The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-14
FOR MOTHER JONES.
LIVELY SOCIALIST MEETING TO
AID WESTERN MINERS.

Chief Speaker Pitches Into Hearst. Com
pcrs and Helen Gould With Equal
FreedOm-says she's wiling TO he
HanEed-Others Plead for Prisoners.
The Socialists Of New York, 1900 OF them
gathered last night in Grand Central Palace
in a meeting Of protest against the arrest OF
President Meyer and Secretary Haywood
of the Western Federation OF Miners Tor
completely in the assassination OF ex-GoV'
~Steunenberg Of Idaho. The Socialists nave
a movement all over the country for the
SUD- ort Of these men and are raising funds
for their defence.
The meeting last night was enthusiastic
and ~incendiary. Mother Jones tore loose
and talked to "Mr. Policeman az she has
seldom talked before; and nearly every one
in public life, from Roosevelt TO Hearst. got
his. Hearst, in particular, received the
attention Of prolonged catcalls.
Hearst's turn came when Chairman
Fieldman, in starting the collectors going
for funds, mentioned that the blood
hounds Of the capitalistic press" had failed
to give due notice of the meeting.
Even that paper which proolaims in
large type that it is the friend Of the labor
ing class failed to do anything. You know
the paper 1 mean. The one owned by the
capitalist Hearst
aTraitor!" yelled q loud voice from the
audience.
He's worse than a t%raitor!' shouted
Fieldman. "A traitor has to be a friend
first In order 60 betray. He never was
He's a stool pigeon!' pursued the voice.
Hes worse" said the speaker. He's a
capitalist. He's one OF the enemies OF our
class. He's the leader in this conspiracy
Of silence
There were Misses and catoalls for Hearst
until Mother Jones rose and started the
cheering. Mother Jones stood In the posi-
ton Of a catcher waiting for the ball while
she told again the story o: Homestead ana
Of the other fights Of labor.
wood she cried. Why don't they hang
the gang of commercial robbers hat in one
night murdered six miners that never ylo-
lated the law2 When in 1900 they shot
Purcell in Shenandoah, why didn't they talk
OF hanging then? Why don't they talk OF
hanging the common commercial ROBBERS
who are killing the children in the factories
Of the 81 south2 When VII sha sherl1 - M bsnsin %Sr-
aWho was this fellow Steunenberg'
Why, up to a few years g l didn't know
there was such a Teller as Steunenberg on
earth. But l do know that sixty miners
have been blown to pieces IN the t penhh syg
somebody therep Oh, you bloodhounds OF
a ca~pitalistic press, put that down!
LET me tell you. The capitalists OF
to a banquet. And Meyer and Haywood
sent back the invitation. They said, We
already But they ask your Eastern
workers to the dinners Of the Civic FEEDER
alton Ino word in the language TO express
the scorn she put in hat last syllaoiel ana
"Gompers!" yelled a voice.
ooh, yes. Gompers is all right: He has
a right TO fill his stomach with Belmont II
oh, I tell you, Mr.. Policeman, we stand
in a different position now from where We
stood twenty years ago when they hanged
those poor fellows from the Haymarkee'
riots. We stand here to tell what vel
do if they say hang Meyer and Haywood
You didn't have the women organized then
but you bet your life we've got a revolution
ary body of women In America
She kept her audience laughing anc
yelling while she told of the Colorado strike
from her own point Of view, dwelling wltl
pride on the tmc it took six soldiers 10 Re'
her over the State line.
what do you think Of the gang OF COW
ards that they are? What towards. we are
that we don't lick the life out Of them-i'
took six of them to put one old woman on 6
train! You can overthrow the whole thint
wont do Il. Oh, you bet you life | know
YOU! But il YOU are afraid, III be with you
And you'll see old Roosevelt, that sent 200,
guns out to shoot us, take his union care
out Of his pocket and scratch his head ane
go to work. -,
Then l went to Utah, and met the, phil
anthropic Helen Gould's gang oil blood,
hounds. That was the time they took III
Door wretches out Of their tents at the 100
of the range and wouldn't give EN- time u
snow. l asked one of the towards how
he dared remember his mother when ne
took up a gun for the class that enslavec
him. and he told me that he did IT for % .
day. Imagine that rotten piece or carcass
saving that. But he had some decency
which was more than those that droV'
him in had. He said he had been IN Eng
land and South Africa doing the same dlrtI
work, and he had never seen men worst
treated than under the Stars and Stripes.
There weren't any Anarchists in Chicag
in 1886 when they murdered those four poo
fellows. The only Anarchists there eve
we're in the United States are the Unite
States courts, the United States ConEres
aren't any in the working class. II Their
, was, there wouldn't be any corporate
b~loodhounds left in the United States to-day
"Yes, Mr.. Policeman, grinning over ther
in the corner as II you tnouRnt i "d5 iuhi2
, | want to be in this battle, and II anybody
to be hung, I'll he hung, too; and I l &c.
want to take a couple OF fellers with me I
: show / amt a coward.
aYou capitalist bloodhounds from. Tn
papers, you put that in, ! want that felle
in Washington to see it to let him kno'
what l think
Morris Hillquit is an extreme Socialis
He has never been charged with conservf
tism before, but compared to Mother JON
he is safe and sane. He traced the fight
Colorado from it's beginning in 1893, whe
the Western Federation Of Miners organize
for the eight hour day. He took II dow
h through the Cripple Creek troubles, II
declaration OF martial law, and the crushin
Of the big strike.
But Meyer and Haywood went ahea
: fearlessly,- he said. 8 they had to b
h, removed-cruehed. The mine owners ha
e the machinery Of the State Of Colorao
ready and creased, They wanted only g
opportunity. That came in the assassini
ton OF ~Steunenberg. ,
1T all depends on the confession OF a sci
q confessed criminal and degenerate OF u
lowest type. This midnight arrest, tn
a e~xtradltion without q hearing, this man
q featured ev~idenoe--aye, even the murder