become or con-
tinue a member of a labor organization
Section 2. Any person or persons
or corporation violating the provisions
of section / of this act shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in a sum not less
than $50 nor more than $500, or be I'M
prisoned in the county Jail for not more
than six months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
AT Wardner Idaho, some hot-headed
miners destroyed property, as a lawless
lot of men, at times, go together and
commit crime, such as they have done
from time to time in the several states
of the union But, mark you, the
Miners union at Wardner, as a union
had nothing whatever to do with this
lawless act; did not advise or direct
1t; they knew it was wrong to destroy
property, and at no time advised Of
agreed to anything Of that kind, as
am Informed and believe. But to de
feat the Idaho laws referred to, the
governor of that state, in collusior
with the mine owners, called in United
States soldiers and martial law was de
clared and the writ of habeas corpus
was suspended; and the Idaho court
decided that martial law, not civil law
rules, and the law l have read
you is set aside and a dead letter to.
day in Idaho, and before any miner car
get a days work In the mines al Ward.
ner he must, under the law of military
rule sign contract agreeing tC
withdraw from the Miners union and
never again join the union
do you see the game the rich corpo-
rationS are trying to play on the
Miners union? Do you see how the
sagebrush governor and General Mer-
Ram are trying to break up the Miners
union? Governors are sworn tc
see to the enforcement of these laws
and yet you see how the governor Of
Idaho sets the law aside Down With al
such governors, Workngmen, stand t
your unions. Stand by the men in th'
breach at Wardner The anarchists G
wealth are worse than the crazed mol
who destroyed the works al Wardner
L will not speak longer. and bid yot
goodnight. and give place to some 0
the many speakers here waiting"
Secretary of State Hogan.
Secretary of State Hogan was re
ceived with loud cheers when he ap
peared. Mr.. Hogan said that not only
was II the duty of the people TO protec
the miners imprisoned in Wardner. bu
TO protect the citizens generally. 1t wa
the duty. he said, to determine Wher,
the responsibility for the outrages com
mitted upon the shackled miners rest
1T is our right to know" he said. Il
is not our place to appeal to the presi
dent for the release of the innoCen
prisoners and the withdrawal of the
dierE-a nnna Is in such lirecti ON d u :.