The Delta independent., 1904-11-04

county and fail to denounce the deport.
atoms in Denver conducted by your
brother Frank.
II it 10 right to deport dangerous
characters from the city, why is it not
right to deport them from a county7
II your brother Frank may Judge who
are dangerous characters In Denver.
why may not the authorities Of Teller
county judge who are dangerous char
aetcrs in that eounty7
You will observe that there are di-
rect and specific questions. Have you
the time to reply to them? Show
your friends-Owers and Patterson
that you are not as weak and tiIaid as
they would have the people believe,
and speak up so all may hear you.
Don't say that the cases are differ
ent because the deported 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 crime for an
American citizen to be without fam
ily or properly. which, OF course, would
be foolish thing to do. The fact is
that these poor. unfortunatcs can &C
cumulate neither II they are to be con-
st.ntly 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
vited to the deportations that occurred
a few weeks ago at the opening of the
Rose Bud Indian lands.
Several thousand people were gath
cred. awaiting the'trawing Of lots to
secure land. Among them were num-
Der Of offensive and dangerous charac-
ters 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"
had arisen. and you know the rest
they deported. drove away the unde
sirable characters.
Will 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 a pleasant smile.
You are undoubtedly aware of the
appalling list of crimes which the
civil authorities of Teller county per
mitted 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 Greek that lawlessness and
wholesale assassination was rescrted
to. Ordinary measures having failed.
do you not think that extraordinary
measures we're justified to meet TINS
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 l am trying to make
clear, | will give you another ilIustrc-
tion. You are constantly intinaung
that the law is suficient for all ener-
gencies. Let us see.
When great fire is raging in a city
it is the common practice. as you
lnow, to blow up surrounding build
ings to prevent the spread Of the con.
fasration. 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 coadi-
tons the fire chief will order you out
CT your house and tell you that he l.;
going to destroy it, and that your pro-
tests will be made in vain He vii!
tell you that he is going to destroy 1t
In the interests OF the community tc
prevent the spread of the fire. For
time he rises superior to the Law. He
tells you few are to be made to sui
fer for the benefit of the many. that
your house must be sacrificed to save
the property of the people Of your
city.
II 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 representation; and you
must also admit that it is right TO ap-
ply this la~ in this emergency.
Now tell the people ho~ YOU cao
maintain that 1t is right to apply the
higher law of self-p-eservation to pro
tect property in this manner and
wrong to apply the same law to pro
tect life in similar "extraordinar?
emergency"
Please answer.
Another extraordinary emergency
which has called for extraordinary
measures. to meet. is your candidacy
for the aovernorship. You and your
party regarded the emergency so eS-
traordfnary that you and they havc
adopted the extraordinary and humtli
atinS policy of forming an alliance
with the element which believes strike
violence iustif.able and that property
IS robbery.
Just one more question. Have yoI
heard Of any dynamiting or any mur
ders Of union or non-uniou men since
the bad characters were run out of the
mining camps, where the disorders oc.
Cured!
Is it not fact thai every Legitimate
business enterprise has been resumed
without fear of the dynami;er: 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 dAlenes and at
Lcaiville:
Deportation is a severe remedy. |:
3 unfortunate that the lawless SUP
porters Of the Western Federation Of
Miners made IT necessary TO apply it
but you must agree that the remedy
has had the desired result. Good or
Ter. prosperity and happiness have re
urned to the mining camps OF Colo
ado. have they not:
1t would be very becoming In you
o answer these questions II you do
OF. the voters are very likely to Join
,ur friends-Owers the judge. and
atterson the senator-in the opinion
at you are afraid: that you are again
oiding the weariness and wounds
hard encounter upon vital meas
'es," as charged by your friend Pat
son In the campaign Of 1896. Re
ctfuYy yours,
E E RITTENHouSE