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Show ALL WRONG. Colorado has no right to banish any of her pe6-ple. pe6-ple. Every state should protect its innocent citizens cit-izens and punish its own offenders convicted of wrong doing. Until convicted they have a right to the assumption that they are innocent, but neither in the civil nor crimnial code is there a provision to banish men on suspicion. Moreover, it is not just. Contagious diseases are quarantined untj the contagion passes. It is for the State where the contagion breaks out to care for the sick and to bury the dead. The same principle should be invoked in-voked in Colorado. It should deal -exclusively I with its criminal classes. There is still another reason for it It is inconceivable that a great organization, many members of whkh have wives and children to feed and clothe, are all criminals, and with all the men under arrest, with good detective work and shrewd attorneys, it would be possible to sift the criminals from the great mass, to convict and punish them. The situation situa-tion in Colorado is due to many causes. A legislature legis-lature broke its implied promise, and defeated the will of the people in refusing to pass a law which the people desired to have passed. A venal partisan par-tisan and demagogue press encouraged the violence, vio-lence, corrupt politicians, primary heelers and corrupt civil officers from sheriffs up to judges, have given aid and comfort to lawlessness, playing play-ing into the hands of the malcontents who have determined to have their way or bring anarchy upon the state. Now It is the duty of Colorado to grapple with her trouble and not to shift any part of it upon any other state. And the way to settle the trouble is to hold all who are under suspicion where they can be called- upon until the prime movers can be sifted out and dealt with. "With that done the rest will be harmless. Indeed they will be the safest men to employ for with their late iexperience they will hesitate before be-fore precipitating another trouble. It is not to Colorado's credit to send men against whom there is nothing but suspicion out of the state and to dump them on the unsettled domain of another state. They were guilty or innocent. If the latter, they havs just as much right to live in Colorado as any other citizen of that state has: If the former, then It Is Colorado's Colo-rado's place to try, convict and punish them. Liberty is worthless except that it is liberty un der the law, and the great need of Colorado is to show the men who would breed anarchy there that it must not be, but that the law must be the basis of all dealings among citizens and between the gttizens and thetstn,te. Hence, even while the mfiitary are in control the trials should be by civil courts and they should go on until all men are impressed with the fact that while guilty men are not safe for a moment, innocent men have nothing to fear. So the organization should be sifted in the way provided by law, so that when it is all over the wildest anarchist would be impressed with the belief that his way is not the best way. |