Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-22
From Arkansas.

Ed. Register :-Colorado has again
come to the front by her Russian
tactics. Meyer and Haywood,
president and secretary of the
Western Federation of Miners and
some of their associates have been
arrested and spirited away to
Idaho, on an alleged confession OF
a Pinkerton, or some other dis
reputable thug, charging them
with the murder of Frank Steunen-
berg, ex-governor of Idaho. They
were not allowed to bid farewell to
their families, nor were they al
lowed to communicate with their
lawyers. They we're spirited away
on a special train, for the alleged
reason that "they knowing they
would never get out of Idaho alive"
had planned to have the train blown
up, and he (the Pinkerton) wished
to save the lives Of innocent per-
sons. In view of the long line of
prosecutions to which the Western
Federation of Miners have been
subjected, this last seems a fitting
climax to the whole infamous pro-
ceeding. Looking at the thing
from the point of reason, if Meyer
and Haywood were assassins at
heart would they not be much
more likely to have expended their
wrath upon the head of Peabody,
the infamous ex-governor of Colo
rado?
| inclose herewith q clipping
from the Commercial appeal, OF
March 1st, which wish to make a
part of this article:
If John d. Rockefeller evades
the law, defies the laws process,
and declines to submit himself to
| the call of the law, why should the
law protect John in his holdings!
Suppose, for instance, some few o1
the people should begin looting
the Rockefeller home, would it not
be sadly unbecoming of John D,
to ask protection from that which
he openly flaunts? Chancery has
a nice old maxim which says
complainant seeking redress must
come into court with clean hands,
or something to that effect. Gould
the richest man in the world show
these "clean hands" while actually
engaged in pelting the law with
the mud of contumely and disre-
spect? Well, if the law is snubbed
by others as effectually as Rookie
Teller snubs it, there is but time
limit to its powers OF protection
and one thing is certain, John ID
has more for the law to protec
than any other citizen. His de-
fiance of the power that permits
him to enjoy his possessions may
yet react ON the old man, for in.
asmuch as he has brought the law
into contempt with the people, Sc
the time may come when the peo'
pie will decline to let it protect hin
in his vast holdings. 1t is
dangerous example this rich mai
has set, and unless the law vindi
Gates itself by causing him to ex
perience punishment for his act
those at present controlled by tn
law are apt to regard it as a crea
ture of too great weakness to merl
the full popular obedience.
This is broad hint that if tn
people began looting the propert
of John D. Rockefeller he woul
only be reaping what he had sowr
But John is too cunning and cut
to be disturbed by such articles
He too we'll knows that the whol
force of the Federal goverhmer
would be invoked to protect tn
property of Standard Oil from tt
hands OF the common herd. An
this is America, and we are Amer
! cans! Why, in that older day, t
be an American was greater tina
king! A rich mans dollars al
Of greater weight than a POI
mans person; especially II tn
poor man chances to stand in tx
way Of the accumulation OF do
lars. If the least drop Of the bloc
of the patriots of '76 remained
] the veins of the people to-day, Il
country would resound with sue
an outcry that the red-hande
would-be murderers of Meyer al
Haywood would take a secor
thought before the consummatic
of their foul plot.
F. P. HILBURN.
Clio, Ark, March II, 1905.
Given Up to Die.
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