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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
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Nome, Alaska, January 27, 1IM(>.
It is sufficient commentary for
American citizens that the coffin ot
Joseph Hillstrom, on leaving Salt
-bake City was draped in the red
flag, the symbol of anarchy and tho
iprotest of .anarchists against the
United States government which
•they wish to destroy. There is food
for thought, too, in the announce
ment J>y William' D. Haywood, ot
•Stnenenburg murder notoriety, that
when Hillstrom’o body reached Chi
cago it w'as given “an international
funeral.” That simply means that
when the corpse of this executed out
law was roceived in Chicago, there
wAs a grand outpouring of the ene
mies of organized society to meet it.
‘.Those who attack government as ty
'• fanny, the church as superstition,
! and the home as a fetter, will rally
about the coffin of Hillstrom and
rail against the things that be.
This man Hillstrom over whose
execution this sinister protest is be
ing made, met his death because he
carried into practice the fundamen
tal principle of anarchy which hold]
that there should bo no such thing
as private property rights and that
those who attempt to uphold them
should be ‘removed". Hillctrom.who
never worked in his life and pro
ved it by being a prominent member
of that treasonable organization styl
ing itsedf the Industrial Workers of
the World, went one night to the
store of a mail who had slaved to:
years, building up a respectable bu
siness . The man was alone with
his sons, and Hillstrom in revenge
for some fancied wrong against his
organization shot and killed them
both, being seriously wounded by
the 14-year old son of the murdered
man.
He was captured, however, and
after a fair trial was done to deatn
by the law ho had spent his wliol
iifo in defying. At his trial it was
shown that he had been connecteil
with the California dynanittlng
outrages, numerous robberies and
that his private life was one of i
shocking Immorality and bestial de
pravity. And it is over such leper s
body that the Chicago followers
of the red flag held revel this
week. There is something so utterly
abhorrent in this insult to our Am
erican inssitutions by these old
world outcasts that i .nice ill. rfer
once would seem to oe warranted.
However it may be best to give
the malign Haywood and his fol
lowers full play. The most salutary
comment on their belief is their
conduct in attempting to apotheo
size a fellow whose career of
crime led to his execution. Ft
Wayne News.
The above editorial from the Fort
Wayne News is reprinted from the
Valdez Prospector. It is an inter
esting example of the power of the
kopt press to not only dostroy the
uame of the ljving, but also to de
fame the dead Just an jackals defile
the tombs of human dead.
Cowardly? Well, yes.
Now what are some facts as to
Hlllstrom and this murder of which
ho was found guilty?
Hlllstrom had savings amounted
to *360 which he had secured by
mine working. Hlllstrom had never
•been connected with the M’Namara
cases nor was it oven attemped to bo
shown that he had In his trial. The
■extent of his "criminal record” is
confined solely to the fact that ho
was arrested while doing picket
-duty in San Podro, California dur
ing a strike and bocau&e not a lota
ovidcnco of the woakest rort was
then brought forward to show him
.guilty of any crimo. ho wafi dis
charged.
A man with savings of ovor three
hundred dollars seldom or nover en
gages in the hold up business. The
only witness Of the murder, Mor
rison’s little soh tailed absolutely to
identify Hlllstrom as ono of the
' men. The only other witness of the
men >ivho Were supposed to be lp
* the hold-up a woman, refusod to
identify Hlllstrom as one of the mei
whom she passed in the street
shortly after the murder.
The outrageous defamation of a
dead man, the victim of a gover
nor’s fear or hate or both of the In
dustrial Workers of the World, to
which Ilillstrom belonged, in the
allegation that he had been guilty
of “California dynamiting outrages,
numerous robberies and that his
private life was one of bestial le
pravity and shocking immorality’'
finds its sole basis on the arrest In
California which has been referred
to, and the man’s own confession
that he incurred the bullet wound
while visiting another man’s wife,
possibly making love to her, as one
of the critics of this case suggests
“a trait not necescarily cor fined to
I. W. W: masculinity”.
All this blatant talk of anarchy
and the red flag Is merely the fran
tic effort to keep alivo a hatred ot
an organization which whatever its
faults has done more to give the
common laborers an ideal worth
struggling for than any other in the
labor movement. The slur upon
Haywood “of Stounonberg murder
notoriety” 13 relied upon to convey
to the ignorant, as indeed this en
tire article is an appeal to ignor
ance and prejudice, that Haywood
murdered .Steunenberg. The Mine
Operators of Idaho and the govern
ment which they controlled had
Haywood, Pettlbono and Moyer
many long years, with witnesses
trained by expert detectives to
swear falsejy, and they could never
prove sufficient to convict, while wit
nesses of unquestioned veracity and
undoubted integrity by their tesn
ntony proved that the very strongest
witness of the government had been
an agent provocateur for years: the
man Orchard, alias Hogan.
