July 4, 1914
The
Armed Citizen
“THE RIGHT OF THE
PEOPLE TO KEEP AND
BEAR ARMS SHALL
NOT BE INFRINGED.”
—Constitution of
the United States
TRINIDAD
COLORADO
aWritten and Published by
JOHN MURRAY
at Trinidad, Colorado
What is it that has shaken the state govern-
ment of Colorado into a nonentity?
What is it that has rocked the federal gov-
ernment into action as drastic in Colorado as it
has taken in Mexico?
What is it that has caused the President of
the United States to supplant the rule of Am-
mons with regular troops as he has supplanted,
with regular troops, the rule of Huerta?
Was it the killing of miners by gunmen and
militia?
No. Miners have been killed in this fashion
in Colorado and elsewhere many times before
without a president considering it necessary to
intervene with federal troops.
Was it the awful manner of death of the
women and children at the Ludlow camp?
No; for workers’ wives aud babes have per-
ished in holocausts before without the chief of
a nation lifting his finger.
Look at it as you will, the thing that has
stirred the federal government to action is the
gun the gun in the hands of the common
people.
And what right have the common people to
guns at all?
Answer that—answer it to the satisfaction of
the common people—and the rule of the gun-
men of capitalism will end as quickly as it
ended in Ludlow when the workers armed and
shot their way to law, order and peace.
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