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COUNSEL FOR LABOR.
SigaifiMBM of Com to Union Mon.
By Harrison George, Special
Correspondent.
Virginia, Minn., Dec. 10.—The open-
ing gun in the big cases on Mesaba
Range will be fired the 16th, when
O. N. Hilton of Denver, famous labor
attorney, goes before Judge Fesler
with a motion to quash the indict-
ments against organizers Scarlett,
Schmidt and Tresca.
The only evidence connecting the
organizers to the alleged crime is
the UNION CARDS illegally seized
by the state with the coats of the
accused principals at whose home the
killing occurred and from which their
coats were taken without legal war-
rant
The basis of argument on motion
to quash will be this illegal entry
and seizure. In the preliminary hear-
ing Judge Fesler denied the same
motion, leaving it open, however, for
the present argument. In his denial
at that time Judge Fesler ruled that
as the coats, although illegally seized,
were not the property of the organiz-
ers, they could not object to the evi-
dence taken with them.
However the distinctions between
accessories and principals are re-
moved by the laws of Minnesota and
Hilton contends that—as the organ-
izers by law arc co-indictees with the
principals, subject to the same laws
as the principals—they have a com-
mon right of protest against evidence
illegally seized as they would if the
coats were their own.
Hilton also says: “If such a doc-
trine of connecting organizers and
even plain union members with a
crime committed by any other mem-
ber at any distance, is allowed to
stand; no union man is safe "from
conviction upon charges of complicity
in a deed with which he in fact has
not the slightest connection. Organ-
ized capital can say to any worker:
‘Look here, if you join the union and
carry a card similar to one carried
by another person who commits mur-
der at any place, the law will hang
you for it, and you risk your life at
my pleasure when you join any
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union.
Despite the fact that the jury panel
consists largely of Duluth business
men, Mr. Hilton appears optimistic
as to the outcome. Hilton reiterates
his former statement as to the im-
portance of this trial breaking down
the Chicago Haymarket Decision,
which he says all eminent lawyers
acknowledge as infamous and a dis-
grace to the jurisdiction that gave
it birth. An appeal on an adverse
verdict will permit a chance to shat-
ter this outrageous precedent for-
ever, while an acquittal at trial will
be a magnificent step toward making
the Haymarket Decision a dead-let-
ter.
Chillicothe, Texas, 12-5-16.
Accept my thanks for your paper
at it is the only paper on the globe
with the real tangible stuff to eman-
cipate the working class.
Yessiree, the programme is , cor-
rect, every word of it, and if we
can’t get it, nothing else will do us
any good and neither can Henry’s
question be answered.
Say Comrade, when I look back
over the past I am forced to the
conclusion that if we have ever had a
socialist party it has been sick with
what I know to be Distilled Ignor-
ance, I give it up, I am feeling
pretty bad myself, but I think if I can
make it through until I get another
Age of Reason I am sure I wiU re-
cover rapidly.
Wish I knew something to do for
Forsaken Humanity.
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Am closing this letter with a sin-
cere desire that H. L. A. Holman and
the Age of Reason may live forever.
Your Comrade and friend.
J. R. ELLIOTT-
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*CUfDE US, O THOU GREAT
JEHOVAH.”
The following press dispatch ap-
peared in the St. Louis Times oi
M ay 25:
Castle Rock, Colo., May 25.—Open-
ing the family Bible that lay beside
her husband’s charred body when ii
was discovered on a ranch near Cas-
tle Rock, after a search that had
lasted since the man’s disappearance
from his home on the Denver-Mor
rison road on April 30, Mrs. Thomas
Sawyer, a few minutes before start
ing for church Sunday morning,
solved the mystery of her husband’*
strange death.
Verses 6, 7, 8 and 9, chapter xxii
of Genesis were interlined with pen-
cil. Descriptive of Abraham’s at
tempted sacrifice of his son, Isaac,
the marked verses disclosed to Mrs
Sawyer the manner of her husband’s
death.
