Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-17

Lnls conspiracy, one was injury to the Car
 rington Publishing company in attempt to
 lesson and injury it's business, another an
 attempt to injure it's employees and reduce
 them to want What would be the result of the
 attempts to injure if in their several in-
 stances the intentions are carried out2 The
 press that had printed the records of the
 budding life of the people of New
 Haven and recorded the death of her citizens
 would be stopped and the great business in-
 terests owned by the corporation, consisting of it's good will earned by long years of work
 and the expenditure of large amounts of
 money, would be rendered worthless thing;
 the laborers in it's employ would be com-
 pelled to go out into the world as beggars
 and see themselves and families suffer from
 want and privation through the persecution of the union. This is the intent of the com bination entered into against the COURIER. Can any think that these accused or anyone else could have right to carry out suca purpose or effect such a result, because demand was made upon them to do what they had legal right to refuse to doa There can be but one answer to that proposition In combining to effect the purpose planned against the COURIER they were planting the seed of riot | and anarchy. It only needed such soil upon l which such seed was planted to produce | full growth of riot, bloodshed or incendia- \ ism, or perhaps in quiet community like 1 New England, more dwarfed and less car- | gerous growth It were best to kill the viper \ in the egg, says the State or Connecticut, before it hatches to more poisonous growth.
 | Now have we proved our easel Did these men combine and agree among themselves to | injure and destroy the business of the Car ! rington Publishing company, or to inJure 1t so far as to compel them to comply with the | urgent demand made2 No intelligent man | who has listened to the evidence in this 1 case can doubt for a moment that such was | the object of the conspirators l For what other purpose have \ these men done the acts done by the ! accused2 Why this demand by that Lord 1 High Executioner Hunie which preceded the l declaration of the boycott? Those who de- ! clared that war and by their acts and with | their cooperation helped to carry it on, those l secret organizations, the Trades Council, | which seems to be sort of senate or execu- ! tive board of the several unions, all were l combined and their representatives busy and | active to effect some purpose, and no other IS ! disclosed by the evidence or consistent with | the facts in this case than the injury charged l as intended against the COURIER and it's em- | ployes. That the various societies and their members were engaged in and urging on this \ boycott was well known to the public of this | community before a witness opened his ! mouth upon this trial, and that public is waiting for the verdict of this jury, anxious | to learn whether or not their property and business is to be subjected to be controlled by any body of men against their ! will and their business ruined at the dicta- tion of the boycott If these accused are not found guilty what will be the result in the community? One class of people will be arrsyed against another; one organization commands one thing and another demands another, and the penalty of disobedience is the destruction of business and the ruin of the citizen. If the law is to permit this con- dition of things to go on, even in our peace ful city, it is not too much to believe that riot and bloodshed might be the result.
 The speaker further considered the point and proceeding said It is said by the de- fense that no demand for money was made upon the COURIER. In the war of the boy colt, as in any other war of conquest, the de- mand for indemnity only follows the subjec-
 tion of the conqueror; Germany did not de-
 mand from France the payment of an in demnity until France was prostrate at her
 feet. But is it not so? After it was de-
 clared by Glidden that the COURIER was to
 be boycotted in the same manner that the
 News was, from whom even at the
 last moment a penalty was demanded, can't
 be doubted that such was the intent after 1t
 had been said by this combination that the
 COURIER would be compelled to pay the 50
 cent assessment laid upon it's members to
 carry on the boycott, can it be doubted for a
 moment that it was the intention to demand
 of the COURIER the payment of money or in
 the case of the News? The time has rot come
 for that demand to be made. The COURIER
 has refused and still refuses to yield and
 with manly independence will refuse to yield
 when it is denied that protection which the
 law owes it and is then with ruin staring it in
 the face compelled to submit to the tyranny
 which it detests. Whether that time shall
 come rests, to some extent at least, in the
 hands of this jury. As I said in opening,
 the case is one of great importance to the
 public, and your duty to the State and the
 citizens of the State requires 8 care
 ful consideration of and just disposition
 of this case without fear or favor. That duty
 I am satisfied you will faithfully discharge
 and when you have done it you
 will carry it with you pleasant memory
 through life, for he indeed is blessed who
 carries with him the memory of duties well
 performed, but he who swerves him from
 that true course that leads him to the right bears with him also memories to plague and
 curse him in the after years. With this,gen-
 tlemen leave the case in your hands and
 permit me to thank you for your patient at tention.
 Recess was here slken until afternoon.