The daily sentinel., 1908-09-14

The above were some of the start
ling and convincing statements made
i'm one of the greatest addresses and
before one of the biggest audiences
that ever assembled in Grand juno
tion, last night at the Congregational
church by Thomas Darnell, for
twenty-five years a successful at
torney and seven years prosecuting
attorney for many counties in Ne
braska.
1t is doubtful If any address along
the temperance or reform line ever
delivered in Grand junction made
deeper impression or set people to
thinking more quickly or seriously
than did this remarkable address on
THE Haywood Trial and the Mining
Camps made by this eloquent. able.
almost nationally known. widely
travelled and wonderfully informed
man.
Thomas Darnell is in many ways
remarkable man. He is able and
brilliant, he is logical and reasonable
in As every statement. He speaks
largely from personal knowledge and
experience. He makes no assertion
| that he does not back with facts. Yet
he is not fiery or prejudiced in his
attacks on the liquor traffic. He is
beyond doubt one of the greatest and
most effective speakers in his line of
work ever heard in this city.
The audience thai heard Attorney
Darnell last night filled the big
church to overlooking. Over one
hundred people were standing in the
rear of the church and scores We're
unable to gain admission. 1t was a
magnificent audience.
Darnell dealt with phases of the
western mining troubles that many
of his hearers had never dreamed
about His assertion and his proof
of that the saloon and the gambling
houses in the mining camps, breed
ing ruin and lawlessness, and pro-
tected by license from the national
government and in many cases with
a town or city license. were Almost
unassailable.
To get first hand knowledge, to
find out the true conditions in the
mining camps, to possess himself of
the real facts Mr.. Darnell visited
Goldfield. Eureka, Wallace. Cripple
Creek, and many other great camps
and scenes of labor troubles, talked
to miners. visited the mines, inter-
viewed mining officials. visited sa-
looms and gambling houses, went into
the homes of the miners. .Ae attend
ed nearly all of the sessions of the
great Haywood trial. made the ac-
quaintance of lawyers and principals,
with permission of officials had a
long talk with Harry Orchard whom
he heard testify. Consequently Oar
nell knows whereof he speaks and
his statements carry weight.
In the course of his address At
torney Darnell depicted the desolate
and frightful conditions that char
acterized Eureka and some of the
other camps he visited. told of the
squalor and poverty in the homes oi
the miners, the unpainted houses. the
Z sad-eyed wives and mothers. the list.
less children. Told of the saloons
and gambling houses TO be found ev'
cry few doors along the dirty streets
told how as the miners came from
their work at even-tide and passed
the saloons~the only places having g
semblance OF gaiety about them. they
were lured in and made drunk, rob
bed by the professional gambler
turned adrift late at night. desperate
/. wild. decent hard working man con
verted by drink and crime into 9
. dangerous being. Yet these mer
get $500 for hours work. Thii
money. that should 60 to the wives
and children, ts taken away by the
saloon aad We gambler. The gov
er4nent aAt tie csADany permits
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