New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-01
ASKS ROCKEFELLER
TO ADMIT SHAME
Sinclair Demands Personal
AyOWal of Mine Strife
for Public Acquittal.
BACK K FROM FIELD
OF COLORADO WAR
Warns Of Murder" Document
Leading Spirits of the Time
May All Sign.

Not until he steps forward and says he
is ashamed OF what has happened will
the public acquit John D. Rockefeller
jr.. OF responsibility for the Colorado
mine outrages. was one Of the broadsides
discharged yesterday by Upton Sinclair
on LIS return from a three weeks stay
IN the stricken state
Sinclair said this and much more in a
long letter to Mr.. Rockefeller. and In tho
meeting at Bouck Whites Church OF the
Social Revolution ne amplifed and en-
ptasized when called from the floor to
speak by William r. Walling. who is
occupying the pulpit while White is serv-
ing six months on the Island for his raid
o. Calvary Baptist Church several Sun
days ago.
Referring 70 terrible scenes in a Michi-
gan strike. the letter goes on: You.
Nh Rockefeller, and your AGENTS interd
10 repeat these scenes In Southern Colo
:ado. say that. after the crimes that
have been comitted, this last is too much
Every drop OF blood in my veins cries out
that il shall he stopped-and do not de-
celve myself when ! say that the Ameri-
can people will find some way TO stop IT,"
Sinclair then relates how a group Of
his literary friends prepared document
charging young Rockefeller with the
crime OF first degree murder He says:
ut was direct and unqualifed-as elo-
quent and convincing as a blow in the
face I refused to sign It. saying that
IL would probably lead 10 some ones at
tempting TO XII you. You will so back
10 the elder members OF your family. and
they Will endeavor to hold you in their
way; but If you shut your ears to this
appeal before God. ! pity you. for tho
statement I referred to will be signed by
most Of the leading spirits Of our time
and will constitute a terrible blasting.
There IS no place on this earth 10
which you can flee TO escape from it: all
the fortresses you can build. all the
searchlights and machine guns and negro
guards you can gather about you. VIII
not deliver YOU from 1t. SO once more l
say to YOU. Stop. before ii IS too late!'
The letter ends with a quotation from
the Gospels
For it is easier for camel to go
through a needles eve. than for rich
man to enter the kingdom OF God
Sinclair continues: II feel almost like
apologizlng TO YOU for the lack OF con-
sideration i'm these words This is not
my creed. either theological or economic.
but II is the creed which you publicly
profess and teach. SO the world has the
right TO look for some faint sign Of an
effect Of 1t upon your handling OF the
Colorado situation"
Sinclair told the peopel at the Berkeley
/ Theatre, where Bouck Whites followers
met, that the Denver Real Estate E1-
| change had appointed a committee TO
meet Judge Ben Lindsey when he re-
/ turned from the East and spit on him
At his suggestion. he said, $1,000 miners
had named a committee 10 return the IN
suit TO the real estate men.
Changing the subject 10 the incarcer-
/ alton Of White the speaker said he did
precisely what Jesus had done. "When
Jesus drove the money changes out oil
the Temple he used whips, which Is more
than White did" he added
Walling's remarks consisted principally
of an attack on Morris HillQuit, Algernon
Lee and Charles Edward Russell He LEI
the last named down rather easily out
the others he maintained, should he driv-
en- out Of the Socialist party. Hlllqults
assaults on the silent mourning" cam
rairn aroused WaIlings ire, and he sad
that if the Socialists had united and sup
oorted the strikers in Colorado the work
ore would have been IN control by now.