Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-02
HARVESTING THE WHIRLWIND

For every effect there is dis,
tinct cause. Early Wednesday morn
ing a man was dragged from his
bed in Butte, Montana, spirited to
a railroad trestle aud there hanged
by the neck. he was not tied by
any court save that of Judge
Lynch. What is the .ausc W this
CHASTITY effect? Prank Ne was an
l. w. w. agitator known over the
country for his participation in, and
agitation of, labor troubles. Little
has been sowing the wind for "o,nt
time. He has been ringleader OF
the worthless element among lab
orers now loosely organized in tho
so-called l. W.. w. movement. HI
has been one of those irresponsible
soap box wranglers whose highest
ambition seemed to be 20 get a lDea!
ticket and a place 10 sleep without
the formality of working tor Ii, and
incidentally to stir up all he iro,ible
possible between employer aud en-
ployee. Bolstered up b. the cheers
of his "wobbly" audiences and th.
laziness and criminal negligence OF
officers of the law he became holder
and more bold in his campaign OF
denunciation and insult of all. who
were not members of the Infamous
horde of slackers, cowardly bomL
throwers and fir bugs which seem
to form the elite of l. w. w. ism.
Finally, after an orgy of vocal ath-
letics on the streets of Butte, there
resulted the tragedy of Wednesday
morning.
whatsoever man soweth tha'
shall he also reap" is the saying
that will always hold good. We dc
not condone the act of the men who
lynched Little at all. However j.
we were a member of the |. w. w
we would be compelled to commend
such an actor it is precisely the
program that the |. w. w. have beer
preaching. The men who lynched
him perhaps didn't carry l. w. w.
cards but they were noble grands of
their principles. They were l. W.
WIS in spirit, whether in the letter
we know not. Some think that the
|. w. WIS themselves lynched him
as betrayer. AS to that we cannot
say. But Frank Little is dead by ex-
actly such methods as are advocated
by the l. w. w.
Who is to blame? The men who
lynched him of course. But who
else? Frank Little, for his treason.
able and insulting utterances. But
who else? The cowardly officials
of Butte, Montana, and other cities
and towns of the United States who
have sat supinely by and allowed
these cheap traitors spout their an
archistic rot from the curb-sides
Such men as Fleming and Fasset
of Spokane who have had their con.
temptible political ears to the earth
listening for votes instead of full
filling their offices as men. And
they made no move until convinced
that in order to gain votes they must
act. Spokane has been known fol
years as the home of the cheapskate
politician, the lowest vermin tina.
crawls the earth, and will never de-
serve respect from rightminded mer
until she rises up and sweeps such
utter trash into the political gutter
But in the final analysis the blame
for Frank Little's death may be trac'
ed to the corruption that exists ir
our government which sells legisla-
tors, Judges, commissioners and pol.
ice officials to the highest bidder.
And if Little had confined his con-
demnation to individuals who arr
guilty and had worked up an organ
ization which had as its object the
punishment of the guilty and the
establishment of righteous govern
ment there would be nothing bul
commentator for his work and his
death would have been that of real
martyr, instead of that of fool
caught in the floodtide of his own
folly. But the l. w. w. Propaganda
is not concerned with Righteousness
Or unrighteousness, according tc
their own statement, but is a sense.
less aggregation of maniacs with the
one aim and that is destruction.
They have sown the wind-behold
the whirlwind!