The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-28
BANKERS OF KANSAS FAVOR THE
 DEMOCRATIC GUARANTY LAW
For Cause Of Humanity
 Comps Must Be Broken
Governor Comers Order Goes Into Efect-More Ratons Issued-Who Supplies Guns and Ammunition?
 Limit of Patience Approaches
BY FRANK V. EVANS.

BY FRANK There need be no doubt in the minds of the people who are anxious for res toration of law and order in this district that Governor Conner will carry out his purpose to abolish the tented camps pro-
 vided by the United Mine Workers for
 the idle miners and their families. He
 will do so upon the high ground that there cannot be safety assured to col- lections of men and women of both races | without police surveillance.
 Our system of government provides po- lice protection in incorporated towns and cities, because such protection is deemed absolutely essential A community of 100 or more people cannot be safe without | government.
 Wise and We'll Founded. From the point of sanitation, safeguard ing the health of the clustered people,
 there is still greater call for objection to the camping proposition.
 The objections by the executive to the
 plan is well founded and wise His action
 will receive the indorsement of all law
 abiding people, and will save the health
 and perhaps the lives of many men, wom- en and children.
 Look Out For lnjunctions. | It will not be surprising if this order by | the governor and movement to execute ! it will be met by applications to state
 courts for writs of injunction by the of- | fcers of the miners union. But we take
 1t for granted that the strong arm of the
 state, in times like these, will not be
 estopped by any legal technicality. In l other words, it is not reasonable to sup | pose that Governor Conner will allow his
 good service interrupted by any slow pro- | cess.
 l From the standpoint of layman I do
 not believe that injunction would lie in
 such proposition and at such a time as
 this By public proclamation the gover-
 nor has declared this district in a state
 of terror and general disorder. This being | so, authority Is given to suspend writs of 1 habeas corpus and even the process of l injunction. I have before me a United
 States court decision which practically i says that in times of turbulence and vio- | rule in the country, there is discretion | on part of the state authorities to sus- pend writs, and to do those things which ] in the discretion of the officials seems | best for public good and safety. | Many tents have been provided and pitched and are occupied. The governor or | dered them taken down peaceably, if pos
 sible, but forcibly if necessary.
 The Probable Effect. The effect of this act on part of the | governor will be to move the idle men
 back to labor or out of the district. House room is not sufficiently commodious to
 provide for men who will work and for
 men and their women and children who
 will not work. What, then, is going to l become of the poor women and children | of the misguided miners who have lain
 down their tools and given up their
 labors at the behest of the officials of
 the Mine Workers association? i It is, indeed, a pitiable condition, but
 condition brought about by the greed for 1 gain and the viciousness of the leaders of the strike.
 | To preserve the health and to save the | lives of men, women and children the | governo. of Alabama, acting under his solemn oath of office, has found it abso- lutely necessary to apply heroic remedy
 to a terrible danger; and the necessity for the application of such remedy was
 brought about by the officers of the Uni tel Mine Workers of Amercd There
 fore the tears and the blood of the ig-
 noraat, the innocent and the misguided 1 may be upol their hands.
 More Rations Issued. Yesterday was another free-ration day, and l am reliably informed that thous ands of dollars worth of breadstuffs were handed out to the striking idlers, thus encouraging them to go on for yet while in this season of hopeless struggle: and that with the rations went the warn ing: Live close and eeonomize." Those idling miners ought to open their eyes and fear ''the Greeks bearing gifts" It means no good it means more anxiety, more suffering and greater punishment in the end. But why sound notes of warning to misguided ignorance? Every voice of agi- tation sounded by the men who are feast ing upon this sorrowful condition every pound of bread they bring to feed the mouths of the idling miners is ''clogging the burden of guilty souls, and must re- act when peace and order are restored Those Citizens CD
 In the published interview with Presi- dent Lewis, he is quoted as alluding to the petition by citizens of this district for conference and compromise between op- orators and miners, the expressed will ingness of the union to do this and the decllnaton of the operators to treat on the subject. Lest we forget" let us re- call the fact that petition was ever presented to the operators by citizens; that the alleged 20,000 names was found to be less than 600; that not more than half a dozen names on any list were known or legibly written; and that blank peti- tions were scattered in public places with not a name written thereon. The effort to impress the distant public rnind with the idea that there is anything bordering on public sympathy for the bringing on of thls terrible state of disorder, or for nublic tolerance for the unholy deed of tbe strike leaders, is preposterous. The neople of this district are not unaware of tlie unholy cause of this strife, nor ignorant or blind as to who are responsi- ble for it all
 Guns and Ammunition. The sale of arms and ammunition to tbe striking and the idle miners during this hitter conflict has been immensely ,r,.ao+ and somebody is growing rich from