Arizona republican., 1904-06-08
PmoENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE s. 1904.
The Anarchy in Colorado and What 1t Tleans.

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 Anarchy has been clutchirg the ahvoa: oe Colorado for a year. Condi- tions are growing worse instead of bet teg. The striking miners of that state are uo longer content with defiance Of tae Jaw. with the destruction of prop ceGy. with assaults upon working min egs. and with assassination here and gAsvs. They have resortcd to whole sale murder.
 and all this anarchy, all this F,zralysis of the states industrial life, ts the direct outcome cf the persistent eEorts of the Western Federation of 1lners to establish labor trust-to declare and enforce a monopoly of er- tioyment.
 This is the central fact of the whole situation.
 The members of the federation have ssalsed to work. and they are determ- gnsa that no other miners shall have tsa jobs vacated by them.
 .Il will be asserted, and it may be conceded, that the indescribable murder Of the miners employed in the F!ndlay mine was not by direction of tke federation. But none the less are Che leaders of the federation in Colo. yddo responsible for that crime and gor the countless other crimes perpe- trated against life and property during Che past year. The members of the federation are taught by their leaders that the organization must win at all hazards. that jobs once held by them arc theirs for all time; that the wealth produced by the mines is their own; that miners who are not members of the federation have no right to take Q job vacated by a federation man. And with their specific declarations all the poisonous doctrines of socialism are constantly preached to the member ship.
 The events of a year have com pletely unmasked the devilish pur- poEes e the leaders. Pretending that the objects of the federation are to protect the interests of the mining fra teFaigy and to guard working miners in the!r rights. it has been shown that whst 90 sought Is the personal profit 0f Ghs agltators and the supremacy Of the 5nost cruel monopoly ever seen in the Edited States. Less than half the miners tn the country are willing mem- heEs of this organization. Hundreds upon hundreds have been driven to en- g6u themselves as members by fear of guurder. and by the absolute certainty shsg at best a determination on their BaEt 10 be free American citizens would De followed by intolera ble persecution.
 But the case would be no better for ths federation if every miner but one Ca ghe Rocky Mountain region belonged % the organization and gladly obeyed IEs iyrannical orders. The one man sganding out and working alone. when and where he chose, would have every right that the federation could assume g0T itself And the authorities of the agats Of Colorado would have to admit tAp failure of popular government if they failed to extend to that single miner. every protection that all the power of the state could give.
 In their harangues to the members Of the federation the socialist leaders ring ell the changes on the evils of trusts and monopolies, and demand their destruction at the hands of the people. At the same time, they pro- ceod with the work of building up the most vicious trust and monopoly hu- mHgi;T has known. When all the evils Rk!s& enzy be inflicted by the primary EaS@Ogoly are admitted the fact re- Ta&ias that it has been left for the rnsncrs' trust of Colorado to resort to assassination as the everyday means Of enforcing the monopoly's will. InI their eyes the life Of an independent mIueg is worth no more than the life of a dog.
 2. It is somewhat remarkable that the lsEic Of the facts does not occur to even the dunest member of the organi- zat!on. Recently. a member of the fed eFAtiQn has been complaining bitterly