Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-05-30


cable.
The Statesman prints a state
ment of Attorney Hawley in which
he says it will not take over three
days for the state to present its evil
dence on the commission Of the crime
and the method by which it was COM
mitted. Most of the witnesses to be
used for this will be from Canyon
county, principally from Caldwell, and
some of them are now in the city.
This would indicate that the pro-
gram Of the prosecution would be to
show that crime was actually COM
mitted, and by what method; then to
introduce Orchard to explain what
connection defendant had with the
crime; then TO introduce testimony to
corroborate Orchard s confession.
The capitalist press is much con-
cerned about Debs attending the trial
as the representative of the appeal
to Reason"
A printed interview from Fred
Miller, the Spokane attorney for the
defense, reports him as saying that
it was the hope of the attorneys for
the defense that Debs would not
come. He said the trial was one in
which the officers of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners were accused of a
murder, and the socialists had no rea-
son for taking up the matter as an
issue. Here are his words;
"This case has no connection with
the socialist in any respect, and the
socialists who have insisted on max.
ing it an issue have done much more
harm for the defense than good. We
have in a great measure headed off
many of the socialist publications
from circulation in this part OF the
country, and we have cndcavored to
silence their utterings but not en-
tirely with success. If Debs should
come here it is almost certain il
would be impossible to hold him
down. We hope he won't come. He
can do the defense no good and might
do a great deal of harm at this
time"
And this from a man who is getting
$4,000 that the socialists have raised
and caused to be raised from an
arnn1aI .EarEin.r a1aae 4lran.,la,,t
country. 1t is reported that Fred
Miller never intends to take another
case; that he will make enough out of
this to go into mining with ID. C.
Coates.
To tell the truth the above quota
tion about expresses the estimation
the socialists are held in in connection
with the ease. In spite of the fact
that the socialist movement of the
country has made this a national and
international issue in the class struggle
that its press has aroused the work
| ing class from shore to shore as il
never has been aroused before that il
is the socialists in the unions that
have pushed forward the defense fund
with such unfiagging zeal that it is
the socialists alone that have been
able TO point out the mighty issues
at stake and lift this trial completely
out Of the category of mere brutal
murder, that they are the ones that
have opened to the public gaze the
devilish workings of the whole dia-
bolical machinery by which employ
ers hound, and track and cripple la.
Dor, using governments only as com
mittees of the ruling class, and the
whole honeycombed social tissue Of
spies and detectives as aids; in spite
Of all this the facts are that the So
cialists are regarded as intcrlopers
here, and an embarrassing factor in
the situation.
These people are so ignorant Of the
real meaning Of labor troubles that
they havnt the slightest conception
of philosophy in history, or science
as applied TO social development.
Because they are mentally indolent
themselves they look upon MS as va
garists and dreamers. Even Murphy,
the oldest attorney for the Fedora
tion, who is so sick with consumption
that he can do nothing but watch
the trial, had an argument with me
yesterday that there can be no such
thing as science as applied TO pol
itics. He was in sublime aud bliss
ful ignorance and thar every univers-