The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-10-31
c. j. MUNSON ADDRESSES
FARMER VOTERS OF IDAHO

The following open letter to the
farmers of Latah county especially
and of Idaho in general, by Charles
}. Munson, one of the best known
farmers of the county, who has farm
ed four miles east of Moscow for 20
. years, will be read with interest. Mr..
Munson's letter follows:
Farmers of Idaho and Latah
County; We farmers in Latah county
and other counties of northern Idaho
remember how the farming industry
was threatened by the l. w. w.
short time ago and how it became
necessary to organize vigilance COM
mittee composed of leading citizens
who went into the woods and rounded
up these outlaws who threatened to
burn our crops and destroyed our
property and that some of them were
sent to the penitentiary.
I'VE remember how, last spring.
these outlaws again threatened us and
lit became necessary for Governor
Alexander to organize four militia
companies, one of which was located
at Moscow in Latah county and the
other IN Standpoint. Good citizens,
farmers, business men and property
owners, joined these militia companies
W PiOcSSo Jul
Ihese times may occur again. The
|. w. W. is not dead. 1t is only Sleep
ing and waiting for chance to re-
new it's attacks in Idaho. Ed. Hofes
tede, I. w. w. attorney who spent
five months in the Latah county iail
for sedition and obstructing the draft,
and has recently been in Jail in Spo-
kane, has demanded that the l. w. w.
be permitted to reopen headquarters
IN Spokane In order that they may
carry on their work in Washington
and Idaho and prepare defenses for
their members in jail in these states.'
"The records show that H. F. Sam
uels,, when prosecuting attorny of
Shoshone county when the old West
ern Federation of Mines, the parent
of the |. w. W., with Big Bill Hay
wood as its head, blew up the Bunk
er Hill and Sullivan mine smelter,
refused to prosecute these outlaws on
the grounds that they are my friends
and the men who elected me to Of
fice.' The records show that Judge
J. IT. Forney, OF Moscow, lanes TIaw-
ley and w. E. Borah were employed
to prosecute these men for their
crimes, which included murder.
Farmers, you who have been fighting
and been fought by the T. w. w;
you whose property has been Destroy
I'd by these outlaws; you who, with
your sons, Joined the Idaho National
Guard, organized expressly to fight
his organization of outlaws-do you
want to see H. F. Samuels, who re-
used to prosecute men of this stripe
because they were his friends, in the
governors chair at Boise? Do you
'elieve that if Samuels is elected and
he |. w. w starts new attacks on
7ou and your property, he will order
ut the four companies of state guards
o fight them? Do you believe it is
afe to try this experience?
"Bill Haywood, head of the I. w. w.
low languishes in prison for con-
piracy against the United States
He is a dangerous
haracter. He was head of the West
rn Federation of Miners when the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan concentrator
vas blown up He was head of the
rganization that murdered Governor
because Steuenenberg
the federation and sent
ONE of its members to the peni-
He was arrested and tried
or this murder and John F. Nugent
1as his chief counsel. 1t has been
ublicly charged that $25O,OOO was
pent to clear Haywood, Meyer and
ettybone of this charge of murder
nd Nugent was the paymaster for
lis vast sum, the checks going
trough the Pacific National Bank at
oise to the Owyhee National Bank
Silver city, the former home of
aywood and Nugent.
"Samuels, who refused to prosecute
lese outlaws for their crimes be-
ause they were his friends, now
ants to be governor of Idaho and
sks you to elect him to that high
flee.
''Nugent, who defended Bill Hay
ood for the murder of Steuenberg,
ks you to elect him to the Uni
d States senate.
"Are you going to do it? Will it
, safe?
CHARLES J. MUNSON."'