The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-11-11
Mining Horrors Must Cease


TIE Denver Post contains following editorial which, al
though written conditions existing Colorado and more partic
ularly regarding the coal mining industry interest to all mining
districts and, in fact to the entire American people
So reads the headline! You it. you ponder t-for
brief moment-heny you turn the page and it forgotten
You forget But do you think the widows who weep the
mouth OF the mine and the aherless children who cling tearfy
to the mothers skirts, while they sob their grief pro
Their anguish only increases as the days go by; when the
breadwnne does not return when the wolf howls doey when
near the o when want sits at their esde when poverty hoves
near
Too long poets sung and writer's rayed Of e men who 60
down the sea in ships The dangers Of going lie the past
The modern mariner danger than does the modern
man who takes his daily stroll along Broadway.
Yesterday there flashed the wires brief dispatch
when election crowdng the operator the limit
It said
'sixty to ninety miners trapped by explosion at Delaga
Coming election day when people wanted OF the
and from the mine it received attention True.
sent TO cover the story he hustled the depot caught the
earliest train Pullman Deagua For several days he
will have first page story about the horoand then the people
But what OF the woman? And what OF the children?
What Of the the husband the ahergone to his death
gown weeps grief cottage What of the
wife who by the cherries hearth the and
up every sound thinking prayngat may be the
man. the mine has given back to herr Give her thought
Ii she be foreigner then all the worse Tor her She IS
stranger strange land People she does know may for
hold hng hand she given few dollars TO tide
her over; her dead is buried and then
Oh the cruel years-of poverty penury wan-vit her
house!
Crowdng itself into the other the story yesterday
surely did get the election reports this last
disaster has place there Men chosen the polls
Tuesday lawmakers of Colorado the assembly They
put the books that would protect the
people stae-a the peopee people who the result OF
the miners toll the the endangered digger
in that mine.
Let those newly elected legislators act!
To long the papers Of this cried red headlines
One more disaster hundred gone Too long have the
men who toll and labor in the bowels OF the earth been
protected
Too long the labor commissioner out thirty days
after horror with the that hredamp or
careessness slew yescoe Such things do not bring
the "an dinner pail back the wife and children who
wait
Let the new legislature pass that will protect the toier be-
low the ground as well as the one above IT.
Let new lav-ang body say what shall be done to assure
digger when he goes into the shaft the morning that ne VIII
come safely eventde
Let the men of the people write the statutes forget the
corporations overlook brush aside the employer
and egisae for protection Of the husband the father the pro
vider-and doing help the with the pick and shovel
And if this legislature does will hear NV ell done
good and faithful servant
Colorado and weares OF its mine disasters the peo
Die tire reading and God knows the poor hearts that are
broken by them crv aloud for end of the tragedy
Colorado wants protects its mnersnot reports telling
how hev came their death The state wants protective statutes
not pirooping The commonwealth demands remedial iess
aon--not morazing
Let the legislature read the story Of the latest disaster
and