The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
HISTORY OF
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cent. u lA'N were put " utdNu dlNtt
being convicted in labor-hating
town. the verdict would never have
satisfied great many people in the
United States. and this doubt would
undouJ,e,i. find expression in ways
decidedly inimical to our present
courts and legal procedure.
Perhaps / have drawn a sympa-
theuc picture Of barrow Possibly
more credit should be given to Fred
ericks for forcing the defense into
such position, bat all this being
granted, it took a high order of cour-
age to face such a situation and to
grasp it as barrow did He could
have fought on to his undoubted
credit even though he lost but he
preferred to lose now, take the blame
himself if necessary, in order to save
his clients lives. A higher principle
for lawyer to work upon could
scarcely be conceived. barrow eX-
tracted all the victory possible in a
battle already lost
Look at another angle of it now.
The highest of the labor leaders in
the United States have turned fro n
the McNamaras, denounced them for
having deceived labor, as they claim,
and let the working men and women
of the country give up their hard
earned dimes for the defense of con
tossed dynamiters and murderers. A
large portion of the Mcnamara de-
tense fund is to be intact, and labor
men make the suggestion that this be
turned over to the families of the
victims of the Times explosion
Without doubt many labor leaders are
sincere in their declarations against
Mcnamara, yet Detective Burns, who
the dynamiters makes the positive
statement that Samuel Gompers and
other big labor men knew all the
time that the McNamara's were
guilty, that many of them knew that
great sums were given Mcnamara for
his use without making any account
ing. Remember that Burns makes this
statement against men of integrity
and high standing, and remember that
Burns has seldom made a statement
that he hasn't afterwards proved.
What then will be the next step as a
result of the Los Angeles conviction
if the men hiring Burns shall say
GO on and prove it"
This brings us back to another
angle of the case which starts before
the confession and gives another rea
son why it came as it did. Lincoln
! "muchraker" was reporting the trial
| 4 quiet man, student rather than bust
| ness man and fighter, Socialist il
| tendency, is said by others to have
/ first made the effort to have the mer
! plead guilty. A hard and a deel
J thinker is Steffens, a man close to the
/ people, the common people, in tune
! with their thoughts and desires. TIC
him the situation was not the trial Of
| two dynamiters, nor the fight of dr
open-shop town against union men
| 1t was an economic condition.
! Just bear in mind that phrase-It
! was an economic condition. And il
! frightened Steffens. Not for what il
! might do to him, but what it was al
! ready doing to the country to the
| world one could safely say. 1t was 6
terrible example of class hatred ant
to the existence of that feeling is SAIL
: to be due the remarkable progress O
the Socialist tendencies cropping ou
in various spots in the world And 81
Steffens in his actions reflected wha
part of the world is thinking about.
He went to one or two prominen
men in Los Angeles and talked the
Golden Rule to them. They gasped a
the sheer audacity of it. He talked
on, and they were interested. 4
larger circle of business and profes
sional men were called in, Steffens
suggestion that they apply the Colder
y Rule to the situation amazed them
IS Here was a madcap urging a fanci
S full theory that the laboring men witt
70 had fought these employers will
dynamite and had oftimes destroye,
the work of years should be show
mercy. Why when capital had labo
on its knees should not it be exter
minated? After years of effort labo
had been run to earth, corralled an
8. was to be permanently stiled so ia
- as Los Angeles was concerned, Thi
these men had determined upon.
The Los Angeles business peopl
were talking about men you see Will
Steffens was talking conditions. H
may have been impractical in som
of his statements, but he got thos
men to thinking. What might be tn
result if the case went on, if elias
at hatred became more acute? Gradual