Excerpt from The Colorado Mine WarOnce, upon certain tendencies Which are growing not only in the western portions of the land, but in every part of the land With increasing force and power. The laboring hosts of the United States are no longer a downtrodden fraction, helpless in'the hands of capitalists. The notion that the laboring millions are any longer in fear of their'employers, or that they are to be considered in any other manner than a thoroughly well organized group oi combatants perfectly capable and perfectly equipped to meet on fair terms their antagonists, is a superstition. The labor question has ceased to be one in Which sympathy for the laboring masses should play any part whatever. The history of the dynamit ing outrages shows that. But it is even more clearly shown by the vast sums Which are now at the command of the lead ers in any labor struggle. In Colorado, the present contest must be costing the labor side many thousands of dollars, grunning possibly in the hundreds of thousands. Without i these funds this strike and its attendant results could not possibly have been brought about. These funds come from every part of the land. They come by as real a tax upon millions of men as any tax ever laid. These funds are be yond Ipublic scrutiny, and are accounted for to nobody who has the public interest at stake. Unlike the great corpora tions, that, at least, are subject to legislative supervision and control, ' the United Mine Worker's, for example, can com mandeer hundreds of thousands of dollars for Which no ac counting at all need be given to any responsible authority Which represents the public interest. The sooner the signifi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.