The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-05

us a fair hearing, the right OF petltlon
has been denied us, and we must now
prepare to use the last recourse, the
force of arms. The bred Scott decl-
sion was followed by the civil war. The
Mover-Heywood decision will be fol-
lowed by a rebellion of the working
classes Arm yourselves, brethren,
keep a steady nerve. and get some
thing to kill squirrels with for the
woods are full of squirrels and there's
going to be killing.
AS a result of the mass meeting.
primaries are to be called for the pur-
pose of protesting against the Meyer
Haywood prosecution, resolutions were
adopted condemning the courts and
the state and national governments
and the national government. for their
part in the prosecution, and Juror"
was elected to represent the Pittsburg
industrial center at the "Moyer-Hey-
wood trial"
The fiery denunciations of Rolfe got
the large crowd considerably worked
I'D. and after another talk by Phil H.
Gallery, of Carthage, Mo-, along the
same line, a woman in the audience,
Mrs. Sarah Scoville, of Galena, rushed
to the platform and shouted: Il can't
shoot a gun but l have husband,
three sons and brother who can, and
give them to the cause"
Mr.. Rolfe discussed the Moyer-Hay-
wood case and then discussed what
he termed the class struggle.
He declared the time had come for
the working class to quit petitioning
and use force.
Pointing to a banner on the wall he
shouted: You plutes may not like
this but you're liable to get worse.
The time for petitioning is past We
are demanding now, and by the eternal
if we don't get what we demand We'll
show you-just how you'll find out
soon.'
Mr.. Rolfe declared the country was
on the verge of civil war that the
working class was being crushed to
the ground, that conditions in Ameri-
ca are as bad as those in Russia but
the working men over there were be-
ginning to wake up. land they're
waking up here too"
He declared that the writ of habeas
corpus had been killed, that the conx
stitution was farce and the declara-
ton of independence dead letter.
But the right of rebellion has not
yet been taken away from u.s. he de-
clared, land we're going to use that
right We have the right to form
new government if the present one in
fringes on our liberties, and the time
has come for that. Arm yourselves.
brethren. Save the price Of every
other drink to buy something to kill
squirrels with! There's going to be a
squirrel hunt soon.
IF 100000 men able to kill squir-
rel at 100 yards We're to march out to
Idaho and demand that Meyer and
Haywood be let go, they would be
freed. The plutes would have to let
them CO.
1t is such ignorant, irresponsible
rawlings as the above which lend en-
to anarchists and, to in
famed minds, glorify such criminals
as the murderers of former Governor"
Frank Steunenberg. While no one be-
lieves the absurd threats are near to
execution yet it is time to curb the
reasonable utterances of men like G.
E. ROlfe, Eugene Debs and others who
would sacrifice the union to the pas
Sions of mObS and to their own selfish
ambitions as leaders. They howl for
the privilege of being martyrs to a
cause. The government should respond
by granting them that privilege in the
penitentiarieS.