The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-02-03


has clearly specified and for the discharge Of which
he is ably equipped.
That he will carry out his pledges is admitted
by both friends and foes
DIR. Cullum will be elected The people need him.
MR. BARROW CANNOT BE GUILTY.
Our heart goes out to Clarence S. Darrow in Los
Angeles Our good opinion of him, in spite of all
the accusations that have been made against him by
cratic union men, suspicious socialists and Cali
lorna grand jury, remains unaltered.
We have known him for almost twenty years.
He is the one lawyer, the late lamented W. w.
Irwin OF state, who through all these years
has blended his splendid legal talents with his
courageous love for the underdog in the great in
dustrial conflict Of the age
We recollect his lon-like but hopeless fight
against judicial usurpation during the American
Railway Union strike in 1884, when with Lyman J.
Irumbull, he endeavored to prevent at it's INCEPTION
the substitution of judgemade law for the law of
the people, and how during that long trial of Eugene
V. Debs ne prophetically pictured the events that
have since occurred
We remember his heroic defense of Thos l. Kidd,
then secretary Of the Amalgamated Woodworkers
international union, tried on the charge of con-
spiracy to murder, before a packed court in Osh-
kosh with the cards perfectly stacked against him,
and how he then threw his whole being into the
trial; proved to biased jury that the charge was
a frame up to crush the poorest paid laborers in
Wisconsin, and his client was acquitted. -
We recall his conduct during the investigation
by the Anthracite Coal strike commission when he
presented the Of the half starved and enslaved
miners of Pennsylvania, and how he brought graph
lcaly to the attention of the country knowledge Of
conditions of industrial slavery that few believed
existed anywhere in the civilized world.
We do not forget his services in Idaho to the
miners of the west during the trial of the officials
Of the Western Federation of Miners, where issues
developed through the malicious persecution of bit
ter enemies of organized labor, that overshadotved
the question of the guilt innocence of the accused
men.
Then when John j. Mcnamara was kidnapped out
OF Indiana, and the of his arrest and sub
sequent incidents led the men of labor to believe
MIN innocent, it was to Clarence S. Darrow they
turned for help. His health was impaired, and he
reluctantly went to the defense of the Mcnamara
brothers, for he recognized after his experience in
Idaho that the trial would be long, bitter and nerve
racklng. But the true lawyer that he was, and has
since proved to be, prompted him to put the best
that was IN him in the case, he had always done
when the name of labor was involved
They tell us that this great champion of the
| rights of man is bribe-giver We do not believe
| it. We were mistaken in the Mcnamara brothers,
| but we cannot be in Clarence S. barrow
| The evidence against him comes from a. caught
1nthe-act bride giver with the chances of prison
sentence before him until Mr.. Darrow was indicted
Now word comes from Los Angeles that he will not
60 to JAIL Is this to be the price for branding Mr.
barrow a criminal?
In judging the guilt or innocence Of a man the
character OF the witnesses against him must be con-
sldered A detective, Of the kind that Burns saws
nne-tenths are Crooks who is caught red-handed in
giving a bride would as readily accept bribe even
to involve such as Mr.. Darrow, with hi own
| liberty the price.
| Would not those enemies of labor out there in
LOS Angeles, gloating their victory in the Me-
Namara case, and to make their triumph more CON-
plete, be content if they but checker the char
acter and career of labor's greatest lawyer?
We are morally certain that a fair trial will
vlndlcate our confidence in Mr. Darrow. But guilty
or innocent we shall ever remember the noble and
services ne has renedred to the cause of labor
| .. we wish we knew how to help him. as he has so
| etten helped our cause when we were in sore need
OF his brilliant services, stopping not to enquire
whether there was guilt or innocence on our side
| Municipal ownership represents phase of the
great labor problem. 1t is a principle for which
union labor has contended for more than thirty
years. Is there trade unionist in Duluth who
will betray his principles on Tuesday next? =
We repeat that the tax rate of Duluth has NOT
been increased one mill by reason Of the municipal
ownership Of the gas and water plants. .1~.- ->~
Do not fail to register and call for ! separate
ballot to vote on the bond issue Ask the election
Judge He will instruct: you s"T@