The Irish standard., 1907-05-11
THE HAYWOOD TRIAL.

danger of the situation is that people
may lose sight of the issue to be tried
in teat case and consider it from a
standpoint Of a class contest. This
is the most deplorah|e aspect of the
situation At different points demon
strations have been made by labor or
ganzationS in favor Of the accused
The attitude of those holding public
meetings seems to he that the accused
should be set free. They seem to lose
sight entirely of the question of
whether or not he plotted to murder
ex-Gov. Steunenberg. These demon
strations are in the nature of mob
rule. One can easily be a sympathizer
with labor in it's struggle against
capital without having the least SYM
pathy with those who commit crime in
the name of organized labor. 1t is not
for anyone to say whether the accused
is guilty or not, but every good citizen
should insist upon a fair trial,
The greatest evil in the United
States is lack of respect for law. There
are many people who clio not under-
stand what liberty means. 1t is such
people who insist upon enforcing their
views without respect to the law. even
oS committing crimes of violence. The
justice of the struggle between the
mine owners and the miners i'm the
West should have nothing to do with
the decision of the question as to
whether or not the parties now ac-
cused of murder are guilty. Lator or
ganzations who place themselves on
record in favor of the accused do them
Of the demonstrations that have been
held are positive detriments to the
cause of the men indicted. One such
meeting was held on last Saturday in
New York city. 1t was largely COM
posed of Socialists. In speaking of this
demonstration the Rev. DIR. Henry
Brann, Rector of st. Agnes Catholic
Church, said:
THAT procession was composed
chiefly Of anarchists and socialists,
whose chief aim is to destroy the in
stitutions Of our country. The leaders
III inns movement are men who openly
profess their wish to destroy marriage
private property, the belief in God and
the belief in the spirituality of the
human soul. Unfortunately the crowd
that paraded the streets last night was
not composed entirely of men. There
were many women in it and they are
being corrupted like the men. What
is the remedy? Those men would have
shot President Roosevelt as they one
time shot President Mckinley and
they would have felt no scruples about
IT. They are deferred from crime, not
by religious belief nor by conscience,
but purely by fear of Jail and the cleo
tric chair. Is this horde. which was
not exclusively Il foreign horde, des-
tined to increase in our country? Are
VIC going To substitute the Mar
sellaise," d foreign hymn identified
with bloodshed, strife and carnage, for
our own national hymn, the star
Spangled Banner?" This is precisely
what the horde did last night. The
chief sound to he heard on all sides
was the sound of the "Marseillaise." :"
One band played My old Kentucky
Home" and I heard another play Hail
Columbian but the 'Marseilaise" was
dinned aud dnned on us everywhere
and from all quarters. This is a mat
ter for serious thought. believe that
IT the rest nf the American people do
not initiate the example of the Cath
olic Church, which insists on the re-
ligiouS education Of the child as neces-
sary for public honesty and private
virtue. the future of the country is in
danger.
"rhe men and women who composed
that horde said the rector. were not
the people of my congregation. re-
GREETED particularly to see the women
in the mob. because that is typical of
revolutionary upheavals. There may
have been some stray Irishmen in the
throng. but they were not members Of
the Church. They were men who have
been without the pale from the first. 1
believe am safe in saying that my at
titude is that of the Catholic clergy in
general. 1t cannot be otherwise. The
foreign leaders of this anarchistic and
socialisttc movement, men like the
Russian who was recently in this
country and whose mission failed be-
cause OF personal scandal, are intldels.