The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-04-21
The act for. a civil government is
to go into effect May I, 1900.
The Record and the Bulletin.

warhorse, Editor Payne of the FL
more Bulletin goes after the editor
of the Caldwell Record and Govern
or Steunenberg in fine shape. In
speaking of Governor Steunen-
berg's permit system, he says:
t'We hope that every law-breaker
in the coeur d'Alenes, who destroy
ed property or interfered with its
use or enjoyment, or who was gull
ty of criminal intimidation or per
sonal violence, will have meted out
to him the punishment and penal
ties provided by the laws of the
land. We don't like oppression
from any source, whether it ema-
mates from humble miners or is the
act of the Chief Executive of the
State or his accredited representa-
tives. Gov. Steunenberg, through
Bartlett Sinclair, made it possible.
for VIM. Mckinley to have Federal
soldiers, white and black, subject
many of the citizens of Shoshone
county to fragrant indignities. Men
were ruthlessly thrown into prison
and denied the privilege of counsel,
denied the right of hearing and of
trial, held without any authority
other than a military warrant, at
the within and caprice of Bartlett
Sinclair. Then the permit system
was inaugurated-one of the most
damnable devices ever attempted to
crush the weak and increase the
power Of the oppresser. 1t was
cruel in its conception and harsh in
its application. 1t makes every
man, in the unfortunate section
where it is in force who desires to
go down into the bowels of the
earth, as miner, to earn live1i-
hood by honest sweat and toll, seek
a permit from the Governors rep
resentative before he can labor to
win bread for his family. Govern
or Steunenberg, under oath, has
approved of this infany, assuming
to himself responsibility for it. If
this be not tyranny in its most re-
pulsive form, our conception of lib
erty is lame indeed"
There is a suggestion in the fore
going that is wrong, and was pos
sibly inserted by mistake, or con-
veys suggestion not intended, and
that is the blame the Bulletin seems
to attach to President Mckinley. |
The Bulletin would seem to convex
the impression that the President
was anxious to send troops into the
State, and at last prevailed upon |
the Governor to admit them. When |
in truth, as the evidence will show,
he Governor appealed to the Presi-
lent for assistance claiming that all |
he available militia of the State
was in the Philippines. So Presi-
lent Mckinley sent out troops and |
placed them under the control of |
Gov. Steunenberg. The Bulletin |
'ays further:
editor Horn then censures us |
or ingratitude. Without doubt
ngratitude is base and ignoble. So
S deceit, hypocracy and moral cow
.rdice. Gov. Steunenberg appoint
d the Bulletin man to a position on
he State board of arbitration. The
ppointment came without so1icita-
ion On our part. But the commits
ion he sent US did not make us a
vassai of his excellency.
We were under no obligation to
enounce the convictions of a life
line. The best and truest friends
man could have are not flatterers
Tho viii applaud his acts in words
'hen their hearts abhor them.
formerly kings had attached TO
heir royal court attendants known
$ courtiers, and their chief avoca-
ion was fattery and fawning hy-
ocracy toward theie king.
Brother Horn intimates that be-
ause we were the recipient of an
at the hands of his
xcellency that we ought to endorse
is every act, regardless of nee o,-,,.