The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-03
UNION LABOR AND HAYWOOD.

The country has been flooded with editorial uerances
the Haywood trial and doubtless its interest in the sub
jec is nearly if quite sureited with newspaper opin
ions the subject But here view that has not been
generally touched
1t has been a remarkable trial. 1t has gone for
months. Nearly 200 witnesses called Its cost has
approxmated 100000 In it's chief witness for the prose
cution Harry Orchard it has produced human being
despcable that civilization shudders at his kinshp Its
dark of hate and venom, moneyus and greed
only family Illuminated by all it's flood of evidence, out
picture anything that the American bar has exper
fenced.
The most subtle efforts have been made to compel the
belief that in this murder trial union labor hanging
in the balance.
What the facts?
Out in Colorado as in many other places there are
metals in the earth God put those metals there for the
of all men, that they might discover them them,
enjoy them without hndrance just He gave to all
wood and stone and the flowers and the sea-
few selfish men cannot buy up the air we breathe,
though that is given to all the world less than
the beautiful metals in the Colorado hills
But money-lust disagreed with God The few took
possession of the free gift and said: No this is ours
it is all ours.'
many had to live They dug the precious metals of
the hills and gave them to the few and the few turned
them into fine clothes and great marble houses and auto
mobiles and jewels and Harvard and all the other
things that they wanted.
But did the few stop at this? No. 1t not enough
that they had made right of might that they had taken
the beautiful Free Godgven metals; but they stood
the with the singing whip of necessity and poverty
and said: 'Work harder!'' And they beat them with
the whip.
The many were only human beings, with hearts and
passions They knew they free men, for all that the
few said.
And they revolted. It not mere disagreement
1t was revolution; it war; it rebellion
Out of this came the Western Federation Of Miners
the hand fighting the Mine Owners the other. One
fought for economic freedomhe other for wealth Colo
RADIO ran with blood When oppressed men fercely
aroused will always do terrible things, and there
is lust like the lust for gold long series Of ourages
and murders finally terminated in the killing of Gov.
Steunenberg, and sleeping Justice awoke.
Then Haywood offered scapegoat
No need to repeat the sickening story of this trial.
speak again of the stained hands of Harry Orchard who
accordingto Counsel barrow, persuaded by Father
Kinks to lay his sins his Saviour and by Detective Nc
Partland to lay them Meyer, Haywood and Petbone.
It ought not to be necessary that labor unions exist
But it necessary. 1t will be necessary long the
few, with wealth god, lash the bare backs of the
and sponge up their blood to be minted into gold
But the labor unions have not been trial at Boise.
Acqutal does not victory for union labor any
than condemnation could have meant defeat
Organized labor has been created for the protection of
and principle it neither be put trial nor con-
demned acquitted until men put the right to economic
liberty trial. condemn it, or believe it necessary to
acquit it,
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