Arizona republican., 1919-07-11
Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself.
 Seneca.
The Rishee Litiaation


 Whatever may think of the Bisbee deporta- ton only two things we believe, result from the criminal or civil litigation that is pending One will be the bringing of prosecutors attorneys for the plaintiffs, more or the limelight and so en- hance their political fortunes if the contrary they are not diminished We do not believe it will be pos sibe to secure jury the that be brought into agreement on any verdict The other result will be- an difficulty in the way of bringing the democratic factions into harmony. This litigation must be a further unbridgng of the chasm.
 very large majority of the defendants democrats There few republicans concerned in the deportation and none, we believe, of statewide prominence wing of the democratic party, and it is that wing which in the prosecution had managed get itself pretty closely associated in the public mind with the l. W. w. It to be garded as the defender of l. W. Wism in Arizona. The leaders of the I. W. W. some of whom are in federal penitentiaries and others of whom were among the Bisbee deporters always found ready ac cess to the tuar head of the democratic party. He preferred their company he them affectionate Ietters and was photographed with them. Some of these letters gathered up in the federal net ater spread by the federal government
 The deportation was intended to destroy l. W. Ism al bl5Oee where II Was DeCOIHlhS bee was apparently the best field the United States for the activities of the l. W W. The leaders had the friendship of the head and an influential following Of the largest faction the dominant political party. If it could not succeed with such backing could hope ever to succeed. The Warren district was garded as the chief stronghold of that faction.
 Elsewhere in this state the I. w. W. opposed, as it was opposed nearly everywhere by the miners ubic +o in alse for "one big union@ The radical democratic faction depending upon the support of all organized labor could not take sides in controversy between the miners union and the I. ". w
 For many years the two great mining companies at Bisbee maintained the open shop. Every attempt to unionize those mines ended in disaster. There consequent soreness among many of the unioI miners employed there and they welcomed the l. w w who came to them with a promise of relief from the open shop.
 So much not then known of the real, disloya purpose of the I. w W. to curtail production at a time when it most needed. The union miners at Bisbee had reason to believe that aided by the I. W. w and a strong democratic faction they could if win.
 The government had not then divined clearly as it did afterward the real aim of the l. W. w. It
 
 with organized labor. The espionage law was and there little disposition enforce it against anybody except noxious enemy aliens those whs were openly obstructing the agencies
 The people of Bisbee watching day by day the honey-combing activities of the w. W. leaders and hopeless of any relief from the federal government decided to meet the advancing peril by lawlessncss. They made a list of the active L W. w. members
 
 400 names and determined to rid the camp of them
 The organizers of the deportation movement did realize the extent of sympathy with the l. W. W. which had been awakened among the union miners notwithstanding the warning given them by Presi- dent Mover of the miners organization who had for bidden their participation in the strike been engineered by the l. w W.
 The deportation thus suddenly much bigger thing promoters of it expected. In- stead of the 300 400 who had been marked for nortation, they found themselves confronted by than 800 more among them many who not bers of the l. W W. whatever their leanings might have been. This discovery embarrassing but the deportation plan enlarged suddenly to meet it.
 The situation was a peculiar one. The law had heen violated in a wholesale manner No one could defend the and yet all the citizens of Bis bee approved it and abiding citizens unaffected by democratic factional class sentiment generally believed that that act saved Arizona from becoming l. w. w. hotbed. -,t
 The belief has probably been strengthened by 1#W. W. developments in other parts of the country which later required action by the government In these circumstances it will be difficult to find jury anywhere in Arizona which will not look at the end attained at Bisbee rather than the means by which it attained.