The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-10

1T means, but when i became a social
ist | hope / learned to be impersonal.
Think of II, Darrow and he turned
TO his devoted counsel-''twelve thou
sand men-.' He paused and strobe
a narrow space like a soldier march
ing. Twelve thousand men have had
wages increased since | have been in
the cage. m not good at figures. but
Just YOU go into the mathematics Of
the thing; see how many days We been
in Jail and how many more dollars those
poor fellows will get How many dol
those fellowsl Looking AT it this way,
my time has not been wasted and m
glad | had the chance to help them. -
Darrow turned his president dark
eyes upon the speaker.
Brother Haywood S impulsive7''
So the prosecutors say ] re.
marked, land live found a lot of his
so-called lnhammatory speeches are Just
the same talk that Roosevelt, Bourke
Cochran, Carl Schurz or any other az
dent orator has often made. -
Student of Labor Conditions.
Haywood seated. leaning forward
elbow on knee, chin in hand, became
the student for the first time since the
visit. 81 have often thought what
these men would feel and say if they
ers, The miners, for example. Their
wages, the ventilation of the mines, ac-
cidents and diseases caused by old and
broken down machinery; the scrip sys-
tenn in the Trinidad coal field, and the
impositions of the spy system. -
Haywood S naive, drawled Clar-
ence Darrow, the provocative. "He
doesn t Yet believe these people know
real conditions, y
fIUbo+'
frightened as he thought he had heard
new word. Then he remembered he d
read and looked it up in Hugo. He
nodded and took a position back to the
grating of the cell window "Perhaps
] nm ingenious. but still ! do believe
that if all men knew the right of our
cause they would be with us.
Guard Spencer was getting i'll at
ease. Haywood rose and passed around
a box of cigars sent him by com
rade,
''It 8 cool here. Jack. - said narrow
to the guard, in mis- heart -to-heart way
" You haven 1 much in your mind to-
day; YOU might as well he here as
anywhere, -
Spencer smiled genial smile. in
spite of himself, and looked at Hay
wood, The big miner made gesture
and the guard sat down.
Learning IIldJ L n5U uNPn some years
in the far East, and had visited Russia,
Haywood cross-examined me on the
state OF industry and social conditions
His knowledge of Russian affairs was
surprising h.Tust before the trial be-
gan,' he explained, ri was getting a
F.. eat many BOOKS, pamphlets aud let
tors from friends in the East about
Russia. Now, I have to confine myself
pretty closely 10 the case, but We
studied quite bit about the mines and
miners in the Gar 5 country | hope
the people there viii get the vote.
THEY'RE behind us there. We at least
have the suffrage. whether We know
how 10 use it for our best good or not.
''Say. friend - and he crossed his
arms over his wide chest. "can YOU tell
me of any books in English about the
holding of mines and lands in common
in Russia! | would like TO study that
down fine, and tell the boys about it,
We know about the exploitation of the
miners in South Africa. bat we don Z
know much Of the collective system in
Russia. Vt doesn t do TO be ignorant
of these things, As kipling SAYS,
North, South, East, West, we make
string Of brothers round the world. :"
Somebody told Haywood about the
sOcialistic system of land holding IN
China, spoke up Darrow, and he
W ou pP udppN untl lie geIS AL the
facts. People don t know what a book
savage we have here. If they don I
free him soon, he II develop into one
Of the long gone heroes who took TO
Jail TO write his classic, -
cit S often done that way. friend -
replied Haywood. HSome great poet |
'aid, The iaibird is the bird of lib.
ertU' aud / believe that's So.
We all had hearty laugh. not with.
nut serious note of appreciation,
when Haywood told an auecdote of The |
miners who found copy Of John Mil |
on s Areopagitics, the great essay ,
n defense Of r free press, and read Il
With avldity as new socialistic po-
emic. They We're so enamorcd with the
blind poet s plea for liberty of thought
md expression that they cut out the
caves and passed them around among
themselves. The begrimed pages of this
lassic are still circulating in Colorado
mines.
Workinglnen Should Organize.
Have you anything particular to
ay through the press, Mr., Haywood 90
asked, whom leave-taking became i'm
'erative.
Eyes. T think the labor orpaniza.
ions, as n rule. understand that our
ause is purely and simply class strug-
,le; but the other work ers, who are not
rganized, / would bid them organize.
heir turn will come; competition is
'ouad to touch them, Then 1 wonld