The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-25
Knave or Fool?

In the latest Issue of the Washing
ton lIowa). Press we find the-foilow-
ing:k s@% Mf
Several years ago there was a MI
ners' strike in Colorado, and 1t was
managed by the district officers who
were very aggressive men. Many
times these men were arrested, many
times were their lives threatened, and
many times were they ordered by the
adjutant general of the Colorado mil.
itia to leave that state under penalty
OF all kinds of death, and were even
escorted across the state borders and
told never to return. They did re-
turn and kept at their legitimate
work. few months later Frank
Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho
ex-gambler, and ex-thug-post NOR
tem-was killed, and Meyer, Hay.
wood and Pettibone, away down in
Colorado, were arrested charged with
the crime. They were kidnapped and
carried from their homes into Idaho
and indictments returned against
them on the testimony of thief, q
murderer and minewrecker, and OF
a detective by the name of McPar-
land, who was compelled to leave the
state of Kansas for his many crimes
and misdoings.
1.-THE trial of these men is now on
and the city where the trial is being
held is full of the states soldiers to
awe the people. This is practically
under martial law, and gatherings or
speeches of any kind on the streets
are forbidden. Shades of Peter the
Great, Thomas Jefferson and the rest
of 'em. What are we coming tor"
The above is printed as editorial
matter. Whether 1t Is original OIL
stolen 1t is a lying TRADE that is a
disgrace to anything. that is not an
out-and-out anarchist cess-pool. II
has been sucked from such sheets as
the Appeal to Reason and then spew'
ed forth to villify the dead and de-
ceive the living. 1t is the work Of
a knave too cowardly to throw 9
bomb--a fool too knavish to feel hii
own imbecility--a degenerate eros,
between q coyote and a hyena-;
beast with the tastes and appetite o
a buzzard and the odor of q polecat.
No more despicable lies were eve
set afioat in this country than the de
Tense In the great assassination casel
in Idaho Is putting forth in its bomb
throwing organs. like the Appeal t.
Reason and other Anarchist sheets
and in their soft-headed, sap-suckini
echoes.
No man who ever knew the mar
tyred ex-governor assassinated be
cause OF his stand for right and jus
tice In the Couer d. Alenes--for on
moment thought him to be gam
bier or thug. Men who never sa,
him, or, seeing and envying, meas
ured his great soul by their own mea
and narrow standards, have ascribe
to him, since the arrest of the Fed
GRAFTON officials, all the crimes In tn
calendar. But the writer OF thes
lines knew this man for forty years a
few men know others. We were play
mates In boyhood, companions l
youth, fellow workmen at the print
er's trade, partners in our first bus
ness venture, and most intimate pei
sonal friends during all the years Q
his great career in his adopted state
And the writer not only knows tina
Frank Steunenberg was not a gam
bier, a tough, thug. but he know
that II was moral impossibility 70
him to have been any of these. H
was clean man in every way. who's
clear thinking despised pretense an
hypocrisy, and whose career showed
II anything, the power OF truth. can
dor. straightforwardness and upright
ness in public life.
And yet there are ghouls to yiolat
the fresh grave of man like this
and empty-headed ninnies to applau,
their slanders!
Will the Washington Press disayo'
the utterances 1t contained, or will |
stand in the pillory OF decent publ
opinion branded as a knave or fool?
Knoxville Uowa) Express.