In the case just ended the prosecuting officer was efficient. His record is one of success. It must be assumed that he has done his utmost with the law as it is to find and punish those on whom the guilt of the slaughter rests. If respect for law is to grow and not diminish, these defeats of justice, humiliating to society and repugnant to the individual conscience, must stop. There are only the dead, and the authorities will forget the case as speedily as possible.
Capital can commit no crime when it is in pursuit of profits.
Of course, it is well known that those who were killed in the Triangle disaster are only part, and a small part, of those murdered in industry during the passing year. There are only 147 incinerated and mangled. But there were thousands of others who met a similarly agonizing fate during this year of 1911. The whole capitalist system is based upon such unspeakable systematic murder, and those who defend the capitalist system defend those murders. Perhaps the men on the jury had no thought of condoning murder, but that is what they did.