The San Francisco call., 1908-11-16
vENAL EDITORS
TARGET OF SCORN

Continued from Page 1, Column
Episcopal church: Rev. DR.. Adams of
the First Congregational; Rev E. r.
Ollie of st. Marks. and Macarthur.
In words of solemn denunciation DR..
Evans placed the guilt of Heney's blood
upon those newspaper editors and own
ers who by ridicule and lying have
striven to bring about Heney's down
fall. Upon the magnate. fattened with
the plunder of bolder hands, he laid
the burden of that guilt.
In part Evans said:
HENEY MAY DIE BUT NOT HIS WORK
"The man. the indomitable and abso-
lutely fearless man. whom the bullet of
an assassin struck down in Judge Law
lers courtroom on Friday afternoon
may succumb to his injuries and quit
the forensic arena forever, but his work
won't Gle. That can not be destroyed.
The spirit of a good and true man is
beyond the power of bullet or dagger
or dynamite or any weapon forged in
hell to reach it.
THE open and unconcealed antago-
nism of almost every paper in the city
with in one notorious case the actual
pictorial ridicule of the very deed of as
sassination itself, in connection with
the attempts that were made upon the
life of an important witness-with such
things as these. is it to be wondered at
that such suggestion has borne it's
fruit, that a Czolgosz in Buffalo and a
Haas in San Francisco make of them
selves the murderous interpreters of
the venom and hostility of such jour-
nalism?
These deeds of violence are the nat
ural product of certain conditions, and
the men who have created these condi-
tions are responsible for the results.
1T is true that when a bad man is
desperate he will stop at nothing. The
heart of bad man is essentially the
same whether in the middle ages, when
professional braves were hired by rich
patrons to put their personal enemies
out OF the way, or in our times. when
there is not day in the year when
human hate does not, with dynamite or
bomb or revolver, work its hellish way
with deeds of DEATH
SHOT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD
Like the shot fired by the Concord
farmers at the opening of the revolu-
tion, Boke said. the shot which laid
Heney low was echoing round the world
and was the signal for the beginning
anew of q triumphant battle for justice
and freedom
San Francisco. the beloved city of
our homes and hearts and hopes has
borne many trials in the recent past"
said Walter Macarthur in opening. I'VE,
the citizens of San Francisco, should be
the richer and the better for those
trials.
We can not all be Heneys. but we
can all be good citizens. A thousand
Heneys might lay down their lives upon
ernment not survive. But when the
united citizenship of San Francisco de-
termines that good government, Ameri-
can government, just government, shall
prevail in this community no leagued
powers of iniquity can withstand them. :"
DIR. Adams referred to the fate of the
poor tool. Has, and said: I'VE must
regret that the utter incompetence of
some part of the police department al
lowed the suicide to occur. We have
seen some strange things in our city.
The other day / beheld number OF
gentlemen under police escort walking
close filed along principal street. and
learned that it was the Ruef jury out
taking its morning airing. At the same
hour the defendant, Ruef. was riding
freely around San Francisco in his auto
mobile"
With prayer by DR.. Ollie for the re-
covery of the wounded champion of the
peoples for the success of the cause in
which his blood has been shed and for
the moral regeneration of San Fran
cisco and with the singing of America
by the entire audience standing, the
meeting came to a close.