Sawyer built a pyre of wood and
stones and then offered himself as a
sacrifice to the Lord.
That Sawyer deliberately made ?
sacrifice of himself is borne out by
numerous discoveries that have been
made since the finding or his body by
a cowboy who was attracted to the
funeral pile by the queer actions of
a herd of cattle that he was round
ing up.
The body was resting upon a pile
of stones and charred wood, all of
which was surrounded by the ashe«
of burned tree limbs. A few feet
outside the fire ring was Sawyer’s
Bible.
In addition Mrs. Sawyer latet
found in her home a note penciled
by her husband, apparently on the
day of his disappearance, to the ef-
fect she would never see him again
except in “spirit form.”
The marked verses were:
“And Abraham took the wood of
the burnt offering, and laid it upon
Isaac, his son; and he took the fire
in his hand and a knife, and they
went both of them together.
“And Isaac spake unto Abraham,
his father, and said. My father, and
he said, Herr am I, my son. And he
said. Behold the fire and the wood,
but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?
“And Abraham said, My son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a
burnt offering; so they went, both
of them together.
“And they came to a place which
God had told him of; and Abraham
built an altal there, and laid the
wood in order, and bound Isaac, his
son, and laid him upon the altar,
upon the wood.”
It is believed by members of the
family, however, that Sawyer, after
reading over the verses, left the Bible
open and then streched himself on
his pyre and lighted the brush and
wood.
In the same paper, and on the same
date, and upon the same page, ap-
peared another press dispatch that
read;
Berlin, May 25.—Every man in a
French force penerating Fort Douau-
mont was wiped out in German
charge.
Men are fighting in dark, under-
ground tunnels, using hand search-
lights and knives and bombs.
Hundreds of French and Germans
have been buried alive in the wreck-
ing of underground works by shell
fire.
Scores have become insane from
the lust of the horrible butchery.
Surgeons, amputating arms and
legs without anesthetics, report
wounded French and Germans con-
tinuing the struggle with knives
though unable to stand.
A French captain reported 7,(XX)
dead heaped along a 700-yard front
On the brains of these murdered
and mangled were branded the words
costained in the thirteenth chapter,
verses 1 and 2, of “Saint” Paul’s di-
vinelv inspired Epistle to the Ro-
mans:    “Let    every soul he subject
unto the higher powers. For there
is no power but of God; the powers
that be (kings, kaisers, czars and
capitalists) are ordained of God.
Whosoever therefore that resisteth
these powers, resisteth the ordinance
of God; and they that resist shall re-
ceive to themselves dmanation.”
AN INFAMOUS PROPOSITION.
(By R. A. Dague.)
It will be remembered that not
long ago a prominent Episcopal cler-
gyman of England published an arti-
cle in which he insisted that the girls
of that country should marry crip-
pled soldiers and go to raising chil-
dren so that Great Britain might not
lack for soldiers for future wars.
Now comes the infamous proposition
of the aristocrats and war-lords of
England, that polygamy be establish-
ed by law and that women have
“visiting or temporary husbands.”
Mr. W. Orton Lewson, writing from
London in a three-column article,
discusses the proposition" and quotes
from G. Bernard Shaw, the great
dramatist. The reporter asked Mr.
Shaw this question:
“Do you think that the government
will yield to the clamor of the ill-
informed and make polygamy compul-
sory? Or, in other words, attempt
to compel women to have children?”
Mr. Shaw replied at considerable
length, hut limited space forbids my
quoting more than the following;
“The war lunatics should have
some simple figures hammered into
them. No doubt, if 75 per cent of
our maids were wiped out by a war
a crisis might be produced in which
maternity might he made compul-
sory.
“Practically four women out of
every five are now compelled to find
husbands under heavy penalties, so-
cial, economical and physical.
