Semi-weekly herald., 1914-06-15

iiluub tuiH$b InAt uoVe OcoN DIouHht
to you by citizens Of Colorado, are
corrupt, are false in every particu-
lar (Applause.)
George Kindel ID the only man
who did not forgst that he was from
Colorado, that the people Of Colo
RADIO are as good, as true, as pa
triotic and loyal as the people of any
Of the other states in this union. (Ap-
phuse.) And turn to the Congress
sional Record of May Goth, think
1t is, and see where one of our SEN
ators-- don't wish to be personal, it
is not necessary--where one Of our
senators presented and asked to have
published in the Congressional Record
a report of a society known as the
Junior Order of Americana report
made up in this state and sent on
to Washington. Either on that date
or shortly after that there was put
into the record something like twenty
pages of the vile, untruthful, mis-
leading, outrageous statements made
by or claimed to have been made
and It must have been made by Judge
Ben Lindsey of Denver-statements
that l regret any man should so far
forget his love of country, his love
Of his own state, and his own neigh
bors and his own people as to in
dulge in--and why senator should
permit that stuff, vile as it is, to
go into a public record-a record
that will probably last as long as
the republic lasts, that will be hand
ed down from generation to genera
tion--that would swear time and
again this was done and that was
done by the people of the state of
Colorado cannot comprehend, and
I am unable to understand why some
Of the newspapers Of this state, in
their determination as they put 1t to
publish the news, have at no time in
my knowledge or recollection appeal
ed to the men who have been acting
in armed defiance of the constituted
authorities of Colorado, appealed to
their patriotism, If they have any
patriotism and love Of country, and
they surely must have-appealed to
them to lay down their arms, their
high powered rifle and other guns;
and in free state, in state where
the legislature has enacted practically
every law and every bill they had
need to enact in the interests of la
Dor, and doubt whether there is
another state in the union that has
been more grateful, more liberal, more
willing to grant and enact into Leg
islation every request of labor, than
the legislature of Colorado-but
granting or admitting that the leg
islature has not enacted all legisla-
ton needed or which they asked, is
1t to be obtained by the means of
rebellion against the state, have we
come to level with Mexico? If the
coal miners Of this state are being
abused, whether citizens or not, are
not being protected, are not being
properly guarded, is it the way to
reach 1t by the means they have been
employing, and is there q newspaper
in Denver or in the state, outside Of
very few Of the newspapers, that
have come out and appealed to them
to lay down their arms, and point
out to them that through this new
means of legislation they can obtain
all the relief they desire and all they
ask for. Union labor is recognized
by every fair minded man as legi-
innate concern, union men have rights
have the right to join, create, and
organize unions, just rs other men
nave the right to organize Odd Eel
lows and Masonic lodges, and so on
down the list of fraternal organiza-
tions, but no body of men, whether
Odd Fellows, Masons, or Knights Of
Columbus, or unions, or whatever
they may be called, have any right
to arm themselves and come out in
offense of the police power of the
state. (Applause.)
And while you and /, or you or |,
have a perfect right to organize our
selves into union for the purpose
Of actual and mutual protection, for
he purpose of presenting our rights
and upholding our interests, we have
no right to use force or anything ex-
cept that ordinary peaceful persua-
sion that you use and use when we
ask some man to join fraternity to
which we belong. We have no right
to either individually or in combi-
nation to interfere with our neighbor
or our member or our fellow citizen
or any other man, from working
where or for whom he pleases il some
man wants him to work. Applause. J
Carry this on to it's logical conclu-
sion, this question Of whether union
is higher than the constitution or the
laws of the country or Of the state
the time may come, probably not in
our day on account Of our wonder.