The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-16
Barometer OF Public Opinion
Not Capitalism. but Const'tutlonnlIsm.

spnce in your barometer OF Public opinion col
umn have noticed recently your egLu''IIS II'i
Mine War" In both instances you nave taktl
the capital sldc exclusively. Nov the saylms
''rhorc are two sides to everything lH very true
here although YOU failed to recognize thht i'CI
First your sentiments on the Labor IRON,
lem" were opposite to the majority OF the p'S'
minds OF all vocations In the various S,3le.
Evidently you don't rate yoursclt IN thht |''7S
Second. The illinois Mine war ou 9Mhc M
,'what Ia the government going TO do about the
issue underlying this outbreak OF saVaE'ly !
An Issue which, through cuwardlce or govern
inont is growing more mcnaciug each passing
J,v THAT Issue must be met and settled II
government is TO endure, II classlsm is not 20
take the place q government and might yle'd
II one is to consider as authentic any news
ot your paper lets review the tom l'ame ~
laid for warfare" dated June 20, and see II
any unbiased mind would not disagree IN eyoiy
Instance with your editorial. After you already
know and have told the people VINO READ your i
paper, that Col. Sam Hunter or the hd.
m,ant generals office, reported that he urged
the mine officials to close down TO avert dis-
aster but the request refused; that an In
dIgnntion meeting OF 500 miners was held Just
outside Hcrrin the day before ughunS started
That he persuaded the beslesed workers 10 10
mine officials for truce; that this truce wus
broken, by whom he did not know.
4 union official made practically the same
Both reports termed the armed guards at
the mine "gunmen.'
"The evidence showed that the operators
imported these gunmen to guard their prop
arty; also that their imported workers held up
private citizens and refused 70 let them traverse
the public highway by the mlnei' also that the
first shots we're fired by tho strike breakers
without any provoCatlOn."
In your editorial you repeated with added
emphasis" the dlsaEreements constantly dris-
Ing between so-callcd capital and labor must
yield themselves to orderly adjudication hy
courts of orderly procedure, precisely ns all
other disagrecments between men and interest
suppose we give tho coal consumers this
evidence to provo what courts you sanction
Sometime ago the coal magnRtes of Penn
cen: a: the mouth ~ the mine Tho federal
trade commission undertook to find out II this
increase was Justified. The mine owners We're
asked to furnish the commission with the cost
OF operation. wages paid, the price for which
their coal was sold and margin Of print,
The National Coal association, representing
co per cent of the coal operators objected
They conteuded that the production OF coal
"did not involve u question OF interstate com
mcrce," and that the federal goyernment was
therefore without Jurisdiction. The federal
court Of the District OF Columbia promptly Is
sued m injunction restraining the federal trade
commission, and the matter is stiu hung up In
the courts and the anthracite coal monopoly
continues to prOflteer.
About the same time the state OF Indiana
undertook to compel the coal operators Of
that state to furnish state authorities with In
formation concerning the cost OF mining coal
The National Coal association again went to the
rescue. This time It's attorneys commended that
almost the entire output OF these mines would
80 largely into interstate commerce ana thar
therefore the state of Indiana was iudeavorlnG
TO Interfere with Interstate commerce, over
which the federal government had exclusive
jurisdiction. The court promptly decided In
fnyor Of the National Conf association and told
the state of indiana To mind It's own business
ISM n nIco to have the courts 40 trained fhat
thcv VIII decide ono way in Indiana and iust
the opnoslte I'm washington. d. Z?
During a hearing before a senate committee
Congressman iIarddleston OF Alabama, proved
the assistance OF the Associated Press tof which
the Tulsa World ls a membcrJ and a number
of other large daily uapcrs started a coal
"scarn" i'm 100 When Tho movement was