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We do not suppose that there is
a single working man who h is en-j
tleavcred to acquaint hitusell with,
the particulars of the Mooney case]
who is not fully certain that not j
only are all the defendants innocent
hut that they are the victims of the
most atrocious effort to prostitute
the forms of law and judicial
procedure to the ends ot
those interests which have made
a specialty of union crush
ing for the past decade in ( alifor
nia The Industrial Worker firmly j
believes and has good reason for
the belief that not in the whole
course of the trial has there ap
peared one reliable, one wholly hon
est. one non-criminal witness that
would by his testimony fasten the
guilt upon the defendants.
On the contrary while the prose
cution laid claims to prove many
things against them, they proved
nothing, but they did produce wit
nesses. who were ready' to swear al
most anything and yet who so con
tradicted one another that their
■whole testimony was not worth the
paper upon which the court steno
graphers wrote it down.
Moreover in what country in the
world has there ever been such an
array of men and women brought
to swear the lives of men and wo
men away as in these trials? \\ ome
of the under world, the allies of
crooks nd pimps, men who were
unmentionable degenerates, dope
Mends, thieves and piek pockets—it
•was no wonder that when Fickert
turned to his man Oxraan and held
him up bofore t lie court, he did so
almost pridefully that he at least
an honest and a wealthy cattleman
from Oregon. And Judge Gritliin
r.dmits that it was upon the testi
mony of this wealthy and respect
able cattleman from Oregon that
the conviction ot Tom Mooney was
obtained. Today we Know the na
ture of that cattleman. We know
he was no such thing. We know he
was a professional witness in a
railroad damage suit; we know that
he was a welcher in land trauds in
Illinois; we know that he was not
near the scene of the explosion
when he swore he was; we know j
that he is a dead heat who borrowed
money on trainin' nt vet’s an 1 the j
associate of red light crooks v. hose j
alliance with hint has been a matter j
•since tin’ trial if newspaper not one- j
ty; we know finally that he soughti
and did secure the e\idenco ot an
other man to holster his own and j
we know that he wrote and wired j
for that assistant to come to him
and we know that an endorsement I
on such a dispatch intimates that i
the charges are to be paid by the
state.
In all this outrageous proceedings
the state did not act as if it had a
bona fide case. The world knows
well that if men are guilty of such
a crime as the bomb explosion they
ar ■ charged with, there will he no
need to resort to the testimony
of all criminals and crooks to se
cure evidence.
The testimony which Fiekert and
his assistants secured to hang
Mooney and the rest is such that no
fairminded man would use to hang
a yellow dog. The people know
this and their minds have revolted
against the infamy that was being
perpetrated in the name of law and
order in San Francisco.
Some men express wonder and
horror that the courts should he
’ doming so bitterly regarded hv
labor. They wor.der why the offici
als whose duty it is to enforce the
law are becoming regarded as the
enemies and not the friends oi the
people;. Some may deny that this
condition exists. hut turn to the
pages of the labor press, the great
est and the least of these publica
tions and consider what means the
exceedingly scathing criticisms
which appear therein. And do not
forget that these papers express the
opinions of the masses. They do,
for more effectively than the great
dailies that turn unseeing eyes or
unhearing cars to tlio tilings that
catch the piercing attention of the
labor papers.
Vet wt will find, and beyond any
question, that the reason for this
ill repute which the courts and the
officials enjoy today is by reason of
the Fick-rts and the rest who trail
Anglo-Saxon justice in the filthy
ordure of class expression.
Comparisons are odious, hut we
say that we frankly admit that
there are fine men, with sparkling
integrity on the bench from the
highest to the lowest, nten to whom
justice is no mythical concept but a
living ideal pulsating with the
energy of social impartiality.
There are men who are much more
concerned in seeing innocence prov
en than guilt proved, and to whom
human life is the most sacred thing
under the canopy of Heaven. Such
men arc iliose who have made tlie
American courts at many timet
and in different places the honored
of everyone, and beyond the con
tempt of even the unthinking. But
there are others where murderous
prejudice sits upon the bench and
where the wholly evil efforts of a
prosecution caring neither for the
innocence or the guilt of the ac
cused. hut eager for the conviction
of the defendant is aided in every
way by the man who dishonors iiis
ermine.
The .Mooney trial.! have been in
contempt of American court proce
dure from the start. They have in
sulk d its very existence. The Mea
! of bringing 01. i"i‘;pe lkahle degen
i rates, filthy minded criminals, out
rageous perjurers *o swear the li-es
of defendants away is a crime
against Atneriean jurisVrudence
which cannot be easily overlooked.
Another phase of these trials is
I he fact that it has been entirely
ignored by the capitalist press. New
York never heard of the cases until
a demonstration 1 u i’etrograd
against the American Embassy was
expained by the fact that the Work
[ ers and Soldiers had heard that
! Mooney was hung in San Francisco
They asked who was Mooney. They
had never heard of him before; they
who had not read the labor papers
could not understand it at all, for
| the capitalist press associations had
! kept the lid on concerning it al!.
