The Delta independent., 1922-10-13

and we shall thus succeed in preserv-
ing to every man his rights under the
law, and shall at the same time keep
peace and order without loss, within
Colorado which is the aim of its citi.
| zens.
Sweets Position Defined.
Any candidate, every candidate
gives lip service to the doctrine of
law and order, but what the people
are interested in is not so much a
declaration in favor of that slogan
as to know how we propose to ac-
complish it and keep the government
functioning without violence. have
already outlined why my program is
in that regard Mr.. Sweet has also
undertaken to state his position. Boil
ed down to an irreducible minimum it
is simply this:
He will abolish the rangers.
The sheriff and his deputies, alone,
shall preserve law and order
When every other recourse has
have taken place he proposes to de-
clare martial law and call out the
militia.
Martial law and the militia can
only be invoked when civil govern
ment has failed and after law and
order have ceased to be. This is the
policy which Colorado and her sister
states have tried out and found want
ing. But assuming that Mr.. Sweet
uyiI1 hovo an opnorfupitv ooa;p IN
adopt this theory. we have right
to inquire whether he will be able
to put 1t in practice. Mr. Sweet in
his speech at Kiowa, on July 6, stated
that the sheriff of the county is re-
sponsible for law and order; that he
was for repeating the ranger law and
putting up to the sheriffs the task of
enforcing the law That he favored
'its enforcement by the militia only
when every other recourse has failed.'
1t is significant that Mr.. Sweet in
tends to call upon the national guard
only as last resort, and as he says,
when every other recourse has failed
But he has already gone up and down
the state advocating the turning OF
the armories of the national guard
into warehouses for the farmers and
in his Kiowa speech he characterized
those same armories as being "of nc
earthly use" If, therefore, the arm
cries are of. no earthly use as Mr.
Sweet insists, and when he turns them
into warehouses as he promises. where
will he recruit and train this national
guard whose aid he proposes to in
woke only in case of dire emergency
Will there are con there be a ma
tional guard to respond to chief ex
ecutive reasonably soon after his in
auguration to demolish the very place
where they are recruited, trained ant
made fit for their duties as soldiers
Mr.. Sweet must retract his state
ment that he will turn the armorie,
into warehouses and that the arm
ories are Of no earthly use If hi
proposes to have our young men en-
list for the very difficult and dan
gerous work Of strike duty. Thii
treatment of our national guard, thi
program with reference to their equip
ment and their housing is part an,
parcel of that same foolhardy ant
flabby pacifism which the American
: people renounced and overthrew dur
ing the great war. The program O
Mr.. Sweet for Colorado in the futur'
dovetails precisely into the program
of pacifism during the late conflict
Government Requires Il.
Under our present national defens
act the United States allots to Colo
RADIO 2,400 men to be recruited In tn
national guard, which shall be read.
at any time to augment the regula
army in time of emergency, and tn
United States furnishes all equipmen
and all pay for the national guar,
and its officers while attending drill
= or in training camps provided, how
ever, that the state must furnish Il