The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-07-25
The'ISituation In Tonopah

7. rss.. Disturbances in TonOp.h, brought about BY the q.
-x1 ". ". Azits.ors and resulting In the shooting Of a union
= bxv. ben noticed edsori.lly by the Tonopah Bonanzs, which
- ,t uiDoe matters IN setting forth the conditions that exist in
=. .1r-r zup The theory Of the BONANZA is that the nearrio.
: az. SATURDAY. vas the direct res1l. Of allowing the ousla~ agiss-
- n holi street meetings without let or hindrance. until . sensi-
-. han worked up that called for the shedding Of blood
A-o-z other things the BONANZA said:
II. disturbance Of Saturday night ending With a shooting ia
-. xb.. a 10 have been expected from the lethargy and in.
ii=z-sooe Of the officers Of the law. For the past month Ionopah
has stood patiently BY listening to Trades OF abuse leveled at every
,--...bls employer Of labor in the camp Incendiary uttereDces
tia. .hoaId have been slenced instantly we're allowed to continue
Thrssss against life and property we're endured until they brought
,hsir Own natural sequence There va no reason for permitting
. ..- bls.hsrski.ss to occupy the public streets night after night
oueuIr inviting lauless and irresponsible elements to 60 out and
loo; property. destroy mines, sacrifice human life and conduct a
campaign of destruction and anarchy subversive OF the very prin-
apls Of Law and justice. This course eventuated in . collision that
zzed the name Of Tonopsh to be heralded to the world in the
Sunday morning newspapers as the home Of a gang of ~cutshroats
and gunuen whose only object was to create dissension in the ranks
Of labor These imported agitators love strife and only are happy
-ben they succeed in arraying man against man and brother against
brother. II Vas in line with the covardly skulking methods Of these
fellows that they should have chosen q woman as the object of attack
whom they might make the target of their venomous assaults There
ara thousands of men in Tonopah divided into hundreds of employ
ers. bu. the alleged organizers of labor fought shy of masculine re-
prisals and made one woman the victim Of their scurrility.
II is crednable to the manhood of the miners Of Tonopah that
they would not stand for this pusiIlanimous conduct and took meas
IFS ~ C1DL-es hICh lf1AO9 l1b0Cd IL o1 1A7sokoD
manner. That they did not go further than to tear down offensive
circulars indicates that they were not a wild rabble governed BY
nsddened fury aud goaded to a desire for personal physical punish
nent They simply asserted them selves As the defenders Of a wom-
an uho had done more individually than all the rest of Tonopah to
help ~orkingmen in distress She never wa known to refuse a
meal to a hungry man or to withhold credit when he found a job
and could not buy a meal ticket until after the following pay day.
The only motive of the miners was to demonstrate that a lot
Of iawsmiths could not come into Tonopah and open a campaign
against persons whose shoes the agitators we're unfit to lick. So far
as labor or labor troubles ave concerned there is none In Tonopsh
The men who protested against the introduction of W. W. prn-
cples in the camp carry union cards and have always belonged to
unionized labor without waiting for a lot of unprincipled skates to
come forward and point the way to freedom Seine of these men
suffered for the cause of labor due to the same insidious poisoning
of the public mind as Witnessed here in the past month. These
men N reputable, industrious and honorable citizens, men working
for wages at the hardest kind Of l.bor, men who have families to
support and who will not patiently submit to the tyranny Of un-
scrupulous Nihilists Twelve hundred miners regularly employed
in Tonopah resent the lawless talks of a handful Of troublemakers
That is all
The Bonanza puts the issue squarely up to the prosecutor and
peace officers of Tonopah and in concluding its views on the situa-
ton has this to say:
Violence is to be deprecated at all times, and tits to be hoped
that now the Judicial and peace officers Of Tonopah and Nye Comfy
viii take steps to see that the Law is strictly enforced and that gun
tosers be given the limit 1t is up to the officers to act and the
public will hold them to a strict account for any delinquency that
may provoke more trouble.