Nor is this all, even In the Nether
' lands, the Workers Union protested
! against the manner in which the
| case was conducted through the
; American Minister. And the major
ity to Americans who attended alone
to the great capitalist papers or
i who had read only, most judiciously
j for their class, the opening state
ment of the prosecution w herein was
promised all kinds of disclosures
not a single one of which was made
good upon by the same attorneys.
The collapse of the case against
Mrs. Mooney involves the collapse
of the entire case of the state; it
Mrs. Mconey is innocent, Billings
is innocent, Tom Mooney is inno
cent. There is no way of getting
over this. The state insisted that
they were all acting together and it
one is clear ot guilt then all must
tie. But Tom Mooney, under the
perjured frame up of Osman is sen
tenced to hang and Billings is now
in San Quentin although tlie wit
nesses whose testimony sent him
there have since changed their tes
timony te Ot in with other such
“testimony in later trials”, and one
juror said that whether he was
guilty or not tlie District Attorney
wanted hint in jail and that was
enough.
The sickening guilt of it all is
disgusting and done in the name
of law and order, is it any wonder
the name of law and order stinks
iike a buzzard’s breath to the mind
of so many of the workers?
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No. 2734.
SIMMONS FOK IM ltl.lt ATION.
In the District Court for the District
of Alaska. Second Division.
AMERICAN MANGANESE STEED
COMPANY, a corporation,
Plaintiff,
vs.
ALASKA MINES CORPORATION, a
corporation, Nome Consolidated
Dredging Company, a corporation,
Alaska Dredging Company, a cor
poration. E. K. Powell. George D.
i Schofield, J. M. Sloan, E. L. Web
ster, M. W. Newton, Louis Eisen
tolir, F. H. Thatcher. Trustee, C.
E. Darling, Trustee and E. E.
Powell, Trustee,
Defendants.
The President of the United States
of America.
To E. E. Powell, E. L. Webster,
M. W. Newton, Louis Eisenlohr, F.
H. Thatcher, Trustee, and E. E.
Powell, Trustee, defendants above
named.
Greeting:
You, and each of you, are hereby
summoned and required to appear
and answer the complaint ot the
plaintiff on file in the office of the
clerk of the above-entitled court at
the City of Nome, in 3aid district of
Alaska, Second Division, within
thirty (30) days from the service
of this summons upon you, to-wit:
from the 1st day of September,
1917, or judgment for want thereof
will lie taken against you.
And you are hereby notified that
if you fail to answer the said com
plaint the plaintiff will take judg
ment against you, and each of you,
as prayed for in plaintiff’s com
plaint, to-wit: For a decree of the
above-entitled court cancelling and
setting aside that certain decree of
foreclosure heretofore made and en
tered on the first day of July, 1915,
in cause No. 2608 entitled F. H.
Thatcher, trustee, et al, plaintiffs,
i versus Nome Consolidated Dredging
i Company, a corporation, et al. de
| fendants, and for a decree setting
] aside certain sales of real and per
sonal property made under and in
J accordance with said decree and also
for the appointment of a receiver
'to take possession of the assets of
the defendant Nome Consolidated
! Dredging Company, real and per
I sonal, mentioned, set forth and de
scribed in said decree, anil for the
1 sale of said assets and the pavment
i
of a judgment obtained in cause No
! 2686 entitled American Manganese
Steel Company, a corporation, plain
tiff. versus Nome Consolidated
Dredging Company, a corporation,
defendant, for the sum of Thirty
Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty
($30,920.00) Dollars and interests
and costs:
And you. and each of you. are
hereby further notified that if you
fail to answer the said complaint,
the plaintiff will take judgment
against you as officers and stockhoid
ers of the defendant Nome Consol
idated Dredging Company, a corpo
ration, for the full amount of said
judgment above described, to-wit:
the sum of Thirty Thousand Nine
Hundred Twenty ($30,920.00)
Dollars and legal interest, costs and
accruing costs.
The date of the order of publi
cation of this summons is July
20th. 1917.
The date of the first publication
of this summons is July 21st, 1917.
The date of last publication is
September 1,_ 1917.
WITNESS the Honorable J. R.
Tucker, Judge of the District Court
for the District of Alaska, Second
Division and the seal of said Court
hereunto affixed at Nome, Alaska,
this 20th day of July, 1917.
(SEAL)
G. A. ADAMS.
Clerk of the District Court for the
District of Alaska. 2nd Division.
T. M. Reed and William A. Gilmore
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Nome, Alaska.
J. 21. 28. A. 4, 11, 18, 25. S. 1.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP GO.
S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE: LEAVE NOME:
Via Seward, Valdez and Cordova
AUG. 1. AUG. 13.
SEPTEMBER 2 SEPTEMBER 14.
SAILING SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
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From Nome . From Seattle
August 4th.
August 18th.
SEPTEMBER 15.
OCTOBER 13.
AUGUST 31.
SEPTEMBER 28.
OCTOBER 25.
RIGHT RESERVED TO CHANGE THIS SCHEDULE.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ALASKA L. & C. CO. F. J. O’CONNOR.
AGENTS Commercial Agent.
At Dock. Front St. and Steadman Are.
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Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGELMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
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