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Show r oo GREEN RIVER HAS BEEN EXONERATED. Green River, Wyoming, is not half as wild and vroolly as painted. Tho citizens citi-zens of the Wyoming railroad town did not drive out eighteen families of col- ored people and the eighteen families did not arrive v In Ogden, as reported. Let us be thankful that the asper-slons asper-slons cast on the people of Green River Riv-er -were based simply on the wild fancy of some one laboring to be sensational. sensation-al. It has been years since the west has experienced a race riot. Rock Springs drove the Chinese miners from tho coal pits and out of Chinatown, and a pursued the Orientals into the hills, where the mob's fury was not appeased ap-peased until scores of helpless coolies were put to death. But that was forty years ago, and there were reckless, desperate characters in the mining districts dis-tricts In those days, and great feeling had been worked up over the attempt of the mine owners to beat down the scale of wages by employing Chinese cheap labor. The hatred which was directed di-rected against the struggling Chinese should have reached higher up and brought to an accounting those who were seeking to drive out white labor. We are pleased to note that the people peo-ple of Green River have resented the charge that they set upon the families fami-lies of colored residents, because by their resentment they disclose their aversion for "a crime of that naturo and align themselves with the defenders defend-ers of Innocent men, -women and children. |