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Show MR. SULLIVAN AND MR. WATERS. So It seems that Mr. J. C. Sullivan, president, i ( and Mr. H. B. Waters, secretary, of the Colorado v Federation of Labor, have become great consti- i tutional lawyers and are at last showing President Roosevelt up in his true light; more, too, they are ti I tire ones who wrote the high v finished speeches V that Tom Patterson in his recent visit to Utah rT i i palmed off a3 his own. Great men are Mr. Sulli- ' J van and H. B. Waters. We wonder that their na- tive country permitted them to come away. Or was it that country's love tor America that induced in-duced her to permit her foremost citizens to emigrate emi-grate that they might come to America to expound constitutional law to the people, and expose the usurper at Washington in his true light? How was it with Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Waters In their native land? Were they sticklers for eight hours a day at $3.60 for their eminent services? ser-vices? Did they eat three square meals a day, with fried oysters ana roast beef, and have sixteen six-teen hours a day each in which to raise hades? Did they have carpeted rooms, fine clothes and smoke 12-cont cigars? And when they left their luxuriant homes, did their parents say to them, "My boys, liberty In America means unbridled license; li-cense; the more hades you can kick up, the bigger big-ger will be the ofllce you can aspire to. Why, over there you can call the President himself a spalpeen spal-peen and ho will not answer back a word, or take a fall out of you, that covardly he is. And over there is a daisy party you will And. If you need any honest help, don't go to it, for the blaokguards are all in league with old England, and would, if they could, put you on the same wages that you have here, and work you fourteen hours; but if you want to kick up any deviltry, or beat someone to death, or blow him up with dynamite, then go to that party and tell one of its lawyers that you are a poor working man and a citizen, and can vote, and are being persecuted, and he will go to the front window, raise it, stick his head out and howl to raise the roof, and the fears that he wil shed will make the sidewalk below look as though a cloudburst had struck it. You boys have all the natural propensities to get along well in that country. coun-try. And we know you are fittod to play the part of oppressed workingmen in. America. If there should come up an eight-hour bill over there in the Legislature, have the Democrats beat it, and that will give you a good excuse to begin to get in your work, and now, good-speed to you, and may the Lord help you in your holy work of always H being a menace to a free government and a gen- H erous people." H |