The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-01-02
THE MEANING OF THE GREAT
INDIANAPOLIS VERDICT.

Lewiston Tribune: 1t would
be hard to imagine among the at
talnable things, a better termina-
ton to the year than has been
given III the successful prosecu-
ton Of the dynamite assassins,
whose operations have produced
so much desolation and misery
and constituted SO great a source
OF terror to those who might have
fallen under the despleasure of
the conspirators, or of others like
them. The result must take its
place among the great achieve
ments of organized society as
epochal, in being able to judic-
tally prove crimes of the particu-
lar nature here involved, in de-
priving the arch-desperadoes of
labor unionism of that secret and
dreaded instrumentality for the
future and in freeing labor union
ism itself of that hideous stain
upon it's purpose and it's plan.
The moral effect of these verdicts
must be as great in an anchor
alive way as they would have
been in a retrogressive way had
the decision been different and
the crimes gone acquitted and I'M
proven.
The state of Idaho has a pecul-
lar interest and satisfaction in the
outcome of the trial, for this state
was the pioneer and pathfinder
in dealing with great aggrega-
tions Of criminal violence, lawless-
ness and anarchism of this sort
and made the test that determin-
ed once for all its place among
the enlightened and free states
of the earth. The Idaho eases
failed, in one sense, but they did
their perfect work in a larger
sense, and made possible the pres
ent situation that is so full of
promise for peace and law and
safety, as compared with the con-
trary possibilities. The Idaho cas-
es failed, because at that time
it seemed too great a strain to
impose ON unionism the RESPONSE
bility for such intolerable and wan
ton atrocities, everyone realizing
fully the merit of the union prin-
ciple and the equal merit of the
union personnel, in general, with
that of any other class or condi-
ton of men. 1t fell to the state
of Idaho to show that desperate
men had risen to power, formed
an inner cicle within themselves
and hoodwinked the membership
al large as well as large part
tf the public, while claiming and
ltceiving unbounded sympathy
and support for the cause they
pretended to represent. The Moy-
er-Haywood operations were re-
vealed as thoroughly and convinc-
ingly in the Idaho trials as those
of Ryan, Hockin, Tveitmoe and
the others in the Indianapolis
trials, but public opinion was not
then ready to convict and more
sacrifices, more assassinatiOns,
more sorrow and more penalty
must be heaped up before the
hand was ready to be put to the
pillow.
The end of organized terror
ism masquerading under the name
of unionism is now, we firmly be-
lieve, practically at an end. There
will be doubtless, sporadic and
individual assaults, but public
opinion is now so completely in
formed that the source will be
forthwith sought and instead of
it being difficult to fix the crime
hereafter it will be more difficult
to prevent it being unjustly fix
ed, wherever occurrences of a
similar nature arise. There will
be no more widows and orphans
as at Los Angeles, or wholesale
imprisonments and distressed wiz
es and children as at Indianapol-
is; men can adhere to and exalt
their union without having to de-
fend or excuse ensanguined ruff
fans by reason of the fellowship
all, whether capital or labor or
the innocent public, can go about
their work in more security and
satisfaction than they have been
able to in many year, in numer-