The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-18

/ why this strange and inhuman act should take
place in sovereign state, the only answer given
was ut is none of your business. Those men, hon
estly and sincerely fighting for their rights, to
which they we're entitled de jure if not de facto,
! by the vote of the people for an amended consti-
| tuition, are loaded into box cars, carried beyond
the confines of the state, and under the muzzle of
the gun commanded to seek shelter beneath the
wild sagebrush, miles away from any human hab-
itation. The parting salute CO. mans inhumanity
to man") rife shots the transported ex-
lies heads and an order never to return to the
staote of Colorado Is this martial law! If So
with all our boasted Intelligence and progress, our
standard of justice is lower than the Halifax law
which permitted speedy trial, followed by imme-
diate punishment. For the miners who were placed
in the buH-pen and then transported, there was
no trial. We shudder at the gibbet law of Eng
land enacted for the forest Of Hardwick and which
empowered the firth burghers to condemn to death
any person found guilty of stealing goods to the
value of 137ad. All such were beheaded on the
market day. But guilty or not, the miners were
placed III the bul-pen and then deported, and cast
out in the Siberian desert of Kansas to starve.
Secretary Seward, III letter to Mr.. Adams then
minister to England, dated April 10TH 1861, said
among other things Military spirit is an clement
always ready for revolution" While we do not
endorse M. Stewards words, believing, as we do
that nation which negIects or despises a mill
tary spirit is not destined to reign long or enjoy
glorious career, yet cannot refrain from CRITICS
ing and condemning the action of the military au-
thorlties in Colorado in their deportation of the
miners, who were treated far worse than wild beasts
he same applies to their vandalism when thew
used sledges to demolish free press Still worse
was their action when they compelled officers of the
law to resign their offices at the sight of a coed
rope cast at their feet. Have we reached stage
IN our civil and military affairs where the will of
the overwhelming majority is set at naught and
where the bone and sinew of the nation, the horny
handed sons of toll, who are and have been orr
great producers, treated as vassals and slaves
by few bloated capitalists? Is it come to this
that because the majority fall back upon their
rights, refuse to serve their masters till justice is
done, that the minority can exterminate them like
Gam exterminated his brother Abell Is the great
state OF Colorado reduced to the pitiable condition
OF ancient Athens where $4,000 free Athenian
citizens held in servtude 100000 slaves? There
have been numerous struggles between capital and
labor, but we cannot recall any instance where tree
citizens were exiled, free press demolished and
officers of the law asked to resign beneath the moose
OF the rope dangling in the air. The conservative
men of the nation, they who are loyal to American
principles and love freedom do not fail to see the
OF all that has taken place within
year IN the mining camps q Colorado The mil
ions OF working men who have been Watching the
struggle are silent and assume gloomy aspect for
The present. But they will not remain dumb The
cause of their exied craftsmen is their cause. the
Wounds inflicted on any member affect the whole
'ody There is such thing as pressing weak hui
nan nature beyond the bearable point. and vher
'ver and whenever that has happened in the past,
history tells the result. Those deported miners.
eparaed from their families, may go through life
With sorrowtul eye sad faces, but they cannot up-
'ress their natural inclination. Their children
nd grandchildren, and those of their sylnpathI-
rs, will grow into maturity with these object les
ons implanted In their souls With them sub
Mission may cease to be virtue. Here comes the
cal trouble. Those who now, sleep in soft beds
nd hold the reins of government do not look to
he future and anticipate what their present &C.
ions may bring forth
What of the dynamiting of Independence, it
lay be asked! Nothing. The miscreants who
ere guilty of that anarchous act should be TINTED
own like wolves, tried and, if convicted, pun
he'd to the last extremity of the law That wrcng-
III, malicious wicked deed was no justitic alton for
mother wrong.
During the long struggle we watched the va
Gus attitudes assumed by the contending parties.
nd were hopeful that very soon both parties would
cary of the long conflict and sigh to return 20 a
eaceable and mutual understanding, as the Isra
ties, when starving in the desert sighed for the
esh pots of Egypt. But before compromise was
'ached the battle of determination was begun, and
lie Associated Press is giving daily, for more than
week, the outlines of the BATTLE. t