The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-20

had been bombed, releasing it to all
the newspapers. This letter placed
the blame for the explosion squarely
upon the friends of Sacco and Van
zetti, and informed them that such
measures would not intimidate the
brave bourgeoisie of Massachusetts
from its duty. (Which duty? To
execute two innocent workers?)
1t was a lingo letter, a war letter,
a letter breathing vengeance and pas
sion and prejudice. 1t was the let
ter of bitter enemy, determined up
on blood, not the letter of governor
pledged to fair trial. After all, are
Sacco and Vanzetti on trial for acts
such as these? When they were first
arrested and tried, the anti-alien and
anti-red raids of Palmer were in full
tide. Sacco and Vanzetti were anar-
chists, but they were not tried for
anarchism, and they are not being
tried for anarchism now. But Gov
ernor Fuller, helped by the man who
threw the bomb, has deliberately set
forth to create anew the war hys-
terra, the lynching spirit that ran the
two Italians down seven years ago.
1t is not worthy role for "great"
governor with his eye on the presi-
dency. 1t is not legally fair; it is
not even humanity decent, or clean, or
honest. 1t is lynching, and it
throws cruel light upon the alleged
impartiality of the governors report
last week. No man who wrote this
bitter letter melting the mob ever
had an atom of fairness in his heart
at any time.
More Prejudice.
The juror whose house was bombed
carried no insurance on his house. He
is relatively poor man. And so the
governor, in his letter, promised him
that the state would cover his pro-
perty loss. And a movement has al
so been started in the newspapers to
raise small individual contributions to
make up a fund for this purpose.
What is the object of this but to
arouse prejudice? What is the OBJ
ject of this but to make every bust
ness man or clerical worker who
owns a house in the suburbs feel
strong bonds of sympathy for their
fellow-householder whose home was
bombed by the wild foreigners :?
What does this all mean, anyway,
but a political campaign conducted
by skilful campaigners to inflame the
middle-class mind against Sacco and
Vanzetti?
And why all these advertisements
in the Boston newspapers of insur-
ance companies, warning property
owners to insure themselves against
riot, explosions and so forth? There
is something fishy and dreadful
about it all; there is something tragic
about it. That is why / believe Sac
co and Vanzetti can never be ac-
quilted before a Massachusetts jury.
They have already been tried and
found guilty in every newspaper in
the state in the last week.
The National Hope.
The one hope left for our comrades
is that their case has overlooked the
state borders. The drive to force the
Department of Justice to open it's
files makes the case a federal issue
now. 1t places it on its true basis
the Sacco-V anzetti case is war case.
1t is one of the last glazing exam
pies of that Spanish Inquisition that
captured the land when the New Re-
public group and other Wilsonian
liberals "willed the war" to save
democracy--in Europe.
What secrets CORY and horrible res
pose in those d. of J. files? No won
der Coolidge and other government
officials fight to the last gasp to
keep the files locked! The secret of
Tom MONEYS crucifixiorh is there