Arizona republican., 1911-02-13
The Warren Case.

mated in Phoenix and elsewhere
throughout the United States in War
rem meetings" yesterday, have had
at least one effect-they have i'm
pressed upon thoughtful people a
fuller realization of the growth of
that spirit of hatred and class feel
ing of which Warren is a conspicuous
apostle.
Mr.. Fred Warren is the editor of
the Appeal TO Reason, a socialist
weekly of enormous circulation which
is published at Girard, Kansas. Mr..
Warren had been given a sentence
of six months in the penitentiary,
and the meetings of yesterday
were designed 10 make it appear
that he is a martyr who has been
stricken because of his championship
of the common people" They were
designed to promote the prosperity of
socialism-and. presumably. the cir
culation of Warren's paper They
were designed to make it appear that
there is no justice for the poor
man" in the courts; that the Ameri-
can system of government is a gov
eminent for and by capitalism
whatever that means-and that a
revolution is necessary
Let us see how much of a martyr
MIR. Warren is, and how much sanity
there is in the proposal to over
throw our government because he is
serving sentence of Imprisonment?
The case had it's origin many years
ago, and was an outgrowth of the
famous trial in Idaho of Meyer. Hay
wood and Pettibone for the murder
of former Governor Steunenberg.
who was foully murdered at the gate
of his home by the explosion of
dynamite bomb. Meyer. Haywood
and Pettibone were officers of the
Western Federation of Miners, having
their headquarters at Denver On
warrants regularly issued, charging
them with conspiring to have Steun-
enberg murdered. they were arrested
i'm Colorado and hurried out of that
state and into Idaho, without resort
to the regular processes of extradi-
ton. The proceeding was irregular.
but there was precedent for it, and
the various subordinate courts, and
finally the supreme court of the
United States. ruled that, inasmuch
as the authorities of Idaho had ac-
quired possession of the prisoners.
they were legally prisoners of that
state
The three men were subsequently
acquitted-which proved that they
at least, had nothing TO fear from the
courts of capitalism" in the trial of
their case on its merits. But be-
fore their trial Warren in his paper
began frenzied defense of them.
They were martyrs" and all that 1t
was then that Warren committed his |
offense against the postal laws of the |
United States. He caused to be |
sent broadcast 5000 letters upon the
envelopes of which was printed:
"One thousand dollars reward will |
be paid to any person who kidnaps |
Ex-Governor Taylor and returns him |
to the Kentucky authorities"
II was Warrens plan, he explained. |
to show that capitalism had. ono
law for the poor man. and another
law for the rich man. ut is worth |
while to remember at this point that /
Meyer. Pettibone and Haywood. how
ever poor" they may have been, had
no cause to complain of their final
treatment in the halls of justice)
Taylor was a fugitive from the
authorities of Kentucky. and the gov
ernor of Indiana had refused to
recognize extradition papers against
him. Had Warren worded his adj
vertisement differently-had he been
really DESTROYS of ascertaining whether
the courts would treat Taylor the
same as they had treated Meyer. Hay
wood and Pettibone-he could easily
have accomplished his purpose with
out subjecting himself to punishment
He could have contrived to have Tay-
Tor arrested on a warrant legally is
sued in Kentucky and could have had
him hurried out of Indiana and into
precisely as had been done
in the Idaho Colorado case. Financial
means were not lacking. Warrens
paper is a mint as a revenue pro-
Queer. Besides. the great war chest"
of the Western Federation would no
doubt have been his to command