The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-12-21

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ereency warrants a call to arms; only
the failure Of <he orderly processes Of
law. on which communities DEPEND for
protection to life and property. justihes
an appeal to that arm OF our national
government which, In time OF peace. IL
only called into use for protection
against q lawless element which re-
pudiates or ~disregards the legal n
moral obligations without which social
order and commercial prosperity are i'm
possible.
The request Of responsible citizens Of
the state of Nevada and the governor Of
the state, the troops OF the United
States government are camped In Gold
field today. A decent regard for the re-
spect Of the people of our common coun-
try impels US to make . statement of
the reasons why this presumably peace
ful mining community has thus been
converted into q military camp.
During the past three years.. central
and southern Nevada has invited and
challenger the attention of the civil
ICED world, on account Of the character,
richness. extent and variety of her new
ly discovered deposits Of precious min
erals. Before the scanty grass Of q
single summer could be withered by the
deserts un. towns n cities AVE
sprung into existence. great public and
private enterprises nave been inaugur-
ated, and tens of thousands of people,
full Of courage and hope. have set their
fortunes and their lives upon the issues
for good or Ill which are in the balance
here. No new country ever started out
with richer prospects and brighter hopes
than has this new Nevada. The only
hindrance to her progress today is one
incubus which has fastened itself upon
her and from which she must be free.
unless her mines are to become as UNI
fruitful as the sterile desert.
The Western Federation of Miners is
an organization which has grown up
within a few years and numbers in its
membership nearly all the workers In
the mines producing precious minerals
in the states between the Rocky noun
tains and the Pacific coast. 1t Is closely
afhliated with. II not subordinate to, the
Industrial Workers of the World. OF
which Eugene v. Debs Is the executive
head. BY far the greater part OF its
membership Is composed Of orderly. law
abiding workmen who fear God and re-
gard their fellowmen, n who desire
to obey the law. If these men were In
control Of the organization 1t would be
known today only as other labor unions
Of the world are known which promote
the welfare of their members and COM
mand the confidence of those who recog-
nize and sympathize with the rights Of
the laboring man; but such men are not
admitted to the inner councils OF the
order and have no voice In directing its
policy. They are the victims of a policy
of tyranny and terror which makes
known that If a man wants to work he
must join a union in which accidents
happen to those who incur the displeas-
ure of the union leaders. The leaders
Of the Western Federation of Miners are
the men who have made this ~organiza-
ton notorious throughout the world.
Notorious for what? For CRIME! For
crime of such. rank, cruel. merciless, re-
voting character as has caused this or
ganization to take precedence of the
Black Hand of Sicily. the High Binders
of China and the Strangers of India.
The crimes committed by or in the name
of this organization are Of so varied,
desperate and reckless nature that a
year ago few who nave not been obliged
to deal with this organization would
the accounts of them to anything
but to the lively imagination of mine
owners or Pinkerton detectives; but the
revelations during the past summer in
the court room at Boise. Idaho. the evil
dence there given to the world. n the
lines of corroborative testi-
mony furnished. while not considered
sufficient beyond reasonable doubt to
convict one individual with a specific
crime. was sufficient to damn the West
ern Federation of Miners with a load OF
ignominy and horror which in
the years to come will cause this very
name to be loathed by decent men n
women of whatever class or condition.
This organization, the Western Fed
Grafton Of Miners, with its criminal
record, with it's murderous and murder
ing leadership. with its bloody handed
heroes, with it's recipe of socialism. an
archy and dynamite for the regeneration
of the world. is the Incubus which is to-
day fastened upon the neck Of Goldfield
and the other mining camps of central
and southern evada w. H. Meyer,
now awaiting trial at Boise for compile
ity in the murder of Geo. Steunenburg.
is still president OF the general organiza-
ton. Chas Haywood. recently released
at Boise. and now the travelling haioed
hero Of organized and bloody anarchy.
is still the (dis) honored general secre-
tary and treasurer. while C. H.. McKin-
non. the brother-in-law of this same
Haywood. whose veins are filled with the
same brand of virus. Is the president of
the Goldield union, the second largest
union of the entire organization.
Nevada never petitioned for this or
1t arrived during the night
direct from Colorado. via Idaho and the
Occur d'Alene. The immigration was
conspicuous for the gang of touts,
toughs, dynamiters. murderers and pro-
fessional trouble breeders who have
marked with their trail of bloody hor-
ror every mining camp which has at
tanned a conspicuous position on the
Of the Rocky Mountain region DUR
ing the last ten years. There is scarcely
a bloody dynamiter who has developed
his speciality in the west during these
ten years who has not been spewed out
of Colorado directly into the new Ne
vada: and all of them brought the vomit
with them.
1t is with these and with this that the
men who have been putting Nevada back
the map haveshad to contend. espe-
ciaily during the past two years. A list
Of the outrages and crimes which rave
been committed in Goldfieid alone in the
Of this organisation would nearly
complete the list OF those which 1t has
perfected. The list includes the follow