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Show VILYT AILS NEVADA OFFICIALS? We boast of our country, its freedom, its greatness, great-ness, its power. But it has its weak spots. When a band of men defying both God and man can hold up a great mining camp like Goldfleld with , demands which a man should be sent to the penitentiary for making, and there is no redress for the decent peo-. peo-. pie ; then there is something lacking in our system of government, or there is something lacking in the officers whose business it is to execute the laws. .. If there is not a conspiracy in restraint of trade in Goldfleld and if a case would not hold against those I miscreants who defy every law of our country and of civilization, then our Government is a failure sure , . enough. It seems to us that .Gov. Sparks' course ought to be a plain one, that it should be plain sailing sail-ing for the District Attorney of Nye county; that the machinery of the law if set in motion would give peace to that region, calm the fears of the people and permit the natural industries of the people to be resumed. . Of course the officers would have to be' backed by a sufficient force of resolute men, but surely Ne- - vada is not deficient in these. Great harm is being done Nevada and for that matter to the whole country coun-try for the enemies of law and order and justice all over the country take hope every day for what is going on unchecked in Goldfleld. This is so important a matter that we believe the strong business men and genuinef leaders of labor, la-bor, of not only Nevada but of Utah and Idaho ought to meet and canvass the situation and look for a remedy. Nevada a year ago today had better prospects pros-pects than she had had for a quarter of a century. She has always paid top wages, she inaugurated the eight-hour day for miners long in advance of any other State. Today her people are filled with an- ticipation of violence and misrule and it has all come from men who have stolen the sacred name of labor over which to raise their black flag of anarchy Incendiarism and murder. . These "Industrial Workers" will have to be ftamped. out or what they are doing will spread east and west and north and south. It has become a contest between order, law and justice on the one hand and violence, crime and chaos on the other. The Federation of Labor, be it said to the credit of the - organization, is on . the law and order side and against the anarchists. If the machinery of the law is paralyzed in Nevada, we should all know that fact. We cannot understand the apathy of the officials there. We cannot quite understand the patience of the people. It seems to us that a few resolute men acting in the name of the law could relieve the suspense sus-pense in a week. A few arrests, a few held up for trial would paralyze the others. Nevada officials should vindicate vindi-cate the good name of their State. |