The New York herald., 1922-07-13
Why Coal Is Mined and Trains
Run in Kansas.

Let all officers charged with the
enforcement of the law, let all Gov
ernment authority Federal State
and local, take heart the ac-
count which HENRI ]. ALLEN, Gov
ernor Of Kansas, is able to give of
his State while the coal strike and
the railroad strike are on. A sum-
mary Of his message Of yesterday
to THE NEW York HERALD, luminous
in the very simplicity Of its words,
heartening in it's calm statement of
fact, inspiring in the example it sets,
reveals what is the matter, and the
only thing that is the matter, in
other parts of the country where
Governors. and Sheriffs and. Mayors
and even Grand Juries cringe under
the threats of mob lawlessness and
shut their eyes to red handed crime.
NThe matter, we repeat, and the only
thing the matter, with those crime
ridden and blood stained commune
ties is the craven or the weakling in
whose hands unfortunately have been
intrusted the preservation of law and
the public safety.
Governor ALLEN is man. Cover
nor ALLEN does not conceive that he
Is in a high public Office to save his
political skin. Governor ALIENS
moral integrity tells him he Is Chief
Executive of Kansas to enforce the
laws against strikers or mobs or any
body that challenges the sovereignty
of that great State over whatever
stands within that sovereign juris-
! diction.
And so, while strikes have been
ordered against the coal mines in
Kansas, the coal mines are operating.
There are no Herrin butcheries Of
Kansas workers that want to dig
coal, and an ample quantity of coal
is being produced in Kansas, as its
outstanding Governor reports, to pro-
vide for all industrial and domestic
needs within the State.
Strikes have been ordered against
the railroad shops in Kansas, but all
trains are running in Kansas. There
is no interference with the United
States mails in Kansas. There is no
interruption Of interstate commerce
in Kansas. There is no obstruction
of any traffic anywhere There is no
mobbing or terrorizing Of Kansas
workers anywhere.
The State Of Kansas Is guarantee
ing protection and coal and the
movement Of trains and the safety OF
workers on all Jobs. whether they
are or are not struck" Jobs, and the
State of Kansas Is delivering every
1 single thing 1t guarantees, without
help from the Federal Government
and without. wanting help from the
Federal Government.
II anybody says in respect OF this
contrast between Kansas and ILL.
nois, for one example, or Missouri
for another example, that Kansas
arms Governor ALLEN with law and
authority against strikes that other
States do not. give their Executives
the answer Is that there isn't Q
State in the Union, there isn't @
county in a State, there isn't a com
munity in county that has not all
the law and all the authority needed
; to suppress mob violence, to protect
men in the sacred right and the
legal right to work. There isn't any
law lacking anywhere In this coun.
: try to protect men from brutal at.
tack and unspeakable butchery.
, There isn't Governor in any
State of the Union that needs any
more laws than he-now has to keeI
coal mines operating when miners
want to dig coal; to keep trains run
, ming when trainmen want to rur
them to keep RAILROAD shops work
ing when men wark to work there