, 1898-10-29
remarkable facial resemblance between
w. ]. Bryan and the chief of the Pilla-
ger islands. They ought to apologize
to the old chief.
THROWING OFF THE COLORADO
YOKE,

Inc ftOChy AlOultalu News Is Tread
fully incensed over the broom factory
which is now in successful.operation at
the Wyoming p~enitentiary. 1t accuses
Wyoming people with violating the
spirit and letter of the constitution
which provides that no work Shall BE
done by any convicts which shall come
in competition with free labor This
law" says the News, rs being openly
and nagrantly violated by the present
republican administration and the
lessee in charge of the state peniten-
tiary at Laramie, where the convicts
are employed in the manufacture Of
brooms." Every taxpayer in the state
understands that there is moi a broom
factory in Wyoming, except at the pen
itentiary, and consequently this con-
vict labor does not come in competition
with free labor. No one is worried
about the penitentiary broom factory
except the broom factories in Denver.
which for years have been shipping
brooms by the carload to every town
along the Union Pacific in Wyoming.
The taxpayers in this state, under these
circumstances. prefer to build up an in
dustry at home which promises to
bring al income to the state and thus
reduce taxation, rather than to con-
tinue to support Colorado institu-
lions. The brooms sod to all the towns
in the northern portion Of the state are
made at the Lincoln, Nebraska. peni-
tertiary. and the taxpayers up that way
would much rather help to build up an
industry which will reduce their taxes
than help the people of the state of Ne
braska to pay the running expenses of
their state penitentiary. We are glad
that the News has brought this mater
up in tangible form as 1t enables us to
say some things that are true and in
disputable. E%nterprlsing men in the
past have attempted to establish broom
factories in numerous towns in this
state, but they have all been obliged TO
retire from business because the neigh
boring states could undersell them,
with brooms made by convict labor.
1t has been clearly demonstrated that
it is impossible, in this state. to estab-
lish this line of manufacturing: hence
there is no competition at our peniten-
tiary with free labor in Wyoming. The
Nnuc tc nnrhny- jrrt1H- nNrnn~raI
about this matter, because the peniten-
tiary brooms shut out a Colorado man
ufactured article, but the taxpayers of
Wyoming, great and small, have rea-
son to rejoice. We have long helped
to build up Colorado and other states
and all the while we have been Obliged
tions. No one should blame Thomp-
son, who looks after the Wyoming de-
partment of the News; he is simply a
hired man, placed in Cheyenne to build
up Colorado's trade and to crush out
every industry which m in compe-
tition with the industries Of the
thrown off the Colorado yoke
and from this on will not only manu-
facture our own brooms, but grow our
own potatoes and wheat; likewise run
our own politics. asking no advice from
Tom Patterson or his man Friday, by
some called John Charles Thompson.
Another thing might just as well be
said here and now: Wyoming will
never again be mortgaged in the inter
est OF the silver mine owners OF Colo