Labor Unrest in Idaho by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 21, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 25.

Labor Unrest in Idaho

By Editor

The stand that Governor Steunenberg and General Merriam have taken concerning the recent riots at Wardner, Idaho, will be very apt to materially assist in precipitating the on-coming general smash-up. Indeed, it is very hard in these times to know what to do and say, lest one be found assisting in producing the universal revolution that is so rapidly drawing on. When Governor Steunenberg and General Merriam decided that no union men shall be allowed to work in the Coeur d' Alenes mines at Wardner, they no doubt acted from a sense of duty. But the laboring men of this country are resting under the keenest convictions that capital is sorely oppressing them, and whoever touches the spark that sets these pent-up grievances of labor aflame, is likely to see that the great strike of 1894 is not a circumstance to what will follow. Those of us who know what all these things mean can look the situation calmly in the face, for we know Him in whose hands the final outcome of the whole matter rests. But those who refuse to believe the Bible warnings concerning these very times in which we live, and these very events that are taking place right about us to-day, may well pause before resorting to any very drastic measures.