The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-11
COLORADO LABOR TROUBLES.

The labor troubles brewing in our neieLloric,,
state for more than year reached their c.irav
during the week The blowing up of the depot 81.
independence in the early hours of the m.~rin,
while miners were there awaiting train -, fall.
them to their homes and families in CrippI. Cr,o.
and Victor, was fendish act for which uu ,rr
ishment is too severe. This murdcrous action will
take away from the union a great deal of tine sym.
pathy that has been shown them. The principles,
for which the union is contending, may be al
right, but their realization can never be ATTAINED
By the midnight assassin. Life, liberty and pur,u..
of happiness are mans inalienable rights Tho,.
miners who went to independence from Victor and
Cripple Greek had perfect right to sell their Ia.
Dor to the capitalist, and perhaps necessity urged
them to do so to save their wives and little children
from starvation. Could they better their condition
by not doing so, it is not at all likely that they
would risk their lives in the bowels of the earth
every miner does, to keep starvation from
their doors. But they do so. as they have al right
to do, and after their nights labor are cruelty
murdered. Whence this sad result The contest
in Colorado is between capital and labor. The
former cannot be implicated They may be
greedy, proud, naughty entirely indifferent to
the demands of the union but no one will suspect
them of conniving at or wishing the assassination
of a union laborer, much less of those who worked
in the mines. The dastardly deed must then be
committed by those of their own craft. 1t cannot
be charged directly to the union; but owing to the
long and lawless contest that has spread SO much
disssension through all the mining regions of Co.
dorado. certain cass has become envious dscon-
tented, resentful, hostile and are awaiting an op
perfume time to execute their evil designs by she'd
ding the innocent blood of their fellow aborers
Well may it be asked if this state of affairs in
which such diabolical deeds can occur do happen
however rare, are the best and only means of rem
edying evils, be they real or imaginary. We may
boast of intelligence and tie progress of the age
but if in this twentieth century, in this blessed
land of liberty, where all enjoy suffrage, share in
universal education, and are under the blessed
light of the Gospel, which means peace and good
will to ALL such wicked deeds can take place then
our boast only reflects credit on the supremacy Of
Satan over our Maker. What is the cause of these
widespread and existing evils. We have lost
faith in God, Christian virtues are set aside Prov-
dence is ridiculed and religion is depicted and
looked upon a superstition. The worship of
Mammon is substituted for the worship of God.
With these feelings the hydra anarchy displays It's
venom hatred and malice for religion and govern
ment, whilst many well-meaning persons are lured
away from the paths of rectitude by the fair prom
Use sof socalistic reformers.
The murderous plot at independence so sue
cessfully executed sufficiently demonstrates these
evil tendencies and leaves no doubt in the minds OF
impartial persons that Mammon worship Is the
primary cause of all evil When that predomin-
ates barbarisn, not enlightenment or progress, IS
the final result; for barbarism means that passion
predominates over reason, or that moral power IS
subject to brute force.