The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29

ttoipationi In them and that u wac probable
h " some future time some Of the other
participants In thoae crimes would AoOnS
or later yield 10 the emotion OF remorse
and confess, IN which case Orchards knoWl-
edge OF those events would be invaluable
70 the prosecution. Judge Wood thought
there could be no demand that Orchard
should be hanged, except from those per-
sons who stand charged by his voluntary
confession with grave grimes or from the
Apologies or defenders Of such ~psrsonS.'
Remarkable as are these statements, they
are paralleled by others In which Judge
Wood practically arraims the Western
Federation Of Miners for its deliberate
career Of crime and violence In the inter-
mountain country.
1T is my opinion he says, after q care
tul examination Of this case In all he de-
tails, that this defendant and the crimes
which he committed we're only the natural
product and outcome Of the system which
he represented and the doctrines taught
by its leaders. some OF which we're boldly
proclaimed and maintained, even upon the
trial Of the defendant Haywood.
This defendant had evidently become
imbued with the idea ~inculoated by those
around him that the organized miners
were engaged in an industrial warfare
upon one side Of which his own organization
was alone represented, while on tho other
hand they we're confronted with the powers
OF organized capital, supported by executive
authority and which counter organization
included, or at least controlled, the courts,
which were the final arbiters upon all legal
questions involved.
with the FORMULATION Of such doctrines
II Ia not a difficult matter for some people
to justify. murder, arson and other out
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condition Of mind that sustained, bore =
and nerved on this defendant and his
associates In the commission 'Of the various
crimes with which he was connected.
But the conclusion Of this defendant
and his associates with reference 10 this
industrial warfare and his assumption that
executive administrations and judicial
officers were controlled by capitalism we're
not only q mistake but a mistake which has
resulted In his own undoing and will yet
bring others OF his associates in crimes 10
justice.
American executives are not corrupt,
and they are no more likely 10 be CON
trolled against the law by the interests Of
capital than they are by the interests Of
labor. Neither are American courts COR
Tupt, and there is no justification Of the
courts necessary for any action taken,
because they may be depended upon TO
declare the law exactly as they find II, re-
gardless Of consequences.
THE mistake that this defendant and
his associates made was In concluding that
administrative Officers and the courts were
corrupt because Of necessary adverse
decisions in administrative and judicial
proceedings. It was, however, evidently on
account OF this feeling that the associates
and ooconspirators Of this defendant felt
that they could justify in their own minds
their reign OF terror by the as~saseinations
Of Judges, Governors and e~x-Governors.
But ! want To- take the opportunity on
this solemn occasion to say TO the Gsho-
oiates In crime Of this defendant that they
cannot by such acts terrorfEe American
executives and prevent them from per-
forming their plain duties, and they cannot
prevent American courts from declaring
the law exactly as they and II.
Judges and executives may be placed
out Of the way by the hands Of the assassin,
but there will be others Immediately 10
take their places just a. ready and Just
as determined 70 perform their dukes a.
their predecessors were and backed by :
public opinion that will ferret out and dis
the author Of every such crime and
bring him 10 punishment
No more ringing. scArihcstion and de-
nunciatlon Of the highbinders OF the Western
r NublhNiOu VI Nliucibt VIII uhN0 iOT Y0aTU
been keeping the in~termountain country
In a turmoil Of assassination and outrage,
could well be imagined. II proves once
for all that the Judge who presided over
the trial Of Haywood and Pettibone 90
fairly a. TO win praise even from the Social
istic press is convinced that Haywood.
Meyer and Pettibone planned the murder
Of ~Steunenberg, plotted the blowing up
Of the Independence railway station, where
hired Orchard to kill Mccormick and Beck
in the indicator mine at Cripple Creek
and Lyle Gregory in Denver itseli, and
only failed Of killing Judge Goddard and
Gov. Peabody OF Colorado because their
plans went wrong, with all Of which crimes
Harry Orchard charged those federation
And Haywood makes speeches in
New York churches and the Socialists are
Of running him for President