Gunnison news-champion., 1904-01-15
SOAaE DEPARTURE NECES
SARY.
Too se for sss vees

With the turmoil Of disturbed
business conditions about us at the
beginning # the year 1904 1t stands
good citizens m hand % devote more
than the usual amount Of study 20
finding a solution for the problem II
canital and labor. Instead II being
partners in industry, co-laborers IN
the held q national Development,
they hight as enemies. Colorado is
reut with internal dissensions due
partly 10 the arrogance Of labor lead
ers. not all tactful as John Mitch
ell nor far-seeing like Gompers.
Often these leaders stir up trouble
o. boost personal and political ends
/ Certain Colorado socialists are sus-
pected of DOING this very thing No
word of condemnation is strong
enough for these wolves In sleeps
clothing just now most Of the
| disturbance in Colorado is due Co
worse than unwise administration
which for months has been exertiug
the entire military force Of the state
to provoke by wautan and unlawful
acts some overt act Of the miners
that would give countenance TO
wholesale slaughter and imprison-
ment.
That the strikers, with but few ex-
ceptions have been quiet and order
/ lv in spite of extreme provocation is
I highly 30 their credit. Ii shows that
among the laboring men we have a
basis Of intelligence and patriotism
which viii respond to sturdy eff
fort to put down lawlessness and
crime whether that crime comes from
the ignorant and depraved or from
the rich and powerful This move
ment must come from the great mid
| die classes 1t must be a thinking
movement, careful Of the rights and
privileges guaranteed to every man
under the constitution Ii must
guard the rights of wealth, for in
the prospect of competence for his
children and for his old age lies the
incentive OF that exceptional industry
and energy 80 necessary to progress
II must cherish with jealous care the
| right Of every man 10 work when
and as long as pleases under the Law
and OF any man to stop work when
and how he pleases, for in them lies
the Magma Charta Of labor. 1t must
avoid the vagaries and unripe theo-
ries of socialism as well as the newly
revived monarchial plan Of stopping
crime by crushing liberty, a policy
which breeds socialists. II must in
sist ON a free press, on the right Of
organization, ON the right Of peace
ably assembling to discuss grievances
on the right Of endeavoring by law
ful means 10 convert other men to
our opinions, for without these rights
our boasted freedom quickly changes
30 despotism Ii must look with
appreciation upon intelligent and
lawabidIng efforts Of labor unions
I 10 secure for their members reason
able hours and fair share Of wealth
I created by their toll, since the chill
dren of these men are multitude
and upon the industrial condition Of
parents depends the giving or with
holding Of opportunities which viii
make our future citizens intelligent
. or ignorant This movement must
irJwn upon the anarchial tendencies
oi both extremes, If the dimlv seeing
Labor leader whose mind is not vet
. strong enough 10 distinguish between
. the privileges Of an American and
the license Of brute, and Of the self
styled upper classes whose brains
. have gone % seed in the belief thai
money and position confer special
. privileges to override and crush un-
/ der an iron heel the rights Of their
emUl1yes, rather than special privi-
. leges alone 10 make better laws and
to promote the general welfare If the
state
II is true that election Is a long
way III and we are burdeued with 4
. governor whose sense uf statesman
ship is as perverted as his idea Of