The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-12-10
Justice Crucified

An indeibe stain will be put upon our democracy and
our reputation nation whose purposes are freedom
justice and equality will exude the stenches of hypocrisy
and can't public private sentiment accepts ana Is con-
tent with that shameful compromise the communication OF
Tom Moneys death sentence by Governor stephens VI
California.
labor declares So Public sentiment generally all over this
country and most of the old countries would have 1t So
He did not have fair trial. The court records prove It,
The attorney general of the state asks for new trial The
Judge who tried convicted sentenced and refused Mooney
trial. has evidence that prompts him to plead
that there be new trial The very fact of Communication
life Imprisonment pleads that he was not
convicted beyond that reasonable doubt to which the accused
is entitled else the governor of California stued hln
self by committing merciess bloody butcher OF innocent
women and children
What is CALIFORNIA; conception of justice TO the law
abiding well the awbreaker? Is she still the awess
viglante, posing before her civilized sister states win
her looking for limb from which to SWING
somebody proof proof long somebody is hanged
Just think of it, regardless OF all the legal points prece
and procedures involved The very Judge who heard
all the evidence and refused trial. discovers there
perjury and pleads that there be re-tra ana all
the inferior and courts reply that they are WITH
out Jurisdiction There is remedy If the perjury that
convicted Is not discovered within 10 days of the convc
How extreme this California rule is may be illustrated
by the case of Dr. Bowers convicted long 1887
Of numbering his wife, and sentenced to death Later
brother of the dead confessed that he alone was
the murderer but the court held that so lar as
concerned Bowers would hang. because the facts
were in the record sent up from the lower court
Mooney be pardoned and put trial on one OF his
But justice is paralyzed The judiciary is mpotent.
innocent Mooney must ehuuie hNiiis 90
of the political necessities ambitions of governor
Guilty he wr his bloody fingers at law, order Justice
society assassinated
No. this Mooney case is not settled.
American justice, OUR justice. with her martyr
bexoten progeny freedom and equaityour justice. to
impress which upon the Hun and the benghted of foreign
peoples who tearing each other in their mob struggle
for justice send millions of heroes billions of
dollars. president across the seass crngng at
the feet of judicial impotence hopeessy pleading not to
be hanged until dead without honest hearing
In the quo of this matter nothing could be more
unsettled than the real issue involved There is no moiety
of justice for Mooney for the next whose life
may be stake at the bar There justice in it for
society which necessary keep down the red flag
of elements that are camong against injustice The
is STILL
Shall the average have fair trial for his life?
Tear the eye-bandage from the statue of justice in
California; She's stone blind anyhow And if her people
do rise another and fair trial for Mooney,
she's stone deaf, well.