The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-25

smiths. with all their crude command of
| language We're writing for the newspa-
pers today, and that more newspaper men
| smiths"
! barrow denounced the states attorney
/ for allowing William Dewey, who testi-
| fled for the prosecution that he took part
in the mob's attack upon the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan mill, to return to Colorado
unhindered after cOnfesSing to murder On
| the witness stand.
Conspiracy of the Mine Owners.
Were you asleep?'' he demanded of
the attorneys, turning to the counsel ia
| bic where they were seated "or was your
witness lying? Were you negligent of
your duties or were you trying to de
| ceive this jury? Are you honestly in this
prosecution or is there here some dam
nable conspiracy to pick up the presi-
dent of the Western Federation of Min
| ers, and the secretary and treasurer OF
! the Western Federation of Miners, and
! hang them by the neck for the pleasure
and benefit of the Mine Owners asso-
citation? There, gentlemen of the jury,
you have the real, strong, iron hand be-
| hind this prosecution. The mine owners
| of Colorado are pulling the wires to
make you dance like puppets. They gath
| cred these officers of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners up and sent them here
| to be tried and hanged, with Idaho 10
| hold the bag. Idaho has a fine privilege
| in this trial-to pay for it. And you men
VI lillS July VIII nave lilC plVoouiC VI
/ working to pay UP the deficiency war
! rants which have been issued by the
state to meet the expenses of the prose-
! cution.
Back of this prosecution. too, you will
| find General Buckley Wells, the adjutant
general of Colorado, who brought these
men here. There he is in his epaulets
| and his Harvard accent, cruel tyrant
with all his culture for that is what Gull
ture is for-to get rid Of all the humanity
there is in a man."
Here again barrow reverted to orchard
and renewed the versatile denunclatO.i
which was ever at his tongues command.
Among other things he termed orchard
scornfully a "cherubim' and a paragon
of virtue" since his conversion
! Whel Mr.. Darrow late in the evening
reached the Colorado labor troubles he
grew eloquent in his denunciation OF cap
ital and his de- ense of the worklngman
He told Of the eight-hour law passed by
the Colorado legislature in 1893 and the
fight against that law by the owners OF
the mines and the smeiters.
Gold Stronger than the Law.
''They took it to the supreme court, and
of course that court declared 1t uncon-
! stitutiOnal" he exclaimed. of course, 1t
is unconstitutional TO pass law taxing
away from the Guggenheims the right TO
take twelve hours work out OF the hlde
| of their wOrkingmen instead OF eight.
What are constitutions for except to be
used for the rich ana to destroy laws
made for the poor? Gold is, stronger
than the ptn-stronger than law What
are laws for if the rich do not nave 10
obey them?
Il am not here to say to you men that
! labor organizations do no wrong. L know
them too well .Or that. They have often
done wrong. they have often been unjust
| and frequently corrupt, but the labor or
ganizatioh has always stood for the poor
for the w, ak, for humane laws and for
| human life and liberty.
''The men struck in Colorado for the
losrr Il -ar,d fnaz- cot ATn
men of the jury going to take it away
from them? Mr.. Hawley asks you to de
stroy the Western Federation of Min
ers by hanging its leaders. Are you go
ing to do il? Doubtless they have done
some brutal things. some criminal things
and some that were not wise and some
that were not just Let US admit II,
know 1t and l am not going to lie to you
about It, for l think too much OF you.
Wrong-Doing Admitted.
But admitting all this, would you de-
Stroy the Western Federation of Min
ers and hang its 10000 men over a deal
single-handed with the Mine Owners as
ISOLATION with the Guggenheims? If
you destroy the labor unions of this coun-
try you destroy liberty when you strike
the blow and will leave the poor to do
the bidding of the rich.
| Il tell you men that so long as the en-
plOyers of labor have the spirit of Rock
efellerism in their hearts, there is going
| to be trouble. Hawley says the Western
Federation of Miners has made trouble.
1t has, and l am glad of it, for when We
cease to cause trouble we become slaves.
| 1.-The troops were called into Cripple
| Creek because old man Stuart was beat
en- up. I'm sorry for the old man, but
| he admits he was working eight hours a
day-living off the fruits of what the
union had worked for and was working
wheh the union was not If some West
ern federation man had been beaten up.
if they had all been s!ugged and beaten,
Governor Peabody would never have
called out the troops
"The Darling of Colorado"
"And when you men of this jury think
of old man Stuart, think also of the 'dar-
ling of Colorado Buckley Wells, tool
ing around the back bay of Boston and
Buckley Wells. the man who tied a work.
er to a telegraph pole in zero weather
because he was not wringing out of the
victims carcasses all the golden guineas
he would like to spend in Boston or in
England. Think you of Buckley Wells
and the others of his ilk-other idlers-
whose families are clothed in silk sponged
with the lifes sacrifice of workingmen
| think of them, | tell you, and give them
some responsibility in the events of Col
orado.''
/ Continuing to the very close of his re-
marks for the day to berate and denounce
the prosecution, Mr.. barrow spoke of the
time when they would be leading forth
their next victim to the sacrifice" He
ever coupled the prosecution with the
Mine Owners association and spoke of
the latter's carnival of crime and de-
struction." The men driven from Colo
RADIO to the four corners of the world had
all returned to Boise to give the lie to
Orchard despite the fact that they were
taking their lives in their hands by COM
ing within reach 'of the iron man of the
prosecution
barrow had begun a detailed review of
the evidence in the case as court adj
journed at p. m. until 8 a. nj. tomor-
row.