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Show SO ROBBERY. A fair exchange is no robbery. A few months eince when Colorado was energetically urging the completion of the Indian treaty which provided for the deportation of her Southern Utes to Utah, the Utah sheepmen were con temdating a counter deportation, that of her sheep to Colorado. All of, or nearly all of her sheep were to be sent over the line into Colorado. This would have been only a fair exchange and might have been completed without with-out referring the matter to Uncle Sam at all. But the Colorado people called luBtily upon the government to carry I out the provisions of the Ute treaty. Utah met the clamor quietly but sternly and the consequence is the UteB stay in their old haunts, but the sheep are quietly and surely going into Colorado. This is the true law of compensation, com-pensation, for their unfranknesa and for their misrepresentations as to the trder of the Utes for their own deportation. depor-tation. There is one powerful and important im-portant difference. Our sheep will be taxed in Colorado and will yield a great revenue to that good commonwealth, common-wealth, but her lousy Utes might in kabit Utah until the very crack of doom but not a cent would ever have been realized from them. Now let every true U Ionian rejoice that no Southern Ute will ever set loot in Utah uy Denest or tne lederal government, and thousands of Utah's sheep will peacefully nip the nutricious grasses of the slopes of the continental divide, the valleys of the White and the Un-compahgre, Un-compahgre, for ages to come. In this little matter Utah has seen her adversary's adver-sary's bluff and gone her one better in a very graceful way. |