The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-20
COLORADO PREACHER
HANDS IT To PEABODY
SEVERELY DENOUNCEs MILITARY
RULE OF COLORADO's DE,sPOT.

SEVERELY DENOUNCES MILITARY
RULE Of COLORADO'S DESPOT.
An Able and Logical sermon-Defines
the Right Of Both Sides--Holds Au-
thorttfes Responsible for Demornlised
Condition Of State-Hangs Famous
Circular for Which Haywood and
Pulpit.
DENVER, Colo, Aug. 1s.-The Rev.
Henry W. Pinkham, Of Bethany Bap-
tist church, in this city, In part deliv-
cred the following sermon last Sunday
evening:
THE temptation is strong to indulge
In denunciation and ridtcule of Gov
ernor Peabody and General Bell, for
they richly deserve denunciation, and
they offer an easy mark for ridicule
IF you are making a scrapbook you
should certainly preserve in it Gener-
al Bells proclamation and orders. He
clearly has no idea how amusing he ts
In explaining the policy of deportine
union men he says: don't want these
men in Colorado Was the like of that
ever heard before in the American re-
public? 1t is the spirit of Napoleon,
who identified himself with the state
Il etat. G. est moi
1T may be Sherman Bell does not
want me In Colorado, but I had not
thought 1t necessary to ask his per-
mission to remain here. Truly he doth
bestride our narrow state like Colos-
sus and we petty men walk under his
huge legs and peep about to find our
selves dishonorable graves. 1t is to
laugh! Yet 1t Is no laughing matter
but very serious, when great power
is yielded by officials who are rash,
indiscreet ignorant Of both law and
history.
Il have read carefully the decision
OF the supreme court in regard to Mr.
Meyer, and it seems to me that the
court indorses the course pursued by
the governor and the adjutant Is quite
wrong. That the governor, being di-
rected by the constitution to suppress
insurrection, must himself be the judge
whether insurrection exists, and that
In suppressing it he may arrest and
detain participants therein, seems to
me good common sense, whether 1t is
law or not. And that is all the court
asserted
1.-The decision contained nothing that
can be regarded as justification OF the
unprecedented policy Of running out of
the state men against whom no specif-
ic charge whatever Is made.
THE court upheld detention until
the insurrection be suppressed, but that
Is very different from deportation be-
yond the state with a warming never
to- return. &c. ,,l1ss.5
ealrt
therefors. dec clares that 81 lpholds
the governors policy as a whole. But
clearly the deci ision lodges great power
in the chief executive, and the people
of the state must see to it that the
man they elect as governor shall be no
fool, no madman, no violent partisan.
Here is the famous circular for
the publication Of which the officers
Of the Miners union were arrested.
I WILL hang 1t here on the pulpit desk,
supporting 1t by the Bible, so that
you may all see it, In so doing I am
not desecrat1ng 'old glory nor do I
fear arrest for flag desecration, al
though you see, / hereby do my ut
most to be as guilty Of that crime as
Mr. Haywood himself. am not an
officer Of the miners federation and
so I shall not be arrested. See?
"Dr. GLADDEN. was told that the SEN
tences on the thirteen stripes of the
flag were Of the most atrocious char
acter. But after reading them him
self he said that away from the
stimulating influence Of Colorado,
their anarchistic character will not ap-
pear will read the sentences:
''1s Colorado in America? Martial law
declared In Colorado! Habeas corpus
suspended in Colorado! Bull pens for
| union men in Colorado! Soldiers defy
| the courts in Colorado! Free speech
denied in Colorado! Wholesale arrests
| without warrant in Colorado! Union
! men exiled from homes and families In
Colorado! Constitutional right to be an
arms question in Colorado! Right OF
fair, impartial and speedy trial abol-
ished in Colorado! Citizens alliance re-
! sorts to mob law an violence In Col
| orado! Militia hired by corporations
to break the strike in Colorado! Ot
these statements DR.. GLADDEN. said that
| the tenth ana thirteenth might Ue
questioned, but that the rest were in
| dubititable facts. I believe the are ali
substantially true. And the real des-
ecration of our revered emblem Of jus
tice and liberty is in the facts them.
selves, not in the publication of them
"It was a good idea to print these
statements on the stripes Of the FLAG
thus emphasizing the glaring contra.
diotion between the actual condition
| in Colorado and those principles o1
government for which the flag ha.
been supposed to stand and I wot1lt
like to see this flag poster on the bill
boards In Denver. "
80 nearly unanimous Is the condem
nation Of our governors extraordtnar!
course by the influential journals O.
the country, that there Is little neet
for Colorado men to say anything ad
ditional. But upon them devolves the
duty Of acting, and they will &C