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Show KEEP THEM AWAY FROM UTAH I ' The promise of Gen. Bell of Colorado that the next tralnload of undesirable characters to be deported will come to Utah Is one which the public of this Slate would with great content see him break. As we nay below, in speaking of the deportation to Kansas, Kan-sas, that Is an unfriendly, mean business. busi-ness. People who are undesirable In Colorado aro pretty sure to be undesirable undesir-able In Kansas, Utah, "Wyoming, New Mexico, or wherever else they may be sent. The conditions that render these men what they urc were Colorado condl tions, and If those men arc lawless, turbulent, and obnoxious, It Is Colorado Colo-rado that has made them. so. If they formed a consplraoy against tho mine operators, elected their own tools to office of-fice so that the enforcement of the law against violence and terrorism committed com-mitted by themselves and their supporters sup-porters was impossible; If they are, as .charged, the real cause of all the trouble, and the Instigators If not the? perpetrators of the dreadful murders tthat have shocked civilization there, the people of Colorado are the ones to deal with those men; for it was only by their sufferance that these things were done, and the evils and horrors mado possible, as charged. It Is tho indifference, sympathy or corruption of the people among whom these things were done that led up by gradual steps In crime to the doing; and it is just that the people who countenanced coun-tenanced those steps from the first should deal with the results brought about. The people of Utah will most certainly object to Colorado's ridding herself of an clement which Colorado has made what it Is, and dumping the crowd, or any portion of It, within our borders. Whatever is vicious, lawless, or murderous mur-derous In the deported men whom Colorado Is sending forth Is the growth ! of Colorado, from an evil seed. Now let Colorado deal with that growth and not Indecently unload It upon her neighbors. Additional friction will be caused between be-tween Kansas and Colorado by the events of the past day or two. These States wcro - already at loggerheads over tho water of the Arkansas river, Colorado using it for irrigation and Kansas suing to have It let alone so that her citizens can have their use of It, enjoyed front the early settling of the arid part of the State. And now the dumping of scores of miners Into Kansas by Colorado causes a loud remonstrance by Kansas, more particularly particu-larly If these men al e, as Colorado officials offi-cials claim, lawless and law-defying persons. In this Kansas seems to be clearly within her rights; Colorado has no business to banish her lawless element apd dump them on her neighbors. neigh-bors. If they have committed any offense they should be punished; If not, they should be acquitted or nt most put under bonds for their good behavior, beha-vior, as the law provides. It Is an unlawful un-lawful and urtnclghborly act to banish lawless men and Indict them upon other communities. Colorado should deal wllh her own criminals or those suspected of being criminals. Other States don't want them. |