The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-31
RITTER ATTACK
On R0CkEFE[[tRs
,,n Walsh Says They Have
a..n Convicted In Every Way
by Recent
Hearing.
CONVICTED THEMSELVES
r.,,v for the American People to
Trust Good Intentions and
Impulses Of Men Like
These.

r,,,tad Press Leased Wire Service.]
igWaNsAs CITY, Mo-, May 81
,wary Indictment brought against the
poorefellers by the bitterest agitators
:. their attempt to crush the revolt
1a,,net industrial despotism, in the
co,orado coal mine region. was prov
- At the recent Washington hearing
safore the industrial relations con-
mission. according to the belief OF
chairman Frank P. Walsh as set forth
in the following statement:
with the close Of the Washington
haaring the commission has practical
!, completed its investigation OF the
Colorado strike The American peo-
Mo now have access to a public rec
md which for the first time in the
\ history of the country, tells the whole
story of how great monopolistic prop
ety interests go about it when they
wish to crush a revolt against indus
trial despotism, and thus to retain
their arbitrary power over the ltvas
of men, women and children.
II favored the commission probing.
TO the bottom of this social cancer. be-
/ tause realized the struggle in Colo
! rado was not local or peculiar in char
acter, but presented, as 1t were. a
great laboratory in which every angle
Of the labor problem could be obsery-
ed and studied, and, in my opinion
the indisputable facts developed, furr-
ish a striking illustration of what
happens anywhere when the workerj,
IN their struggle for economic free
dom. run counter to the financial In
terests and to the love of arbitrary
power Of such men as the Messrs.
Rockefeller.
The record OF the Washington
bearing, to my MIND, is remarkable
chiefly because every major indict-
men; brought against the Rockefel-
lers, father and son, as we'll as the
] other coal operators working with
them in Colorado by the bitterest
igitatcrs. has been 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 up by let
tiers over the signatures Of these men.
Political domination, intimation OF
governor. contempt for government
AMI the American people as whole.
the prostitution OF the state to private
interests and utter contempt and dis
regard for the state and federal con-
stitutions: as well for statute laws as
the horror of the Ludlow massacre.
the exploitation of helpless miners by
economic pressure and the viler forms
Of larceny. the attempt to make it
appear that coal companies had met
IN conference representatives of the
strikers. when such was not the case.
the carefully organized and extensive
campaign undertaken to deceive the
people-all of these have been estab-
hshed, beyond all doubt, from the
testimony of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller,
1r- and his personal lieutenants.
But above all. the commission has
proved the absoluate responsibility Of
MI John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. himself
lor everything that happened in Colo
faoo. w. L. mackenzie King, an en-
hoye Of the Rockefeller foundation,
ooasted while upon the stand, that the
VIII and conscience of John d. Rock
eieller. Jr., was more potent in Colo
Iaoo than the public opinion of all the
people of the United States and that
me American people must look tn
'hat one man for an improvement OF
conditions conceded to be un-Ame-i-
can and intolerable.
II the Colorado record were not
suficient to give us the color and bent
OF the mind of Mr.. John D.. Rockefel-
.er. Jr., we should still have per
.ect record Of his mental processes In
tle article by Professor Stevenson,
which he endorsed as one of the
soundest, clearest and most forcible
p!resentments upon the subject of cap.
i'ai and labor which he had ever
seen. Mr.. Rockefeller's persistent
snort to conceal from the public his
uue thought has failed as a result OF
uiis revelation. 1t does no injustice
~ the spirit of the article which Mr..
80 lavishly praised. Ia
Ssii attention to that portion Of it IN
shicn Professor Stevenson conceded
.or the sake OF argument that seven
Aunared thousand little children d."
siihualiy in America because, of under
and asserts these deaths
aiust be blessing to themselves and
~ the community, adding that sun1
.nnuren should not have been born,
auu aiding that unskilIed labor is
e ere animated machinery.
.. with the record OF the Colorado
NV estisation before them, the Ameri-
90 au people will be blind indeed if they
on 10 See the folly of trusting to the
Soa intentions and the philanthropic
puises OF men like the Messrs.
my and II they do not realize
the men who lead strike such
mat OF the miners in Colorado are
ss. ins the same old fight for lib
ss and democracy, againt an enemy
powerful and menacing as any
s,. sl raced by our. revolutionary fore