The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-08-05
sHAcKLED COLORADO, IN FREE
AMERICA.
Memphis Commercial Appeal:

Memphis Commercial Appeal:
i. CoioIado, ike RUSSIA, may be des
scrlDed as an unlimited uespoUisn,
tempered by ASSASSINATION. But as tina
| Springfield republican points out,
Colorado Is now benind russia, for
the Gar has just ordered that persons
accused OF crimes against the Govern.
ment can be tried by the courts
The situation OF analrS in Colorado
is absolutely inconcelvable in free
country. Not only are people accused
OF crimes there denied their rlgnt
under the law, but people who are
accused OF no crime Whatever ara
arrested, kept In imprisonment with
out Trial or banlshed from their
homes.
In the original conflict between the
minels and the operators both have
been violators of the law. The trouble
was started, however, by the opera.
tors Some time ago the people OF
Colorado, by majority OF 4S,000,
voted an amendment TO the CQnstltu.
ton establishing an eight-hour day,
Both political parties favored 1t, and
a large majority OF the members of the
Legislature were pledged to 1t. When
1T came to passing the necessary enab,
ling act, the mine owners corrupted
sufficient NUMBER OF the Legislature
TO Srlt1e 1t, ana thus the amendment
Is harp in the air.
Tine miners nave retaliated by mob.
bling ana numbering some OF the non.
union men, and OF course there Is no
extenuaulon Tor these crimes. Inc
Governor, who IS a mine owner him.
self, has placed the mining distinct
unuer military rule, with AN addle.
pated ruttian Dy the name OF sherman
Bell In control. Under this reglmenr,a
mas been made against demo.
Cratic government, and every right tor
whlCn Americans have COMMENDED has
been suppressed. Here is list OF the
OulrageS committed:
NINE mas Deen closed because It
employed union miners, Though there
was no labor trouble IN it.
Inc mIlItary nave declared that no
man has rlgnt 10 belong to union,
ana clerks, expressmen and bakers
who belonged to their particular unions
nave been IOrced TO leave.
A certain well-known citizen who
.eceived the miners deposlts and took
,are OF them was fOrcIDly Danlshed
rom his home, and when, after
everal weeks, ne returned, he was
gain driven away by the soldiers.
free press has been suppressed, edi-
ors have been driven from their homes
nd their offices wrecked. Even in Den
er boycott has been started against
wo of che newspapers because they
7ould not sanction the high-handed pro-
eedngs of Gov. Peabody and his mill,
airy banditti.
Union men, against whom there were
o definite accusations, have been i'm
risoned ana driven from their familiea
nd their homes, and warned never to
ONE back.
Regularly elected judges and other OF,
GERS chosen by the people have been
iven the alternative of vacatlng their
ffices or being linched.
Liberty, in short, has been absolutely
oppressed, and the National Guard Ia
ow nothing but a lot of mercenaries 10
,e pay of mine owners and engaged IN
10 task OF suppressing American free.
len. Trial by jury has been abolished,
I'D the writ of habeas eorpus has been
appended. The spirit that animatea
le military ruffians now In control wac
ell voiced 10 the expression OF one OF
10 officers, who, when asked Ii he ives
IT acting 10 violation OF the Constitu.
On, said: ITO hell with the Constitu.
on."
And yet these things are not taking
ace in Darkest Africa, but In free
merica.