The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1915-06-05

declared the commission HAS
proved the absolute responsible y OF
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller, .Ir, him
self for everything that happened in
Colorado" Mr.. Walsh added the
men who led the Colorado strike
were fighting the same fight for
liberty against IAN enemy as pow
erful and menacing as any ever faced
by our revolutionary forefathars."
THE record of the Washington
hearing" said Chairman Wa,ih lis
remarkable to my mind, chiefly be-
cause every major indictment
brought against the Rockefellers,
father and son, as well as other coal
operators working with them in Colo
RADIO by the bitterest OF agitators has
proven out of the lips of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., or the men whom
he hires to carry out the joint wills
of his father and himself; in most
instances backed lip by the letters
over the signatures of these men.
Rockefeller Responsible
Political domination, intimida-
ton of the governor. contempt for
government and The American peo-
pie as a whole, the prostitution of
the state to private interests, an ut
ter contempt and Disregard for the
state and federal institutions as well
as statute laws, the horror of the
Ludlow massacre, the exploitation of
helpless miners by economic pres
sure and the viler form of larceny,
the attempt to make it appear that
the coal companies had met in con-
ference representatives of the strik-
ers, when such was not the case, the
carefully organized and extensive
campaign undertaken to deceive the
people, all of these have been .es-
tablished beyond all doubt from the
testimony of Mr.. John d. Rockefel-
Ter, Jr., and his personal lieutenants.
But above all the commission
has proven the absolute responsible
ity of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
for everything that happened in
Colorado. w. Mackenzie King, for
mer labor commissioner of Canada
and at present an employee of the
Rockefeller foundation, boosted
while giving his testimony on the
stand that the will and conscience
of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was more
potent in Colorado that all of the
public opinion of all the people of
the United States and that the amer
lean people must look to that one
man for any improvement of condi-
tions considered by all to be un-
American and intolerable
"If the Colorado record were not
sufficient to give us the color and
bent of the mind of Mr.. john D.
Rockefeller. Jr.. we should st Il have
a perfect record of his mental pro-
cesses in the articles by Professor
Stevenson which he Endorsed as one
of the soundest and most formidable
presented on the subject of capital
and labor he had ever seen. Mr..
Rockefeller persistent effort to con-
ceal from the public his true thought
has failed. as result of this revela-
ton. 1t does no injustice to the
spirit of the article which Mr.. Rock
efeller so lavishly praised to call at
tention to that portion of it in which
Prof. Stevenson conceded for the
sake of argument that 100000 little
children die annually in America on
account of undernourishment of
themselves or their parents and as
serts that their deaths must be con-
coded to be blessing to themselves
and to the community adding that
such children should not have been
born and that 'unskilled labor is
merely animated machinery
Record Before People
with the record of the Colorado
investigation before them the Ameri-
can people will be blind indeed II
they fail to see the folly of trusting
to the good intentions and the phil
anthropic impulses of men like the
Messrs. Rockefeller and If they do
not realize that the men who lead a
strike such as that of the miners in
Colorado are fighting the same old
10h AZ
against an enemy as powerful and