The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-05-07

Broadway witnessed the unusual spec
tacle this afternoon of stern v.yag-
ed clergyman, clad in full vestments
Of the church, reciting the service Of
the dead on the curb line opposite the
Standard Oil building. As par. Of
the silent protest against John d.
Rockefeller, Jr.'s refusal to arb;t-
rate the Colorado strike, the Rev.
William Miller Gamble of st. Stew
ems Episcopal church of Coytesyille.
New Jersey. conducted a memorial
service in honor Of those who have
fallen in the Colorado conflict.
No more unusual than the service
itself was the congregation, which
gathered about the minister. Avowed
anarchists. atheists, socialists, free
thinkers, as well as Christians of all
creeds. stood reverently by, and the
polyglot population Of the district
west of Broadway poured out to lis
ten to the indictment, though the
name of Rockefeller or the Standard
Oil was not mentioned or the great
industrial corporation whose great
headquarters across the street echo
ed back the words of the divine :,
All. the while that the service lasted
the members of the Free Silence
league, arms draped with crepe, par-
AIDED with slow, measured tread back
and forth in front of the barred door
of the Rockefeller concern.
No disorder marked the occasion.
There were no Incorporate speeches.
The Rev. Gamble was vague and i'm
personal enough in his remarks. 1t
had all been planned SO. The object
was in the heart Of the financial dis
trict, to which labor traces all it's
grievances on a Sunday afternoon to
express fraternal grief for the broth
ers who have fallen in the west and
let the public draw it's own conclu-
sions.
The service lasted an hour and a
half. All through the day the pick
cts had been patrolling past the Stan
dard Oil building. But fSw specta-
tors had been drawn thither earlier
in the day. AS three o'clock ap-
preached, however, the crowd thick
ened, and when Mr.. Gamble stepped
from nearby hotel promptly on the
hour, attired in his vestments sever
al hundred people quickly grouped
themselves about him where he stood
on the sidewalk at Broadway and
Morris street.
Upton Sinclair, and his wife, Miss
Elizabeth Freeman, Miss Sara Green.
wood, another we'll knowk suffragist;
Pierre Goddin, and others who have
been leading the free silence protest,
were there. Their followers contin.
ued their slow picketing across the
street. Pastor Gamble has a power
full voice and, exerting 1t to the ut
most, his words echoing through the
cavernlike entrance to the Standard
Oil building. he read appropriate Sc
lections from the Scripture and the
prayer book, including the Offices for
the dead, and then he plunged into
his discourse Of the day.
1t was memorial service. he said,
for the husbands, wives and children
who had fallen becaue of the struggle
for life. That which occurred out
in Colorado, he declared, under the
authority of laws Of which state they
we're killed, and that which goes on
in this section, in the buildings close
to this spot, all have a close connec-
ton.
1t is fitting, said he, to hold this
memorial in this section. And 1t is
well that the buildings are empty
and the blinds drawn on this day OF
recreation and rest, so that 1t cannot
be said that those who organized this
service are merely making use OF
the holy offices of religion to draw
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