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there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XLITL JUNE 20, 1905, No. 1131 13 West Traety-Fiest Street, New Yor ery Thurwlay date of publ No contribution ‘will be returned untess accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The illustrations in LAP. are copyrighted. and are not to be reproduced, Prompt notification should be sent by seribers of any change of address. OLORADO State to which is a dist adven- turous Americans xo to dig for desira- ble metals, to ra cattle and to ex theirlungs. Health, metals and beef are usually its chief ¢ ports, but preponderant has been more than a year lately its export news, For has been sending us stories of miners’ strikes, of clashes over labor legislation, and of the State long periods of The County, a service by militia. main suble is in Tell remote district high in the mountains where mining is the only industry. A strike there for many months. miners has been in The miners have long been used to terrorize ne district. A good many of are lawless men, who stick at no crime session union them to make a strike successful. They have committed many outrages, and their activities culminated 4 a ayo in the blowing up of forty 1 union miners with an inferflal mac About half were killed, the rest very sly hurt. Since then there have been very lively times in Teller County, and a more la seric ish exportation of news than ever, nestly be State, Governor Peabody is ear- on keeping order in his General Bell, who commands his militia, is equally solicitous to the sameend. They have taken hold hard in the disordered district, arresting ybody that was troublesome, ar ing out of the State, under mi ‘LEE guard, scores of union miners whose presence they determined to be preju- dicial to order. A large proportion of the citizens are with them in their efforts. They pre make the State safe and by whatever nd it pose to orderly seems. HIE Governor and his Militia Gen- eral are r the their doings. much criticised f legality of some ¢ We are assured, and bel the long-seated Colorac been alc eve, that in all mining troubles in » the miners have by no means in flouting the law. ‘The miners have used physical violence ; their opponents have cheated them in legislation and deprived them of certain lawful fruits of political vie now, are told, ate authorities have no right to banish droves of tur- bulent citizens, and shut hundr in ‘* bull-pens."* these assertions are true. is of others up We guess Inter When things come some 0 arma silent leges. to such a pass as in Teller County, it is What jer County apt to go hard with legalities. seems evident is that in Te niners had become so intolerable that the rest of th ple rose against it. The outcome, however much Is the tyranny of the union w-breaking, fighting and damage to the legal reputation of Governor Peabody intery to be order. . is going After order has been es- tablished, and organized murders and dynamitings have been crushed into the I means used will be conve out, lity of jent, perhaps damages will lie in examination the and some cases, Things are not going quite as they should in Colorado, but, as we see it, conditions are improving there, and there is good prospect of instructive Vigilance-committee govern- ment is not good, but when it is indis- pensable it is best to have it. The sort that prevails just now in Teller County results, is tempered by official authority, which s it and makes it responsible. ‘The special trouble with the county and with the State is that the mining rest industry in it is so preponderantly im- portant that the whole @ate has been made a battlefield between miners and mine-owners, ‘There is, apparently, a lack of disinterested citizens not con- cerned for cither side, but only for the enactment of just laws and their cn- forcement. It no more accords with equity that the union miners should make laws for the mine-owners, than that the mine-owners should laws for There ought to be an element strong enough to control both. make the miners. HAT Hearst should have captured the Illinois delegation to the ic Convention is enlightening ag to the tastes of the managers of the Ilinois Democracy, but it is not es- pecially sign . He t be nominated, and it still look Parker would be the Democratic didate, The Judge has divulged nothing since last week that in any way prejudices his prospects. ‘The rumor that he habitually eats pie twice a day may be malignant in intention, but will tend to strengthen him in New England and the West, and will do him more Demoer: can HE story of the burning of the General Slocum in the East River, with a Sunday-school picnic aboard, is a horror without mitigation. — It is useless to dwell upon it here. The war in the East has not yet sent us so awful a tale as this of a thing that happened within rifle shot of the wharves of Manhattan Island. There were blu! ders in the management of the boat after she took blunders that w deadly—and some grave defects in the boat's equipment. A wooden boat, a rattled captain, rotten life-preservers, bad fire apparatus, eight hundred lives lost, That is the story. comicbooks.com