New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30

rected have been those Of the mill work
ers M Lawrence, Mass, and Paterson
Y l. in connection with both Of which
he was arrested and for his particlpa-
ton in the former sentenced 70 SIN
months in jail. III.
His conduct of the Lawrence strike
was scandal in respect to the misuse
of the funds so literally contributed
by the strikers and sympathiLers' ou,
he was lauded as victor and delugeu
with maudlin praise as a hoerator VI
labor.
Haywood has long fought and chaI,
lenged society. Until now he mas hhu
20 deal only with state laws ana staie
courts. Now he appears IN the role
Of open enemy OF the national govern
ment. lie has appealed 20 reyolutioh'
and the government has answered VIZ
hi. arrest, virtually as revolutlonlsN
He has challenged the nation as one
who would overthrow t. Uncle oah'
has accepted the challenge.
Yet. peering out Of his cell IN the
county Jail at Chicago he softiy says
that he can't understand why ne mas
been arrested; that he has commltteu
no crime, and whines about constitu-
ti0ndl llENI~. IlUlu I'VE fNiA'N
no crime can be committed, Tor, accord
ing to ]. ". W. philosophy: go,
ANY and all tactics that Will get
the results. The tactics arc deter
mined solely by the power Of the or
ganization to make good in their use.
The question Of right and wrong does
not concern u.s.
This man now pleads that he has done
hon Tod a. n a.
would keen the government so busy
looking after strikes IN the west that
il couldn't send troops to France; who
urged resistance to conscrip-
tion: who denounced the war as a capi-
talistic murder fest" who accused
President Wilson of treachery, hypoc-
risy and duplicity; whose followers
have tied up the copper mines of the
West, and who planned TO do the same
with the iron mines of Minnesota IN
order to cripple the American war
machine; this leader of men who have
burned wheat fields, poisoned cattle,
DESTROYED mills. set forest fires, IN
undated and terrorized whole states,
started the fires of rebellion in Okla.
homa; who has worked hand in hand
with the German propaganda, and
who has everywhere sought to arouse
class hatred and inaugurate unendlng
class wars.
Rather has ne left nothing undone in
thought or deed against his country
Even while il was in the thrOes of a
titanic struggle with the. universal
enemy Of all the political societies,
which by their very nature continually
evolve into better and better condl-
tions, he was preaching that the work
ers and the workers alone viii give TO
this nightmare OF the ages lts 1ihal
coup de grace. They will do this either
by tearing open its arteries with inc
talons of sabotage or piercing It's rot
ten heart with the Sigurd blade of in
dustrial solidarity. But the beast must
perish. Kismet."
From years of red-handed revolt ana
the preaching of anarchy Mllllam qua
lev HAYWOOD has evolved into the as
ssssin of his country. Leader of those
scbooled in the treachery of the secret
assassin. of the coward who stabs but
will not fight. he planned TO drive the
rcniard of class war and internal as
order into the heart OF his motherland,
tense i'm a life and death struggle with
the foreign foe. -,
But the blow did not get home
Gripped in the tolls OF law Sections g.
~ and 81 of the Criminal Code of the
United States Of America, relating to
seditious conspiracy. and Section 1 OF
the espionage act), charged with a mul-
titude of criminal acts and indicted on
five counts. confronted by a mass OF
damning evidence mountain high, Hay
wood. arch enemy of America, - on
the highroad to punishment.