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Show SHERMAN BELL'S OPINION. "Military necessity recognizes no laws, either civil or social," says Adjutant Adju-tant Goneral Sherman A. Bell of Colorado Colo-rado in his biennial report mado on Thursday. Reporting tho use of tho troops In the mining camps during the two years of Governor Poabody's administration ad-ministration the adjutant general uses tho following langungo: "As military commander, tho authority author-ity nnd dignity of tho stato of Colorado Colo-rado woro at all times uphold and as-riortod, as-riortod, in seeking to ameliorate a condition con-dition of dynamite, murder and assassination, assas-sination, under tho guise of labor, that was intolerable "Autocratic In name nnd speculative In Its Incorporated 'trusts,' not tho unionism recognized to associate with TortJnjyLltnpriTrcyn.li-tlnt"MndIti9' of tffo honest working people of tho state, tholr wives and families' hotter-ment, hotter-ment, but flro-eatlng Socialists and Annrchlstsanned by an un-American press, tho wholo outfit will somo day causo tho lawmakers to both suppress and banish beyond tho stato lino, such notion becoming n 'citizen's necessity by tho lawmnkers and necessary for tho protection nnd welfaro of tho Indl-vldunl Indl-vldunl who labors for wages, whom Individually and collectively I havo tho highest respect and regard for, as well as for their happiness and prosperity." |