Sunday February 6, 1916
From the United Mine Workers Journal: John M. O'Neil on Colorado Justice
From the Journal of February 3rd:
The Triumph of Law and Order" ---—
IT WAS NO CRIME TO KILL AN ORGANIZER. (By John M. O'Neil.) -----
Nearly all the daily journals of the State of Colorado have frequently attempted to defend the fair name of the State and have declared that it was only the pen of the muck-raker that has traduced the reputation of a commonwealth whose people believed in the majesty of the law. The "kept press" has howled with indignation when men, permeated with the spirit of justice, have raised their voice in denunciation of wrong garbed in the veneer of law and order.
The men who have voiced their protest against law being daggered to death and who have dared to demand that human rights should be held sacred, have been branded as demagogues, and their assault upon the official conduct of men whose oath of office bound them to respect and revere the constitutional rights of citizenship, has been stamped as an appeal to the "mob." The man who has had the courage of his convictions and dared to express those convictions which reflected upon the integrity of men in public life in whose custody was placed the authority to uphold the law and deal out justice, has been pilloried by the subsidized pens of journalistic prostitutes, and the mortgaged Demosthenes on the rostrum with Judas money in his pocket, has felt called upon to pauperize the English language to find words to defend the rape upon law and the miscarriage of justice that have made the very name of Colorado a synonym for Corruption.