The daily sentinel., 1913-10-29

gunner have been brought into
the state by the same concern and
its associates.
A friend driving from Trinidad, de-
scribes an "armored car" which these
gunner" have constructed and
which they expect to use in their op-
erations.
And this is the Twentieth century
and we live in what We boast is the
Elost enlightened commonwealth in
the greatest republic on earth,
In the same paper in which I saw
the story of the machine gun | read
the annual report OF the officers of
the Colorado Fuel & Iron company.
They said last year was the most pro-
fitable year in the company's history.
They had cleaned up several millions.
a large part of it from coal lands
owned by the people OF Colorado and
operated by the company at low
royalty
Yet in the face OF this unpreee-
dented prosperity the company is pre-
pared to plunge the state into con-
dition bordering on civil war rather
than arbitTate the grievances which
have caused SO per cent OF its miners
to quit work.
l hold no brief for the striking
miners. Their claims may or may
not be just but they have offered to
submit their cause to the Judgment of
an impartial tribunal. and to that ex-
tent their position is sounder in NOR
ais than that OF their opponents.
In addition il is a matter of COM
mon knowledge that Industrial and
political conditions in Las Animas
and Huerfano counties have for many
years been n menace and a disgrace
TO our state. For more than ten
years the coal companies have owned
every official in both counties. Last
fall they lost the district judge and
district attorney, but that has been
their sole defeat. Business men who
have dared TO protest have been per-
secuted and in many cases driven out
of the community. The administra-
tion of the law became a bowling
farce. As an example; Hundreds of
men have been killed in the southern
Colorado coal mines during those ten
years, yet no coroner's jury-except
in one case-has returned a verdict
holding the coal companies respon-
slble. In every instance all the blame
was placed on the dead miner, who
of course could not speak for himself.
Ample evidence to sustain these
and many other charges of even
greater import will be presented to
the congressional committee author
lied by my resolution. | am conf
dent the resolution will be adopted.
Owing to the peculiar parliamentary
situation in the house just now there
may be some delay, but that will be
only temporary.
And when we turn the searchlight
of national publicity on the Huerfano
and Las Animas situations, | believe
the gentlemen who make their head
quarters at 26 Wall street, New York,
and direct the investment of the
Rockefeller millions will decide that
a change in policy is needed, and that
the pail of this great industrial con-
flict will be lifted from Colorado.
Conversion of Havemeyer.
j am firm believer in miracles
even in Goth century miracles-andI
| have had my faith greatly strength
ened by an article which appeared in
the Denver Republican on October 16,
1913. | could hardly believe my own
eyes when | read the head lines. And
in the Denver Republican, tool But
there they were, big as life, smiling
at me from the printed page:
HAVEMEYER SEES PROSPERITY
FOR COLORADO SUGAR
Says Beet Industry Will Flourish in
Spite of the Tariff.
Following this heading was an in
terview with Horace Havemeyer, di-
rector of the Great Western Sugar
company and son of the late II. o.
Havemeyer. head of the American
Sugar Refining company"
Among other things the Republic
can quoted Mr.. Havemeyer as say
ing:
"Colorado's progress cannot be
checked in its march by any existing
tariff legislation. Conditions never
looked better for the sugar factories
of Colorado than they do now No
betterments are being withheld on
account of the tariff, and none will
be-"
This is the same Mr.. Havemeyer
who announced while the Underwood
tariff bill was pending in congress
that free sugar" would destroy the
beet sugar industry in this country.
Alarmed by his statements a number
of good people lost their heads and
appealed to Colorado's representa-
tives in congress to disregard their
platform pledges, abandon the Presi-
dents program and vote as the sugar
trust suggested. The latest Have
meyer interview must make some of
these good people feel little fool
ish.
Wall of the Standpatters.
A few of our standpat friends are
displaying considerable temper over
the Presidents action in keeping the
House in session, Just marking
time" while the senate is considering
the currency bill.
"The house should either go to
work or adjourn and go home" they
scream.
But the President and his advisers
are not disturbed by these screams.
They know what they are about.
The extra session has been asked
to perform two specific acts: revise
the tariff and enact new banking
and currency law.
The house has acted promptly on
l.. II. I.