The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-25


pictured to the jury the difference
between the owners of the mines and
smelters, who rolled up their wealth
and bought their way into the United
States senate, in the blood of the men
who worked for them, and the miners
and smeltermen, who, when their
days of usefulness, through age, in
jury or disability, were over, were
thrown out on the scrap heap to per-
ish and die.
II would that more honest smelt-
ermen like Boyce; that more honest
blacksmiths, with all their crude
command of language. were writing
for the newspapers today. and that
more newspaper men of the time
were working as blacksmiths.
Darrow denounced the states at
torneys for allowing William Dewey,
who testified for the prosecution that
he took part in the mob's attack up
on the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill,
to return to Colorado unhindered af-
ter confessing to murder on the wit
ness stand
Were you asleep?" he demanded
of the attorneys, turning to the
counsel table, where they were seat
ed, "or was your witness lying. We're
you negligent of your duties, or were
you trying to deceive this jury? Are
you honest in this prosecution or is
there here some damnable conspiracy
to pick up the president of the West
ern Federation of Miners, and the
secretary and treasurer of the West
ern Federation of Miners and hang
them by the neck for the pleasure
and benefit of the Mine Owners as
sociation? There, gentlemen of the
jury, you have the real, strong, iron
hand behind this prosecution. The
mine owners of Colorado are pulling
the wires to make you dance like
puppets. They gathered these Off
GERS of the Western Federation of
Miners up and sent them here to be
tried and hanged, with Idaho to hold
the bag. Idaho has fine privilege
in this trial-to pay for it. And you
men of the jury will have the pleas
ure of working to pay up the deficien-
cy warrants which have been issued
by the state to meet the expenses of
the prosecution.
"Back of this prosecution, too, you
will find General Bulkeley Wells, the
adjutant general of Colorado, who
brought these men here. There he
is with his epaulets and his Harvard
accent, a cruel tyrant with all his
culture, for that is what culture is
; for-to get rid of all the humanity
there is in man.
Here again Darrow reverted to Or
chard and renewed the versaltine de-
, nunciation which was ever at his
tongues command Among other
things, he termed Orchard scornful-
, ly "cheribum" and paragon OF
virtue" since his conversion.
| When Mr.. DarrOw, late in the eve
ming, finally reached the Colorado la
Dor troubles, he grew eloquent in his
denunciation of capital and his de-
fense of the workingman. He told
of the eight-hour law passed by the
, Colorado legislature in 1899 and the
fight against that law by the owners
of the mines and the smelters.
"They took it to the supreme court
! and, oh! that court declared it un-
J constitutional" he claimed.
"Of course it is unconstitutiona
: to pass a law taking away from the
, Guggenheims the right to take Il
hours work out of the hides of theil
workingmen instead of eight. Wha1
: are constitutions for except to be
: used for the rich and to destroy laws
: made for the poor. Gold is stronger
f than the pen-stronger than law
[ What are laws for if the rich have tt
: obey them?
3 II am not here to say to you mel
r that labor organizations do no wrong
I know them too we'll for that. The!
have often done wrong, they have of
. ten been unjust and frequently cor
4 rupt, but the labor organization!
: have always stood for the poor, fol
the weak, for humane laws and TO
i human life and liberty.
). "The men struck in Colorado TO
: the eight hour day and they got it
: Are you men of the jury going t.
e take it away from them? Mr.. Haw
t ley asks you to destroy the Western
!, Federation of Miners by hanging it
: leaders Are you going to do it?
f Doubtless they have done SOM
d brutal things, some criminal thing
s and some that were not wise ant
d some that were not just. Let us ad
d init it. | know it and I am now go
ing to lie to you about it, for | thinl
n too much of you.
e "But admitting all this, would yo1
e destroy the Western Federation o
e Miners and hand its 10000 men owe
n to deal single handed with the Min
l. Owners association. With the Gue
n genheims? If you destroy the labo
n unions of this country, you destro
It liberty when you strike the blow, an
Il will leave the poor to do the biddin
y of the rich"
r At this point court adjourned un
iii a. m. tomorrow. Clarence Dai