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Show SOLDIERS IN STRIKES. Things look ugly in the Cteur d'Alene country. When the miners struck some time ago the Northern Pacific railroad immediately imme-diately started in to recruit non-union men all along its lines to take the place of the strikers. With the immense advantage that the mine owners thus had they soon replenished re-plenished their forces, but it seems that the arguments or threats, or both, of the strikers had greater weight with the "scabs'' than the inducements of the corporations, and the mines are now idle, pending the settlement of the trouble. How this settlement will be effected remains re-mains to be seen. It seems that the Northern North-ern Pacific railroad has invoked the help of the military, presumabiy the state militia. If this be so, we believe the company has committed an egreriou.s mistake, because it irives notice to the world that the local authorities au-thorities are unable to cope with the difficulty, diffi-culty, and that without actual disturbance having occurred an appeal to force is taken. Sometime ago a riot occurred in the coal mines in Pennsylvania at which a horde of ignorant foreigners, Poles and Hungarians, set lire to somu property belonging to the bosses. The latter asked Governor Pattison to turn out the state troops to squelch the mob, but he refused on the ground that it did not appear that the local authorities were unable to restore quiet. That was a wise action as the sequel proved, for the majesty of the law soon asserted itself without with-out the interference of armed battalions, which would have goaded the rioters to desperate des-perate resistance. We presume the strikers iu the C'aur d'Alene country are American citizens and subject to American treatment, which is not that of the bayonet. Too often big corporations corpora-tions invoke that iu order to show what a much abused class they are when indeed there is no reason for it; or to scare the men into submission. Striking is not a crime, i neither is the peaceful persuasion of others j to quit w ork a crime. We are not aware i that the Idaho miners have resorted to any other means of protest, much less to such as j warrant the railroad to set aside all the maehiuery of local protection and appeal at once tc the governor for the military. |