Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-06-17


found for them in New Mexico, most of the
miners ale being taken there.
But the disgrace of the affair still clngs to
Colorado, and the stigma will remain-it will
be many years before the state will outgrow the
effects of the auarchistic actions Of Governor
Peabody and General Bell, whose names will
go down n history as two of the most heartless
individuals that ever lived They will be held
in contempt by coming generations.
We said the trouble is over, but that is not
wholly true. While the surface indications are
better, the trouble is too deep.seated to be dis
posed of so readily. The laboring men of this
country will not tamely submit to such infamy.
Labor unions all over the country are taking
action in the matter. Organized labor in Chi
cago established a precedent, Sunday, when,
through its central body, the Federation of La
Dor, il appealed to President R oosevelt to send
federal troops into Colorado to protect the lives
of the miners--to give them the protection
which the constitution of the United States
guarantees to them. The resolutions adopted
provided that general committee be appointed,
whose duty it shall be to procure legal advice
and take whatever action it may deem proper
to aid the Colorado miners.
President Gompers, of the Federation OF
Labor, was urged to Immediately confer with
the heads of trades declarations of the whole
country and ask them to join in calling an
emergency delegate conference to consider the
situation.
Numerous labor unions have appropriated
money to be sent to the miners, but Peabody
and Bell have refused to allow money or other
aid sent to the miners except it first pass through
the hands of the military.
One day last week, train bearing about 100
miners, guarded by militia, was brought to the
Kansas line, to be dumped into this state; but
the sheriff of Hamilton county, accompanied
by body of aimed men, met the train and re-
fused to allow the soldiers to unload the miners
on Kansas SOIL The train was backed into
Colorado and the miners left on the prairie,
several miles from any town, without bite to
eat. The miners followed the railroad track to
the first town, where they were fed and cared
for by the citizens of the place.
And right here, we want to commend Gov
ernor Bailey's action in the matter. He said,
in effect, that the Colorado miners are welcome
to come to Kansas, and they will be treated the
same as any other citizens as long as they are
peaceable and law-abiding.
A number of miners were aiken to the Colo
rado-New Mexico line on Tuesday alag day.,
and unloaded on the Colorado side and driven
over the line. There were thirty-six of the
miners, and they we've given two loaves OF
bread and few beans. One miner mounted
rock marking the state line, and, waving half
a loaf of bread over his head, shouted, "Give
me liberty or give me death!' AS the train
bearing the militia pulled out, the miners turn
ed their faces toward Colorado and took up their
line of march One miner startedto sing "My
Country, tits OF Thee-Sweet Land of Liber-
typ and the whole company joined in. They
continued their march till they reached little
town, where they were fed, lodged and cared
for by the people. The miners said they in
tended to march to Denver.
General Bell claims to have in the "bull pen"
about forty union miners implicated in blowing
up the depot at independence, and he declares
they shall hang. But an investigation has been
made and bloodhound traced the crime to