Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-01
THE BULL HILL EPISODE.
a GAZETTE REPRESENTATIVE WHO
HAS BEEN THERE.
How the People OF Colorado Feel
About tho Matter-Governor
waite's Action.

The social conditions OF Colorado re-
sulting from the unhappy strike OF
miners at Cripple Creek have been the
wonderment Of people who have daily
read the press dispatches from Bull
Hill. Colorado Springs and Denver.
The long struggle. freighted with
crime. has few parallels. and certainly
no labor disorder In the past ten years
has been waged with greater animos-
ity. hatred and venom on each side.
The struggle at Bun Hill has been
merely transferred to Colorado Springs
and is just as deep In feeling OF re-
yenge and animoslty as ever. and all
though the miners ana deputies who
threaten to meet in a terrible battle.
have laid down their arms they con-
tinue to act In such manner that
leaves dlsnterested spectator with
the impression OF greatest dread Of the
ultimate result
a representative OF the Gazette
spent two days In Pueblo and Colo
ado Springs and has just returned.
He was In that state when Adiutant-
General Tarsney was taken from his
hotel In the later city. stripped OF his
clothing and given a coat Of tar and
feathers II was the result OF the
Cripple Greek war. In which Tarss1ey
participated at the head Of the militia.
No more dastardly act could have
been conceived, and while the good
people OF Colorado sprip'rs condemn
the affair publicly II ncverb. cless is a
fact that a very large proportion Of the
citizens are actually In sympathy with
the perpetrators OF the outrage. This
statement. literally true. shows how
wrought IN arc the ncOple,
Colorado Springs So the home Of the
mine owners, and Is In some respects
totally un-Amcrican. There Is on cy-
cry side the eveidcncc Of foreign ele-
mont, an apparent effort to ape Eng
liah manners and customs. In the
representative. he had occasion TO
meet same 1T the leading citizens.
Among them were found few hospita-
bic Texans, now residents there.
Messrs. Potter & Gregg formerly OF
sun Angelo. are doing well and both
making money. 1t goes without saying
that they are not to be classcd as a
part OF tho English npers. From them
was learned much of the labor situn-
tlon. The trouble dntes from an effort
on the part Of the mine owners to re-
ducc the scale Of wages from SO n day
TO 72.75, The great strike with which the
world IL familiar, was the result No
doubt much OF the intense feeling has
been introduced by the methods OF
Governor Waite, whose action has been
In sympathy with the miners. To
charge that he sanctions lnwlessness.
as one can hear SO often In Colorado
Springs, no doubt is untrue. He Is,
however too small In caliber. and un-
able to meet an emergency when one
arises The Outrage upon General
Tarsncy would have been given Cover
nor Waite II the latter had been IN
Colorado Springs the night the general
was kidnapped Waite realizes the
fact. aud II he were to go 70 the Springs
at proscAt II would be only with body
guard
Much of the intense feeling has been
created by the policy Of newspaper
In Colorado Springs. the Mining
World, This paper has nctually been
sp bold as to advise the organization OF
vigilance committees. Il stands for the
mine owners aud the A. r. A., and In
every Issue denounces In bitter words
the Catholic church, Governor Waite
and the miners, Stranger still Il re-
celves liberal support from the peo-
pie. There Is no possibility Of an Inn
mediate return Of good feeling and
harmony, and one need not be sur
prlsed to read Of further crimes and
outrages,