The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-24
LABOR LAWYER WINS
BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
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BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
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you gentlemen shall say differently,
and would be entitled to some even
then, and SO long as have any I shall
assert them the best I can as 20
through the world wherever 1 go.
What am I on trial for, gentlemen Of
the jury? You have been listening
here for three months, what is it all
about: If you don't know, then you
are not as intelligent as I believe.
Shows Why He Is on Trial for His
Liberty.
Il am not being tried for having
sought to bride a man named Lock-
wood. There may be, and doubtless
are many people who think did seek
to bribe him, but am not being tried
for that, and I will prove 1t to you.
No man is being tried upon that
been a lover of the too poor, a friend
of the oppressed, because I have stood
by labor for all these years, and have
brought down upon my head the
wrath Of the criminal interests in
this country. Whether guilty or inno-
cent, that Is the reason I am here,
and that is the reason that I have
been pursued by as cruel gang Of
cut-throats as ever pursued any man
since the world was born.
Nov, let's see if I can prove it. If
the district attorney of this county
though a crime had been committed,
we'll and good, let him go ahead and
prosecute. but has he done it? And
who are these people back of him, and
back of the organization of this coun-
ty, who have been hot on my trail,
and whose bark I can remember from
long ago?
will you tell me, gentlemen of the
jury, why the Erectors' association
this case here in Los Angeles? Will
YOU tell me why the Erectors' associa-
ton of Indianapolis should put up as
vicious and as cruel a plot as was
ever used against any American citi-
zen to catch me? Gentlemen, if you
cont know you are not fit to be jurors.
Are they interested in bribery?
Yell, almost every dollar of their i'll
,otten gains have come from it. When
did the Standard Oil and the Steel
Trust-the Steel Trust, which owns
the Erectors' association and is the
ErectOrs' association-when did they
become interested in bribery? When
they got many millions of dollars of
watered stock from the American peo-
pie and take it from the Drawn and
the brain and the blood and the life
OF the American working man, and
when every scheme they put through
reeks with bribery and corruption.
1T is not, gentlemen of the Jury.
that any of these men care about
bribery, but there never was a chance
before to claim that bribery had been
committed by the poor; never hereto
fore; it had been monopolized like
everything else by the rich, and then
now is chance and they choose to
get me. I there any doubt about it ?
Suppose I am guilty, is that why !
am prosecuted in this court? Is that
Why, by the most Infamous methods
law, these men, enemies of society,
are trying to get me inside the peni-
tertiary?
THAT isn't it. You twelve men
know it, gentlemen. Your faces are
unfamiliar to me; there may not be a
man on this jury that believes as 1 be-
lieve upon these great questions be-
tween capital and labor. You may all
be on the other side. But have faced
the other side over and over and over
again, and I am going to tell you the
truth this afternoon 1t may be the
last chance that I shall ever get tc
speak in a court of justice.
These men are interested in get
ting me. They have concocted al
sorts of schemes for the sake Of get
ting me out of the way. Do you sup
pose they, care what 1 have done.
have stood for the weak and the poor
l have stood for the men who toll
And therefore, I have stood against
them. And now it is their chance
''All right, gentlemen, am in your
hands. Not in theirs just yet or com.
pletely at least.
Cannot Destroy the Hopes of the Poo1
"Oh, you wild, insane members O.
the Steel Trust and Erectors' asso
citation; oh, you mad hounds of de-
tectives, who are willing to do your
masters will; oh, you district attor
neys; you know not what you do. LIE
coed in placing me behind prison
walls, there will brood a silence more
oninous and eloquent than any wore
that my poor lips could ever frame
And do you think that you coult
destroy the hopes of the poor ant
the oppressed if you did,? Don't yol
know that upon my prosecution ant
destruction would arise 10000 mer
ADLER than / have been, more than
have sacrificed in a righteous cause
and these men would carry this ban.
ner to the end?
have been perhaps, interested IL
more cases for the weak and the
poor than any other man in America
but I am pretty near done, anyhow
If they had taken me twenty year.
ago, it might have been worth thei1
while.. But there are younger mer
than I, and there are men who will
not be awed by prison bars, by dis.
trict attorneys by detectives but who
will do this work.
Gentlemen, say this IS not a case
OF bribery at all. You know the mer
who have been after me and the in
terests that have been after me, ant
the means that have been used. VIVA
else is done? They say a briber,
vas was seriously intended down here Of
MAIN street close to my office, which
I will speak about later, Have the,
tried to get q bride glver or 4, brib,
taker No. not one.
Let 10 #a4e what they have done,