The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-01-19
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THE INDEPENDENT

THE INDEPENDENT
Editor Independent:
I reed with great interest the FOL-
sowing editorial in your issue Of Leo.
-: ."
"Publishsrs win have to be careful
iron now ON how they criticiss our
superior courts. Leroy Sanders, pub
hsAsr OF the Seattle Evening Star and
he managing editor. will have to 90
- jail. because the Star criticised the
supreme court, In connection with the
granting Of temporary Injunction 70
tho Puget Sound Electric Railway
company. And still you find q person
occasionally who remarks that this
y q free country"
I am only farmer and perhaps
have no more right to criticise an
eritor than an editor has to criticse an
Injunction Judge, but believing that
have just as good right and that
that Is sufficient reason, shall pro-
coed to tell you that believe that you
made mistake when you wrote pub
fishers will have to be, careful from
now on how they criticize our super
Tor courts" believe that you should
have begun that editorial Judges
will have to be careful from now on
how they sentence editors to jail for
eFiticizing Injunction judges, or Tor
publishing tho truth about judicial
procedure, corporations or individusb.
whether rich or poor. which criticism
. obviously Of vital interest 70 the
public"
Leroy Sanders and hin managing
editor are not the only editors going
to jail for believing in and openly
advocating . tree press In America
Fred D. Warren. one OF the grandest
and most fearless editors who ever
fought impending tyranny. tho editor
Of the greatest ana best newspaper
In the world. tho Appeal to Reason
published at Grard. Kansas. must al
10 go to jail. The essential facts
leading up to his conviction are as
follows: On December 30th, 1905,
Frank Stuenenberg was killed at
Caldwell, Idaho, by the explosion Of .
dynamite bomb. Several weeks later
Charles H. Meyer, President of the
Western Federation of Miners, Will
Ham Haywood, Secretary, and George
e. Pettibone,~ an honorary member,
were kidnapped from their home In
Colorado and secretly carried away
on a special train to Idaho to be tried
for the murder of stuenenberg. Re-
QUESTION papers were issued by Mr..
Buchtel, the governor of Colorado
1.-THE same Mr.. Buchtel who 1ectured
In Minot not many months ago. upon
an affidavit signed by a county at
torney in Idaho at the time the muir
der was committed and that they had
fed from the state, which affidavit was
generally believed to be one Of the
blacklist lies ever concocted by cor
poration tool The Western Fedora
ton of Miners was at that time en-
Gagged in a death struggle with the
mine owners association, Standard
Oil company, J. P. Morgan, the Gug-
genheimers, etc. Things were going
against these human hogs and the
miners were we'll on their way to a
complete victory. The kidnapping
and the attempt to convict the miners
officials of this crime Is believed to
have been part of a plot to discredit
and ruin their labor union, the West
ern Federation Of Miners. The cor
poration hired editors Of the whole
United States Immediately Joined in
the effort to fasten the charge Of con.
spiracy to commit murder upon
these men, while the press of the
working people as vigorously defend
cd them Regardless Of the fac'
that the federal Constitution guaran
tees "a speedy trial." these kidnapped
men were kept in Jail for nearly q
year and q half before they wer<
granted q trial, while the editoria
hirelings Of the corporations crammed
their prostitute sheets with satanic
lies in an effort to prejudice public
opinion against these noble men WIZ
were as innocent Of the crime charg.
cd against them a. was Jesus Christ
of the charge Of sedition for which
he was crucifed. At this stage OF tn
game, Fred d. Warren conceived tn
idea Of giving the people striking
object lesson. The so-called supreme
court of the United States had, Will
the exception Of one member whose
haor* uao whoro II should be- he'll