Show THE ILLINOIS BUTCHERY the ee eel l of this countr country yare are centered upon southern illinois sas say the new york herald one reason 14 that one of our great statch one of theio states in which the traditions of order and honor and power of lav lai should be of the aaro atro strongest angst remained supine ill a critical will tragic hour A second reabon is IR that the right of ever cier 3 mail o 0 to 0 avora I 1 ight ai bared as every evory mans riem to quit working king 1110 been wa on in the bloody mud of the mining field birthe But Bit the rea of all I 1 Is s d A OM ible calure nature of the crime the tile revelation of the brutality of which thu the hua huagui ra race cc is still ca ea pa L j t is oa eles to turn back to t the ecord of the riots of chicago 16 i or east edit st louis or omaha for a M L 0 T parallel to whytt 1 happened 1 at herit al N rin red aa as those pages were we find in them at least the slight ex of conf conflict liet the affair at wac it t done not merely with deliberation but with hideous pi pleasure asure i to there ie Is nothing in n tho the history of the united states to conjure con pare with the savagery of the mob that tamed turned the surrendered strikebreakers loose only to shoot them down that cut their throat as they lay wounded that cased them as they were dying in the hospitals that killed women wom en and babies and that brought the children into the morgue to take a look kid at what your father did not wen ilten the ma massacre at fort pillow Pillo 7 the darkest chapter sn in the story of the civil war can match the details of the illinois horror borror it was just the old story of a mob getting started one of the union miners explained explain td what whitt started at was it the telegram from president john L lewis 3 0 of f the united mine workers in which he dec declai laed that represent of our organization art are justified in treating this crowd the strikebreakers as nn an outlaw organization tl f on and in ill viewing its members in the same light aa as y would view any other coon co on arike erst no attack on the mine occurred until lewis telegram N war ar rece received ivel by tile local union bit blit surely lewis did not mean that the wen inen he so advised atlIs ed should plunge into the wont orgy of jenching that this 4 count country has haq true thero there was not a word in his 1114 telegram advising the kee keep 11 ing of the peace but he may way not have coni considered dered it whoever started the slough ter 1 it is a black hour for the un ion loll miners for illinois i and its officers and for the whole country will the union union help to discover and col comice let the murderers t will vill the local and state officials pro aeed as relentlessly relentless 13 as rs if the unions ions wielded no power the whole country is ii waiting tor lor the answer |