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Show Criiisi ra for Col ralo OlfidtU. c The 5ieWYork Independent 'finds justification for the miners' of -Colorado in resorting to strikes gad violence, because the Legislature had failed to .do Its duty. . But at the same time it holds that the State authorities have used means and methods in dealing with the strike troubles that are abhorrent to civilization-It says; V . , "On the Other hand, it seeins to us that there has - ' been much In the action of the State . authorities I which is a, variance with the rales of civilization. Force has been 6sed without dignity and sometimes without justice or decency. The use of force was undoubtedly required, but it was possible so to employ em-ploy it that the course of the authorities would inspire in-spire and deserve the respect of disinterested and . civilized persons in other States." The acts of the Governor and his officers have too often suggested despotism and tyranny. We have been accustomed to think of Coloradd as ft State in which intelligence and due regard for the settled procedure of law have displaced the lawlessness of the frontier. This wholesale herding of men in 'bullpens,' in many instances in-stances merely .on suspicion; this deportation of citizens cit-izens without a hearing to desolate regions' in ad-Joining ad-Joining States these, are practices of which' a proud and intelligent commohwealtli should be ashamed. Does Colorado, confess that she has no courts in which these seventy-flre or; even two hundred suspected sus-pected men can be tried? And the local organizations organiza-tions of citizens that are assisting In these deportations, deporta-tions, that have in the recent past deported maily residentswithout the aid of troops, and that are now proscribing any man who belongs, to n labor union in any industry is not their tyranny as great ti tint of the miners' union itself V ... : v - . - ' |