The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-01-12
iiGrand Jury Used for Political
! Purposes Speckles Family
is Foremost Among Those
Desiring to B1acken Good
Name of Mayor Schmitz.
Gluttonous Combination of the
BuZzards of Wealth Looks
Down Upon the Stricken
City With Greedy Eyes to
Pick and Tear It's Ruins.
Exposure of the Speckles'
Crowd by the Courageous
Priest Meets With the Ap-
proval of Thousands of San
Franciscos Citizens.

i Ok11V40VOS OxI4ZOkxo.
and his hundred thousand dollars (save
the mark) we are going to get it from
the newspapers. The great moral en-
gines of San Francisco, the news
papers, are on their hind legs tonight
Bulletin and the Examiner-are in one
long howl crying for blood.
you remember the old story Of the
travellers in the north, and how they
drive over great snow wastes with
their sleds, and they hear, perhaps, in
the distance sound like the murmur
Of the wind in the trees. They mis-
take it first for the rising storm. But
it grows longer and longer, and nearer
and nearer, and they soon distinguish
the pattering Of innumerable feet on
the snow, and they see little dusky
forms creeping out of the pines. Then
they understand that the wolves are
upon them-the wolf, the most coward
ly beast Of the field.
The Examiner FIayed.
"The newspapers, like all cowardly
animals, always hunt in packs. And
you have the cry of the pack tonight,
ringing loud and loud over San Fran
cisco, the cry Of the pack, with their
syndicated slander. But I would not
care for that. I expect that of the
Call; I expect that Of the Chronicle; I
expect that Of the Bulletin; I did not
expect it of the Examiner.
Ladies and gentlemen, your thoughts
may go back to the year 1901. There
are some of you, suppose. Union La
Dor men here tonight. Do you remem-
Der the time when You were told that
You M did not want to be 5cl,ihbed you
Enfght 90 70 ,os yon refnssnfpef
the time here when the police, Who
have to do what they are told, I sup
pose, kept the peace on the water
front by making omelets of the poor
sailors and teamsters' heads? Do
you remember that in the middle of
that tremendous strike the assassin in
the East struck down President Nc
k1nley? You remember the cry that
went throughout all San Francisco,
that the responsibility for McKinley's
death lay, upon Hearst and the Hearst
newspapers. There was a time then
when there was CONSERVATION In the
business office Of the San Francisco
Examiner, and the warmth of all the
furnaces In the world would not warm
the feet of the editorial department.
Record Of Examiner.
There was time then when the San
Francisco Examiner was cast off the
doorsteps. There was time when the
merchants were withdrawing their ad-
vert1s1ng patronage every day. You
remember it seemed as If at that time
the fate Of the San Francisco Exam
1ner was sealed, and at the very time
the Call and the Chronicle and the
Bulletin were the same old wolves.
turning, as the VOLTS habit is, to de-
YOUR their comrade who is wounded.
At that time ladies and gentlemen I
put out my hand to save the Exam
1ner. You may remember when, in the
old Metropolitan Temple, I said that
the papers like the Call and the Chron-
icle, and the Bulletin were far more
guilty Of the things accused the Ex-
aminer Of than was the Examiner.
You remember the agitation that fol-
lowed then, and how that agitation
saved the Examiner. did it not be-
cause I loved the Examiner, not be-
cause had faith in the Examiner: but
because I believed, as I believe now.
in fair play.
cowardly Attack on schmitz.
you would imagine that when g.
man who was across five thousand
miles Of land and five thousand miles
Of sea was attacked, you would think
that when he who had been friendly
with them and had showered favors
upon them, you would think that one
who stood, no matter how unworthy
he might be. for Union Labor, was at
tacked-you would think that il the
Examiner had In it a spark of gener-
osity or thought Of gratitude, it would
have said at least: Suspend judg-
ment on Mayor Schmitz until he has a
chance to tell his side of the story"
But no, the vilest >insinuations, the
most despicable words, the most cow
ardly demands were the insinuations
and the words and the demands put
forward by the San Francisco Exam
iner! They tell you today that no
honest man will attend this meeting.
Are you honest! Am honest? I de-
clare before the God Of judgment and
the God Of righteousness that I would
sooner take my stand with the harlot
and with the publican than with the
honesty Of the San Fransico Exam
liner. So.
What 10 Uproar About?
"And let me ask you all, ladies and
gentlemen, what is all this uproar
about? Why is It that our unfortu-
nate city has been treated, not to one,
but to several moral earthquakes, In.
addition to the physical one. Why is
tcoat'.usd q. PaEs >