The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18
engine was sent back and Knight prepared
and Baldwin sent by wire requisition to Gov

engine was sent back and Knight prepared
and Baldwin sent by wire q requisition to Gov
ernor Markham for militia.
Under the law there is but one case in which
the Marshal can call upon the militia. 1t is
when he is unable to serve process-i. e. war
rants, supenas or other orders of a court. In
his requ1sition to the Governor, Baldwin
falsely stated that he was unable to serve pro-
cess, and on the stand in the strikers case adj
mltted that he had not at that time single
process in his hands, SO he got the militia
through false pretenses.
But the militia came, and the next day oc-
Cured the affair at the depot Most of you
have an idea that the strikers resisted the
militia. Far from it. There was simply an I'M
mense crowd OF ten or twelve thousand people,
VINO came to see what was going to happen.
Naturally in the crowd, women and children
with the rest pushed toward the front, and
then 1t was that the octopus wanted the militia
to fire. General Dimond was too good and
brave man to order his men to fire on that
detenseless mass of humanity, and placed the
responsibility with Mr.. Baldwin. Had Bald
win taken company of men around to the
rear he would have had the depot in five
minutes, but he had what he wanted, the
militia had been resisted and paved the way
Tor the regular troops.
But the railroad was as yet beaten-the men
would not come to terms and therefore some
with the men. Something had to be done.
NOW, at this point the men had won by their
good judgment, good order and by abstaining
from from deeds OF violence. There was. just the
TURN the tide the other way-just one awful
deed OF violence; one terrible act of crime
something that would instantly horrify and
shock the sympthetic people. 1t was the only
thing that would save the octopus and the one
thing that would ruin the men. Both recog-
nlzed It. The men steadfastly refused to do
anything wrong and the railroad could not
bullyrag them into it..
!, There was but one thing that would enable
the octopus to reach the same end. If some
awful catastrope would but occur that could
Qf ha Apnn Pail
Union the effect would be the same as though
IL was the act of some its men.
Inc catastrophe came, and from the wreck
OF railroad train on July IL there were taken
Tue deau Doules OF five unfortunate men, whose
ueatn was Inc event that at last turned the
tloe, snatched victory from the jaws of defeat
ana mace the old monopoly once more tri-
umphant. The strikers were charged at once,
everybody knew they were guilty, they were
tried and condemned without hearing arrests
were made, the battle was over, and the rail-
ROAD secured all 1t wanted as the result of the
horrible death of five innocent men.
The first thing we seek In ferreting out the
mystery OF an unknown crime is the presence
OF motlVe. back OF that prospective benefit,
anu IN thls case who was the beneficiary of
that awful crime, and before its commission
fair? ="
You can form your own opinion. 1t is a fear
Iui tnlng TO charge any one with murder. We
may say man would lie, would steal rob or
commit arson, but murder-no! The line is
drawn there And yet when a man has murder
III MS heart when we know that he has given
away before TO the murdercus passion and with
mahce aforethought killed another, the line
may fade away
Ihen on this question of mere probability.
VINO would be most likely to have wrecked
tnat Train? The brave men who gave I'D their
sustenance TO aid their struggling brothers in
the toWp OF Pullman, who stood so firmly and
unnlnchlngly by principle they loved, or the
colrupl monopoly around whose history dances
tne specters OF the murders at Mussel Slough.
ahu whose superintendent sent kilograms to
secuonmen to tear up rails that would ditch
SraIhs ana huri to eternity two train-loads of
murder lurk? ~
But In the excitement and amid the whirl of
sensauon ana OF calumny, the sober judgment
VI iie masses az was cast aside, and on the i'm
P Pun; VI the moment created lasting impress
sion s rom whose injustice these men have suf-
t ana mas aided their heartless oppressors
" cpiu,frsecule, blacklist and almost starve.
neIl cuiprlt must be found aud poor
10y arunken man, with loud mouth
charged win words of dynamite. was brought
inso play a small boy educated as a witness.
W.. NE poy s"9re the man was guilty; the man
WIS lIleo, nalf defended, convicted and SEN
eennGeu, anu now rests under the shadow of the
galloWs for anothers crime
On the strikers trial in the Federal Coz, RI
ms WhoIe affair was ventilated. Sherburne,
sne Doy, sald that Worden hired team that
morning., ana with six other men went out to
d polnt near the trestle; the men got out. he
nearo an explosion the menIcame back and he