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Show Massacre of the Innocent , ' BHBHBHBHBHB m.h.,. HBVB Tho following editorial Is from the HBVB , Denver Rocky Mountain News of HBVH April 22, the loading dally nowspa- HHflB per m Colorado. Read what even a HBpl newspaper supporting chpltallsm lias HBVR to say of tho bloody massacro of HBVB Innocent women and children, and Hj dccldo what you aro going to do. LLLV Tko your stand today: HBVJ ,Tho"horrnr of tho shambles at I.ud- HBhJ low In orcrwbolmlng. Not since the HBVJ days v;lici pitiless red men wroaked HHhJ venrjcsjico upon intruding frontiers- HBVj and upon their women and children HBVJ men and upon their womon and chll- HHHj dren has this western country been HHVJ stained wlUi so foul a doed. HHhJ Tho details of the massacro are HHHj horrible. Mexico offers no barbar- HHVJ ity so base as that of tlio murder of HHSv defenseless women and children by HHB the mino guards in soldiers clothing. HHB LIko whitened sepulchres wo boast rf HHB American civilization with this in- HHB famous thing at our very doors. Hu- HBVJ erta murdered Madoro, but oven Hu- HHHJ ' erta did not shoot an Innocent little HHHJ ' boy seeking wator for his mothnr who HBS lay III. Villa is a barbarian, but In. HHHJ bis maddest excess Villa has not HHY turned machlno guns on Imprisoned HRV women and children. Whoro Is the HHV outlay so for beyond tho palo of hu- HHH man kind as to burn the tent ovor BBBB i ( tho heads of nursing mothers and H helpless little babes? m Out of this Infamy one fact stands H clear. Machine guns did tho mur- H der. The machlno guns wero In tho H, hands of mine guards, most of whom H vera also members of the state mil- j Itla. It was private war, with the B: wealth of the richest man in the H world behind tho mine guards. i Once and for all time the right to 1 1 1 employ armed guards must bo taket away from private individuals and corporations. To tho state, and to tho Btato alone, belongs tho right to maintain peace. Anything else is anarchy. Private warfare Is tho only sort of anarchy tho world has ovor known, and armed forces employed by private interests havo introduced tho only prlvato wars of- modem times. This' practlco must bo stopped. stop-ped. If tho stato laws aro not strong enough, then tho federal government must stop In. At any cost, prlvato, warfafo must bo destroyed. . Who are these mine guards to whom is entrusted tho sovereign right to massacro? Four of the fraternity were electrocuted recently fa New York. They are tho gunmen of the groat cities, the offscourings of humanity, hu-manity, whom a bitter heritage has made tho wastrels of, tho world. Warped by the wrongs of their own upbringing, they know no justice and they care not for mercy. They are hardly human in intelligence and not as high in the scale of kindness as domestic animals. Yet they are not the guilty ones. The blood of tho Innocent women and children rests on the hands of those who for tho greed of dollars employed em-ployed such mon and bought 3uch machines of murder. Tho world has not been hard upon these; theirs has been a gontlo upbringing. Yet they reck not of human life when pecuniary pecun-iary interests aro Involved. Tho blood of the women and children, chil-dren, burned and shot like rats, cries nloud from the ground. Tho great state of Colorado has failed them. It has betrayed them. Her militia which should have been the Impartial pro tectors of the peace, havo acted as I murderous gunmen. Tho machlno guns which played in tho darkness upon tho homes of humble men and women, whoso only Crime was an effort ef-fort to earn nn honest living, were bought and paid for by agents of tho mine owners. Explosive bullets have been used on children. Does tho bloodiest page In the French revolution revo-lution approach this in hideousness? In the name Of humanity, in tho namo of civilization, we have appealed appeal-ed to President Wilson. His ear heard tho wall of the innocent, outraged and dying in Mexico. Cannot the president presi-dent give heed to tho sufferings of his own people? Think, Mr. President, of tho captain cap-tain of tho strikers, Louis Tlkas, whoso truce with the gunmen was ended with his murder. Think of tho fifty-one shots which wero passed pass-ed through tho strike leader. Tlnk of his body, which has lain exposed since his Infamous killing. Then, with that vast power which has been committed com-mitted to you as tho executive of a great nation, attend to the misery wrought by an anarchistic lust for dollars. Without your speedy aid the poor and the needy, betrayed by tho state, may be slaughtered to the last' smiling babe. |