Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-07-06

lit LifIlt Has COtliC lOl dStiVhiy w
must grapple with the traitor rich who
in the name of wealth have torn down
freedom and made Americans their
slaves. You must close their heinous
careers. They have organized civil war
on you in the veil of commerce and
cheating laws them with war;"
To the person who has not been moved
by the heated discussions throughout
the country on the trial at Boise, the
first thought after reading the effusion
is that Boston does not look after and
care for it's criminals, feeble minded
and insane as it should. That the
Bostonian is about as nutty and feeble
minded as he can be there is no room
to doubt, and he is, at least, criminal
at heart, His want of logic proves his
state of mind. He mourns the loss of
freedom in America, forgetting that in
no other country under the sun would
he be permitted to print such treason
able utterances. He poses as friend
to America, when he should know that
America has no greater enemy than he
who has sworn allegiance to the red
flag. Prosperity and the onward march
of civilization are not bought with
blood, save that of righteous war. The
call to arms may mean socialism, it may
mean anarchy, but whatever the mean
ing it is so harsh and so utterly devoid
of cause that it will draw contempt
rather than favor.
The Bostonian's utterances would win
for him pity were it not for the fact
that the organization to which he be-
longs strikes at the foundation of all
government and organized society. An
archy knows no law. 1t is envious of
all that is pure and good in life. 1t
would rule by power, and kill and STAY
an organization that protects the weak
and sees that all men have an equal
chance in life. Anarchy was born of
dissatisfaction and failure way back be-
fore representative government was
thought of, and it's bloody dagger and
bomb have made lurid history in king
doms, empires, principalities and in our
own republic. 1t has taken the lives of
men chosen to serve, and is sowing the
seed of discord that is fast making the
republic nation of radicals and con-
servatives. It's members are theorists
and dreamers in all realms of thought
but crime Anarchy has corner on
constitutional law, that proves Webster
didn't know anything. The majority of
the red flag brigade can theorize on any
thing that doesn't come under the ex-
act sciences and prove his theory to his
own satisfaction, but in mathematics
he is as helpless as babe. The aver
age fellow who wants to run the gov
erment" can't figure up simple interest
on the national debt, and would have to
guess at the number of board feet of
lumber to build wood shed. 1t is to
this class that the Boston fellow be-
longs, but he is not of the rank and file.
He is an educated cuss-in the language
at least and is making money on the
stuff he writes. His sheet should be
suppressed, but that appears to be an
impossibility under our form of govern
ment. The Orientals and the slough of
European countries can continue to viii
fly and traduce the nation of opportun-
ity and plenty, but it must ever re-
main the duty of good citizens to keep
fresh in mind the rich heritage of ou1
country, and inculcate patriotism in the
minds of the youth.
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