To a certain extent the charge was well founded, as the Western Federation of Miners had scattered many pictures of the American flag containing the following suggestive statements in the stripes :
(i) Is Colorado in America?
(2) Martial Law declared in Colorado.
(3) Habeas Corpus suppressed in Colorado.
(4) Free Press throttled in Colorado.
(5) BuUpens for union men in Colorado.
(6) Soldiers defy the courts in Colorado.
(7) Free Speech denied in Colorado.
(8) Wholesale arrests without warrant in Colorado.
(9) Union men exiled from homes and families in Colorado.
(10) Constitutional right to bear arms questioned in Colorado.
(11) Corporations corrupt and control administrations in Colorado.
(12) Right of fair, impartial and speedy trial abolished in Colorado.
(13) Citizens* Alliance resorts to mob law and violence in Colorado. Militia hired by corporations to break the strike in Colorado.
There is no doubt on earth but that each and everyone of these thirteen charges is true, and based on facts. The only reason these charges were printed on the stripes of the flag was, because serious accusations of this kind, inscribed on the emblem of liberty, were bound to attract the attention of th^. public to the unheard-of outrages.