The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-06
MARTIAL Law
SOUNDS TERRIBLE
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friend stop to discuss the weather or
the sylvan beauties OF Paint Greek,
you are in an unlawful assembly that
may land you in the guard house to
be tried not by jury but by six sol
diers constituting court martial and
the supreme court of the United
States could not habeas corpus you
out
The methods OF punishment for
crimes and misdemeanors under mar
tial law are entirely within the dis
erection of the military court All sta
tutory forms of punishment are null.
Possibly the car Of Russia, or
Rlayhap the president OF Nicaragua.
have more authority than Adiutant
General Elliott. bat King George OF
England. the president are mere one-
horse power rulers compared to Ell
lott, governor-general OF $1,000 men.
vonen and children. His kingdom IS
the smallest In the worlds miles
long szd four miles vide.
TIE court house is in tent The
coE-t martial Is II continuous SEES
son. Col c. F. Jollifse. chief justice
and Lieut. Colonel George Wallace.
prosecutor.
I'VE are going 10 make life safe
along the creeks" says Wallace.
Alter the soldiers, what?
4 commission investigating mining
conditions in the mines will attempt
10 solve that problem 1t consists OF
Bishop P. ]. Donahue OF the diocese
Of Wheeling; Captain L. Walker, OF
the state militia, AM Tax Commits
sioner Blue. Bishop Donohue announ-
ced today that not only the guard sys-
lem but also the living conditions OF
the miners are TO be investigated.
The strike now depends on who
can hold out the longest.
The miners are being supported
through strike benefits, contributed
by all the miners in the United
States They can hold out number
of years.
The mines are standing idle BY de-
cree OF the governor no strike-break.
ers can be imported. The vast prop
critics are producing nothing and are
suffering loss through physical de-
probation.
| Many mine operators have volun-
teered to aid the commission in It's
Investigation. There are nearly sixty
mine operators in the territory, all
Iopposed to martial law. They hold
4 that it was not necessary and that
the guards were required to protect
mine property from irresponsible
rioters,
10000 In Demonstration.
/ CHARLESTON, ". Va. Sept. g.
/ Not a hushel of coal was dug in the
hills Of Kanawha county today. Ten
thousand miners strikers and non
combatants are coming into the CAPT
tai on every train TO make silent
/ demonstration against the government
4 by private guards al the mines. In
the evening they viii join in parade
led by Mother Jones and at I
1 O'Clock will mass around the capitol
grounds TO learn from Governor Glass
cock whether the mine guards will be
allowed to come back after the reign
of martial law. which has 5anished
the guards. is lifted
Let the soldiers stay there for ali
time rather than let the guards come
back" Mother" Jones will tell the
governor.
Even though military government
is naturally despotic, we are enjoying
more freedom in the mines than ever
before. The soldiers have restored
Law and order Life is safe.
Now then, governor. if the state Is
able TO do that. why can't the state
take charge OF these mines TO which
1 the operators have. by abuse of their
responsibilities, lost all right of own.
ership?
The mines have been run for divi-
dends and not for fervice. Let the
profits of coal digging be applied 10
wages and to social betterment of the
miners.
THE present system is 6as-,,,.