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Show DEFENSE OF MOTHER JONES. An Answer to an Article Recently Published in Goodwin's Weekly. To the Utah State Journal: In the last issue of Goodwin's .Weekly there appeared an article villifylns the character of the bravest woman in the United States a woman who has done and is doing more to alleviate the sorrows of the mine workers' wives and children and to strengthen and encourage the mine workers in their unequal war with the mine operators, than any one else in this broad land. Mother Jones of Pennsylvania i3 an intelligent, educated woman. She knows of the horrois of the mine region from bitter experience. ex-perience. Her husband and sons were mine workers, and died in the service of the mine operators. Knowing the terrible conditions existing in the coal region, of the injustice imposed on the workers work-ers by the mine operators, and seeing little children chil-dren compelled to work to eke out the scanty wage of their patents, Mother Jones resolved to devote the remaining years of her life in exposing, and, if possible, bringing to an end conditions that allow such iniquities to exist. And nobly, bravely is she working for the helpless and oppressed. The one who wrote the article in question is a coward or one who knows little or nothing of whom he writes. He compares. Mother Jones to Madame De Farge, of the French revolution, of whom it is said, "She was a fiend in human form." Brutal conditions develop brutal people. Mme. De Farge and her kind were simply the result of years. O of brutality and oppression, imposeJ on the peas- H antry of France hy the nobility, and there is no H doubt that if it were not for the agitators of to- H day and noble events like Mother Jones, wh5i3 striving to educate the workers and have them un- H dei stand and realize that the productions of their H labor are their very own, and teaching them a B practicable and sane way to obtain their own, B the days of the French revolution would be re- B peated In the United States. It would be very B much more truthful to call men like Baer proto- B types of Madame De Farge; their cruelty is of a B finer kind than hers she delighted in the quick B death of the gullotine theirs in the slow proces3 B of half fed, half starved lives of men, women and B children. KATE S. HILLIARD. |