Now let’s consider another cask
which the reverend editor of the
Fort Wayne News may also have
heard of, but which the Industrial
Worker will go bail he will not even
mention for the benofit of those
who copy his diatribes and lien con
cerning Hillstrom and against the
red flag. I '
Some years ago—years we ray—
a priest named Hans Schmidt killed
hiB servant whom ho seducod. This
was Ann Anmuller. The woman was
pregnant and around the details or
the case the government produced
testimony to show at tho trial the
most debased, depraved and bestial
of conduct was that of the defend
ant. This is not any wild partizan
conjecture. It is a fact. It was
scuch an important fact that those
intorestod in defending Schmidt
brought relatives from far awa>
Germany to defend him as an insane
man. But his prison guards and his
| physicians and his accomplices in
j other crime, admitted that he was
' in every way normal, just a skill
ful criminal, a clever murderer who
just before he was caught In the
tolls had been as a clergyman ar
ranging for a campaign against
socialism and the socialists whe
break up the homes and flaunt Hlo
red flag, et cetera. Schmidt is not
dead. He is still in Sing Sing. He
was ia Sing Sing long before the;
name of Hillstrom was legally heard]
cf. He was in Sing Sing long 1-e-i
fore many and many a man who has,
fn the meanwhile, been arrested
and electrocuted.
His request for a new trial was,
up last November before the Court
of Appeals. It’was donied him after
his convlctibn in the lower court.
His attorney is confident he will gel
a new trial; confident that he will
be acquitted. That Is very doubtful.
But the point is that concerning
his guilt there is not even a par-'
tide of doubt. His own church has
outwardly at any rate disowned him.
No president has asked the Governor
to pardon him, to reprlve him and
been denied. But he is still alive*'
Yet there is: no man living* not »
one, who doesn't know that hath
Hans Schmidt .been a common work-'
ing stiff, much less a member oti
the industrial Workers of
,0.. ' . '.-i
the World; he would have been
dead and buried after a short seat
in the Chair long and long ago.
And that’s, what we are coming
to. We conclude that it’s not on ac
count of anything that Hillstrom
old that he has been shot, Jusi be
cause it is not on account of what
he has not done thot Hans Schimdi
is still alive. It is because of the
station in life, the ideas that they
disseminated before cither one or
the other got entangled in the law.
In the light of the facts there is no
other conclusion.
The evidence against Hillstrom
was not conclusive. It was. anything
but that Against pardoning him a
whole lot of malignant and lying
slush was submitted to the Board of
Pardon in Utah which upon- investi
gation proved baseless. But it achi
eved its purpose then, and left the
case up to Governor Spry whose
nightmare is the Industrial Workers
of the World organization.
Now on the other hand consider
the real Hillstrom: Hillstrom the
poet, the music lover, the, violinist,
the sensitive Swedish soul. He was
as he himself admitted, in revolt.
Yet his was such a anture, as those
who knew him best declare after
his death, would hurt not even a fli
with malicious intent. We say his
case is a shocking case, and It is a
shocking commentary on conditions
that this fine nature should have
been turned in disgust from the
conventions and the restrictions of
authoritarian capitalism to enforce
its exploitation.
It was impossible that Hillstrom
could be other than he was, wit
nessing as he did the cold blooded
cruelty of capitalism in America—
the fiendish tyranny of the police
power, the desperate assaults upon
freedom of assembly and speech
which capitalism’s tools In power
have been guilty of.
Consider Bayonne, Roosevelt,
Colorado—consider the numberless
injustices perpetrated by a ruthless
police power upon poverty, and one
will well understand that these con
ditions will make plenty of Hiil
stroms, and when they do not, the
workers will have reached a stage
when they will be beyond any such
thing as redemption.
Collier's Weekly refers to the pro
secution for murder last fall ct
several members of the Garment
Workers in New York. Everyone
of those were “foreign outcasts”
who had been active in a strike.
Collier's says that it was a clear
case of frame-up, with the intention
of sending these men over the roao.
and while all the papers commented
with jocularity at the fact thai
tears rolled down the checks of the
acquitted men and their felloe
workers, not one referred to the
abominr.ble effort to railroad by le
gal means these innocent foreigners.
And rightly enough Collier's ex
plains that this sort of things ife a
sufficient reason why no sort of ve
neration is held by thbsc same
foreign outcasts for the institutions
that are prostituted to servo the
sweat shop employers even to the
extent of sending perfectly innocent
men to the electric chair as an ex
ample, maybe, pour encourager les
autres.
That’s why Hilstrom was shot
to encourage the other members of
Industrial Workers of the World.
And that's why despite this 'execu
tion in Utah these men, with souls
seared by the blight of capitalistic
tyranny manifest all over the coun
try even in the courts and In the
legislative halls as well as on the
job, celebrated the death of Hill
strom, their poet and their beloved
fellow worker, as a martyr to the
cause of human freedom whicn
rightly or wrongly is the ideal that
they follow.
r ich an organ as the For'
Wayne News in so cowardly a
manner vents its filthy lies upon the
tomb of this man to be imitatod »by
the Valdez Prospector in the act,
merely goes to ehow the infamous
depths to which thooc prating in
highly moral terms can descend.
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