Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-07-26
Oregon Farmer Tells About
Troubles With WeiSer
Federation of
Miners.

education and widely read who,
recognizing the wrongs to which
the public has been subjected by pi-
rate money, has become a socialist.
That he arrays his facts like the
field marshal of literature which
he is, no one can dispute; but that
he draws logical conclusions from
these facts, many of us will not con-
cede. Recently he has been Civ
ing the dictatorial Oregonian the
worst of it in a discussion of his
favorite topic. Under date of July
"a, he writes to that paper on a
subject in which the people of
Idaho are especially interested, as
follows:
Although busy farmer, working
sixteen hours day in the swell
tering heat, is sadly handicapped
when opposed to great newspaper
with its accumulated stock of
knowledge and everything handy
for reference, when a fellow feels
that he is right he does not like to
subsidc like a clam. With your
permission l wish to make further
remarks in answer to your recent
editorial, Anarchists and Others, 7"
upon my article Bombs and An
archists," both of which appeared
in The Oregonian July ?.
! acknowledge the misquotation
from Golfers ''hounded'' for
'railroaded, " but in this case the
difference is not material. Con-
corning Gorky, if the newspapers
had told the truth in the first place,
as some of them aftcrward did,
when it was too late to repair the
injury done, not even the imrnac-
ulate and exacting Mrs. Grundy
could have taken offense.
With reference to the members
of the notorious Pinkerton Detective
agency, l objected to their having
a voice in the regulation of citizens
on the ground that they are a self
constituted organization, authorized
by no one. They exist for the SER
vice of the rich, and will furnish
men for any undertaking, provided
the cash is forthcoming. MIR. Wat
kins says that H. c. Frick en-
ploys a Pinkerton man at a salary
other mans footsteps, with finger
on trigger and murder in his
heart, should, in his opinion, occa-
sion require.
MCFARLAND first gained unenvi-
able notoriety by invading the an
thracite coal fields of Pennsylvania,
where his criminal efforts consisted
in a serise of impassioned and an
archistic appeals to the men with
whom he worked to commit muir
der. He, being man of masterful
mcndacity, found it a task of the
utmost simplicity to influence his
inferior associates and Undue them
with the belief that ruthless muir
der was their legitimate avenue
of redress for any grievance
against boss. The result was thai
he sneaked off and RECALLED the au.
thorities with purported facts con.
corning the Molly Mcguire organi.
zation. On the strength of his ties.
timony-p erjured beyond the pre-.
adventure of a doubt-a number Of
men were railroaded to the gallows
where they expatiated crimes fol-
which Mcfarland should have beer
punished.
Then MCFARLAND took to the tai
uncut. He is now polluting tn,
atmosphere of Idaho with his pois
onous presence, and is once NOR,
engaged in the lucrative practice Of
corporation, pimping, and the man
ufacture of false evidence. His in
famous employers retail the stuff t,
the personnel of the Mine Owners
Association. Backed by it, McPar
land conducted the kidnapping o
the three officers of the Western
Federation of Miners Meyer, Pet
tibone and Haywood -from Colora
do into Idaho, an act that woul
further disgrace even the state o
Colorado.
These men, who are now held il
custody by the Sheriff of Ada coun
ty, Idaho, were extradited from tn
state of Colorado by methods tina
would reflect no credit upon tn
official barbarism of Cossack-ridde
Russia. They were seized in tn
darkness of the night by the Off
cial kidnapers of Idaho and Colo
RADIO, and through the collision o
the Governors of two sovereig
states placed on board a specis
train and guarded by military es
cort, reinforced by Pinkerton hire