“At present you keen a soldier in
health and training, feeding, clothing
and housing him, besides providing
him with a little pocket money, for
the killing of men at a slight risk of
life. Women are heavily fined for
bringing men to life at a greater risk
of theirs, and they are not only not
housed, hut have the doors of many
houses closed against them because
their children are regarded as nui-
sances to every one else.”
The distinguished dramatist goes
on to show that after the war. when
there will he eight or ten women to
one man, if polygamy is established by
law, and 'women are compelled to
hear children fthe fathers being “vis-
iting husbands”), then government
pensions must be paid to these wo-
men who are forced to become moth-
ers.
He says:    “Does anyone suppose
that the state could compel—not ask,
mind -hut compel—a woman to hear
a child and make no provision for
the maintenance of herself and chil-
dren?”    ,
Mr. Shaw might have said that
hundreds of thousands of children in
Great Britain die in infancy everv
year from lack of food, clothing and
shelter, because their parents are so
poor that they cannot give the ba-
bies those necessaries nor pav for
medical treatment. Millions of wo-
men—mothers—now. are so over-
worked and under-nourished, and
have to live in such squalor, and ab-
iect poverty, that they are unfit to
become mothers at all. and this. too.
in a country in which the nobility
and a few millionaires are fabulously
rich.
At a banquet given a few years ago
by King George, the gold and Giver
plate on the table cost ten millions
of dollars. Mr. Shaw did not state
all that, hut did refer to the fact that
the children of the poor “die like rot'
ten sheep ” in the slums of all the
cities.
He closes the interview bv calline
the statesmen (?) and clergy of Eng
land “blockheads.” He says;
“The problems, however, will nol
he any the less urgent because the
blockheads will have made a mess of
solving them. The exterpation of
idleness will he effected by Socialism
and by nothing else. The population
question will he solved by treating
child-bearing as tnc most important
of national ser.vices. and the protec-
tion. nature and training of children
as the first interest of the state.”
I will now ask the thoughtful read-
er' to say if Christianity, so-called,
after two thousand vears ha . not
made a most lamentable and ignomi
nous failure? England, Germany.
Russia. France, all European nation?
now engaged in wholesale murder
ing of each other, have Christian
kings and rulers and they are slaugh-
tering millions of men and wrecking
civilization. They are ignoring and
trampling on, or destroying every-
thing that makes for the ■well-being
of humanity, and some of them have ^
become so degenerate and brutal a?
to propose to destroy monogamist
marriage and the home, and to es-
tablish by law, polygamy, and en-
forced bastardy upon the helpless
womanhood of their bleeding ruined
c- mtries.
While one well-known clergyman
of England did make the proposition
that girls should marry crippled sol-
diers and go to raising children, I
cannot think that many people whose
brains have not been poisoned by the
war virus will favor this late propo-
sition to es tablish polygamy and has-
tady by law thrt more soldiers may
be raised for future wars.
Oh, War! Thou hellish fiend! Whal
atrocious . crimes dost thou commit
In all the past thou hast murdered
thousands of millions of men, made
myriads of widows and orphans and t"
filled this beautiful world with ignor-
ance, squalor, lementations and woe!
Thy kings, war-lords and plutocrats
denounce Socialists and liberal re-
ligionists as being advocates of athe-
ism, anarchy and free Icive, and ene-
mies of the church and home, while
thou art thyself the arch-hypocrite
and the deadly enemy of true civil-
ization; the promoter of atricious
crimes, the destroyer of the home,
and of everything that makes for the
peace and well-being of humanity.
Ft. Scott. Kan.. 10-25-1916.
Comrade Holman:
You get out some splendid stuff in
“The Age of Reason” and are. most
assuredly, entitled to success, but
from sad and costly experience I
know that the question of deserv'ng
success, and securing it, are two en-
tirely different sizes in this old world
of ours, especially among those who
are living even a rabbit-jump ahead
of their times.
Fraternally yours,
ARTHUR LESUEUR.
President of the People’s College,
Ft. Scott, Kans-
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