Show or CRYING FROM THE GROUND This nation cannot wait alt In silence for tor same swe improvement to he be l e made in mitt min rg ng appliances for some seine happy happ chance to prevent the loss of ot life among the miners of ot America Readers of the pa papers papErs pers porn have been simply amazed at the fatalities in coal mines s within the past three months To the extent o tent that oven even one ono of at those deaths could have been leen prevented the nation Is responsible and that brothers blood cries to God from froIn the ground just as certainly as did the blood of Abel in that early earl Asian day Congress now has under consideration con tion the establishment of ot a bureau of mines in the department of tho in interior tenor There should be no single nega 1 tive vote on that proposition It Is la a measure which should be bo adopted And the bureau should be effective in pro providing providing providing viding safety for the men who work in mines wherever they arc are employed As a nation we are not getting bet better bettel better ter tel but worse In the matter of pro protecting protecting the lives of ot miners Twenty years ago out of ot a thousand men em employed employed employed In mines only three were killed kUl d In the entire year Last year the fa fatalities a II were four tour to the thousand Im Improved Improved Improved proved methods and a more humane sentiment did not effect a better pro protection protection protection And it cannot be said that the reason rests In the larger foreign population employed in the mines for forin forIn forIn in every foreign country from which immigration Is drawn the rate of ot deaths in mines mi es has constantly de tIe decreased decreased creased as the days pass The bureau of ot mines is the least the nation can do to make safe the lives of those laborers And the least the bureau can do is to answer the just expectation of the nation that this frightful loss of life liCe shall cease |