The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-11-13
Labor. Capital. and the Public.

Labor, Capital, and the Public.
The notices recently posted by the
mine operators of the west, ordering
all miners to suspend work on the
ninth of this month, were brought
shout by the fact that the company
had absolutely refused to hold
any conferences with the authorized
representatives of organized labor.
It Is impossibly to estimate at this
time the amount of suffering that will
be inflicted on this part of the country
by the stopping OF all coal mining
operations in Colorado and the terri
tories to the west of US. We get our
best supplies of coal from there and
shutting of the supply at the begin
ming of winter, when there is but
small storage amounts in the hands
of consumers, is bound to cause great
hardship and suffering. This condi
tion of affairs is getting to be intol-
cradle. Organized labor on the one
side and organized capital on the
other are playing horse pretty much
all the time and the plain common
people are the sufferers. But few
years ago and the sympathy of the
entire country was with organized
labor This was brought about by
the fact that capital organized first
and began the fight. Later the labor
organizations began to demonstrate
their power and at first capital took
to the woods and made concessions.
Later, seeing that to continue ON the
run meant the turning OF their bust
ness over to their employees. they be-
gan to resist, and at this time when
ever there is any trouble work is
suspended until the suffering public
brings sufficient pressure on the poll
ticians, and then some sort of settle
ment is patched up with the intent of
making political capital out of the
same, and the people pay, as in she
settlement of the anthracite strike
of the committee appointed by the
president, advanced the wages OF the
men ten cents and increased the price
OF coal fifty cents ton. In all of
these disturbances it is the innocent
who suffer. No matter what kind of
settlement is made the people who
have no direct part in the matter in
dispute are the ones who pay the
bills. All political parties admit the
facts to be as We have started. All
organizations, whether of labor or
capital, admit the same. All admit
that remedy for such conditions
should be found. Capital says the
remedy is in the humiliation of or
gained labor. and organized labor
says organization OF capital is to
blanc, and must be prevented or con-
trolled by law. The people are begin
ming to believe that organized govern
meas is the remedy. Which means that
the mines and operate them for the
benefit of the whole people and there
shall be no monor oily The heat pro-
ducing processes OF the world any
more than of the supply of water. II
will also be found necessary to- take
charge of the railroads and operate
them III lie sam. manner, rs to take
the mi les ana leave the means of dis
tribnion III the hands of corporations
would be an Ineffective remedy
When the members Of the peoples
party demanded governsnent owner
ship of AL natural monopolieS they
were called wild-eycd fanatics, but let
the world go cold, thirsty and hungry
and see how quickly that which has
been called fanaticism will be hailed
as the concentrated wisdom of the
age. 1t industrial wars do not cease
nothing is more certain than that the
government will be compelled to seize
the roads and the miues in order to
preserve tie life Of this nation. We
do not want to see anarchy, we want
to see happy and prosperous people
where the necessities of life are east
ly in reach of all.