The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-25

- E,t our correspondent, who is such
stckIer for liberty, has nothing to say OF tne arpl
trarv dctation of the commander OF the militia 10
close down the Portland mine, which employed 'Vo
men, because they were union men, Inc writer
studiously avoids any reference to TINS infringe
ent on the liberty of those 700 employees VINO we're
making an honest living for themselves and their
families He would assume, as may be gaVhereo
from the entire tone of his communication that
all union men are lawless and dangerous. 1hat was
the assumption of General Bell. We do not agree
with the writer in this assumption and would lean
rather TO the opinion of anabe writer whose eHpe-
rience in mining camps, and whose sympathetic
heart is always OH the side Of justice, mercy, law
and order and that is Judge G. G. Goodwin. In
the last issue of Goodwn's Weekly, he writes: 1T
is inconceivable that great organization, many
members of which have wives and children to feed
and clothe are all criminals and with all the men
under arrest, with good detective work and shrewd
attorneys, it would be impossible to sift the Grim
inals from the great mass to convict and punish
them" In the same issue will be found the real
cause of the labor troubles "a venal, partisan
and demagogue press encouraged the violence, cor
rupt politicians, primary heelers and corrupt civil
officers from sheriffs up to judges have given aid
of malcontents who have determined to have their
way or bring anarchy upon the state Preceding
all this, Goodwins Weekly gives the cause of the
trouble admitted generally by the press of the coun-
try: "a legislature broke its implied promise and
defeated the will of the people in refusing to pass
law which the people desired to have passed"
The writer finds in the dynamiting of the depot
at Independence sweet morsel to masticate. But
on that deplorable occurrence the lntermountain
Catholic, in It's prior issue, expressed itself in
stronger language than the writer. 1t said "The
blowing UP of the depot at independence in the
early hours of the morning while miners there
awaiting train to take them to their homes and
families in Cripple Greek and Victor, fendish
act, for which no punishment is too severe Only
at the conclusion does the writer really take issue
TO the application of the editorial by justifying the
wholesale deportation of miners beyond tho con-
fines of the state, and that because grocers butchers
ETC., etc, wanted them deported, The citizens of
ancient Rome "rose en- masse" and endorsed Brutus
for the killing of Caesar, but at the voice of Marc
Antony they "rose again masse" and slew Bru-
tus. 1t is not what the community zen masse" may
feel like doing is in question, but guilty or not
guilty, and as the able writer already quoted puts
it. Law must be the basis of all dealings among
citizens and between the citizens and the state"
Referring to the deportation Goodwin's Weekly
says: "They were guilty innocent If the latter,
they have just as much right to live in Colorado
as any other citizen of that state has, if the former
then it is Colorados place to try, convict and pun
ish them. Liberty is worthless except that it is
liberty under the law" So say all fair minded, sim
cere and unprecedented writer's
L. IL
'Fthe deported murderers'-we can easily judge his
intolerant spirit against the labor unions and that
he and not the labor unions, would proceed on the
theory of the Puritans who left England and came
to America to worship God according to their
science, and make everybody else do the same
whatever capital does in his eyes, is ali right. The
unions must bear all the burden of lawlessness.
Capital thwarted the will of the people through
corruption. 1t was all right. 1t closed down a
mine that employed union labor. There is
sure 1t told storekeeper TO whose credit $500
was placed in Denver bank, that he must not sell
goods to the families of union miners. Our CORE
spondent makes no mention of these facts The
Intermountain Catholic does. 1t condemns law
lessness on both sides. It's motto is that of Pres
dent Grant: "Let no guilty man escape" be he a
miner deving in the bowels of the earth, or mil
lionaire residing in palace. That is the only diff
ference between the Intermountain Catholic and
its esteemed correspondent.