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Nome, Alaska, May 7, 1917.
THE TRACY TRIAL.
There is not a single institution
however valuable in affording hu
man beings protection in the reten
tion of their rights and liberties,
but may tit basely prostituted to
corruption or to crookedness.
The Courts of Law and trial by
jure, no more than anything else!
were immune from being put to the
basest of uses as we saw in many
cases, but none so rec ent or not or
ious as the trial of .Mooney,, Bill
ings and the rest in the Fiekert con
spiracy in San Francisco.
For that reason one turns with
great satisfaction to the trial of
Tracy and the rest of the industrial
ists in Seattle.
Seattle has done much in this
trial to vindicate trial by jurv and
to demonstrate that it is the fairest
thing that man has so far con
ceived for trying the guilt cr the
innocence, even according to the
law and the facts, that human in
genuity lias conceived.
Trial by jury depends for its suc
cess upon a selection primarily of
impartial jurors. it is quite true
that with the bitterness that has
been engendered in the struggle be
tween labor and capital this is very
difficult to maintain. It is true that
almost everyone going into the jury
box will have definite prejudice anil
definite pre-conceptions which are
difficult to remove by reason of
their economic position.
Whence it was recognized, in as
remote an era as that wherein the
Magna C'harta was granted hv King
John, trial by jury to be fair must
he a trial by a jury of the defend
. ant's peers.
In those days apparently they
had no conception of the profes
sional jurror who as the retained
of the prosecution could eke out a
far from unsatisfactory existence
and depending upon the favors of
the district attorneys to hold their
positions on such juries, they liatur
ally were gtau 10 conviu.
Such a slate of affairs as vu<s re
vealed in the Billings and in the
Mooney trials in San Francisco
shocked even that community that
;is not gven much to being astound
ed when depths of political or other
corruption are revealed.
And it has made the whole Pacific
Coast sit up and take notice. It
has furthermore roused the whole
labor world to a sense of danger
and a feeling that such a condition
jeopardzed it without equal of jeo
pardy in a long long time.
So it is that the acquittal of
Tracy in Seattle, the defendant be
ing first of the industrialists to be
cried there, will be hailed by labor
with satisfaction as demonstrating
that when trial by jury gets a fair
test, it will not be found wanting.
All the facts of the Tracy trial
went to show that the defendants
were the victims of an anti-labot
campaign whch stopped at nothing.
The testimony of even government
witnesses went to show that the au
thorities sworn to uphold the con
stitution in Everett had deliberately
and with apparently not unwilling
malfeasance at the behest of a
number of powerful lumber Inter
c-sts. removed every vestige of such
constitutional rights as the work
ers could lay claim to. Not or.l>
that but these powerful imprests
with the authorities sworn to up
hold the law had created a reign
ol terror in Everett which was tc
be justification for every vicious at
tack and wanton assault upon lauor
culminating in the dramatic meet
ing between the lumbermen and
city officials when one of the form
er turned to Sheriff MacKae while
planning the bloody massacre and
dared him to have guts enough tc
go through with it, and the sherift
had made answer, “You furnish me
with the men and I’ll show you 1
have”.
Accordingly when the trial was
removed from this atmosphere of
corruption in Snohomish county
where the officials had already fore
sworn themselves and made them
selves the servants not of the peo
ple, hut of the great interests which
would enslave the people, the de
tense stored a great victory in the
change of venue.
Judge Ronald, as far as we can
see, gave the defendants a fair trial
It is true that there was the same
unholy alliance betwene the private
detectve trust and the prosecution:
it is true that there was the same
miserable third degree methods
practiced upon the prisoners: it Is
true that every sort of disgraceful
means were practiced to frame up
evidence: promises of acquittal, of
position, of immunity, of reward—
and after ail these were smashed to
atoms by the jury which investigat- !
ed with unprejudiced minds the
facts and in their verdevt of not
guilty lias said in so many words
that Sheriff Macltae and the lum
ber trust, the corrupt officials and
the Commercial Club anti-unionists,
were in effect the murderers and
not the industrialists.
