The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-13
ANARCHY IN COLORADO.

Presidents come and presidents 60, but the
great republic-freighted with the hopes of the hui
man race for hberty-goes on forever" SO spake
Champ Clark, addressing the Democratic nominee
for president at Esopus on Wednesday. The senti-
ment sounds well. 1t would be applauced every
where but in state of the great republic. That
state is Colorado.
To prove it, we have only to review the events
of the past week or two. Governor Peabody with
drew the state troops from the disturbed zone In
proclamation announcing the restoration of law
and order, in which self adulation and apology were
strongly mixed with deceit, he pretended to turn
to the sherifs and courts the machinery of gov
ernment conspicuousy maladmnstered by his
grand vizier, Adjutant General Bell. Of course
denunciation of the Western Federation of Miners
sweetened the proclamation to the palate of the
citizens alliances and mine owners associations
OF course too the chiefs of the federation came out
in equally bitter denuncation of the governor But
paper bullets of little consequence. Facts count
Did Governor Peabody really restore law and
order and leave both to the administration of the
civil arm of the government? He pretended to do
so, and said he had done so. But find the law and
orderhe restored in Cripple Creek and Victor to be,
not the kind established by the state and federal
constitutions, not the kind administered through
courts and court officers but the kind set up by the
Citizens. Alliance, the Mine Owners association
and thewhite capperS AT first blush this looks like
strange, mcongruous combination of law makers
and law breakers. Ordinarily, when citizens come
together, they represent the responsibility the NOR
atty of the town. Ordinarily when mine owners
come together it is for purposes other than defiance
of law or to wreak vengeance. Nowhere else will
you find such combination like this Colorado COM
bination else Champ Clark would not utter that
sentiment in his speech at Esopus. And Governor
Peabody is in active sympathy with this combina-
ton, and has been all along. Let him crack his
whip. We defy him to deny it.
Here few instances of the restoration of
law and order in Cripple Creek-which we pick
from the daily press;
w. J. Donnelley, one of the leading business men
OF Victor, and who at time mayor of that
city, spent most of the day in Cripple Creek. Wher-
ever he went, deputy sherifs with him so that
no violence might be offered On yesterday afternoon
he was ordered to leave the district by number of
citizens and this he intends to do at a later date
For some weeks past he has been arranging his bust
ness with that end in view.
The employees the Dillon mine. some thirty
seven in number who ordered to take out cards
with the Mine Owners association or leave the dis
trlct, have not decided what course they will pursue
1t is known that a number of them prefer moving
rather than surrender their W. f. NJ cards Several
however will acquiesce in the demand that has been
made from them
Think of former mayor and substantial bust
ness man ordered out of town like common va
grant, because he sympathized with organized labor
struggling for shorter hours in the bowels of the
earth! Think of miners compelled to surrender
their union cards to the mine owners upon pain of
discharge; not only dismissal, but deportation from
the district Of all the lawless acts committed by
union strikers and boycottets9 acts CONDEMNED by
the honest and fairminded everywhere, none exceed