The San Francisco call., 1908-11-15

dress thrilled his hearers. All the hid
eousness of the abuse and calumny
heaped upon Heney and Judges Lawlor
and Dunno by Hearst in his Examiner
Mutt pictures was brought home By
the words of the eloquent orator
'LET THE PRESS TAKE NOTICE.
Il shall ask the press to take as an
object lesson that which has happened
to this fearless public official. If men
do wrong let the press inform the peo-
pie. that we may correct them. But
in the name of justice, in the name Of
God, the courts are our only salvation
and it is not right for a great paper to
cartoon a judge sitting in the temple
of justice performing his duty. | say
it is not right TO depict such judge
as a creature lower than any common
street type. I say the duty of the
press lies in cutting that sort of thing
out. cutting it out now and forever.
LESS than a month ago this same
Examiner caricatured Heney as lying
impotent upon d hospital cot. Fellow
citizens, he is there now, and this same
paper sees fit to commend IN terms OF
high praise his work as the great
graft prosecutor.
COMMON PRAYER FOR HENEy
Tonight there goes up a common
prayer that the life of this fearless
man shall be spared TO US. and that he
may be permitted to return to the
courts of justice and carry forward
the work which he has undertaken
against such terrific odds and which
he carried on so courageously until
stricken down by a towards hand. We
all know the man and now we all ad-
mire him. The attempt on his life
has stirred UP as nothing else could
He has gone through this state asking
the people to get behind him in his
fight to have justice even handed meted
out to rich and poor That support
which he asked and demanded as his
right has been lacking up TO 24 hours
ago. He was left TO plod his way
pretty much alone. Now the people
have come up as they should have come
corner Of the state. Let US not be
recreant, let US not be blinded by self
interest. Let US help Heney and the
work which he has done for US, it
seems, almost in spite of ourselves.
Oliver Ellsworth, president OF the
Oakland city council, said;
What affects San Francisco affects
Oakland, it affects California. 1t af-
fects the nation. Let US as citizens OF
Oakland get back of the graft prose-
cution to show the world that we are
American citizens worthy OF the name
Former Mayor William r. Davis, one
OF Oaklands leading citizens. was pre-
sented amid great applause. Davis
said:
When things come 10 such a pass
that the houses of witness are dyna-
mited, that it is found necessary to
provide body guards for the officers of
the law in the midst of a great city
and that nevertheless an officer of the
law is shot down in court of Justice
Uhila in the diSpharera Of
duty, 1t is time that the friends of law
and order took reckoning. Evasion and
apology are out of order. This is not
Turkey, Bulgaria or Servia but a free
state, proceeding under the forms Of
self government in the path of orderly
civilization
The laws delays are fburdensome
enough, and the system needs over
hauling. But cumbersome as it is, it
is the law, the law of the state of Cali
fornia-our law, and it must be sus-
tanned, not spit upon and dynamited;
vindicated, not defied with powder and
ball in its appointed sanctuaries.
Assassination of a human being is
among the highest of crimes: assassi-
nation of sworn administrator of the
law is higher crime: SsassinatiOn of
the law itself in its own temple is the
height of human crime. Tolerated, il
is anarchy. No man believing in law
and order, no man worthy of citizen
ship among a people living under self
government. no man of self respect or
of respect for the past, or for father
mother or child, but must feel the blood
of citizenship reused in his heart as
we'll as the blood of Indignation cours-
ing through his veins as a man.
ROUSES MANS HIGHEST
Violence and crime beget and justify
personal indignation. But the outrage
of assassination of law, order and jus
tice in it's appointed places rouses in us
that which is more than personal-that
which makes for civic patriotism, which
recalls the long past story of man 5
struggle to come forward from igno-
rance. lawlessness and tyranny to ORA
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