Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-06

are saying. That is your jury panel. 1t
there is any lawyer here l would like
to ask him how he would like to try
yellow dog before a jury picked from
that sort of panel.
Jury" of Three Men
They then select three men out of the
panel-three men, none of whom can
be an American, if America is the coun-
try that is being tried These three men
proceed to try our Uncle Sam; the
charge is that in California they have
not recognized the equality of the two
races, for there are provisions in here
, that labor that emigrates from other
countries into a country, shall be entitl-
+ ed to the same kind of treatment as the
labor of that country. That is the
charge on which they bring old Uncle
Sam in there to try him before three
men, none of them an American, and
they proceed to find Uncle Sam guilty.
Now, he has right to appeal to labor
court that has yet to be created, the
constitution of which nobody knows,
and when that court acts, the decree is
final. If he does not appeal, the decree
of the three men is final.
The Economic Boycott
What then? Then, if he does not
obey any nation has right to apply
to us the economic boycott, and that is
backed, of course, by the League of Ma
tions, What is the economic boycott?
You read of it, sir, in the League of
Nations. Phrases have had much 10 do
with the formation of opinion in this
country and the economic boycott
sounds like mild thing. Read about
it in the League of Nations. 1t is the
right to drive our commerce from the
seas; it is the right to close our ports;
it is the right to make it impossible for
one of our citizens to have any com
merce or business dealing or commune
cation. with a citizen of any other coun-
try of the world; it is the right in the
last analysis of starvation; it is the
thing that is applied as the final and
most brutal act of war Why was it
that Great Britain was patrolling the
seas? Because she knew if she could
starve the women and children at home
she would break the battle line in front.
Boycott Attacked
was not criticising Great Britain for
that; we did it ourselves with the South.
EVERY ililIDn uotS II, Dtl ~ 10 tlit iiioHl
brutal thing iii all war. When | stand
| on the field with gun in my hand and
| you stand there-two men fighting each
| other-there is something about that
| that appeals to the manhood of men,
| but when we look over the shoulders
| and catch glimpse of the pinched
faces of poverty and want and know
that our wives and our children are
suffering, that is the most brutal and
| helliSh thing of war and it is proposed
| to apply that to US if we do not obey
the mandate of three men who say that
we are not enforcing the lobor rules to
fsuit them. Is there any American here
who is willing to have his country
make that sort Of an agreement? Don't
| you know while we have been thunder
| ing about putting down the anarchist
! the bolshevist, the Soap-boX orator,
while we have been looking for the
fellow with the red flag standing on
the soap box who is incapable of doing
any harm because he bears the brand
of his infamy upon him, they have been
trying to open the doors of the capito
of the United States, in order that this
Infamous doctrine may be paraded in
our naliS OF Justice, anu craven upOi
the statutes of the United States oi
America. Npplause).
Study the Question
/ Now, / beg of you, do not let youl
prejudice and feeling ON this blind YOU
Judgment, bat take this question III
and study it, and see if you are willing
to 20 into any arrangement that pro
poses to involve the United States IL
; such a contract as that. For myself
and my public record will show it,
have voted at every stage of my clree
, and stood with union labor of this coun
: Try, because i believe it had q grea
. fight to make for humanity, am fire.
! to say that some things have happcile'
in recent times that makes me thnl
| they have gone entirely too far in som
instances, butcI say ON behalf OF tha
la bor to-wit, beware before you pu
/. youe destiny into the control Of tn
j representatives OF foreign labcr.
One trcat political f,alts in the cour
= try insisted for years upon tariff i