The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-26
No Fight on Organized Labor.

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No Fight on Organized Labor.
I'VE are not here fighting organized Ia
Dor! We are not here fighting the weak
or the poor. Neither are we here to
consent that organized labor shall be a
shield to crime. This is not an Industrial
war, as my eloquent friend of the de-
tense would have you believe. We are
not arraying class against cls SIS, or one
phase of society against another This
is not a battle of the rich against the
poor or the poor against the rich. We
are here in the interest of law, of justice,
Of fairness. That is ALL
Senator Borah here plunged directly In
to the assassination of Governor Steunen-
berg. He declared Orchard had planted
a bomb. as he had done many times be-
fore. He was an old and experienced
criminal and that he was not alone in
the commission of crime If" he cried.
you stand at the gate of Frank Steu-
nenberg, broken and stained with his own
devious way of Harry Orchard. you will
find that the trail of blood passes up
the stairway IN Denver up which Orch
ard ran that day while the darkey held
his horse at the curb below"
Only Question as to Proof.
The defense would have you believe that
Notwithstanding what Meyer may have
done, what Pettibone may have done,
what Simpkins may have done or what
Orchard may have me, Hay wood is not
guilty. But she law, gentlemen of the
jury, says that when men knowingly JON
together to commit a crime, the act CT
one is the act of the other no matter
where that other may be at the time OF
the commission of the crime 1t is not
an answer to our charge for the attor-
neys for the defense to say:
We care nothing for Jack SmpkinS;
let him go overheard. We care nothing
for what Pettibone may have done; we
will take care of him later
- L tell you, and l think the court Will
instruct you, that in a case of this char
aeter the acts of PettibOne are the acts
of Haywood the unexplained letters and
kilograms of George Pettibone and Jack
Simpkins are the unexplained letters and
kilograms of William D. Haywood,
THE only question here is as to whether
or not the evidence has been adduced 10
satisfy you that there was a conspiracy.
Counsel for the defense has said we have
not shown an inner circle or an organ
lied bureau for crime. Well could pref
ty nearly rest the proof of that propo-
sition on the argument Of Mr.. barrow
himself.
Charge Against Federation.
"The evidence in this case shows that
somewhere in the Western Federation OF
Miners there is a power which controls
power which commits crime-it Is proved
as clearly as the fact that Frank Steun-
enberg is dead. Take the 18th OF April 1877
when the members of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Mirers walked boldly from
their work. organized with military pre-
cisiOn, went to WaTdner and there blew
up the Bunker Hill and Sullivan riiii
Mr.. Darrow tells you himself that the
miners went back next day to their work
in the mines. Why did they? Because
they believed there was no such thing as
law and order in the state OF Idaho
Oh, no, gentlemen of the jury. this was
not a criminal act; this was not the
Western Federation of Miners. Who was
it? Was it an accident? Jim Shayne was
L lpd- nj hut ha
row tells you The Bunker Hill mill was
blown up? oh, yes, but 1t employed nom
union men barrow says that whenever
and do a thing 1t is something that ought
to be done. That may be the rule in chi
cago, but it doesn't go in Idaho.
Orchard a Veritable Devil.
'.Darrow has painted Harry Orchard to
you as veritable devil and L agree with
him.
Senator Borah declared that Attorney
barrow in his address to the jury had
offered subtle justification for every
thing charged against the defense. He
set himself up in defiance of all the laws
of public decency.
.if the doctrine that barrow preached
to you be true, 1 am not surprised that
these men committed murder, SAID SEN
ator Borah. who then turned upon At
torney Richardson and declared that II
Harry Orchard is crazy I was no COM
pliment to one of the greatest lawyers
in the west that the maniac did not clS-
close any of his insanity in week
cross examination.
Confession of Murderer.
THE counsel for the defense. Id
Senator Borah, tell you that Orcnsld
was caught red handed in he act. OF
killing Steunenberg, that ne confessed 70
save his OWE neck and that IL he hadn
confessed the daisies would nave Deen
blooming on his grave for year past;
on. no, gentlemen of the jury, II orchard
had not confessed the attorneys Tor the
Western Federation of Miners would De
in this court room defending and eulo-
giving him as a brave man, member
Of the great working class, and my friend
Richardson would convince you beyond a
reasonable doubt that Orchard could not
he guilty of the killing of Governor Steun-
enberg because he was in his room at the
Saratoga hotel when the bomb went off.
Darrow saws my associate has Orchard
itis' We'll, maybe he has. but we got 1t
from the depths OF the Western Fedora
tion of Miners They had 'Orchardttfs
first. he was one of them, delegate to
their convention, a visitor to their homes.
But the difference is that we have him
tied up in the penitentiary while they
were sending him broadcast through the
country on his evil missions
Orchards Glimpse of Paradise.
much mas been said here in derision
of Harry Orchards religion Whether he
has religion or not do not know, and 1t
has nothing to do with his testimony one
way or the other. But remember. gen.
tIemen of the jury. that the question of
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