, 1907-07-03
STATE PRESS

some CURIOUS Facts
1t has often been charged that prac
tically all the great newspapers of the
country and many of the lesser ones
We're subsidized by the trusts. rail
roads n money power and are In a
great conspiracy against the common
people and laboring class Of America.
Glass conscious socialists have
roasted the press and charged all
kinds OF sins of commission and omis-
sion against it, clubbing 1t the enemy
OF the laboring man.
And yet, | ask you II it is not a fact
that practically all the newspapers
and popular magazines OF the United
States have been for several years
past engaged In the ficrcest kind OF
a wordy warfare against combinations
of capital, railroad abuses, mergers
and monopoly in production and distri-
button Of wealth?
one of them has dared to criticize or
ganized labor-the labor trust?
Do you not think that today this
labor trust, which appeared to be a
necessary complement to the combina-
tons of capital, is more dangerous and
%subversive of popular rights than any
other one feature of American indus
trial development?
At this time there Is a trial in
progress in Idaho in which the afro,
cious nature of evidence given should
startle every true patriot No matter
whether or no Haywood, Meyer and
Pettibone's actions can be so closely
connected with the conspiracy which
resulted in the death of Ex-Governor
Steunenberg, the fact still shines forth
as clear as MONDAY that they and the
other officers of the Western Fedora
ton were for years on the most init
mate terms with Harry Orchard and
other thugs, assassins, dynamiters and
~murderers; that they sen them money,
without which they would have been
powerless to commit the crimes which
they admit, and that they were mem
bers in good standing of the federation
while committing acts Of violence
which would put to shame those of
Russia.
When it was proven hat Orchard
spent one whale winter as an inmate
of the Pettibone household in Denver.
the fiimsy excuse offered by the de-
tense was that Mrs. Pettibone was
spending the winter in the east, and
that Pettibone desired Orchards COM
pany to prevent his being lonesome!
Would you-any Of you law-abidine
citizens--choose such n companion?
Could a se~lf-confessed assassin, "a
murderer for money-live with you all
winter and you remain ignorant Of
his true character? No matter how
%grievous and high-handed may have
been the acts of the mine owners of
Idaho and Colorado or Governor Steun.
enberg. are the bomb, the gun, poison
and the knife tho proper weapons with
which to fight their aggressions in free
America in the twentieth century?
No matter what the verdicts In the
Idaho cases may be, no honest man
who reads the evidence carefully and
without prejudice can avoid the con-
clusion that there has been criminal
conspiracy and criminal acts winked
at and encouraged by the Western Fed
Grafton. And yet what great newspa.
per or magazine has pointed out these
facts?
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been collected from the miners
of the country, not to insure a fair trial
of the accused, but to prevent their
conviction, whether guilty or not. The
red fire, frantic appeals and misrepre-
sensations of certain 'labor' newspa.
pers for a year past have been beyond
belief. They have boldly asserted that
these men "our brothers, should new
er be allowed to meet a felon's death,
no matter what the verdict may be!
Do you not think this a strange and
menacing state of enthusiastically
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