Gunnison news-champion., 1904-06-17
AN ANTEDMUVIAN LAW
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bear IHf reHufltIHu ai LAWYERS ans
-tata-uea Taer have f.If c.laH.. bed
i1 enf..l-f tHe uira-ares cd l,e.I and
che governor a CHWHle Crses Td
uule and Trinidad ta uat ria u
their ''uu desirable pHrular1u buf
m d1nE 81 thes have WaIIawel r
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t La W .aaI 10 t.aaralH tra a
tar Har - compelled t laugh al
Inrm
THe Iaezf aI tae-e b ez ~eaata
IanU h Ihar-lIl Hi NaaHa-ka IIs
was ueraI em-I tr Che Eraaf
. uin rIa4Hr -v-lau. o. uItad ~iafa-
=aHarar HaruluaUt chairman aE tHf
republican uauuaI convention a.
l0.h. AVID is DOW Hua aI fua ml-f
prosperous lawyers u Neu luk an 2
Washington Iu-f read what this
-8rHa-.i.E Hrrat lawyer sav- absu.
che Cripple DraaA arrrsfs auI depr-
UuIHn-
1Har is Dad lav in tbiz country
chat allows men ta De- driven lrem
one stale o. uH1ther without first
"a trial iu which they be- allowed o.
defend themselves. Every man
n the United ~rates has c1nsti-
tuti1nal night t1 his life and his
liberty until these are taken from
him by due process Of law.
Whatever the facts in the coutr0-
yersy between the miners and the
troops in Colorado may be no such
action as has taken place has been
justified. II Is an outrageous eN-
mbItlon Of power ON the part Of
the authorities
ID makes NO difference whether
these miners are members of a
union and that in itself is no Of
fense-or whether as union miners
they performed acts that Jared
against public sentiment or even
were Of criminal design. The au-
thorities had only two wavs in
which b. treat them first 10 take
precautionary steps 60 prevent a
repetition Of the offenses: second
10 follow the regular methods of
arrest and incrlminati0n In this
way the innocent man would not
have had 90 suffer with those who
may have been guilty
il is simply a case Of mob law
exercised by the authorities Of the
state of Colorado
The trouble with the Honorable
Fhurston is he is browsing among
the tones Of law as they were appli-
cable up 10 1903. lie doesn't know
how a Colorado governor and courts
have progressed since that period.
Then again, his mind is befuddled
with the law as it exists I'm New
York, California, South Carolina.
Michigan and the rest OF the Forty
four States of the Union lie hasn't
kept up with the progressive stale Of
Colorado. Here governors aud court
have got beyond all such leuI lin
gerie as habed- corpus, trial bv jury
and the presumption of innocence.
These have become mere imuedl-
meut- t1 tho administration of strong
remedies ir cure public ills that
might have been all right until the
Colorado situation and may yet be
all right Boo other states than Colo
RADIO bot Colorado has got beyond
an Of fbem With Bell. Peabody
and the Mime Owners association Tor
doctors. fag patient is going to be
either killed Hr cured and that in
pretty quick order
These CaIaado doctors are not
learned In the law. but they know am
IuSurreefiUu when they see one. They
are like the doctor who was a sne
ciaii-f iu fits. lie always threw lis
patient into fits and then cured the
hts. Bell Peabody and the mine
owners know how % cure the state
If they can only throw it into an in
smrecti1n. They first cause the in
sUTrccti0u and then cure the iasur-
rectI0u-
No "habelS corpus, trial bv
jury, institutional rights. or
due process of law IN their judicial
pharmacop1aeia. The don't need
them. If the governor can throw
the state into an instruction bv
proclamation. such antediluvian
fripperies may be stored away in the
garnet until the governor announces
the insurrecti0n has been cured.
The Times sends the same mess
age to ex-senator Thurston that
Governor Peabody sent Yesterday to
J. j. Huckettsecretary of the Indus
trial council at Kansas City: Be
come wise before. you attempt to
teach.