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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TIE TELL OF H4Ywoon.

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1t is not an easy task to reconcile
the various interpretations put upon
tho trial and acquittal of William d.
Haywood for the alleged murder Of
Governor steunenburg of Idaho
with that calm and sane confidence
which is supposed to move society in
its consideration of courts of justice
and processes of law. It should be
enough for all that a trial has been
had which all parties agree was emil
nently fair to the accused and to the
State. 1t should be enough for all that
a Jury has rendered a unanimous YER
dict declaring the accused innocent Of
the awful charge brought against him,
even though the slaughter which pre-
coded his arrest and the arrest of his
companions remains a mystery.
1t Is noticeable that most people who
accept society as 1t is organized and
who successfully resist the temptation
TO preach and so far as possible prac-
tice new doctrines of government. bow
their heads reverentiy to the finding of
the jury and the charge of the Judge.
They by no means overlook the causes
which led to the tragedy and which
he ~ H.
ate traits Of human nature. They
would like to see the mystery solved,
the evil-doers brought to justice and
the integrity of the law indicated, But
this desire on their part exists apart
from their Interpretation of the dis
charge of Haywood. That is thing by
itself and is to be viewed by itself AS
his passionate counsel said In his re-
markable address to the Jury, Haywood
was either a guilty or an innocent man.
II he was guilty he should be hanged;
II he was innocent he should be freed =
neither his counsel nor his friends
asked to have him treated otherwise
than as his act dictated. Nor Is the fact
of any Importance that LAWYER OAR
row. his counsel, bitterly and untruth-
fully assailed organized society and
falsely asserted that the trial Of Hay
wood was another phase Of the eter-
nal conflict between the rich and the
poor. The only thing of consequence Is
the establishment of the guilt or in
nocence Of the accused In order that
this country should not be guilty It,
self Of Furnishing the wrong man. In
having established his innocence in the
only way 1t Is known to this country
to- establish innocence a great victory
has been won for American processes
Of justice The satisfaction those take
in that who still believe in American
methods is a new asset added to the
old.
Just what our socialist friends mean
by celebrating the discharge of Mr..
Haywood in the manner they are cele-
brating it we do not know. Here in
the city Of New Haven they met Mon
day evening in their clubroom and in
dulged in jollification. The announce
ment was made that they should at
once proceed to have Mr.. Darrow's adj
dress to the Jury printed In pamphlet
form and given the widest possible
circulation, as if that address had the
slightest thing to do with the acouittal
OF Haywood. 1t Is this confusion
which has overtaken them as a con-
sequence of Haywoods discharge which
confuses u.s. For months our mail has
brought us postal cards and typewrit-
ten letters and flaming circulars each
and every one declaring that the au-
thorities were proceeding in tyran-
nous manner, that the courts were
owned by the rich and that actual JUS
tice was impossible. In every conceiv-
able way the impression was created
that in the absence of all hope of OBJ
tanning justice society should prepare
itself for the worst, with revolution as
the handmaiden. Government has not
done single one of the things these
excitable people said it would do. No
ones rights have been taken from
him, there has been no subversicn of
Justice and finally no one has been
deprived of his life and liberty with
cut due rrc cess of law. Instead then of
celebrating the discharge of Haywood
for the murder of Idaho's governor
our socialist friends should give way to
the lovers of established order who
can point to his discharge as a vindi-
cation of government as We have it.
AS the New York Evening Post ac-
curately expresses it: This great or
,erly trial at Boise must have a pow