The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-07
THE TRACY TRIAL.


 man beings protection in the reten- tion of their rights and liberties, but may be basely prostltuted 10 corruption or to crookedness. The Courts of Law and trial by jury. no more than anything else were immune rom being put to the basest of uses as we saw in many cases but none so recent or notor- ious as the trial of Mooney, Bill ines and the rest in the Fickert con spiracy in San Francisco.
 For that reason one turns with great satisfaction to the trial ot Tracy and the rest of the industrial ists in Seattle.
 Seattle has done much i'll thls trial to vindicate trial by jury and 10 demonstrate that it is the falrest thing that man has so far con ceived for trying the guilt CT the innocence, even according to the law and the facts, that human lll- genuity has conceived.
 Trial by jury depends for it's sue cess upon a selection primarily Of impartial jurors. It is quite true that with the bitterness that has been engendered in the struggle be- tween labor and capital this is very difficult to maintain. It is true that almost everyone going into the jury box will have definite prejudice and definite pre-conceptions which are difficult to remove by reason or their economic position.
 Whence it was recognized, in as remote an era as that wherein the Magma Charta was granted by King John, trial by jury to be fair must be a trial by a jury of the defend ants peers.
 In those days apparently they had no conception of tho profes- sional juror who as the retained of the prosecution could eke out far from unsatisfactory existence and depending upon the favors of the district attorneys to hold thelr positions on such juries. they natur- ally were glad to convict.
 Such a state of affairs as was re- yealed in the Billings and in the Mooney trials in San Francisco shocked even that community that is not gwen much to being astound- ed when depths of political or other corruption are revealed.
 And it has made the whole Paclhc Coast sit up and take notice. lt has furthermore reused the whole labor world to a sense of danger and a feeling that such a condition ieopardzed it without equal of jeo- pardy in a long long time.
 So it is that the acquittal or Tracy in Seattle, the defendant be- ing first of the industrialists to be kried there, will be hailed by labor with satisfaction as demonstrating that when trial by jury gets fair lest. it will not be found wanting.
 All the facts of the Tracy trial went to show that the defendants were the victims of an anti-labor campaign winch stopped at nothing. The testimony of even government witnesses went to show that the au- thorities sworn to uphold the con stitution in Everett had deliberately and with apparently not unwilling malfeasance at the behest of number of powerful lumber inter ests. removed every vestige of such constitutional rights as the work CTS could lay claim to. Not orly that but these powerful iRerests with the authorities sworn to up hold the law had created reign of terror in Everett which was to be justification for every vicious at tack and wanton assault upon laDor culminating in the dramatic meet ing between the lumbermen and city officials when one Of the form CT turned to Sheriff MacRae while planning the bloody massacre and dared him to have guts enough to go through with it, and the sheriff had made answer, You furnish me with the men and I'll show you l have.
 Accordingly when the trial was removed from this atmosphere of corruption in Snohomish county