The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-30
.RT. REV. J. J. KEANE ADDRESSES MINERS Educational Campaign Urg- ed by the Bishop of Wyo-
 ming, Who Also Speaks on
 Economic Conditions.

At the eighth annual convention O
 District No. 22, United Mine Worker
 of America, convened . few day
 ago in Cheyenne, Wyo., representing eight thousand organized coal miner, of Wyoming, Right Rev. J. J. Kean' delivered very able ana praotica address to the miners.
 You represent those who are en | gagged in difficult and dangerous
 work" he said, work which should be well compensated. You are asso.
 ciated to secure such compensation
 It seems to me entirely in accordance with natural right and legitimate so-
 cial law that those who have one
 common interest should unite to. gether for the promotion of that in. terest. It is your right that the fruit
 of your labor should be adequate to
 provide you and your families with fair share of comfort and some o1 the pleasures of life. Aim to safe guard these. But encourage your peo- pie, too, to give honest labor in ex- change for them.
 "The protection which you secure to the laborer tends to make him in- different to and careless of the em- ployer's right, which are as sacred as your own. Encourage your peo- pie to feel kindly towards those who employ them, to have a personal in- terest in their property and gain. Employer and employe must come closer and feel a deeper mutual in- terest. You can do much to pro- mote this. We have become the most extravagant people in the world -senselessly extravagant. Extrava- gant in our habits of thought, in our forms of speech, in our homes, in our promises, in our speculations, in our expenditures for pleasures. for comfort. Too few have stopped to note that the bounty of nature is rapidly diminishing for lack of hus- bandry, that the natural resources of the country are fast revealing 1imita- tions. Facile communications and rapid, easy travel tend to even econ omic conditions the world over and to make it difficult, if at all possible to maintain indefinitely the advant- age which we now enjoy.
 You have asked me to address you freely and familiarity. invoke that privilege to counsel you to ap- preach the problems before you hum bly,. Prepare the thousands whose confidence you have and who commit their interests to your care, for less bountiful day. Study and labor to make the mining towns models of or der. Limit the sources of temptation. Restrain the forces which make for dissipation. Exercise severe control over the liquor traffic. Inaugurate and encourage a perennial crusade against drinking. Enlist the young and the women in an educational campaign for sobr1ety. Employ teach CTS of domestic economy for the min ing camp.
 'I am convinced that our people would live better on third less, if housewives should become more skill ed in cooking and mending. Encour- age your people to bank their sur- plus. A few years ago when New England was suffering from industrial repression I had an opportunity to study conditions in two contiguous parishes. In the one there was much suffering, in the other there was a bounteous plenty. When I asked the pastor of the latter how he accounted for the difference of conditions, he said: Our people economize in pros porous times. Our neighbors have the choice cuts of meat, and spoil them in the cooking. Our people take the cheaper and make them deliciously palatable. And so it is that we live well bI1t cheanlvp