The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-27


 dead man, the victim of gover- nor's fear or hate or both of the h. dustrial Workers of tho World, to which Hillstrom belonged, in the allegation that he. had been guilty of California dynamiting outrages numerous robberies and that his private life was one of bestial le. pravity and shocking immortality finds it's sole basis on the arrest in California which has been referred to, and tho mans own confession that he incurred the bullet wound while visiting another mans wife possibly making love to her, as one of the critics of this case suggests "a trait not necessarily confined tC I. w. w: masculinity".
 All this blatant talk of anarchy and the red flag is merely the fran. tic effort to keep alive a hatred oi an organization which whatever its lauito hao uOnC HlOiC LO SlFc IAe common laborers an ideal worth struggling for than any other in the labor movement. The slur upon Haywood "of Steunonberg murde, notoriety" is relied upon to convey to the ignorant, as indeed this en. tire article is an appeal to ignor- ance and prejudice, that Haywood murdered Steunenberg. The Mine Operators of Idaho and the govern. ment which they controlled had Haywood, Pettibonc and Moyei many long years, with witnesses trained by expert detectives tt swear falsely, and they could never prove sufficient to convict, while wit nesses of unquestioncd vcracity ana undoubted integrity by their test mony proved that the very stronges, witness of the government had beer an agent provocateur for years: the man Orchard, alias Hogan
 Now let's consider another cast which the reverend editor of the Fort Wayne News may also have heard of, but which the Industria Worker will go bail he will not even mention for the benofit of those who copy his diatribes and lieo con, corning Hillstrom and against the red flag. EHNEn
 Some years ago-ycars we ray priest named Hans Schmidt killed his servant whom he seduced. This was Ann Anmuller. The woman wa. pregnant and around the details O. the case the government produced testimony to show at the trial the most debased, dcpraved and bestia of conduct was that of the defend ant. This is not any wild partizar conjecture. It is fact. It wa' scuch an important fact that thos, interested in defending Schmid brought relatives from far ava! Germany to defend him as an insane man. But his prison guards end hi physicians and his accomplicUs il other crime, admitted that he wal in every way normal, just skill full criminal, a clever murderer wht just before he was caught in thu tolls had been as a clergyman a ranging for a campaign agains socialism and the socialists wht break up the homes and Haunt sS' red flag, ct cetera. Schmidt Is no dead. He is still in Sing Sing. H, was in Sing Sing long before th' name of Hillstrom was legally heart 'cf. He was in Sing Sing long te fore many and many man who has in the meanwhile, been arreste, and electrocuted
 His request for a new trial wa Up last November before the Cour of Appeals. Itfwas denied him afte his conviction in the lower court His attorney is confident he will ge ! new trial; confident that he wil be acquitted. That is very doubtful But the point is that concernin his guilt there is not even a par Iticle of doubt. His own church ha outwardly at any rate disowned hin, No president has asked the Governo to pardon him, to reprive him an been denied But he is still alive Yet there is' no man living, not one, who doesn't. know that ha Hans Schmidt been common work ling stiff, much less a member Q fhn indnsfrial tNnrkcfs n