Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-20
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jury, when confronted by an overwhelm- ing mass of evidence, brought in verdict
 against one hundred l. w. w. leaders and
 high privates on four counts of an indict- ment that alleged many kinds of treason
 sabotage and outlawry against all accepted and practical and decent forms of society
 And Judge Landis did not quibble or hesi- tate in the matter of sentence He in- flicted a prison sentence of twenty-seven years and fine of 1000 up each of these men. Their offenses were grave and the evidence against them clear and convinc- ing. Ordinarily the governing powers of this great republic are most patient and le- nient to the point of indifference regarding the activities of every species of sociological fanatic and Propagandist and agitator and radical and reformer and objector and pub lie and private nuisance in general This Is free country and every man and organi- zation is accorded the right to raise all the rumpus his purse and his lungs can muster, so long as he does not violate federal or state laws and city ordinances
 This nation was founded by men in search of freedom of speech, thought, ac- ton and religion It is next to impossible for a citizen of this republic to be brought into court for any extreme views he may have or express regarding the government, religion or society in general. It IS his blessed privilege in the land of the free to have as many wheels in his head as there Is floor space and motive power for them.
 BUT, this nation is at war, and after long months of patience that had ceased to be virtue the government at last began to take action against the crime of treason. It went after foreign traitors with terrible hand. Then it turned to that species who would hamper and harass and delay and oppose the successful conduct of the war. It turned to the objector, the pacifist, the prcpagandist, the stacker, the dangerous agent, the undesirable and the sewers of discord, distrust and Encouragement. In the last two series of classes 1t found the ]. w. W. the most brazen if not the most danger ous in the land Long community nuis- ance and even menace in many sections of the country, the l. w. w., emboldened by governmental leniency and made reckless by their petty triunps in harassing industry in sparcely settled regions of the west, stepped far over the line and began to defy and bother the government itself. It had destroyed private property with immunity and had harassed private industry without an accounting, why, 1t argued, not show the government where to head in? It topposed the war In fact, 1t opposed everything; that was the key to its creed, opposition. It opposed capital, society, government, all things that represented success and prach- cal attainment
 Its leaders, carried away by their own loud and large words, preached and wrote and practiced open opposition to the draft and the prosection of the war. Sabotage was openly defended. It consorted with doubtful and dangerous agents of foreign powers. Its methods were copied by Ger man spies and agents. In fact, this organi- zation of tramps, buns and derelicts and men who wanted to live without work took one step too far in their career of petty crime and demagogery and intimidation and destruction, and the result was that the government long tired stepped in and took a hand Wholesale arrests and the gathering of evidence followed and then came the Chicago trial, at which the entire scheme and motive of the 1. W. W. were laid bare. It was not as dangerous or as powerful or as strong or as influential as had been feared, but its petty knaveries and disrupaons and harassments were worse. Probably not one-tenth of its crimes against society were brought out in the evidence and not one-twentieth of its treasons and rrarplots and association with enemy agents = L:--I--.L D.-- a-,n-.crL ,..as skn,.-ra