The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-18
NO CLASS DISTINCTIONS.

The Inter Mountain sees nothing Of a
passed by the Butte Miners union and
the Trades and Labor assembly on the
subject of the assassination. The mems
bels Of those organizations are in no
sense a class apart. They are like all
other American citizens in their abhor
public order. Like all other citizens,
they realize the blessings of liberty and
law. All classes alike have the same
hopes and fears, the same interest in
the government, the same rights to
guard, the same institutions to uphold.
The men Of the labor unions are part
and parcel of the body polite; no more,
no less. They ask no special privileges
and expect no separate commentator
for doing right. They are like all other
organizations of men banded together
for a common purpose, whether they are
rich or poor or whatever may be their
lot in life. They all have equal indi-
vidual interest in the countrys welfare.
In the mind Of every sane and sober
man his home is the citadel Of his honor
and his fortunes and safe government s
his only protection. When government
is assailed, his home is in jeopardy ana
chaos is threatened, SO that it makes no
difference what a mans occupation in
life may be 1t is natural that he should
express Indignation and alarm when the
nations president, who stands for every
just human right, is ruthlessly shot down
in defiance of every law of God and
man. On some propositions all men may
unite for self defense and an expression
Of sentiment. The present occasion is
one of them. Yet the resolutions coming
from the labor organizations do not come
as expressions of separate class, but
as expressions from men whose proudest
claim is that they are American citizens,
devoted to the flag and to the civiliza-
ton and freedom it typihes. That they
belong to some certain organizat ton is
merely an incident of their lives as citi-
gems growing out of a belief that in
union there is strength, which is one Of
tae foundation stones OF the republic
There is special significance to the
resolutions Of local labor only to those
demagogues who find it to their interest
to set up barriers between workngmen
and other good citizens, and who, for
the 3ascst CO purposes, seek to create
an impression that the interests of
workirgmen, Sc called, are not Identical
with those OF ether men, and that there
fore such reSo.utions>are unexpected.
To the denlagoGues atone and the yellow
press watch aids them in preaching the
gospel of discomfort is there special sig
nifican"e in the resolutions of local labor
To al others, there is nothing excep-
tionai about tho resolutions of the labor
organizations because nothing else was
expected from them or any other organ
tzatons made UP Of good citizens and
having brains enough to comprehend the
American system of self-goVernment,
There would have been surprise If the
resolutions had not been passed by the
labor lodges just as there would be il
any other societies. on assembling their
members, had omitted to express them
selves in Il similar way. We hope there
Is no organization Of any kind in this
community that In the loyalty Of the
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