The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26
THE BULL PEN BOSS!
Bartlett Sinclair the Hero (?) of the
Cuer de Alene Riots.
HE is STILL IN WASHINGTON !
The Worst Feared From His Prolonged and
Mysterious Residence Here-Ths Author OF
the Infamous Permit System a Ready Tool
for The Trusts-ls He Held In Residences for
Contemplated CaptlaIistIo War on Labor.

Bartlett Sinclair, State auditor of
Montana, and originator of the Per
NIT System" in the Coeur d'Alene
mining territory, has remained in
Washington since his appearance here
last winter to testify before the Con-
gressional committee his part in and
knowledge of that now celebrated la
Dor war.
Shoshone county which is the heart
of the rich Occur d'Alene mining coun'
try, has been under martial law since
April 30, 1899, on which date the Bun
ker Hill and Sullivan mine was blown
up, as the elimination of long labor
trouble over wages.
When the Standard Oil Company Sc
cured control Of the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan four years ago, it cut wages
TO $3.50 day. 81 below the union scale,
and discharged all union employees.
Disputes followed and on April 20,
1899, the men made final demand for
$3.50 a day. 1t was refused and four
days later a body Of masked men as
sembled from the surrounding mines
and blew up the mill, entailing a loss
Of S250,000 and killing two men.
Frank Steunenberg then governor OF
Idaho, declared Shoshone county in
state of insurrection and called for
troops Brigadier General Merriam
was sent there with eight hundred sol
diers and martial law was declared.
Merriam and Steunenberg held the
labor unions responsible for blowing
ND the mill, although there was no
proof to that effect, and waged relent-
less war upon them. Several hundred
union miners were herded for months
in a stockade, known as the bull PEN
and hundreds more were forced TO
leave the State. No men were allowed
TO work without permits from the mill
tary authorities, and no permits were
issued to union men. The result was
long continued trouble and great loss
TO the mining companies.
Governor Hunt only recently issued
a proclamation abolishing martial law
in Shoshone county, where soldiers OF
the regular army have been in control
since the date mentioned.
What Mr.. Sinclair has been doing in
Washington since the adjournment OF
Congress is a mystery those interested
would very much like to solve. He has
had apparently no occupation or busi-
ness of any kind to detain him or keen
him off the streets Of Washington, es-
pecially Pennsylvania Avenue, where
the GLOBE man has repeatedly rubbed
shoulders with him. day after day.
Mr.. Sinclair is a compactly and well
built man, in or about the 4O's. He
might be called burly in appearance
but for the elasticity Of his step and
movement Tactiturn and exclusive,
he has made few If any acquaintances
in the capital. He is always alone and
peramhulates the avenue at a semi
military pace Of exact precision and
80, -larity of inches. His eyes face the
st Ssut- .rc ne neither "eyes right" nor
"eves left" for snCSp WINDOW OF peues'
+rian his Is not the looh Of preoccu'
ration however, but rather Of Iuulani
i,ke Indifference to the attractions
which arrest the curious. But any
person who imagining on passing hint,
that he is unobservant would be as
much deceived as the miners OF the
Occur d'Alene, when they underesti-
mated his capacity for a reckless dis
regard Of life, in the pursuance of what
he was pleased to call his duty
Mr.. Sinclair has the inspiration OF
all the measures designed to crush the
miners or drive them into hopeless re-
volt or rebellion. Never in the his
tory of capitalistic oppression was
there such outrageous violations Of
law, humanity and justice as the per-
secutions and tyranny to which these
bapless toilers were subjected by the
agents of the Standard Oil and its al
lied confederates. Chief among and
over all. however, was Mr. Bartlett
Sinclair. His will dominated where
some who were touched with humanity
were inclined to compromise and show
a semblance Of justice. lie inspired
the military and kept the disgusted sol
diers -; TO the unmilitary duty OF act.
ino poiicemen. after the manner Of
english soldiers in Irish evictions, lie
had the miners driven like slaves into
a bull.pen and invented a permit
without which no miner could work In
the Coeur d'Alene district
His permit" was issued to no one
with a suspicion Of manhood in his
omposition. and the qualified who re
ceived this convict ticket Of leave
had to be lower in the scale Of human
itv than the field slave in Southern
plantation in ante-bellum days.
I'm Washington, Mr. Sinclair finds a
coneenial climate and a local govern
ment which appeals to his sympathies
and finds approval in his soul. Ruled
like unto the miners Of the Occur
dAlene. its inhabitants live and die
in a "bull pen" their sole and only
advantage over the miners being the
privilege Of going in and out without
a military pass and working without
having to obtain a permit from the
District Commissioners.
Mr.. Sinclair's mysterious soiourn
among us. and his constant occupation
OF the main thoroughfare and princi.
nal streets has an object, Of course, and
as nothing good can come out Of Car
thage." the GLOBE at least is prepared
TO learn. and probably in the near fu
ture. that some new scheme or system
has been evolved and perfected, EN-
bracing the Occur d'Alene method o.
dealing in general with anticipated la
Dor troubles when the great trusts arc
ready to give the screw a last twist
ensuring the complete and hopeles.
subiugaton of the American toiler AMI
his elimination as a factor 70 be M
longer reckoned with i'm the allied i'm
perialistic plutocratic government, es
tablished by his vote last November!
A COntrast-LOndOn and Paris.
The contrasts presented by Paris an