The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-30

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Since that day and for weeks be-
fore peace: had apparently reigned in
Cripple Creek. Industrious and hon.
est men had :. been deported without
violence following. The men against
whom the orders for deportation went
have exhibited self-restraint and
silent endurance that !. is considered
phenomenal, even by those perpetrat-
ing the Deeds On the surface Of
things there was no more reason for
military rule in Cripple Creek than
there is for 1t in Denver, or Colorado
Springs, or Pueblo, or Greeley, or
Fort Collins, or Boulder. All that the
public can learn is that there is a self
constituted committee at Cripple
Creek that arrogates power over the
person OF every inhabitant and that
determines who may and who may
not continue to live in Teller county
Every day the public learns that some
new men have been ordered to depart
and they depart fearing prison or
worse.
Even Thought is. Suppressed.
Again, the question Is asked, why
is this? It was supposed at first that
only Western Federation miners were
forcibly deprived of the right to DOM
icile; but that proves to be an error. It
Is no longer merely a question of un-
ion association; it has become one OF
thought, of feeling, and of sympathy.
The ring of communication has been
obnoxious to the members of the self
constituted commission-meno Of family,
Of character and of means, only provid-
ed 1t can be shown that they disapprove'
the arbitrary acts Of the guards and
the commission, are brought within
the fatal circle.
Is it any wonder that capital hats
at the door of Cripple Creek? That
men with capital to invest will not
purchase Its stocks? That capitalists.
though pleased with the prizes that
Cripple Creek offers. withhold their
money and take it to other fields?
Republicans Oppose Peabody.
high Colorado railroad official
asked the other day: Who will the
Democrats nominate for GOVERNOR"
Responding to the question of why he
made the inquiry, he said: Il cannot
approve the governors policy at Grip
pointed against the workingman; but
who will be governor ten years from
now, and what influence will be behind
him? The officers Of railroads and rich
mine owners may be imprisoned and
deported and complaint could not be
made If what is now going on should
stand as precedents. I hope the Demo-
Gratis will nominate a wise and safe
man under whom the property and per-
sons of all will be treated alike"
This incident is mentioned to show
that at home, as we'll as abroad, con-
sentative capital shrinks from official
violations Of law and is looking for
ward to time when the law and
faithful public officers will govern in
stead Of anarchy and the untrameled
will Of self-constituted commissions.
Colorado Methods Unprecedented.
1t should be remembered that the
people of no state in the union have
had experience with such official mis-
behavior As Colorado Observation-Disclosures.
Other states have strikes eat and
disastrous strikes. Men have been
killed in other states and vast prop
erty interests wiped out in the prog
ress of strikes. New Jersey is now
suffering from such. Fifty thousand
men are out in Chicago St. Joseph,
Omaha, Kansas City, and at two or
three other points. and the police re-
sources of these cities are tested to
their full to preserve order. But there
is and has been, except in the Occur
d'Alene, no thought OF military rule
as we have had in Colorado, and such
thing as holding men in prison for
months without charge, and wholesale
deportations by the military and self
constituted commissions is not only
unheard Of, but 1t profoundly shocks
people outside Of Colorado. It is some
thing they cannot comprehend except
upon the theory that all law is de-
throned and the population depends
upon lawless force as the substitute
for orderly and forceful law. Thus
impressed as the great bulk of the east,
west, north and south, must be- not
Cripple Creek alone is under a publ.
ban, but the entire state suffers from
the same cause. To the mind Of the
rest of the country Colorado is all law
less, is all desperate, and neither life
nor property is safe. Hence invest
ments hold back-for there is nothing
so timid as money.
Military Rule Unwarranted.
Let 1t be borne in mind that no rea-
son has yet been given to the public
for the PRONUNCIATION of military rule
at Cripple Creek. We will not now
refer to the frenzied excitement that
followed that awful crime of June 6,
nor the extreme lengths to which both
citizens and the militia went imme-
dlately following it; but the public re-
calls that Governor Peabody announced
nearly four weeks ago that military
rule was ended, and that he stated it
boastfully. Then the public asks: Why
IS 1t not ended? Why have not the
reasons been given for it's continuance?
Why Is not the public taken into the
governors confidence? No answer be-
ing given, the public naturally frames
an answer, and this Is the "one a vast
number of the population have framed:
That it is for political purposes. That
the military are to remain In Cripple