Show COLORADOS 1 IBS NI S Tim The Denver Danver Poet asks the editors of oC American to reprint from Us its columns column it a part or ur the lute whole hole of or the tho following v very tor ry pertinent article on the subject indicated above We do tin HI en that the situation In III that State Stale may cony be ne seen lleen n from Crom the standpoint of oC u a I popular Io paper published l In the capital capita of Colorado 1 hi Is I the entire article minus only Its subheadings Colorado 1 is II suffering puttering Just now front from the II X current In itt the news r of or the land lawless Colorado The bend Hend who touched off ort nn Ill Infernal machine rear Illar Victor while the morning ol of tune June lulI 6 G WAS waa yet black exploded th this the human humIn passion rent pent up In the fatuous famous Cripple Creek Ck mining district which had hall been b n the he pivotal point of oC the mo most t stubborn struggle between organised tabor labor and organized e l employer on re nt record cord Tho explosion of or tho the thor they r r Y y Western F of nt ho h tune furd fur cur furnished UK the of or the Ibo country with materiel material for Cor exciting l giving the tho Ih outside world the impression that thaI Colorado is le II In a condition of at au an anarchy archy and that terror r hurt lut Colorado IH la I not The tact fact Is le that title thiN state elate has been tho ho first lame Ionic battleground of vt a 1 natural and In Inevitable evitable struggle which every evry state not nol entirely agricultural l will twill have to go through have be been beell n many luny elsewhere vastly more extensive trod and much mor moona exciting clUnK end and red redder rt redder der with blood than the lIl con colt filet In III thin stale but they thy were not of ot tho ho sumo Ilber and did not nol mean the line The hue spirit of ot Colorado people I ople IH It to try Iry time the new things hinge and adopt the tho new nili Ideas I II ell S Denver Is II an nn city Tho Thin women of the Iho elate vote volt And in Is III ten len years yearn ahead abused of In to the east The fh Western Indention of Miners had pressed forward to a Il power o er and an In Influence fluence luence have not been bean In thi tun east and unil one most there only understand vaguely as lit ox IX i x I III In The rue miners of or the Far West hall hail tone forte mild and that the unions In InI Inthe the tho I ho east Are only trying lo to reach ranch tumid hoping to 10 achieve In the future For I ol example the tho tense of of tit If the tho coil II II miner strike In ht tonn I which the tho of or thu Iho lie United Mine Mute workers called tulle victory victor I ware Poro HB ae 8 defeat by th tun tho nf at Miners which la Is II not mint 1 with the Iho American I nf of tabor LoboI of lit which timid and Mil Mili III i t hell lire lilY lenders but hut maintains proud tumid advanced Independence And just an tte tho force mss Influence of nr the till miners organization hero lucre were ten let years ahead of 01 the power ginned gained by I nr labor luh In hi the east the tho op opposition 0 position to tt labor II unionism ii tub mm hint on nil tho iho art artof of tit lr tumid wits equally 1 II ahead of the feeling t eln In pa nt other her In III the Iha CH t thin llio IH Is over the lite Ir shop simp 1 vermin the open n shop n I In lie h Colorado a it largo number of oC citizens grew to In n believe a that t lit the demand I for forthe the Elie employment of ot union men Inen wae unlawful and II nil n II tine of or the tho of or till all citizens and therefore labor unions he be suppressed II td insofar nt III tenet least ns they thai refused to II ii work with nonunion map The natural maluno Ill l I consequence of lit these theR conflicting developments of sentiment unit belief was Will a 11 trial trio of oC and the III effort to intuit enact an nu eight hour workday y law 1111 In minas re Ito wills mills tumid and In other plates places of labor furl belied 1 the occasion for rOl nr a tt de lie of or war vur the mute mint mid and corporation and other employers and nud the th powerful labor Union of ot li the steles states prisoner Mr Mover Is president rho Tho In I oln 1111 n left leel no nol peace l except truce and no outcome of lit conflict except one nile tilde Bide crushing the theother theother theother other This Tula II lion hue has hll not Ilot developed In III the lie Kast both hoth organized labor amid the employers cut h lovers have been afraid to 10 light fight It II out rely While struggles i elsewhere have JUlYe b been cn on Ott a n vaster wale scale the spirit of or them has hns been that of or tho the skirmish lines which always tall fall 1111 hide buck on the entrenchments whereas Uri the smaller conflict In Coloin do tilts hits been an pitched bat bot bottle battle tle Tho o who steak of ot lawless Colora Colorado do lit at time will Uncover sure as 1111 fate fato that lint Colorado was tune not mint law lees but bul that Us its experience represents the crossing of oC the Vain In a II struggle much vaster mind and costlier than the war be hI wean and much more moio Important to a civilization and society but let ti II lie hope with less lesi It s bloodshed hel The Tho spirit of or the Far West Yost Is IA to 10 right fight the tho Far Kar l nr Westerners do not seek KId wifely safety In tho the neutrality which avoids battle nut and no so on both hoth sides the Ih Issue which huts him tech avoided by both em employers employers and unionist In Iho ho he East nt WR was ns squarely joined here Tile Tho heart of or the lie struggle was worn a u question o of oC the existence exist existence ence of or organized ur labor whenever It attempts at nl attempted tempts tempted td I to carry out its III principles to tn the full tull Realizing the th nature of or this cam cutri campaign n and the lint flat Issues Involved the thu fart Curt rul remain that hero thero have been no riots until the llie explosion of ot human In III th t the Cripple reek Creek district following the th awful concussion of ot tit thi mine near n Rr tore bore the lIam relation to 10 organized organised la IH labor bor In ns sue fI the th 1 assassin assassination assassination allon bore bort bo to 10 the In lie Ken ifen Kentucky tucky The Thu rh stale guard hued hud been In tile the th field fieldon l on It U is II true hilt butt not as 1111 the tho lK 1 lIp fi hove have been sailed called 1 nut out elsewhere In Tri other states the t hI soldiers were Mere 1111 called to tn suppress riots emit and heartier disorder but Just jaunt Justan an lAM the Ito Ih general situation was different front from In other places the employment of the he state truly army was In Imi Colorado elO Inv tov Pen Peabody body declared the th troubled district In a State Itt if of Insurrection and put the military In hie charge of or If them th In III of or any An rioting and amid 1111 1 for Cor the tho purpose of lit the ere are r from tuning any Influence whatever to keep time nonunion men from work workIng Ing InA the attitude of the th tat stat government was that lint effort to 10 owners of tiny any I rope I twin tint 01 klu them hemp or stopping any Rny men iron f hone i am working constitutes Incur Insurrection reckon against th the State II a II Itself And ud 1111 the stale supreme court huts virtually upheld this so 80 further to Got Gov Iel y Is III useless and the forcible d of union titian unionists late cent bo be IJ prevented for far It In Is luring done dons by II Sit nit Its It tho rho aftermath that A will III bo hr moat Inott Thus Thull the condition In Colorado has lass not been one of ot lawlessness In the tun semis that terror cad and disorder reigns but hut It 11 Is III a matter of ot determining what the law III Will IH Is will he bl threshed out later beer when peace Is III restored at 01 Victor following the awful crime of unknown lends fiends but that Is ls only one small email part of ot a great slats which In enral le II as peaceful IJ and sweet as III a I Tune June morning anywhere but with n dash of ot mountain to lie give It piquancy |