The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-10-14
A SPEECH UNFIT TO BE MADR
Bourke Cockran's Remarks Com
demned by Democratic Party Organ.

Bourke Cockran's Remarks Com
demned by Democratic Party Organ.
[From the Brooklyn Eagle. Sept. l9.l
The Eagle published Bourke Cock
rams speech In full on Sunday. That
much was due to news. The Eagle
gave to the speech not only full publ
cation, but prominent placement. That
was due to the magnitude Of the meet
ing. The Eagle made no comment up
Oh the speech when II published II. but
cannot withhold candid comment from
It today with justice to It's readers or
TO itself.
As much Of the speech as condemned
the conduct OF the governor Of ColOra-
do against mobs which claimed TO act
as labor organizations should not have
been deli rtred and should be pointedly
condemned by every law abiding
newspaper The mobs were made mp
Of murderers, manners, terrorizers and
outlaws. As many as twenty-one muir
ders and twice as many malmings
were scored against them. Arson and
terrorism further decorated the con
duct OF these "organiZed" outlaws.
They threw down law. They sacrificed
lifo. They wounded whom they could
not kill. and they followed such per
formances, congenial 10 them, with dy-
Mantle and the torch. What they did
was Infamous. The condition which
they brought about was intolerablc.
they made war; with It's worst atroc-
tiles, on government, on order, on prop
erty and on life.
What was done against them by the
state government Of Colorado, either IN
It's judicial or I'm It's military capacity,
was rightly done, bravely done, lauda-
bly, done, sternly done, admirably well
done. We hope that the doing Of 1t
will be approved by the people OF Colo
rado. II will be approved by them II
they love liberty, respect human and
natural rights and deserve to enjoy
those rights. 1t will be approved II the
punishment OF murderers is to be pre-
ferred to murder as nm industry and II
the vindication OF law is to be pre-
ferred to tho coronation OF systema.
tized crime.
IT should be incredible that even
Bourke Cochran should attack the nc
ton and misrepresent the record OF the
governor and government of Colorado
In this matter. But, being not incredi-
BILE. because he did 40 his condemna-
ton OF Il should itself be condemned,
and the injury which without rebukc
OF him would ensue to those whom
he professed to advocate should be re-
paired as far as II can be, as explicitly,
as earnestly and AZ soon as possible.
From much that Bourke Cochran
said about free trade and glorifica-
tion OF boycotts, from much that he
said on collateral subjects, the Eagle
differs, but those are matters or mere
opinion, however unwise, premature or
overdogmatic Bourke Cockran's opin-
ions OH them may be. They can be let
pass. The things which we have de
tli%<d and denounced were immoral, In
cendiary and scandalous. We can
imagine nothing more hurtfu than
those things to the cause which Bourke
Cochran would or would affect to IN
vor. As that cause IL sincerely sup
ported by the Eagle, this paper feels
bound to note and to denounce the In
Jury 10 that cause which Bourke Cock
ran, Willingly or unwittlngly. has
sought to infict upon II. His was
speech, I'm the respects set forth, unfit
To he made