The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14

will be tried under the forms of law for
an offense which richly merited sum-
m airy punishment at the hands of an
outraged community.
If an outsider could visit the head
quarters of the |. W. W. in Goldfeld
and read the placards displayed upon
the walls he would hardly believe him
self to be in the United States of Amer
lea. These posters, in red letters an
nounce implacable hostility to practi-
cally all elements of law and order, and
suggest bloodsled as the cure for many
supposed abuses. They are not mean
inSless displays. either, for many a
poor fellow has felt their consequences
by being plundeTed and driven into the
desert TO shift for himself, because OBJ
noXious> to some member or members OF
the organization.
Last January a procession bearing
the red flag, and marching under the
leadership of those controlling the /.
w. W, assembled Ostensibly TO express
itself favOrably to Meyer and Hay
wood, now imprisoned in Idaho. The
statements then made. the sentiments
then expressed and the purposes then
disclosed, were more reasonable than
anything uttered by the secessionists
of 1860 and 1861, for the latter expressed
hostility to this government only, while
the former denounced all forms of or
gained society as enemies to them
selves and to mankind in general.
Struggle Will Continue.
we have perhaps the greatest min
ing camp in the world; its riches are
not matter of promise or specula-
ton. They are actual facts as demon
stT9ted by past development We have
one of the most enterpTising commune
ties in the world, composed of the best
blood, and brain, and Drawn of the
country. We have every inducement
10 industrial peace, through which and
through which alone we can thrive,
prosper and contribute the treasures of
the Nevada desert to the wealth of the
nation. Nothing stands between US
and this end except the organization OF
the /. W. w. We cannot afford to deal
with ii, or recognize ii as a possible
clement in our social. industrial or
commercial life. |
I'VE deplore the necessity of conflict
beyond our power of expression but
we feel that We owe a duty not alone
TO ourselves, our property ard our COM
munity, but a larger one to the state
and the nation in making this stand
against lawlessness, disorder and an
archy. We propose that life, limb and
property shall be as safe in Goldfield
as they are anywhere else in the United
States and, when that is accomplished,
our struggle will be at an end and the
work of development will be renewed.
In carrying out our purpose, we be-
speak, because we are entitled to, the
sympathetic cooperation of our fell
lOw-citlzens throughout the country
No Settlement in Sight.
The troubles here seem far from a
settlement. But the miners, in spite
of the not talks of some of their lead
ers, are weakening. it will soon be
with them a question. not of full din
ner pail, but of any dinner pail at all.
They must absnd the ]. w. w. or the
mines of GOIdfield will be closed for
long, long time. And it would not be
surprising, if the men persist much
longer. If the mines were eventually
opened with non-union men.
The committee has made no threat to
this effect, and no business man has
made any threats. But this will be the
Inevitable sequence if the struggle is
prolonged very much farther. Today
GoldfieId is quieter than any of it's citi-
zens ever expected to see it. The sa-
looms and the gambling houses are do
ing an attenuated business and the
stores of all kinds have notices PROM
iuently displayed that read like this:
owing 10 the present unsettled con-
ditions no goods will be sold except for
cash"
The storekeepers feel that if the min
ers care to take a chance they are at
liberty to do so, but they themselves
cannot afford TO risk selling goods on
credit.