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Show T RU T H 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by Truth Publishing Company. Western Newspaper Union Building, South West Temple Street, Salt Lake City. 241 John W. Hughes, Editor and Manager. Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake City, matter, under Act Utah, as second-clas- s of Congress of March 3, 1879, Terms Of Subscription: 32.00 ONE YEAH (In advance) 1.00 SIX MONTHS (In advance) 75 MONTHS THREE (In advance) Postmasters sending TRUTH may retain subscriptions sub-to per cent of 25 course for intimate to the state government to mained and that as the years have that federation that it Is worn away some of them have been persists transplanted to the younger men they in coming measures should be taken have made their associates, because to prevent it. The past record of this the awful crime commited at Victor, not waited heje, and. if it still association shows that it is largely composed of anarchists who do not of know how to use the blessings freedom and free government. The expressions and teachings of many of its members are such as would naturally bring about such outrages as that which last Monday placed an indeliable blot on the state of Colorado, and which are a disgrace to oitr common humanity. scription price as commission. If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed for, the publication WHEN Pennsylvania arose in her should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. majesty and wiped from her map that infapiy known as the Molly MaDiscontinuances. who had stained her fair land Remember that the publisher must be no- guires tified by letter when a subscriber with the innocent blood of countless wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid in full. victims, many of the men who should to have their have been hanged with Jack Kehoe, Pat Requests of subscribers new a to address, to sepaper mailed cure attention, must mention former as Hester and the balance of that mur derous gang came west, because the well as present address. Address all communications to TRUTH climate was too unhealthy for them in PUBLISHING COMPANY, Salt Lake the Keystone state. Tom Hurley, who City, Utah. shot and killed Gomer James, the Welsh bartender, at a picnic died under an assumed name in Tintic. Doand extremely Sa- ran, another man badly wanted, went THE . dastardly tanic dynamite murders In Colorado Monday is the very worst thing that could have happened to the cause of union labor. Talk as you may and explain as much as you will, it all will not convince the public that the unions, or some of the unions, the worst element of them, if you will, are responsible for the fiendish deed by which a dozen or more unoffending men were foully murdered, their wives made widows and their children fatherless, and as many more The maimed or crippled for life. deed was such as to revolt In the strongest manner possible the American people. Men or unions which even in a remote degree countenance such Inhuman outrages will not be tolerated for an instant. The danger to society is too great to permit of any condonation of such a crime and the innocent members of the unions cannot avoid being made to suffer with the damnably guilty. This is a blow from which union labor may never fully recover. There was considerable criticism of the governor of this state and his advisors for the calling out of the state militia to preserve peace and order in the coal There was constrike in Utah. to Montana, where he changed name and was at last accounts liv- quietly as possible. Several others scattered through the mining regions of the west. It is fair to presume that the ideas they inherited from Llie infamous, murderous, cowardly crowd they associated with, re ing as Jou God-fearin- g Sre Incited A NEW TOGGERY SHOP opens this morning. L. G. Ransohoff Co. will open its doors to the public with a full and complete stock of Mens Furnishing highdemnation of the authe handed measures adopted by thorities and the means taken for the suppression of the foreign agitators who came here to raise hell in a concommunity. tented and This Colorado dynamite outrage has removed whatever semblance of right attached to those criticisms and condemnations and fully establishes the wisdom of the governor In the course pursued. The prompt and decisive so-call- ed law-abidin- his this week savors very strongly of the Molly Maguire method. It Is hard to believe that the Miners union as a union is responsible, because we believe it would be an impossibility for any organization of that kind to plan and carry into effect such a diabolical act. There are men in ail sogood men; cieties who would shrink from such work and who would not stand for it. To propose such a dastardly, damnable scheme in a meeting would have been followed by immediate betrayal by the law abiding. There must be an advanced degree; an inner circle among the Western Federation of Miners, where the plans for such doings are concocted. There are bad men among the Western Federation of Miners. This man Edward Boyce, at one time president, is a terrible individual to have in a community. Seven or eight years ago he openly advocated, in an address made ih this city, that every working man provide himself with the latest pattern of improved rifle and plenty of ammunition and learn how to shoot, to the end that he might he ready to defend what he might think was his rights against the authorities; he declared the National Guard to be a band of hired murderers abd indulged in several other statements Colorado, Goods and Shoes - non-unio- g measures saved Utah from a similar condition of anarchy, murder and rapine which is scourging Colorado. The Western Federation of Miners which recently concluded a convention at Denver, has fixed on Salt Lake as the place to hold its next convention, it would be a proper of an incendiary nature. inHe formed the reporters who went to him for news that he did not want the support, but the opposition of the press; this in the face of the fact that no great movement has ever prospered without the support of the press, and in his assertions and statements were endorsed by his fanatical and high tempered followers, flojrce is not the only man ih that union, hr federation, who has advocated such measures for years. Dozens of them have taken the same stand. They began this talk years ago; they sowed at that time the seeds that have recently blossomed into a harvest of death. And it is high time this sort of business was stopped. Unionism is all right and no one pretends to deny the right of people to organize, but the right to refuse to organize is just as inherent. If a man wants to join a union he may, and if he does not want to he can refrain and no man or men should be permitted to demand that he be denied the right to work because he will not join. Unionism is going too far when it steps over the line and presumes to dictate who a man. shall employ and who he shall not; who he shall keep and who he shall discharge, tt is the endeavor to enforce these unjust demands that has inflamed mens minds and made of them murderers. It is contended by some radical advocates of unionism that the mine owners are responsible for this terrible crime alluded to. There is no reason in the statement; no grounds for its being made. Why should the mine owners become a party to the slaughter of the very men who were keeping their works going? Certainly, no man or set of men would indulge in the wilful murder of dozens of innocent beings In order, to cast odium- upon a union. No, it was some one interested in the dislodge-men- t n of men and no other. We hope the perpetrators of this outrage will be apprehended and punished with death. That no matter what their station in life, justice shall be meted out to them. That all who endorse, sympathize, pity or encourage in the slightest degree' these fiends will get all that is coming to them. We hope Colorado will assert herself as did Pennsylvania and hunt and hound the last one to the gallows or far beyond her borders. She owes it to herself to do so. If advocates of unionism believe in their principles at 143 South Main Street, formerly occupied by Lyon & Co., Jewelers. ... Come n and see us. 'C L. G. R ansohoJif, Manager. |