Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-03-30
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haze uttered such reasonable words
as have been attributed to him by the
Eastern press
1t is said that in referring to tho
arrest of Meyer and Haywood, he used
this language:
1t is foul plot; damnable con.
spracy; hellish outrage.
The Governors OF Idaho and Colo.
RADIO say they have proof to convict
They are brazcn falsiiiers and venal
villains, the miserable tools OF the mine.
uwncrs who. themselves, il anybody
does, deserve the gibbcts.
Meyer, Haywood and their comrades
had no more to do with the assassination
OF SteunenberS then had; the charge
is 4 CHASTITY lie, a criminal calumnv and is
only an excuse to murder men who are
too rigidly honest to betray their trust
and too courageous to 5ucculnb to threat
and intimidation.
Labor leaders that cringe before the
plutocrarv and do its bidding are aIoth.
eosized those that refuse must be foully
murdered.
Personally and intimately do know
Mover, Haywood, Pettbone, st. John
! and their official co-workers, and / will
stake my life on their honor and integ-
| rity; and that is precisely the crime for
which, according to the words of the
Shiny sleuth' who worked up the case
against them, they shall never leave
Idaho alive
well, by the gods, if they don't, the
Governors Of Idaho and Colorado and
their masters from Wall street, New
York, to the Rocky mountains had bet
ter prepare to follow them.
Nearly 20 years ago the capitalist
tyrants put some men to death for
standing up for labor.
They are now going to try it again.
Let them dare.
There have been 20 years OF revolu-
tionary education, agitation and organi-
cation since the Haymarket tragedy, and
if an attempt is made to repeat it, there
will be revolution and will do all in
my power to precipitate it.
If they attempt to murder Mover,
Haywood and their brothers, million
! revolutionists, at least, will meet them
with guns.
They have done their best and their
worst to crush and enslave us. Their
politicians have betrayed us, their
courts have thrown us into Jail without
trial and their soldiers have shot our
comrades dead in their tracks.
| LET them dare to execute their devil
ish plot and every State in this Union
will resound with the tramp of revolu.
! ton"
1t is with regret that all true Amer.
leans will find themselves compelled
to reverse their opinion of the sup.
posedly gentle and clean personal life
OF the leader Of the American Railroad
Union, in 1894, but if the confession oil
Steve Adams be true, his present feel
ings have undergone radical change
and he has blossomed forth into a
rank anarchist. Adams is held in the
Idaho penitentiary in connection with
the Steunenberg assassination, and in
an open confession he declares that be
had been ordered by Meyer to destroy
a trainload of " scabs" with Greek FIRE,
and that he (Moyer) had supplied him
with several bottles OF the internal
stuff to accomplish that work, during
the fall Of 1903, when the mine. owners
were. chipping non.union men from
the CGur d'Alenes and other districts.
He states fur Their that he only aban.
doned the task from the fact that he
found the trains so packed with people
who did not belong to the prescribed
class that his resolution failed him.
Meyer he alleges bought him ticket
for Pocatello, and instructed him to
watch every train and when he had
found a carload of "scabs" to hurl q
bottle of the inflammable explosive
through window as it passed through
that city. He found that if there
were non-union men on the cars, they
were scattered throughout the trains
After abandoning the project Adams
cached the explosives in a trench
fronting an old building, a little dis.
lance east Of the town. He then re.
turned to Ogden and told Meyer, Hay.
wood and Pettibone, the arch conspir.
ators. that it was impossible to execute
the work without slaughter of many
"innocent" people.
Although this scheme for wholesale
murder was planned nearly three years
ago, it conforms in heartlessness so
closely with the language attributed
to Debs, that it shows he has either
been the victim of gross libel or that
he possesses Jekyll.Hyde nature that
his fine address and charming person.
atty has hitherto go fully hidden from
view.
Debs' power with the honest masses
tho source of his Strengths forever
gone, unless the words attributed to
him are shown to be a gross libel. 1t
will not do to urge the defense that
Adams has lied, for the language OF
Debs justifies anarchical methods as q
means of redress without any seeming
investigation of the guilt or innocence
OF the men charged with assassination.
CAN SUCH THINGS BE?-How long,
oh Lord, how long will tho devils in
human form be allowed to entice in.
nocent girls to leave their homes under
promise of engagements to work and
then ship them to China to become