Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
"PIot" Behind Prosecution.

FUZZY VI INSTABILITY, WeIe over, WSte
thrown out on the scrap heap to perish
and die.
"Plot" Behind Prosecution.
II would that more honest smelter.
men like Boyce, that more honest
blacksmiths, with all their crude com
mand of language, were writing for
the newspapers today. and that more
newspaper men of the time we're work.
| ing as blacksmiths."
| barrow denounced the states at.
torneys for allowing William Dewey
who testified for the prosecution that
| he took part in the mob's attack upon
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill, to re-
turn to Colorado unhindered after con-
Tossing to murder on the witness
stand
Were you asleep?" he demanded of
the attorneys, turning to the counsel
| table, where they were seated, cor was
your witness lying? Were you negli-
gent of your duties or were you trying
to deceive the jury? Are you honest
in this prosecution, or Is there some
damnable conspiracy to pick up the
president of the Western Federation
of Miners and the secretary and treas
urer of the federation and hang them
by the neck for the pleasure and ben
eft Of the Mine Owners association?
There, gentlemen of the jury, we
have the real, strong. iron hand be-
ers of Colorado are pulling the wires
+ to make you dance like puppets. They
gathered these officers of the Western
| Federation of Miners UP and sent them
here to be tried and hanged, Idaho
to hold the bag, Idaho has fine priv
|,ilege In this trial-to pay for it. And
you men Of this jury will have the
| pleasure of working to pay up the de-
ficiency warrants which have been is
| sued by the state to meet the expenses
Of the prosecution.
/ Denounces General Wells.
Back of the prosecution, too, you
will find General Buckley Wells, the
lEadjutant general Of Colorado, who
| with epaulets and his Harvard accent,
a cruel tyrant with all his culture,
for that is what culture is for-to get
rid Of the humanity there is in a man. y
Grows Eloquent Over Labor.
When Mr.. Darrow finally reached
the Colorado labor troubles he grew
elonuent in his denuncietion of CAPT.
| tai and his defense of the working
man. He told Of the eight hour law
passed by the Colorado legislature In
| 1899 and the fight against that law
by the owners of the mines and the
shelters.
They took 1t to the supreme court
and, of course. that court declared il
unconstitutional to pass law taking
| away from the Guggenheims the right
to take twelve hours work out of the
hide Of their workingmen instead OF
eight. What are constitutions for ex-
cept to be used for the rich and de-
| stroy laws made by the poor? Cole
Is stronger than the pen-stronge1
than law. What are laws for If the
rich have to obey them?
"I am not here to say to you mer
that labor organizations do no wrong
/ know them too well for that. They
have often done wrong; they have
often been unjust and frequently cor.
always stood for the poor, for the
weak, for humane laws, and for hu.
man life and liberty.
Appeals for Miners.
THE men struck In Colorado for thu
eight hour day, and they got 1t. Ar,
/ you men of the jurv going to take i
away from them? Mr.. Hawley ask.
you to destroy the Western Federation
of Miners by hanging it's leaders. Ar,
you going to do it? Doubtless the.
have done some brutal things, some
criminal things, and some that were
not wise, and some that were not just
Let's admit it. I know it. and I an
not going to lie to you about it, for
think too much Of you.
But, admitting all this, would 70,
destroy the Western Federation o
Miners and hand it's 10000 men owe
to deal single handed with the Min
/ Owners association. with the Guggen
helms? If you destroy the labo
unions Of this country you destroy lib
erty when you strike the blow, ant
will leave the poor to do the biddin,
| of the rich
II tell you. men. that so long as tn
employers Of labor have the spirit o
Rockefellerism in their hearts there /
going to be trouble. Hawley says tn
made trouble. 1t has, and I am gla,
of it, for when we cease to caus
trouble we become slaves.
THE troops were called into Crippl
| Creek because old man Stuart wa
beaten up. I'm sorry for, the old mar
but he admits he was working eigh
| hours day-livine off the fruits o
what the union had worked for, an,
was working when the union was not
1t some western TederatlOn man ma
been beaten up. if they had all beel
slUeged and beaten, Governor Peabod
would never have called out an.
troops.
Wells Darling of Colorado"
"And when you, men of the jury
think of old man Stuart, think you ais
of the darling of Colorado Bulkele
Wells, toolin~ around the Black Ba.
of Boston and spending his golde
plenty Think of Buckley Wells, tn
/ man who tied worker to telephon
i pole in zero weather because he wa
not wringing out Of the victims car
cass all the golden guineas ne woul
like to spend in Boston or in England
Think you Of Buckley Wells, and tn
others of his ilk-other idiers-whos
families are clothed in silk SPONGE
with the life's sacrifice of working
men; think of them, l tell you. an
give them some responsibility in tn
events of Colorado
Continuing to the very close of hi
remarks for the day to berate and de
I nounce the prosecution, Mr. Darrov
I spoke of the time when they woul
4 be leading forth the next victim t
tho sacrifice He ever coupled tn