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Show THE CCECK D'ALENE TROUBLE. There is absolutely no excuse for the murderous mur-derous assaults of the striking miners in the Occur d'Alcne country. They have certain cer-tain grievances against the operators op-erators and while the alternative may be hard for them, to submit or starve, and axplaius in a measure their desperation, yet the resort to anarchy does not improve their condition, but loses them, instead, the sympathy of their fellow men. On the other hand it will be remembered that the mine owners have, from the beginning begin-ning of the strike, threatened to subdue the miners by military force and appealed for troops when they should have appealed ap-pealed to reason and common sense, j Thus goaded for three months and abandoned aband-oned with their wives and children to hunger, hun-ger, thes-e men at last turned rebels and resisted the laws of the country, reckless of any consequences they ruight invoke. It is a lamentable condition of things and the troops operating against the strikers may find it serious business to quell the disturbance, dis-turbance, although, resistance to Uncle Un-cle Sam means summary punishment of them. At the same time It may be well to remember that by quiat and cunning influences in-fluences the operators have contributed their full shara toward the present rebellion. "We say this ail the more readily because the operators possess the means to present their side of the case in the moat favorable light while their employes have not. |