The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
BILLINGSGATE
Chicago Daily Socialist Pro
ductiOn.

| Following is the write-up of the
Chicago Daily Socialist on the MINER
and its editor and we reproduce it for
the benefit of our readers. From the
tone of the article it is very evident
that the MINER was not worth the
extended mention but that cash in
Huences were brought to bear on the
unpurchasable ~ Socialist press. The
money contributed by the Ely men,
bers of the red flag party as contin-
gency fund, or all that was noticeable
after the officers got through with it,
probably went to pay for notoriety in
the Daily Socialist for the MINER and
its editor. The article says:
"There is a little one-horse paper
up in Ely, Minnesota, whose editor
is "seeing things"
"You do not know where Ely is?
You never heard of ''The Ely Miner?"
Never mind, you haYe now, and more
people have now read about that
paper than ever heard of its existence
before its name was published in the
Daily Socialist.
1.-THE editor of the Ely Miner is one
Peter Schaefer, and he is the real Or
iginal patriot. His paper is the prin-
cipal palladium of liberty in this
country, and his especial work is the
defense of the institutions of the
United States against the attacks of
dangerous citizens.
"There has recently been strike
In the mining regions of Minnesota
that is, where Ely is located. The
men who have been taking the
wealth out of the ground that no man
| placed in there, asked for little
more of the wealth they were produc-
ing. Not even their worst enemies
could claim that the miners were not
strictly peaceable. They refused to
give the deputies and the militia any
excuse for shooting them down,
"But little thing like this did not
disturb the violent and .blood-thirsty
mob that owns the editor of the Ely
Miner So gang of men under the
leadership of the sheriff marched from
one town to another, in which they
did not reside, and with whose man
agement they were in no way con-
cerned. and proceeded to attack
| peacedble miners meeting, to compel
them to disperse, and denied them
the right of free speech and assem-
blage.
| Remembering these facts, and the
sort of law aud order and patriotism
for which the editor of the Ely Miner
stands, it is easy to understand how
his blood-thirsty brain was infiamed
by the sight of several hundred peace
able workers marching under the red
flag of international brotherhood
The idea that there could be people
who believe in universal peace, and
the right of free speech, and several
other things that are supposed to be
part Of our fundamental liberties,
caused this editor to "see red" and
explode as follows:
1.-The red-flag, free-love and general
law-defying theory Of The old-cOuntry
Socialist should have no place in this
country and the government would do
a wise act TO start deportation pro-
ceedings at once against the foreigner
with these Ideas. Tie citizens who
feel similarly should be dealt with
also i'm manner which could not
leave Il doubt in their minds that
such stuff would not be tolerated.
The red flag stands for anarchy and
nothing more. The explanations Of
some, who say the rag stands for ties
of blood, are partly correct. Blood it
is, but it was blood that run in the
gutter at the Haymarket in Chicago;
the MOLLY Mcguire" doings in Penn
sylvania; the riots in Russia and Po-
land. and several other events of
which history makes note. The
blood of innOcents drawn by lot of
the existing conditions is born OF de-
sire to uown those who through work
and strict application to their duties
have lifted themselves little higher
in the world. The aim of the anarch-
ISL 10 w Ilp UP oSilSooS hOAiNo
that go to make up the laws of the
land and to pull all down to their own
level in order that the distinction be-
tween the man and those wearing
mans clothes would not be 40 readily
noticed. The stars and stripes fOrever
Down with the red flag and the man
who fiaunts it, Give the decent peo-
pie a show in this decent land where
every man is a king and his home
kingdom, regardless of nationality.
If you don't like it, go back where
you came from-if you dare.
"There is no particular use talking
to man in this condition, and we
are not running an asylum for Intel
lectual Delirium Tremens, and hence
cannot hope to see him sober up.
"But he is an interesting specimen
of the man who gets his ideas handed
out to him along with an advertising
contract with each weeks issue of the
paper for which he writes.
He doubtless never heard that
| l.; y,or LII ri III.