The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-07-28

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] as it would close any other disrep-
ttable establishment. If the mine
owners do not want to employ such
characters, let the State protect
them in the exercise of their right
of refusal, and not assume response
bilities which do not belong to it.
Let us look at this proposition
in the light Of recent statute. AS
late as February 70, 1899 the Gov
ernor of Idaho, Frank Steunenberg,
gave his approval to an act of the
legislature which reads this way:
"It shall be unlawful for any per-
son, firm or corporation to make or
enter into any agreement, either
oral or in writing, by the terms of
which any employee OF such per-
son, firm or corporation, as a con-
dition for continuing or obtaining
such employment, shall promise or
agree not to become or continue
member of a labor organization.
There is the law and its violation
is punishable by fine and imprison-
ment, Yet, the permit system es-
tab1ished by the Democratic admin
istration of this State demands that
every person seeking employment
in Shoshone county must ere
nounce and forever abjure all alieg-
lance" to the Miners Labor Union.
Both the law and its violation are
Democratic measures. The one or
the other is wrong, and we appre-
hend that the Republican position
in condemning violation of law,
under cover of martial proclama-
ton, is the correct onein the face of
all the Congressional reports ever
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It will be charged that this is a
bid for the vote of 1awless men. 1t
makes very little difference what is
charged. Speaking for ourself, we
would as leaf make a bid for the
vote of one class Of lawbreakets as
for the vote of the other. There is
mighty little difference between
mob rule and official maladminis-
tration except as the latter is far
more dangerous to the State. No
body denies that there are, or were,
1awless men in Shoshone county.
Probably a goodly number of them
richly deserved hanging, and con-
ceding that, what then? Who is to
blame for the miserable failure Of
justice? Who ordered the bars OF
the bull pen to be let down? II
, there were thugs and murderers
and dynamiters in that enclosure,
who is responsible for turning them
! loose to prey upon peaceable and
+ we1lzdisposed communities? All
we hear is that the bull pen and
: permit were necessary. Very well
Was the resulting fiasco also neces'
sary? Tell us about that. We ad
init the necessity for arrest and i'm
9 prisonment, but we cannot under
q stand the occasion for wholesale
e liberation without attempt at con
y viction. The report of the Con
: gressiona1 committee is painfully
!, silent on that point. But it occurs
to us that the Ceur d'Alene ques
: ton has ceased to be much of al
: issue. The people of Idaho, rep
r resented in the three ring circus al
r Pocatello, have turned down ever!
n State official who had been in any
q wise connected with it. Even jim
II Hawley received his political dealt
IS sentence for tqucning it profession
r ally. Arney went under for living
n IN the atmosphere of it, and Hort
was eternally smashed because h
$ footed for it just a little bit. Shal
- we say then tnat this State is dom
|. mated by the spirit of anarchy
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