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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 a Written 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. 3

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