The daily sentinel., 1906-08-20
MOLLlE MAGUIRES, ANGELS

For the first time, since the awful
crimes were committed in the state
N Pennsylvania more than thirty
years ago and the men who were the
perpetrators. expiated their awful
murders on the gallows, one has aris-
en- to claim that the execution of the
Noble Maguires in Pennsylvania was
an Outrage upon justice and that in
nocent men were railroaded to the
gallows."
The writer who proposes to place
the true history of this cold blooded
perversion of simple Justice" in its
true light before the people is a con-
tributer to the appeal to Reason"
We hardly think that this individ-
ual will be able to make any sort of
a record in his attempts to clear the
memory of as cold blooded band of
cutthroats as were ever Joined to-
gether 10 commit murder.
The writer states that the purpose
of his attempt 10 clear the deeds of
this wanton band of murderers, is
to prove that the same methods that
were employed to convict the Mollie
Maguires are the same as is beingnow
employed to convict Meyer, Haywood
and others. The writer of this pro-
posed expose states in his preliminary
article that it is to secure the sal
vation" of the men imprisoned on the
grave charge of murder in Boise,
Idaho.
without being prejudiced in ad-
vance We happen to know something
of the days of the Mollie Maguires in
Pennsylvania and can say that all we
have read of the fiercness of the
Malta, the "black hand" cutthroat or
ganization of Italy, is not to be COM
pared to the methods that were pre-
vailing in the Keystone state, when
swift and retributive justive overlook
that murderous gang of Williams, who
murdered ruthlessly innocent men
and so covered up their tracks that 1t
was unsafe TO live in the region that
was infested by that bloody gang.
We must express to some desire to
see how this defender of the Mollies
Will attempt to treat his subject for
the delectation of his very gullible
readers. Certainly anyone who has
any sort of knowledge of that ter
rible organization, of which, the other
workmen were as afraid as were their
prospective victims themselves, will
hardly credit any statement made at
this late day. This especially so as
the writer of the fake true history"
states that it is done for the purpose
of showing the readers of that sheet.
vailing in the trial and conviction of
the Mollie Maguires and the charges
and prospective trial of Meyer, Hay
wood and others.
Such defense it would seem to us
would cause a revulsion of feeling, in
stead of creating sympathy. There
were few indeed at that time. and
which included the writer of the pro
posed defense who did not believe
that those men suffered justly for the
perpetration of their hellish crimes.
Indeed 1t is wonderful that after
such fair and unbiased trial, that
so convinced the writer of the com
ing defense" that he wrote a per-
sonal letter of commendation to Gen.
John III. Hartrauft. then governor OF
the Keystone state, that he alone of
the millions who believed in their
guilt now comes to their defense.
He has this advantage though that
what he says in defense may not be
contradicted through the same col
umns. This Appeal to Reason" is
usually an appeal to passion, to revo-
luton to incendiary speech and the
upheaval of society. In short, in
cendiary against society as a whole,
without providing a remedy save the
chimerical socialistic propaganda.