Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-07-24
THE MINERS SIDE.
A Graphic Recital Of the Way corpor.
alton Dominion Rules Colorado.

The following protest against the
high handed methods practiced in Colo
RADIO against the individual liberty is
published in the Appeal at the request
Of the Western Federation of Miners:
DENVER, Colo, May 20, 1901
"To the People-The executive board
Of the Federation of Miners in execu-
tive session assembled, with one VIC ce
proclaim that the infamy and barbar-
ism of military rule in Colorado, beg
gars the vocabulary of the English
language for words to give expression
to our denunciatfons of the official
arnachy that has blackened and dis
graced the history Of the State. In
all the annals of history of nations,
where tyrants have welded the iron
rod of persecution and oppression and
crimsoned history with chapters If
cold blooded brutality, Colorado rises
like an unrivaled monarch of them
all and with a Governor that is lost
to shame and every particle Of justice,
ing of paradise.
I'VE have borne with patience the
repeated wrongs of corporate and com
mercial vengeance administered by
cheap debauched chief executive. We
have admonished the members Of the
Western Federation of Miners during
the stormy days, weeks and month
of the conflict in Colorado to remain
cool and calm ard bear with fortitude
the unholy and impicus imputati lions
that have been hurled against them
from the slanderous lips Of hate. hatcn
Gu and incubated in the womb Of de-
humanized greed.
I'VE have cOunceled respect and
reverence for the law. when our mem
bers were made myrters Of prosecution
and through our mental vision could
behold them incarcerated in military
pententiaries, arrested without charge
or warrant though we could behold
them torn from their wives and child
rem and their homes desecrated by uni
formed outlaws: though we could see
them deported and excited and hear
the walls of agony that burst from
the bleeding and desparing hearts of
frenzied and distracted women and
children, yet amid all the unparallel-
ed and unprecedented outrages that ap.
peal to the manhood Of American cit
izenship for justice, We have proclaim
ed peace, peace, peace, until the very
words seem to mock the spirit Of
liberty that dwells in the human
heart-until the word peace" seems
to have become but another name for
cowardise. We have been patient AMI
admonished peace. while courts were
defied and the constitution of state
and nation was trampled under foot
I'VE have been patient and admon
ished peace while our members have
been goaded by the exultant jeers II
bayonet-equipped mobs, and their
mothers, wives, sisters and daughters
insulted by the foul and brazen con
duct of a libertine soldiery. recruited
from the Migrants of the slums. But
the time for proclaiming peace, when
there can be no peace, has passed
away. and the hour for heroic ara
determined action has come that must
drag despotism from its arrogant
throne and strange to death the Jud
as treason that laughs in derision a
the constitutional rights of the citi
zens CARRIED in the livery of labor.
EIGHT YEARS OF BLOOD.
Eight years of blood and carnag'
mark the infancy of the republic il
dethroning the regal dispotism of I'll
err who was a philanthropist compare
with the car of Colorado. The Declal
alton of independence was the cudmi
alton of a story of wrong that fame
the flames into a rebellion that ult
mately burst into a revolution tina
swept from the soil of the New Wort
the last tattered rags of imperialis'
that dwarfted the nobler impulses c
MANHOOD ana cnalneu tne spirit I
liberty to the tyrant's stake.
Have the ancestry of The nation
the days of rs fought, bled and die
in vain? Have their homes upon tn
pages of our country's history fC
sublime heroism and deeds of splel
dor, lost their lustre and does the
sacred memory fail to quicken tn
beat of the American heart to revo
against the profamanation of the hol
principles for which they immediate
their lives to hand down to unbo,
generations the legacy of huma
rights?
Has the warm blood in the veil
of American citizenship CONCEALED