Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-09-05

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Glenns Ferry, Idaho, Aug. IS,
1907.
Ed. Maverick -
Well, Mr.. Walker, you bobbed
/ up sereuely again and your insin-
uation to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, as this don't happen to be any
other PERSONS fight in particular,
other than its being the fight of
the under dog of all humanity
fight we have been in for several
years-we will stay to the finish
nor do we think we are hurting our
manhod in anyway by doing little
modest putting our name up for
public scrutiny, we are a little
skittish on this point for several
reasons, the chief one being that it
would very likely rob us of our
present means of gaining livli-
hood thereby jeopardizing the ex-
istence of our full dinner pail, all
to no particular purpose, but il it
would relieve the strain any and
you will take a solemn oath never
to divulge it and will keep that
oath as sacredly as you are keeping
your Western Federation of Min
ers vows, we will send you our
name through TIE mail so you see,
we are not planting bombs and
lurking in the dark at the safe end
of the wire.' On the contrary we
are assiduously engaged in lodging
the bombs that are planted for us
by our present system and keeping
both ewes skinned for the dupes at
the end of the wire.
We plead guilty to having that
tired feeling, Mr.. Walker, but we
did not come into the world with it.
it was here first and we caught up
with it. in the very last few years
this: We are tired, very tired, OF
producing wealth that others may
revel in luxurious waste and GRIM
inal idleness while little children
from the aye of six up to sixteen,
some two million of them in these
United States, are working under
the vilest conditions, ten to four
teen hours day in our factories
and shops-while in New York city
alone, over so, children go to
school every morning without their
! breakfast; while our food and mcdi-
cines are poisoned for profit, in fact
nearly everything we eat, drink,
} wear or use is adulterated, most of
iinjuriously, tor the sole purpose of
making mole profits for our para
sites, AS long as thiss shall cor
ing"
] In speaking of thinkers it was
not our intention to place you or
others with the same opinions you
hold, on low plane of intelligence.
: What we meant to convey was that
! there are great many very intelli-
; gent people who have not had a
) thought of their own-that is a
thought as to their social or econ
: omic status-since they were born.
, AS to our financial, political
and otherwise failures we do not
} think our deficits will size up very
I we'll with the great majority and a
few others.
, We do not doubt your statement
that youwere at one time a mem
S Der of the Western Federation OF
, Miners, but the position you have
S taken in this controversy leads us
c to believe that your retirement from
that body might not have been en-
c trely a voluntary acton. No,
t because you accidentally ''happen &c
know a thing or to- does not prove
that you are in any degree what is
r today termed a thinker, you
have not given US anything in the
way of proof as to that nor as to the
criminality of the Western FEEDER.
+ alton of Miners, but you do insinu
: ate volumes, which is no showing
i your manhood" by any means
i if you took such an oath as you in
d sinuate, you are bound to keep it.
:, An oath of that kind is neither lie
IT gally or morally binding, and If, as
II you insinuate, the oath you tool
% would bind you to secrecy as to an,
l criminal actions of the member:
y of the Western Federation of Min
d ers, either singly or as an organic
e alton, i IS your plain duty as cit
ID izen to give il to the public and fai
I. ing this to forever after hold your