United labor bulletin., 1911-05-04

on the fingers of his innocent wife. And
don't bring your lawyers said this
nightly voice, but come into court
stripped of the protection of legal ad-
vice and be stripped of your rings by a
court of justice. | pass from one to an
other element of proof in this case for
the hour is growing late.
Let US consider the case of the min
ers Accepting the testimony of every
witness who testified for the coal COM
pany as absolutely true, the alleged con-
temnor, Duncan Stubbs, only swore back
in answer to a man across the public
road. For this offense he was guilty of
the violation of the courts injunction in
the coal case, and the strong arm of the
court puts him in jail for year. Was
|it Justice that confined him or was it the
court2 II justice says it was wrong and
this Judge says it was right, there is a
Iconfiict between righteousness and this
Judge and he is guilty of wrongful op-
preston in his office, and the charge is
sustained
In the case OF Monroe Hicks. This
man sat silently by and said never a
word, but no sense of discrimination ap-
peared upon the part of the court; no
discerning mind of the judiciary was
there. but Hicks must be adjudged guilty
'Decause he dared TO ride in buggy
with Stubbs.
IF this kind of justice appeals to you.
gentlemen of the committee. there is
only one answer for you to make to the
house Of representatives in Colorado, and
may as well return to my office now.
Did Judge Stimson, in defending the
action OF Judge Whitford in the miners
case. tell you about Mr.. Woodhead. a
man past the meridian of life, who was
on the night OF this trouble in Lafayette,
going about his business as a peaceable
citizen of the community? Did they tell
you that he showed by two Witnesses
that he was nowhere near the scene of
the trouble? No, gentlemen. the only
charge against Mr.. Woodhead was that
he was a member of a union-an organ
ization of workingmen. who have joined
their individual forces together to pro-
tect themselves and families from the
oppression of low wages for manual la
Dor, forced upon them by the great or
ganizations of wealth. trying to control
both the financial and industrial world.
WAS there any justification upon the
part of the court when he sentenced Ed
Doyle. after Doyle had gone to these de
tectives engaged in the northern coal
field and offered his assistance in run
ming down the guilty parties in the La
fayette disturbance? Or would his honor
prefer the testimony of a detective who
the next day after. mounted to the sec
ond story of building and identified the
story engaged in the riots Was the pre-
story engaged in the rio, Was the pre-
sumption of innocence overthrown and
was the time-honored rule of law. that
all men are innocent until proven guilty,
upheld, or were they trampled under
foot in this sentence of year in jailg
| ask you, gentlemen of the committee,
to answer by your report to the house of
representatives.
when overwhelming testimony was
offered to show the court that the wife
of William Snow was lying in bed in
Lafayette nursing a newborn babe, and
the further proof that Snow was at the
house hovernig around the bedside like
any other anxious father. did the cry of
the baby or the tears of the mother prove
a mitigation in the eyes of Judge Whit
fords No: Snow got year in jail. |
ask you IL this is an act of oppression in
ONCE? II ii is. your report can tell your
fellow representatives only one thing;
there is but one way open.
"Koenig was not according TO the tes-
tfmony in this record, at the scene of
on this Saturday night. His
wife says that her baby lay in a fever
on this occasion and that poor Jesse
Koenig walked the floor with the baby
in his arms or sat by the bedside watch
ing with fathers anxious eyes. Did
the plea of this women soften the SEN
tence OF the court? No: 1t was year in
Jail for Koenig.
There stands in this record. gentle
men of the committee, a more fearful
arraignment than lies in my power to
utter. 1t is the testimony of Jack Cas-
sidy. the city marshal of Lafayette Cas-
sidy says he stood in the court room in
Denver one day. when he was held be-
fore the bar of Justice. and heard Judge
whitford say that 1t might be the evil
dence in the contempt case was conflict
ing but the sentence of the court had
produced marked effect for the good
OF the community. Mr. Hollenbeck. do
YOU want to go to Jail for the effect that
II would have upon Chaffee county? Mr..