Arizona republican., 1902-09-28
The "Labor" Issue in Arizona

The La bor issue m Arazcha a'
 When a demagogue starts after an office his first thought is to appeal to the labor" vote. It is not surprising, some of his associate office-chasers in certain sections of the territory mak- ing a great howl over the wrongs" of labor In Maricopa and some other counties the tissue" will not be made obtrusive, but in the strictly mining counties the scheme of arraying the wage earners against their employers These patriots appear to have reached the conclusion that their only hope of salvation hangs upon their success in fooling laboring men into the belief that a great crisis has been reached in the affairs of labor in the territory, and that lllueStIlDdplC OlSclSlCl tlN ats NAlC men who work by the day if they fail to place Wilson and the socialistic ele- ment of the democratic party inside of the fat offices.
 What matters it if there be no diff ferences between labor and capital in Arizona? Is it not easy. always to ere ate trouble by appealing to the passions of men and telling, them that somebody somewhere is expressing them? What matters it if the fires of anarchy are kindled in the breasts of a few ignor ant, un-AmeriCan men and violence fol- lows? What matters it if the develop ment of the territory's mines is arrest ed in such manner that equal head way cannot be gained in another ten years? What matters it if the men now spending their millions in employ ing Arizona labor and in creating per manent wealth for the territory are forced in seIf-defense to suspend oper- ations and throw thousands of men out of employment? What matters it if the prosperous and contented miners Of Arizona are led into throwing away their positions and forced to go tramp ing in search of work in the neighbor ing states and Mexico? What matters all this, if Wilson gets an office and the democratic ticket in Yavapai and some other counties is elected? Is it not the business of the demagogue to get of fee, regardless of the welfare of the community? These are evidently the animating thoughts of the Wilson dem every other county where there is q labor" vote to which appeal can be been captured in many localities by men who care nothing for democracy, nothing for the territory, and nothing for the laboring men, in comparison with the loot of office.
 The head and front of the conspiracy against the peace, good order and pros perity of the territory and for political control. is found in Yavapai county. There the democratic managers have imported from Colorado a socialistic ranter named Richardson. Richardson's business is to visit the mining camps, address the miners, and stir them to disconteht. With him, or immediately following him, go the democratic can didates, to get the benefit of the seeds of anarchy sown by him. The Pres colt Courier, the chief Wilson organ of the territory, frankly admits that Rich ardson is a socialist, and it comments him in the warmest terms. This fellow Richardson visited Jerome a few nights ago and the Prescott Journal Miner gives this brief account of his speech:
 "A Mir. Richardson. claiming to be newspaper representative from Cole radO, made q speech in the interest of the democratic party at Jerome last night. and said amongst other things that Roberts (the republican candidate for sheriff) was closeted with MT Mur- phy all day Sunday, and that the lat ter proposed securing the formers election as sheriff as we'll as Clark for attorney. MT. Murphy would then have Roberts arrest the miner Clark cOn- vict him and the judge whom he con- trolled sentence him. Richardson fur ther stated that there were two meth ods of settling the labor question-one by ballot and the other by rifles. He preferred the former method, for the reason that it the latter were used the