Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-12-02

| tragedy How different m. uo.,lo, "a ,o.s,,,a,
,, ,ne witnesses to this real tragedy Excited
s.""'hN brought fAce to face with a terrible strug
| k'e between a giant man and a young man VIII,
q n.i" hoy In size. a crowd quickly collected
,ne s'sht OF blood the terrible roar OF the as.sil
% %a' 'uts.- and threats. everything moving rap
'dIJ tensely, shrieking women. excited men voul,
,ou uhuef such circumstances give weight and con
sn"rstion TO testimony that mathemstcally di
Nided seconds and measured In inches
All Of the witnesses who testified here. both fo
| me state as well as for the defense showed
railing common 10 humanity. II 10 the ior
y. ."e human being to try to answer any question
| thst IL put to him We are all distnclined to .ay
| do not know Our sgotism makes 90. Esci
wth'Ss unconscious OF the fact that he was guess
ihg made some answer TO every one OF the ma n,
questions addressed to the minutest details OF III,
| tragedy Of December 30. 1913 While in neishborl 4,
conversations the indulgence In guessing under IN,
| respectable apology that Il 10 our best recolec
ton may be tolerated. set In a court room wher,
brothers blood. n mana honor. = name are q
| stake. twelve men of blood and honor and xoot
name will not take from the defendant the thins
iixht and invaluable as these non-essentixi meas
urings and Euessinks May reaffirm my owr
humble position BY citing great living au,horit,
whose experiments and whose books upon tn,
psychology of evidence are standard Hugo Nun
sterburx. savant. who holds the chair Of psychoi
ogy at Harvard University, has exposed the un
reliabl Of the human mind In reporting de
tails of observation. He has shown the meet,
and bounds OF our mental limitations and tn,
danger of forming Judgments on testimony pre-
tending TO accurately represent with minuten-.
the moNemen OF and the measuring of tin.
ana distance. This truth IL 50 selftyident that Z,
reason more concerning 1t would be offensive I,
your common sense willingly leave with ypt
the task OF detsrminins the guilt of Carl Per
son undisturbed by the fear that you viii not b,
| able to Judge between the essentials" and tn,
'non-e~entials" In this ease-undis,urbed by IN,
fear that fyspecks of will blind your eyes I,
mountains OF truth.
The days of this trial have been ions and many
Witnesses In hundred. have taken the stand. ou
| OF the facts that all Of them have told has beer
spun = skein whose threads are seeming incon
day. hour by hour. minute by minute truth
strong and busy fingers have woven from tn,
her shuttle. Long has she been . weaver In tn
hsvss Of Justice. A rses fes the is:scsat. -
ana strong while her shuttle f1ss In and out
Close beside her sits Hunchbscked FasshooA AM
| strives In endlsas evil patience for such hopses
entan Cling Of the threads that gentle wonA:ou
Truth shall Departing of her labor. lay asd,. he
| shuttle and leave her fabric unfinished Hasfsrt
1 eyed. crooked bodies, chastity faced the III ss
passer twists and snArls the yarn. Envtously bus,
are her claw-hke hands--calloused and crusl from
their sinful labor And as the days and hours ant
minutes pass. she braids and braids and braids-
. hangmans noo~e, A monstrous hsG 10 she ans
she braids . lie ronG 10 the music In her heart
Now. Gentlemen of the jury. the ~esvsrs work Il
done Has Truth woven her robe for Innocence
or has Faisehood braided her hansman's nooss
Every answer from the witness stand has been
thread either In the hsnds OF faisehood or o.
Truth.
On September 20. 1911. thirty-fve thousan
L American citizens. plain honest ~orkinGmen. o.
whom carl Person Wos oue. were co""shucu u
surrender . free mans right or give up tn.i
joba Two great railroad companies sent out TN
order II vas unconditional The right TO organ
ize was the right involved organifauon mean
everything to the workers Throngh IL thes hs'
b@ttered the conditions OF their homes. the lis.
Of their children and of themselves No oues,o,
Of wages or terms of employment were involved
The railroad eompans ,,s n",n, W, -, ~ ~
men to organize into q logical economical AMI sf
fecttye union through which a. workers, as mel
! aaA - citizens. they could compel reasonable
treatment and fair terms OF employment
,ooLs and faced the starvation OF the empty pal
envelope rather than surrender right necssss''
10 their freedom and existence These men ar
men even you and are men They live an'