Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-07-26


hind the walls Of state bastile.
They were denied the right TO COM
municate with friends or attorney
and denied hearing in the courts
Of the state in which they were
residents.
This outrage was committed by
men who wear the badge of au-
thority, and who have sworn to
uphold the law and the constitu-
ton. You say that both ex-Gov-
ernor Peabody of Colorado and
Governor Gooding of Idaho have
been sustained by the courts in
what cali their anarchy" l beg
to differ. The situation in Colorado
was as follows:
There had been an eight-hour
law upon the statute books, which
the Supreme court had declared I'M
constitutional. A constitutional
amendment making it obligatory for
the legislature to enact such law
was adopted at the general election
in 1902 by majority of 40, 900
votes. The corporations of the
state, by means of lobby and the
collision of Governor Peabody, pre-
vented the enactment of the law.
With this high-handed piece of
lawlessness began the history of
Colorado's shame, and the long list
of crimes that followed were in
harmony with such a beginning.
Every official elected by the people
was deposed at the point of gun,
and minions of Peabody and the
Mine Owners association were put
in their places. The members of the
Western Federation of Labor were
rounded up, beaten, shot, deported
or thrown in bull-pens, their stores
destroyed and their wives and
daughters insulted and abused.
Peabody afterward had much to
thing has ever happened in the his
tory of any state that betrays such
contempt for law and such utter
disregard for the principle upon
which popular government is found
ed, it has not up to this time been
disclosed. Concerning the kidnap-
mig by Governor Gooding and Nc
Paralnd of Meyer, Haywood ct.
al, the courts have not yet passed
Judgment.
AS to intemperance, that all
depends upon the viewpoint.
Russell, Tarbell, Steffens, London,
Sinclair are all undertakes accord
ing to the interests affected by their
writings. To be virtuous is to be
lonesome, and to tell the truth is to
be crank. AS to impatience,
fully acknowledge it. Impatient
with the existing chaotic order of
things and the indifference of SO
many who could help to revolution
ize matters. 1t is necessary to
build a fire under some people to
get a move on them. But the
world does not move backward.
Neither does it stand still, although
at times it appears to move very
slo WY.
Only few years ago no social
istic writer could get an article
published outside of the socialist
press. There appeared to be con-
spiracy of silence on the subject.
Today, almost any good newspaper
you pick up contains something or
socialism. From an editorial il
The Oregonian of short time age
, quote the following: 1--WE sup
pose our country is booked for So
cialism. 1t is not an issu,
which this newspaper has sought
, But it is upon us today
and it challenges attention, anC
tomorrow and next year its demand
will be more imperative still. TIL,
astonishing gro With of it is due II
the inordinate greed of plutocrac,
which never will admit that it ha
: had enough. -
Other great papers are soliciting
articles from sociailstic pens.