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Show o Under tho heading "Idaho on Trial," Collier's Weekly has tho following fol-lowing sensible and conservative nr-ticlo nr-ticlo regarding Moycr and Haywood, tho alleged murderers of Governor Steunenberg: "Tho" trial of Moyer and Haywood for tho murder of Governor Steunenberg Steunen-berg of Idaho, has been postponed, and now promises to begin this month. So sharply has tho public eye been fixed upon this complicated affair that wo fancy a fair trial will bo assured. Certainly If tho forms of law are not complied with, and if tho substance of Justice Is not done, tho country will know of tho failure, ns plenty of first-class first-class correspondents will watch tho progress of tho trial. The report of tho Department of Commerce and Labor La-bor on this case was extremely damaging dam-aging to the mine-owners, practically accusing them not only of lawlessness, but of conspiracy to fasten a crime on labor leaders by perjure. I testimony. testi-mony. In lawlessness perhaps thera Is not much to choose between the owners and the workmen, and at any rate the general blame Is not In question. ques-tion. It is never wise in the long run to allow popular emotion, local or general, to Interfere with tho course of Justice. The case of tho Chicago anarchists is now looked upon rather widely by conservative men ns a gross wrong perpetrated to appease a multitude. mul-titude. The Idaho and Colorado situation sit-uation is notably different, for If the minors are a violent lot, nothing bet ter can be said for the owners. The outside world should insist sternly on Justice without regard to the relative sins of capital and labor. It Is a pure matter of law nnd evidence relating to a specific crime, and no considerations considera-tions of sympathy or antipathy, for either body concerned, should be allowed al-lowed the slightest weight. Idaho has the opportunity to earn considerable credit or Immense disgrace. Wo In no degree prejudgd this case. It Is complicated and remote. Hut there are circumstances which ralso suspicion sus-picion of collusion between the mine-owners mine-owners and the authorities, and Idaho owes It to herself that this suspicion should be removed." |