Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-27
Observed From the Mine Tipp1e
By J. D. RAMSAY

Major Boughton, militiaman, never
had any great reputation for veracity,
but in a lecture he lately delivered back
east, he out militiaed the militia for the
careless way he handled the truth, and
with . brazen impudence cooIly told his
audience that there were no mine guards
enlisted in the Colorado national guard.
A great howl has been made by GER
tain people about Judge Lindsey black
eningr the character Of the state in lec-
lures back east about the Beast in the
Jungle yet these very same people as
>sfst in arranging for Boughton's lecture
tour, and what could possibly damage
the credit of the state more than parad-
ing this mendacious mountebank before
stranger. It's bad enough for him to
be allowed to yomit his vindictive spleen
where he is known and appraised at
proper valuation, but he should not be
allowed TO travel outside the state and
disgrace the whole community with his
vitureFetiye harrangues.
Colorado might be fairly peaceable
state II the Piute Indians, now on the
war patti in the western part of the
state, and few hungry trouble -lnongers
could be corralled and put on some res
ervation where they could be instructed
in the common decencies and morals of
civilized lie.
The Trinidad cases are progressing as
we expected. The miners counsel has
been reprimanded several times for what
was cailed trying to try the coal strike"
It's very natural that such an attempt
should be frowncd upon. Already the
congressional committee and the indus
trial relations committee have tried the
strike and their verdict hasn't pleased
the kines OF Las Animas and Hucrfano
counties
Academic Theories Don't Help.
A Mr. King of the Rockefeller Founda-
tion is paving Colorado a visit and will
inquire into the industrial conditions
What for we cannot tell; we haven't
much faith in corporation fixers as a
rule. and God knows Colorado has had
its rharc of Investigations. What we
want am hope TO get and what we be-
lieve will be OF benefit TO the state l.
FOR Mr.. Rockefeller to come ont and see
for himself aud when he does this. we
shall know exactly where we stand. Cap
ital and Labor can get together and
these so-cilled professional sociolosists
with thar academic theories never do
much good
Wealtly A. Mr.. Rockefeller i. Ne have
"a great deal ia common with him IL.
invested nal money in the mines-w,-
invest peal lives. and organized labor
doesn't want TO destroy real money any
more than It wants to imperil real lives
It's not the real investor that urson la
Dor has amy quarrel with: it's the iaker
who start cpen,ting and multiplies wnar
he imagines he has by the amount OF his
gall and ISSUES stocks to himself for the
total amount and expects to earn divi-
dend- or rather to make some unlucky
class earn dividend on it for him.
1t is this class of operator that man
utactures the crooked mine officials
which iufr<t the coal industry here This
horde of Parasites are responsible for the
coal ininers' condition and it was those
that loaded down the miner until his
losd became unbearable.
Buncoing Honest Investors.
There are companies mining coal mines
today IN Colorado which have such n
beautiful system OF operating that man
agencni expenses amount to more than
il does to mine the coal. In one in
stance a company like this when they
issued their annual statement 10 the
stockholders, impudentiy told these poor
deluded people what horrible time
they had had during the strike and how
the strike was responsible for their de-
ficits- Yet the same company had bum
coed every single genuine investor in
about as harcfaced a manner as can
well be imagined, and have increased the
capital sevcral times for the purpose OF
selling some property that those manag
ing the concern were personally inter
a lot OF poor people for meal ticket
and then to put the blame ON other
shoulders, print circulars containing pit
iful whines about the wickcdne-s or un-
ion men when they themselves are moth
ing but plain holdups. Other companies
have BEEN selling bonds away below the
par Nalue and giving away ordinary
shares as a premium to the sucker, who
took the bonds and then the scamps
point TO the fact that their ordinary
shares OF common stock pays no divi-
dends at all and try to make a gullible
public believe that they have been run
ming their mines and exhausting their
coal icposit for no other reason than
to give coal to the poor.
Silly Tales in Circulation.
Real funny things that have taken
place lately are the tales that have been
industriously circulated, by certain mine
officials who arc well known. about what
the district officers of the Mine Work
ers made out of the strike. These fell
lows have called the miners ignorant
wops. rednecks. anarchists and ignorant
foreigners 20 often and so long that they
have como to believe that the names are
true and that they can say anything
and that the miner has no morse sense
than TO believe it. Mr.. Welbom had
the decency to apologize when he caused