Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-08-29
Thursday, August %. 1901.
Up AGAINST 1T.


fore the federal court at Helena and
demands that the state be compelled
to show why it should not award the
contract for furnishing the new state
capitol in accordance with it's promise
as shown in the minutes of the pro-
eeedings Of the board. It marks the
opening scene in new act of the COM
edy now being enacted at Helena and
while the play may be a very interest
ing and exciting entertainment to the
western end of the state where there
are more mechanics than COW punch
ers, it has a tendency to fill the east
err Montanian with several kinds of
engwee.
If any one is to blame for this tenn
pest in a tea pot it is the leaders of
che labor unions, who. if they had TAX
Ell action in time might have secured
the sympathy and cooperation of the
board and avoided the middle into
which they are driving the state.
Briefly stated, the issue as to whether
81 no the new furniture ordered for
Montana's state capitol is to bear the
nnion label. The board at a meeting
held for the purpose awarded the con
tract to the Cincinnati company. Moth
ing was said about union label, and
possibly it never occurred to the men,
hers of the board that the Mitchell
company was not strictly union con-
Germ. But after the contract was
awarded and the boards action
spread upon the minutes someone dis
covered that the Mitchell company
hired their help without regard to uu-
ions and trouble commenced. Two
members of the board voted to rescind
their former action but Governor TooIe
the remaining member and as staunch
friend of labor as ever held q nuhl;c
office, stood pat and insisted on acting
i'll good faith with the contractors.
Almost without regard to politics the
press OF the state expressed their
views pro and con. The Helena
Record of course scores the governor
our one OF the surprising features of
the furniture racket is the attitude of
tol. Gordon Of the Yellow stone Jon,-
nal who backs up the governor. After
taking fall out of the attornev.uer.
eral and secretary Of state the Journal
says:
But what about Governor Too1.,
Where does he land as = result rs J.;
nay vote. He lands squarely ON
MS feet with his head erect. with tba
proud consciousness that he can ,ool,
any citizen of this state i'm the f.,ce
He may, by this act, have dug his no.
iiticai grave, but his friends will have
the great satisfaction of knowing that
the corpse it contains was not disbon-
ered oy servile submission to an un-
reasonable demand. Better, far better
an honorable citizenship than an Office
III which one is 4 mere auto,n,to,
Meanwhile, it is hoped that the Civ.
s'nnati people will recover heavy dam.
ages and that Messrs. Hays and Don.
ovan can be made to pay the shot
But Governor Toole has not dug his
political grave and will live to see his
traducers change their tune. The
governors protest bears the stamp Of
honesty and his public record is too
clean and honorable to suffer from
this petty squabble. Whatever tbe
merits OF the claims of the unions. if is
Of more Importance that the great
state OF Montana should abide nv us
decision and given word than that the
professional claquers who grow fat off
the sweat of Butte labor unions. should
score point.
While the sympathy of the News
and every other paper of the state $