The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-21

opinion this was the controlling fac
tor that impelled two juries to de-
clare that they could not convict
their fellow man chiefly upon the
evidence of a witness whose own con-
fession disclosed such startling ca
| reer of crime.
1t Is my opinion, however, after a
| careful examination of this case in all
Its details, that this defendant and the
| crimes he committed, were only the
| natural product and outcome of the
system which he represented and the
| doctrines taught by its leaders. some
| of which were boldly proclaimed and
| maintained even upon the trial of the
| defendant Haywood.
Barring the crimes committed in
the Occur d'Alenes in this State at
the time the Bunker Hill G Sullivan
! concentration was destroyed. the per-
iod covered by the actual crimes in
which this defendant figured, covered
a period of little over two years.
commencing in November, 1903, with
the Vindicator explosion, and termi-
mating In December, 1905, with the
explosion which caused the death of
ex-governor Steunenberg.
This defendant had evidently he
come 1mbued with the idea inculcat-
ed by those around him that the or
ganized miners were engaged in an
industrial warfare upon one side of
which his own organization was alone
represented, while on the other hand
they were confronted with all the
powers OF organized capital, support
ed by executive authority, and which
counter organization included. or at
least controlled, the courts which
were the finish arbiters upon all legal
questions involved. With the pro-
mitigation of such doctrines 1t is not
difficult matter for some people to
justify murder, arson and other
outrages, and I am satisfied that IT
was that condition of mind that sus-
tanned, bore up and nerved on this
defendant and his associates in the
commission of the various crimes
with which he was connected. Rut
the conclusions of this defendant and
mis- associates with reference to this
industrial warfare, and his assump-
tlon that executive administrations
and judicial officers are controlled nv
capitalism, was not only a mistake.
put mistake which has resulted in
mis- own undoing, and will yet bring
others of his associates in crimes to
Justice. American executives are not
corrupt, and they are no more likely
TO be controlled against the law by the
interests of capital than they are by
the Interests of labor. Neither are
American courts corrupt, and there
is no publication of the courts neces-
sary for any action taken because
they may be depended upon to de-
clare the law exactly as they find It.
reegardlss of consequences. If courts
or executives fail in their duty. so
far as the State courts are concerned
tnere Is always an appeal to the peo-
pie But the mistake that this de-
PENDANT and his associates made was
In concluding that administrative Of
hcers and the courts were corrupt be-
cause eof necessary adverse decisions
In administrativ and judicial proceed
1ngs. 1t was, however, evidently on
account of this feeling that the assoc
c1ates and conspirators of this de-
PENDANT felt that they could Justify
In their own minds their reign of ter
ror by the assassination of judges,