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Show Editor Mail Box. 1 havo read with some degreo of interest, tho artlolo by "Subscriber," lu tho Record of recent dato, and would hero say that 1 would liko to bo nblo to look at matters and thiuga as optimistically ns ho does. Apparently Apparent-ly bo has read a groat deal, and hns not wasted muoh of his tlmo on tho street corners. I opine, howover, that tho subject ho dlscusaoa upon has only been oxamlend on one side, tho popular "sldo. Llko ''Subsoribor" I too hare bud tho misfortuuo to read n llttlo in tho "Appeal to Reason," aud uow let that rascnlly paper go, and lot mo appeal to his reason. Lot mo aBk him to do as I havedono: I sent to Washintgon D. 0. and asked tho Hon. Commissioner of labor to soud mo n copy of "Labor Disturbances in Colorado," n book of nbout 350 pages, dealing with the attitude of (tho Westoru Federation of Miners,,, and the Mino Ownors Association.) Now, if this fiooond Daniol come to judgement will read carefully, ho will flpd oub that tho othor follow might bo tbi hotter off for a llttlo BympnUjy, BjkaeofthH tlmo. Sub-sorlbor Sub-sorlbor saysKjiBympvjtht should be, tlmo. I ajjjWning'to'say tjaoal'vi the tlmo, mfi I can say, thank tho Lord, thai I am not in sympathy with suoh officers of tho law as Colorado hns boon oursod with for a few years past. Thoro has been so many crimes oommittod by thoso officers of tho law, that it makes ono blush for humanity. "Ah, LIborty," said Madamo Roland, when sbo laid hor boautiful hoad on tbo oxooutionerB' blook, "how many orimos nro committed com-mitted in thy nnmo." Colorado has furnishod history with n good many crimes oommittod in tbo namo of law. History is said to repont itself. Subsoribor cannot possibly bo ignorant of the fact that there was an nrmy sont hero to Utah to annihilate a handful of pooplo bocauso thoy woro not popular, and as a matter of course, by "tho oflloors of tho law," and that a worthy gontlomau, whom tho pooplo of Utah or nt least a groat many of them, hold in high estimation, estima-tion, was harrassod by "tho officers of tho law," and brought boforo tho courts as many as 30 times, without being able to bring any crimo homo to him, and subsoribor sympathizes with tho officers "overy timo" ; does ho? If Moyor and Haywood can ho provon guilty of tho murder of Stuuonborg it will bo worth millions of dollars to tho Mino Owners' Aesoaiation, and result lu tho entiro disruption of tho Western Federation Federa-tion of Miners, ns woll as an enormous loss to them. A DEMOCRAT, |