The indicator., 1904-10-22

Nho NV" PiSAee fACc VIC tOtcTv
toll them why you dsnounee the -
teoritIss for the deportatIons in TeIl(
county and fall to denounee the dspos4
ations In Denver conducted by YOU
brother Frank.
II It 10 right to deport dangerous
characters from the city, why is II MOI
right to deport them from a countyf
II your brother Frank may Judge wt,s
are dangerous characters in Denver
why may not the authorities of Teiiss
county judge who are dangerous chan
aoters in that county7
You will observe that there are a.
rect and specific questions. Have yoa
the time to reply to them? Show
your friends-Owers and Patterson
that you are not as weak and timid az
they would have the people believe.
and speak up 20 all may hear you.
Don't say that the oas>s are differ
ent because the deportsd men from
Denver had no families or property.
while some Of the deported men from
Teller county had both, for If you
make this argument you will take the
position that 1t is a crime for an
American citizen to be without a fam
lily or property. which, of course, would
be foolish thing to do. The fact b
that these poor. unfortunates can 40
oumulate neither II they are to be con-
stantly hustled from one town to an.
other in this unconstitutional manner.
Perhaps you may regard this In
stance of deportation as much too re-
mote. therefore your attention is in.
v1tsd to the deportations that occurred
few weeks ago at the opening of the
Rose Bud Indian lands.
Several thousand people were gath.
cred, awaiting the drawing of lots to
secure land. Among them were a mum
Der of offensive and dangerous charac.
tors whom it was found impossible to
control by ordinary means. The peo-
pie assembled there were law-abidins
and respectable and they concluded
that an extraordinary emergency"
bad arisen, and you know the rest
hey deported, drove away the unde-
sirable characters.
VIII you please tell us why you have
not raised your voice against this
outrage? This. you know. is one Of
the questions you cannot dispose of
with pleasant smile.
You are undoubtedly aware of the
appalling list of crimes which the
civil authorities of Teller county per-
m1tted to go unpunished while the
Western Federation of Miners was in
control Of public Offices in that county.
You know that after the militia left
Cripple Creek that lawlessness and
Wholesale assassination was resorted
to. Ordinary measures having failed,
DO you not think that extraordinary
measures were justified to meet this
extraordinary condition? Perhaps you
DO not regard the murder of fifteen
men in one day as an extraordinary
emergency" At any rate. don't over.
look this question; it is really quite
important that you answer it.
In order that you may fully appre-
ciate the point | am trying to make
clear, will give you another illustra-
ton. You are constantly intimating
that the law is sufficient for all emer-
gencies. Let us see.
When great fire is raging in a city
1t is the common practice, as you
know, to blow up surrounding build
ings to prevent the spread of the con-
flagration. Do you know of any law
or constitution which permits the fire
chief to destroy property in this man
ner?
You know that under such condi-
tions the fire chief will order you out
of your house and tell you that he is
going to destroy it, and that your pro-
tests will be made in vain. He will
tell you that he is going to destroy it
in the interests of the community to
prevent the spread of the fire. For
time he rises superior to the law. He
tells you few are to be made to suf-
fer for the benefit of the many, that
your house must be sacrificed to save
the property of the people of your
city.
If you are as fair, candid and just
as you would have the people believe,
you will admit that this is indeed an
extraordinary emergency" which is
met by an application of the natural
law of self-preservation; and you
must also admit that it is right to ap-
ply this law in this emergency.
Now tell the people how you can
maintain that it is right to apply the
higher law of selfpreservation to pro
tect property in this manner and
wrong to apply the same law to pro-
tect life in a similar extraordinary
emergency"
IIeaSe answer.
Another extraordinary emergency
which has called for extraordinary
measures to meet, is your candidacy
for the governorship. You and your
party regarded the emergency so ex-
traordinary that you and they have
adopted the extraordinary and humili-
ating policy of forming an alliance
with the element which believes strike
violence justifiable and that property
is robbery.
Just one more question. Have you
heard of any dynamiting or any muir
ders of union or non-union men since
the bad characters were run out of the
mining camps. where the disorders oc-
CURED?
Is 1t not a fact that every legitimate
business enterprise has been resumed
without fear of the dynamiter: that
prosperity and good order have fol
lowed the disappearance of these
Western federation desperadoes from
the camps, as it did after their sup
preston in the Occur d'Alenes and at
Leadville?
Deportation is severe remedy 1t
is unfortunate that the lawless sup
porters of the Western Federation of
miners maue IL NECESSARY " Apply IT,
but you must agree that the remedy
has had the desired result. Good or
der, prosperity and happiness have re-
turned to the mining camps of Colo
RADIO, have they not?
1t would be very becoming In you
to answer these questions. If you do
not, the voters are very likely to join
your friends-Owers the Judge. and
n fha t,,tn
that you are afraid; that you are again
avoiding the WEAKNESS and wounds
Of hard encounter upon vital meas
ures," as charged by your friend Pat
terson In the campaign of 1895. Re
spectfully yours,
e. e RITTENHOUSA
llSE