Once established. it soon grew strong and lusty. Similar conditions are today paralyzing the governmental machinery of a great State to such an extent that it voluntarily abdicates its functions and surrenders the temporary exercise of them to the Federal Government. Wecan now see that it was a grave mistake to permit the sacrifice of the rights of those unfortunate immigrants. and that it would be not only a grave mistake but a crime to ignore the rights of these Colorado strikers of today because they are Greeks or Armenians or other foreigners who are alien to our ways and probably can not speak our language. When the rights of any man in America are invaded or sacrificed the rights of every man in America are endangered. Those who supinely look on while their neighbors rights are being violated can not hope to long preserve their own. The outrages which resulted from the importation of contract laborers brought about a salutary change in the law and resulte d in theabsolute prohibition of such immigration. But the change in the immigration laws did not change the practice as to the improper issuance of injunctions or improper punishments for alleged contempts. The camel had succeeded in getting his nose under the tent. Fortunately. perhaps. the evil kept on growing until public attention was riveted upon it and until the necessity for action became apparent to all rightminded. rightthinking people.
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