The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-05-06
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Canyon Greek and Mullan miners blow
up coneentrators and shoot InofFensiv'
persons because they have bpan incits,
to these mad crimes By incendlaFy agi
tators. Hang these mnrderOns agitatoFs
) and the CB1r d'Alens problem will b,
solved.-spokans SpOkesman.Rsvisw
The more one reflects upon the sAtall
cal crime pe-petrated BY the striking
miners at wardner. the more startling
i lie effect upon the cool. Intelligent
mind. These infatuated fiends. perhaps
now realizing that they have killed the
goose that laid the golden egg. may, in
their desperation. resort to other erimi.
nally destructive aets.-Portland Tele-
gram.
II 10 rather interesting than otherwise
to note that Sheriff Yong Of War,lner,
who has been notifying the state author
tiles that he Is abundantly able to pro-
teet lives and property in his Jurisdiction
was passenger both going and coming
on the stolen train that carried the mob
10 Wardner junction on their way to de-
stroy the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill.
Seattle Post-lntelligeneer.
It l. the duty Of labor organizations
everywhere to cultivate those principles
10 Law and respect for the rights Of life
and property ~ will make such occur
rences ~ the Idaho outrage impossible.
Unless the labor organizations Of the
country-and particularly those Il the
west-promptly and emphatically dis
claim all sympathy with the murderOns
and wanton acts Of last Saturday, the
eauss Of labor can not but suffer severely.
-TAeoma Ledger.
As between government Of anarchy
and murderous tyranny such m the
Ceur d'Alene agisators would set up II
they had the opportunity, and a govern
ment by military dictatorship, the Amer
can people. II driven to the choice, would |
take the latter evil. The murderous ef-
iorts Of the Canyon creek mob. 90 far as
they 60, are therefore making for the de-
OF free government under the
and the substitution therefor OF
1 military dictatorship. Labor has no
more vicions advisers and no greater
enemy than the violent agitators Of the
Ceur Observation-Disclosures.
Hardly has the demand for troops
ceased in the Philippines when riot in
,ne Of the mountain states requires the
Of all available United
States forces to protect property. Such
conduct ON the part Of ALLEGED labor Or
,aniIations does more to destroy the
Of the public and to tear
Town more in day than all the labor
Of the country can build up
n a decade. Here was no dispute over
RACES nor employment-simply a ques-
ion Of promulgating organized orders,
md because the owners Of these mines
objected, ''mob" Of . thousand men
destroyed . quarter Of million dollars
Vorth OF property. and killed several
Times.
Nothing has happened at Wardner but
he expected. Civilization stands aghast
md dumfounded at the brute frenzy and
disregard Of law shown by the idaho
miners when they go out on a strike.
Their conduct is unexplainable by ordi-
lary men, because it proceeds from mo-
ives and impulses to which the ordinary
nan is stranger. The phenomena Of
are as ineomprehensible to rs
g are those Of France in the Dreyius
ase to the Anglo Saxon mind with its
everenee for Law and impassiOned devo-
ion to justice. 1t is as hard to offer any
for recurTance Of these ont.
ages as to advise the south how to pro-
ect the women Of its lonely farms
PORTLAND 0regonian.