Show DENVER DYNAMITERS The Denver dynamiters seem to be In dead earnest in plying their hellish industry in-dustry They arc practicing and de velopiiiE business that u new to this countrya business of which we know only by reading accounts of the ex pio3iom iu the old world Within a wecl k or iwo attempts have been made to i wreck trains of the D R G railway and the dispatches this morning tell l of the wrecking by dynamite or giant powder of a barn belonging to a gentle nun who had refused to pay higher waKO to his employees than lie could I or felt able to pay With the account comes the suggestion lhat the people J are thinking of dealing with the scoundrels t scound-rels All they did once before through the agency of a vigilance committee com-mittee The vigilance committee was of inestimable service to Colorado in I early days as it was to others of the frontier Territories It took the place of the lawful authority which was powerless to assert itself and preserve order it was judge jury and executioner execu-tioner and while at times its decrees were harsh and their enforcement cruel in the main they were right though arrived ar-rived at and applied so irregularly The vigilantes were guilty of some crimes t but they were a terror criminals and made it possible for honest people to live Where there is law and where the regularly constituted authority of the State has the com rnnnity at its back to render all the assistance asked for in bringing the guilty to punishment and protecting protect-ing the innocent it would seem unncces sary and almost outrageous for the vigilance committee to assert itself and r yet if there were ever an occasion when Cudl would be preper for this effective i organization and authority to operate I j In the presence of authorized and 1 regularly appointed civil government it I Ss just such an occasion as the Denver dynamiters are creating What the vigilantes want to know is that a man I is guilty and they will not let technicalities I techni-calities and the cunning of lawyers pre Vent the due infliction of punishment they will carry into effect their decrees in a way not only to punish the guilty but also to strike terror into the hearts of others who may leaning towards the 1 side of the criminals The dynamiters I f arc among those entitled to neither sympathy nor consideration their i I mode of warfare IK hellish and they r fight against innocent and guilty alike h againstiriend and foe destruction All a railway train would hurt none of the men that the D a E G strikers want to injure the Cunningham and Burton explosions in the House of Commons Com-mons and the Tower of London injured only the innocentmen women and i children who had no more to do with I bringing about the condition of things to which Cunningham and Burton objected ob-jected than the latter had with direct i ing the course of the Thames t I It would be a scandal on the State of 1 f i Colorado were the citizens to organize a vigilance committee and wreak vengeance i ven-geance on the fiends who are using I dynamite and giant powder so recklessly reck-lessly and with stub apparent malice S Tout the scandal would be less odious than would be the fact that the dynamiters I 1 dyna-miters had wrecked a tram and killed irifioc t people against whom they t could hare no possible cause for grievance t1 griev-ance |