The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-25
SEEN AND. .APPLAUDED BY THOUSANDS..#l

these three enemies of the Mine Owners l association into the lions den. He looks | fat and sleek and healthy and in no dan ger of sudden death. If he had put the l blame of his crimes on Mover, Haywood and Pettibone, the grass would be grow l Ing over his grave these twelve long long months He must be saved till Bill | Haywood any Mover and Pettibone have l been sent to tho~sallows and their bodies eaten up by quicklime. There are forty l thousand members of the Western Feder- ation of Miners, forty thousand criminals yet to be dealt with-to save Orchard, for l as long as there is a neck to hang why | should we kill Orchard? Jack Simpkns is yet to be caught, yet to be hanged, and 1 Orchard must not be done away with till l Jack Is dealt with"
 Darrow next turned his attention to those slckly, slobbering idiots who talk about Orchards religion and regenera- 1 tion,' and declared that before Dean 1 Kinks, his religious adviser, had persuad- | ed him to lay his sins on Jesus, Father | Mcfarland. the detective, had persuaded him to lay his crimes on Haywood. Mover and Pettibone.
 Tt was slick game of slippery Harry this religious dodge and a part with his past life But you might have more faith l in this man if he had not confessed to Mcfarland to save his life before he con- fessed to Dean Kinks to save his soul :"
 Darrow an Agnostic.
 As to religion, Mir. Darrow said he did not profess to know much about it. He had endeavored to solve the infinite mys- l tery but he found he could only bow his head In the presence of 1t and say T do otsknow."
 But, gentlemen, 1 have never asked | for the life of a human being and never l shall to the end of my days. l do not ask for Orchards. If he stood con Victed today and no one else would say that word for him. my petition would be praying for his life, because l do not believe In taking away the life of any l fellow being. It is not for us to say what if we were born, if we were 1 moulded, If we were surrounded as Orchard is. we would have done. But 1 if Orchard has religion, men of this 1 jury l say to you that l never want it.. Before he made his confession, Harry Orchard was bad enough. but 1t re- malned for religion, and l am weigh ing my words. to make him totally de- prayed. Before he got religion there was some spark of humanity, some spark of manhood left in the creature, but after his conversion Ehere seems to 1 have been none. WhatN show of re- morse, pity. of regret, did this man l y his awful story?'
 Spark of Goodness.
 Darrow declared that once before in his life Orchard had been converted, l had become superintendent of Sun day school and he could not say the lsecond dose would be any better than 1 the first
 ! Through years of crime Orchard had protected the name of his family from infamy and disgrace. It was the one spark of goodness in his criminal breast. Other criminals had shot through the trap door to dangle at the end of a rope, but they kept locked within them the secret of their fapiy name to protect those to whom they left behind It remained for Orchard after his conversation to reveil to the | world his name back to the family in i ontario, stories of his wild career so that people driving by the graves of two old Quaker parents might point to them and say, there lies the father and mother of the greatest monster of modern times"
 Disgrace Upon Family
 The attorney also told of the dis grace which this act had brought upon the deserted wife and daughter back in Canada. The blowing up of the In- | dependence depot was sacrament | compared to the stabbing in the heart of that little Swear daughter with the knowledge of her fathers shame. Orchard, Darrow claimed. had been told by a miserable Pinkerton detective that if he told his real name his story would have greater weight upon the jury and would help to tie the rope about the neck of Bill Haywood.
 No man, save Hawley, l might say Eno sane man." declared the attorney, ''can ever think of Harry Orchard with | anything but loathing."
 In a burst of oratory, Darrow said: You men of the prosecution. you