ODIOUS ORCHARD.

NZ Truth, Issue 133, 17 August 1907, Page 4

ODIOUS ORCHARD.

» The acquittal toy a jury of the State of Idaho of William D. Hay wood, the secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, 'has evidently taken by surprise the confederated capitalists of«th'e United States. Previous experience m "fixing" juries irad con vine-, ed them that with the add or that American, modern Titus Oates, Orohard, they would have not the slight-est-difficulty m "railroading" to the gallows ■the unfortunate men whom they had picked upon as their .victims. The combined capitalists of ihe United' States, with the President at their back, appear to have felt -. that they would have no difficulty m bringing about the judicial murder of Haywood. They met, however, with an entirely unexpected obstacle, and this obstacle was an 'honest and conscientious jury, with proper respect for the sanctity, of 'the oath that they as jurymen had taken. They had for many months been poisoned with lies as to the alleged high crimes - of the accused, but, when faced with the wretched evidence that the gang of swindlers »and capitalistic creatures governing the State of Idaho, was able to produce, they were clearly able to see the innocence of Haywood and, therefore, declared him acquitted. * * * This is- the first serious set-back that the corrupt, carnivorous capitalists of America have received, m theft attempt to wrest the laws of the United States to their own. cruelly tyrannical and ■ predatory purposes. Twenty years ago a secret committee of the capitalists of Chicago, presided over toy the millionaire, Lyman JGage,, succeeded, by the expenditure of large sums of money, m packing a jury and suborning testimony that, with the active assistance of the infamous Judge Gary— as vile a creature, upon a comparatively small scale, as the odious Judge Jefferies— they put the rope around the necks of four inwocont jimen, who happened to lbe spokesmen of the workmen of Chicago, and hanged these men. Three other men were sentenced to long terms of penal servitude. The 'judicial murder of the men, alleged to be Anarchists, excited the horror of conscientious men throughout the world, and, eventually, Mr Altgcld, the Governor of the State of Illinois, declarjed that the men had been the victims ©f a gross perversion and miscarriage

of justice, and he released the men that were m prison. Unfortunately, however, it was too late, as far as the four able and brave . men who had been judicially murdered were concerned. Governor Altgeld issued an elaborate report, m which he showed the reasons for his action m releasing the men m prison, and he showed that the .Judge who presided was biassed., that the' jury was packed, and the police evidence hopelessly tainted-. The police had, he showed, by the confession of one of them, systematically engaged m .working up bogus plots. * * * What the capitalists of Chicago were aibl'e to do twenty years ago the Smelter Trust, even though backed by its creature President Roosevelt, has failed to accomplish. The creatures of the Trust m the Press have filled American newspapers with lying accounts of the guilt and alleged crimes of Haywood, and these same creatures even had the audacity to flash their lies to this country ; but all their industry has come to naught, m spite of the fact that, as the jurymen admitted, they had all read President Roosevelt's statement, made" while the accused men were awaiting trial, that Haywood, Moyer, ami Pett'i'bone were "undesirable citizens." This latest plu<tish plot has, as far as Haywood, is concerned, most inigloriously failed. * * * If the authorities of the State oj Idaho had any self-respect, they would at once withdraw from any further prosecution of Moyer and Pettiibone, and would place on his trial the otiious Orchard himself. This is the proper thing to do with a man that declares that it was he who anur* dered Governor Steunenberg. He is the murderer,- he alleges, and, therefore, he it is who ought to die. This would not, however, suit the capitalists of Idaho and Colorado, for they wish to crush the Western Federation of Miners, one of the most powerful and capably organised unions m the United States. I —*