The Labor enquirer., 1886-01-09
4 TOAD N THE TEMPLE.


that the St. LOUIS Age Of Steel had been
securing the views of prominent thinkers
and practical men upon the labor ques-
tion, and the dispatch contained sum-
mary of the opinions of A. II. Danforth,
of Colorado. Howthe telegraph wires
must haye gfoansd under the heavy
load. Readers, you remember this Dan
forth don't you? Why, he is the per-
son who cracks the whip for the Colorado
Coal and Iron company. 1t was he that
BETRAYED the honest coal miners OF
Southern Colorado. little over q year
ago, by promising to treat them fairly, at
the same time he was hiring thugs
! sometimes called detectives-to worm
into their confidence and break up their
organization.
Why, this Danforth is the party that
put up pitiful face to the people OF the
state and claimed to be such a friend to
the Colorado miners while he was at the
same time sending agents to Tennessee
to engage negroes to take the places of
the coal diggers, He is the fellow whom
the editor of THE ENQUIRER showed up
in his true colors to the citizens OF
Pueblo, in meeting called by the busi-
ness men of that city. He is the party
who, in conjunction with Receiver Jack
son, of the Rio Grande, sent Ed Keith to
the editor of this paper begging that
something be done to keep the miners of
the south from demolshing the mines at
Ell Moro and after promising in return
for this service, to treatthe miners fairly,
added treachery to his other crimes and
turned some ofthe men and their un-
happy families out of the shanties in
which they had been living.
Why, this new star in the armament
of political economy is the same Danforth
who came west with the Grant party
when it was making the trip around the
| world he was noodle headed incum-
brance to the movements of the party,
and was dropped among the cactus
plants in the,Arkansas bottoms, franked
with the name of the illustr1ous general
and ex-presldent. The frank caught the
Colorado Coal and Iron company, and
thev hired the foundling of the cactus
rushes, and made him one of their slave
tdIixers He has since done such good
service for his masters that he is scon-
sidered authority upon political econ
omy.
He should write a book and call it
"What know about browbeating work
ingmen and lying to them;" and he
should dedicate It to the coal miners Of
Southern Colorado. r Z
Danforth has found an appropriate
avenue through which to give the world
the benefit of his deep study and, expe-
rience upon the labor question he is GER
taiiily child of the age, and this is "The
Age of Steal" IF
And this man, who has always been
cowardly brutal, and unfeelingly obedi-
ent to the cruel orders of his masters
when dealing with workingmen, has the
supreme gall to tell the public that, "The
employer who recognizes the just rights
of his men, and who places himselfupon
a footing of equality and confidence. is
the fttest, and will survive, and with
these, eventually, will the problem be
worked out"
Danforth never did recognize the just
rights of "his" men, and as to the equal
| ity, may the future spare such disgrace
to the honest coal diggers of Colorado.
The question of the rights of the pro-
dueers is the all-important one; it is
clamoring for settlement; ; it must be set
tied justly but in the temple of intelli-
gence, where this settlement will be
effected there is no room for the intellect
ual toads who can do no more than sing
the platitudinal bigotry of their masters.
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