Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-05

secretly paid. If that is so it is crime
punishable by the laws of this state.
III guarantee that the district at
torney will appoint him a deputy to go
before the grand jury In my place and
indict me, If he can produce a syllable
of evidence that 1 am being privately
paid-or that the Spring Valley is back
of this prosecution-or any of the other
things he has dragged in here in a des-
perate effort to get you to acquit this
defendant whether or not you con-
scientiously believe him guilty.
Why" Heney demanded 'wher, after
the fire 1t was OF the utmost Importance
that the street car system be resumed
at once by the United Railroads and the
whole city was In favor of the granting
Of the trolley frarchise-why do we find
the United Railroads going to Abe
Ruef? Why didn't Patrick Calhoun go
openly to the board of supervisors and
demand-not ask. but demand-that the
franchise be granted? Why did he so to
Ruef?
What is the cause" asked Heney, ''of
the corruption in your city government? (?
Look at the evidence In the case and
answer for yourselves. What is It? First
and foremost on the list to come, prize
fights. 1t starts with vice. the criminal
element And with whom are they mar
ried? A polygamous marriage, II you
please, but one that exists nevertheless.
The prizefghting criminal element and
the houses of prostitution. married to the
public service corporations! Why? Be
cause common interest draws them to-
gether politically. They all want some
thing they are not entitled to under the
law. The fight promoters want protec-
ton from interference with their fake
fight. The keepers of houses of prosti-
tuition and many keepers of saloons want
protection for the crimes that are COM
mitted therein. And both of them, like
the public service corporations, want
money. beloved money!
Talks of Stock Watering
And how shall 1t be easiest made by
such corporations as the United Rail-
roads? All you have to do is to change
a $20,000,000 corporation over night into
a $90,000,000 corporation. and If you take
In money enough from the cars to pay
interest at or per cent year upon
your 900 you will find bankers, like
Mr.. Hellman, who are willing to buy your
bonds and stocks. And who thereafter
will deplore and denounce the men who
from sense of public duty demand that
this sort of thing shall stop, because,
say these bankers, they are hurting
business, they are hurting our town? Yes.
And when the surgeon applies the knife
and removes the cancer, the patient
says That hurts; can't you give me an
opiate? can't stand the pain Some of
these business men In San Francisco can
hardly stand the pain The men who
have put their money in the gas com
pany, In the telephone company and in
the United Railroads stocks and bonds
and bodied the supervisors, begin to cry
out with the pain of the hurt to busi-
ness.
"can Republic continue?"
'Tn a republic it depends upon the COM
mon sense and the spirit in the mass of
the people against the aggressions of
those Of wealth and those of power.
or no. this form of government
can continue to exist. But do not con-
vict General Ford merely on that
ground. am making this argument
TO you not for that, but in order that
you may appreciate the responsibility
that is upon you and the citizens of this
great republic and of San Francisco. If
you have not sense and spirit enough to
your laws regardless of any
man, then you are unfit to be free men
and unfit to have your children inherit
freedom
After an acute and powerful summing
up of the evidence, Heney suddenly took
up the most interesting question of the