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Show aattiw , i TRUTH ' t . t ' . t r i Issued Weekly by TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. Western Newspaper Union RuUding, 311 South West Temple Street, Salt Lake City. . i r 0 :r - JOHN W. HUGHES. Editor end Manager. t i at Salt Lake City, matter, under Act of Entered June 10, Utah, as second-clan- s h 1008, Congress of March 3, ,f' J 1870. TERMS OF 8UII8CR1FTION! ONE YEAR (In advance) 02.00 MIX MONTHS 1.00 75 THREE MONTHS i i. a union that Mr. Demolli and the other agitators who have recently come to Utah are seeking to establish. They want a union after the pattern of that which has brought so much trouble and disturbance to Colorado and which in many respects stops little short of anarchy. We dont want that sort of a union here, and the governor did well In advising Mr. Demolli to return from whence he came. It is remarkleast that the strikers able to say-thare nearly all ignorant, and people. They, know nothing of this country, the liberties it guarantees to all its citizens or the genius of the government and the probabilities are 99' per cent of them never will know. They confound license with liberty and cant be reasoned with. Thats one of the main reasons why Governor Wells did a wise thing in calling out the militia to keep order and uphold the majesty of the law. It wouldnt be a bad idea for the governor and his staff to make a trip to the strike regions and through an interpreter impress on the strikers that they will not be allowed to interfere with men who want to work, whether they are union or men; that the the mines are public utilities and at whatever cost will be kept open as long as men are willing to work them.. e ng an Postmasters Rending subscriptions to ss J .' DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid in f 'S f V ii f f 25 If the paper is not desired beyond the. date subscribed for the puDllcatlon should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. r, 1, Truth per cent of subscription price commission. may retain a Requests of subscribers to have their pnper mailed to a new address, to secure atirnilon, must mention former as well as prosent i i tr Address all communications to Titirni Com pa Nr, Suit Luke City, Utah. ;J", i t j'r I 2 non-unio- n i. :i 1,7 .1 J'.i.-'--i ' l! i ' 'tVi ;R- - rUt i i i':'1 ' 4 ' ' 1 :. i v k? ; ?"l i "ft ; i ,t i ' V.! , Jr i if i. 'I . ' I," The strike in the coal regions of the state continues, but it looks as if the number of men working in the mines was increasing and that the coal owners will succeed in a short time in getting all the men they need before very long. The strike at this time appears d to have been vibed. The grievances of the men were not serious and might have been arranged without any strike. In fact most of the men appear not to have thought they had much of a grievance until they were told so by the agitators who came here from, the outside. In the conduct of the strike there, have been mistakes on both sides. Imaginary grievance of the men have been made a great de?l of by the agitators, but when the facts have been elicited and some of the grievances complained of have been shown to have no existence in reality, it has hurt their cause. There has been a good deal of unnecessary harshness and some overbearing acts on the part of the officers employed by the mine owners. If the cause of the latter is good,- there is no necessity for recourse to such measures as were taken by their peace officers. The militia, it docs not appear, have done anything reprehensible, on the contrary they acted with moderation and wisdom and cannot justly be charged with siding with either the miners or the owners. ill-a- Ml : tu-Lisui- ete.li33caM4, j i. , . - so-call- ' ,y 't I .A i. ed ON the complaint of one Noah Pot- ter. Attorney A. B. Edler, representing the strikers who have gotten into the clutches of the law, was himself arrested on the charge of criminal libel, said to have been written by Edler and published in the Salt Lake Tribune. This is a most unusual proceeding. If Mr. Potter thinks he has been libeled, his remedy is to proceed against the paper which published the libel. Putting Edler in jail on such a proceeding charge is a and with other acts of a similar kind will soon alienate from the coal company the sympathy of the public, which it to a good extent has. The agitators should be gotten out of the state, if such can be done legally, but at the same time a number of the companys guards should be suppressed. If half the reports of their behavior are true, a lot' of them should be in jail. 4 Looked at from an unbiased stand- point, it does seem that the coal owners are not to blame for the continu- anco of the strike. They conceded everything asked by the miners, except the recognition of the union. Labor unions are all right, that is unions of a reasonable and character, which recognize the rights of others while insisting on their own rights,, as defined and prescribed by the Constitution of the United States. A union of that kind, would be good and is recognized as a factor for good in all parts of the country, but that, everything indicates, is not the hind of a law-abidin- V.- -. r . . .. ?) g A In the last half dozen years Colorado has furnished a fair example of what happens with labor unionism sitting squarely in the saddle. It came to be so that the arrogance of a cook's scullion, might precipitate a strike that would involve half the industries of the entire state. A new element has arisen in Colorado that bids fair to force a solution of this perplexing question in political economy. It is the widespread organization of what is known as the Citizens Alliance' This branch of the body politic is made up for the most part of those who neither belong to a trades union nor a corporation. Had Governor Peabody restrained his desire for military despotism, his acts might have received a more generous approval. The real object of the Citizens Alliance has been set at naught by the lack of judgment on the part of the chief ELASTIC Illn f- -I Ire Those who are not too highly educated will watch with interest the outcome of the meeting of the National Republican committee at Washington. President Roosevelt does not favor the type of man represented by Perry S. Heath and probably will not be satisfied to allow Mr. Heath to hold his position as secretary. It may be entirely possible that successful politics must have such booted and spurred adherents as Mr. x Heath, but President Roosevelt evidently does not think so. One of the presidents classical exPolitics and war are pressions was: the two greatest games there are. General Sherman had .already declared war to be hell, so that now it remains for President Roosevelt to say that politics are hell, especially with Perry S. Heath as secretary of the national committee. From several broad hints that have been dropped, it is manifestly the purpose of all the political boodlers of the postoffice department to stultify the investigation set on foot by President Roosevelt. The way in which they, are d in the going to do it is extreme. First of all they propose to declare themselves deeply injured and in defiance challenge the power of the government to convict them. After that the machinery of the federal courts is to be manipulated, if possiOver in the state of Colorado a most ble, until they are purged of every unusual course has been taken by Gov- stain. A suit for defamation of charernor Peabody in handling the difficul- acter ought to follow before the whole ties that have recently beset the com- farce is played to its end. monwealth. Most of the governors official acts have been and THE Ogden State Journal makes the Colorado has been impolitic. following pertinent remark: The and the state is making Democrats of Cache county have Got a strenuous effort to get out from unSo have the Democrats of Together. der the ban. The tyranny of capital Washington, county. Now if all the would seem to be a pleasant thralldom Democrats of the counties in between compared with the tyranny of labor this north stronghold and this south unionism. The two forces clash, and stronghold will Get Utah those who are neither labor unionists can settle the Kearns-Smoo- tTogether, imbrognor capitalists are ground between the lio without further any appeal to the upper and the nether stone. Ever senate of the United States. In since the famous reign of Bloody-Bridle- s other words Utah can work out her Waite, Colorado politicians own balvation. Correct, senator. That have catered to the labor is what we have. been trying. to tell vote. It was a sort of political enfor a people long time. slavement that has resulted in the most servile truculence on the part It is fair to suppose that all boocUers of every man who sought public office. are optimists.- 5 i l T.f4AS; USEFU CONVENIENT 1 HELPFUL. iATTRACTIVI Appreciated by the entire family. Jt'5 a system, lof units And Igrows with your libratyW : Fitted with PERFECTION ROLLER-BEARIN- G DUST-PROOFDO- OI An Ide&l: Book-Cas-e for the Home. r high-hande- ill-advis- ed en . 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