Montana news., 1907-08-01
BOrah Calls for Blood
Boise, July 81.

IhufeuAy evening benatoK bofen po-
gan on the closing speech Of the great
Haywood trial
The affair took on the appearance
Of great social function. The elite
Of Boise were on hand. The official
crowd was there. The guards an
nounced that no one who had been .
constant visitor during the last few
weeks would be admitted. A bailiff
said the red necks had filed that
court room during the trial and now
the respectable people were going to
have q chance.
Senator Borsh's friends packed the
court room like a gay matinee crowd.
He was talking to an audience in
magnetic sympathy with him, and
Borah responded to the occasion. This
FIRST evenings speech showed him the
matured orator. His manner was easy,
direct and impressive as he proceeded.
As Abraham Lincoln said: "For
those that liked that sort of a thing
IL was about the sort of thing they
liked. He did the expected and ap-
pealed to the wornout shreds OF sen.
timent, patriotism, the flag, the i'm
imaginary homes dear to the bour-
geois heart. He sounded the note of
alarm because Of the terrible condi'
tions that had prevailed for the last
five years in this inter-mountain coun-
try, and how the homes were men
aced. He eulogized the fair-minded
condition of the citizens, and said
there was no community crying for
the blood of the accused men.
He denied that this was a fight on
organized labor and said it was simply
. murder case.
1t did not mean industrial warfare,
there was no alignment Of class
against class, or of the rich against
the poor.
Borah, the unspeakable, eulogized
Christianity. He said without it the
world would go down in slavery and
dirt; that this caused the French
revolution. Such a display of his
torical and economic ignorance is
really pitable. He said the fall of
Rome was caused by the arraignment
of class against class. Borah is about
thirty years behind the times in his
historical analysis. He said labor
always got the worst Of it; its only
hope was the flag; that this was the
best country on earth. .s
He then went on to talk Of the
various murders that the state has
lugged into this case and laid at the
doors of the Western Federation of
Minera He said they were all the
work. of an experienced criminal and
every trail leads up the stairs the
darkey ran when he went to get
Haywood to look at the horse. g.
The finger Of hate points ever In
one direction-Denver, and it points
to a deep-laid and far-reaching con-
spiracy. Somewhere in this organiza-
tion is q power that commits crime.
It's weapon is dynamite, which . GER
tain school of philosophy in this coun-
try thinks more of than the Bible.
He made q iemsgogic appeal to an
cient superstitions and "mothers
bible" .-
The Reverend Dwight Hills Of
Brooklyn was present to hear his
speech. This "divine" has proved the
biggest toady lick-spst.le that a
capitalist could employ to give its
filthy deeds prestige. He gave 1t a.
his sacred opinion that the men were
guilty and hoped they would hang
Thus do the priests Of the world bolster
the immoralities Of the ruling class
Friday Borah seemed to have the
wind all taken out Of his sails. Blu,
he went on to talk Of the integrity Of
citizenship aud to eIcoriate General
Engley and Socialism. He called him
an anarchist and derided socialism in
the ordinary, cheap, ignorant way
said IL meant taking the property
from those that worked and giving
Il to those that didn't work.
Borah's ridiculous and malicious
TRADE against labor, it's positions
socialism and unions only served "
sAow that the legitimate path Of labor
can never justify itself to established
institutions. 1t must 60 ahsai and
make its own institutions. JsAF !I
Borah closed his argument like .
winded horse. The defense have beer
amazed st its weakness. .rt.. ...-.
The judge delivered his instruction.
Saturday morning While he ruled
out the evidence on the Colorado do
portations and the counter-conspirscy