Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-07-24

I'VE belive that the spirit of '76 is
not dead in the de wn CT the twentieth
century. We beleTe that the smoul-
dering embers of freedom in the Am
erican breast ONLY lack the fuel to
blaze into confagation that will
consume in an unquenchable fire the
machinery of torture that has been
moulded by the diabolical ingenuity
CT corporate infany; to put upon the
rack that independence of manhood
that refuses to wear upon it's neck
the iron yoke of st.hjugation.
SIXTY DAYS IN JAIL.
For sixty days tle president Of
our organization has laEguished in the
confines of a bull pen under the plea
of military necessity" When did
military necessity become a part of
the laws or constitution Of the state
enabling a corrupt executive to deprive
a man whose cradle had been rocked
beneath the dome CT an American SKY
at the priceless inheritance of cOnstit-
utional liberty? When did it become
lawful for a corporation mortgaged
Governor to clothe himself in the
clOa. e military necessity and with
the ,.ictum of an unreatrained and IL
censed brigand, kidnap and imprison
an American citizen who is guiltless
CT crime, but whose sturdy and in
fiinching manhood refuses to give quar-
ter to the implacable fees who have
decreed that the Western Federation
of Miners shall be exterminated from
the boundries of Colorado.
The governor Of this state with
but sixteen soldiers On duty in San
Miguel county, continues tle reign #
martial law, in order that he may con
tinue to defy judicial tribunals, be-
lieving that confinement and relent-
less persecution will ultimately bring
about the death of a man who has
incurred the insatiahl3 enemity Of
the Mine Owners Association AMI
Citizen'c Alliance.
IF the life of Charles H. Meyer
| shall be sacrificed to appease the
wrath of corporate and commercial
hate, then there will be forced upon
the peaceful, lawabiding and liberty
loving membership of cur organizar-
| ion the ancient words in the old
Mosaic law: An eye for an eye AMI
, tooth for a TOOTH and here in tie
Rocky Mountains may be reared 4
monument commemorative the era
when despotism met its downfall an
manhood its regeneration.
MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT
| I'VE have sent our message to the
| President of the United States calling
the attention of the incumDrent of Sle
| White House to the dastardly reign
of coporate anarchy, backed and SUP
ported by the armed might of a law
| less administration, but the inventor
of the spiked policemen's clubs, the
, brOncho buster who sent Federal rifles
/ to Arizona to ava and ntimidate
! men waging a peaceful battle in lie
Tense of right. the military Caesar
who declared that strikers should *
stood up against stone wall AMI
shot down like dogs lacked the couc
age to declare that the Federal con
| stitution shall ont be violated, ana
that the rights Of an American citi
zen shall be protected from the as
sauits Of a licensed mob We hav'
sent our message to the Senate of tis
United States, but the members o.
the 'milliOnaires club on the banks 0
the Potomac, with but few exceptions
have ignored our petition for the il
vestigation Of the industrial condit
ions in Colorado We have shown <
the people Of this nation that the mel
who stand beneath the folds of tn
Federation flag are permeated with
law abiding reverence that is unequal
ed by any other class of men beneat1
the Stars and Stripes. We have show
patience and fortitude under the la
of the corporate whip and the bayone
Of the hired soldier that execls tn
mute submission of the victims of tn
Spanish inqQuisition.'
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