We don; believe that Mooney
will be hung. We believe that the
higher officals will at the last min
ute be scared to put through that
atrocity which would make a so
called Belgian atrocity be clean
and sweet and wholesome in com
parison. But even if Mooney is at
the last minute saved from the gal
lows. there will be lfttle or no real
effort made to get Fiekert and his
j gang and Swanson and his gang.
So we do not believe, notwith
I standing this Tracy verdict, that
there will be any determined effort
to bring the Sheriff MacRaes and
the rest to their punishment which
they richly deserve and until those
who frame up these things against
labor, jusctice will remain far from
purged of the stain which has been
cast upon it by them.
None the less, we have to congra
tulate the workers upon this verdict
and to say that the verdict is one
that honors the jury and honors
Seattle. They did not allow the de
ceivng mists of economic prejudice
to mislead them and they found as
the testimony warranted them find
ing, They did not have the right
party in the dock. The right party
was aiding and abetting and advis
ing and suggesting to the prosecu
tion throughout the trial.
WOBBLING.
It is to he hoped that the more
or less serious news coming out of
Europe will make a deeper impres
sion than does most news upon the
people.
The people there have long since
sickened of the war. Already the
official head of one ruler has been
lopped off into the basket of inutil
ities and signs are not wanting that
others may follow. Germany is not
ail unity. There the workers are
I about satiated with the bloody feast
of slaughter and the hungry men
and women are in riots cut down
with machine guns. Fire and sword
stir these nations and in France
and England, careful as may be thi
censorship, things yre little hettei.
j A New York paper, March 3,
! says in an article by a French so
cialist “Military blunders have been
mounting for two and one hall
years, Every one in France is now
anti-militarist. Peasants, clerks
workingmen, Parish, ns, Bretons
soldiers from the invaded regions,
men from southern and central
France—all.
In France 9S per cent of the sol
diers and civilians wants peace—a
lasting peace.
It will astonish me if there is nc
revolt at he front if the army is for
ced to spend the winter of 1917-IS
In the trenches.”
bn the other hand, grantng that
this “prominent French Socialist’
who wrote that article wras in all
probability a “prominent German
Junker", it is quite apparent that
French sentiment is for peace.
On the eastern border German
and Russian soldiers fraternize. I’
will be hard for German or Russian i
officers to get them to fight again, i
If the German soldier is driven too t
hard, likely as not he will cross f
over to “his friends the enemy” and a
vice versa. 1
British murmuring is patent in i
the careful wording of dispatches c
and there would appear to be a gen- i
eral reaction in all the nations c
against war. It appears that those
who went proudly forth to conquei i
the world would be thankful in- 1
deed if they could stop this in- 1
ferno and return to conditions be- i
fore the war. The militarist ma
chine is creaking in all countries. 1
Its perpetual call for sacrifice, foi (
privation and its terrific lie about t
duty to king, kaiser and emperot j
has about exploded when they ;
watch the profiteers grow fatter (
and the mouarchs grow proudei i
while the masses sicken, suffer amt !
die. 1
The world is now in the melting
pot. No man knows what will come
forth. Men and things, institutions 1
and kings are being mixed in the 1
terrific smelter where the dross is
to be purged.
The most secure thioi.e is whobb
ling: divine right is ‘h ing shot to '
pieces. The most sacred institu
tions are being shaken to their
foundations. Rights art being torn 11
to tatters, parchments of priviiem
ate being scorcheet end shrivelleii i
to ashes or nothingness; 1
They have sown the wind and j i
now—behold the whirlwind. Just, j]
think of what the thoughts of tin'll
former Tzar must be in the Tzar !
skoezelo—if he coud undo what licit
has done! Consider the feelings of <
the Kaiser when he sees his shat- 1
tered soldiery and his maimed legi- t
ons displace the sound upon the fir
ing line! Is it any wonder they i
tell us their nerves are broken t
down or that they whisper that old <
Franz Josef went to his grave at
last a gibbering idiot. “Varus, givc
me back my legions!” always the
mournful cry of the failing emper
ors.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To O. C. Foster, E. J. Maynard, Chas
Clark and Chas R. Ewing, your
heirs, executors, assigns or person
t <t + .1. A 4- 4- 4- A 4- 4- 4*
al representatives.
You and each of you are hereby |
otified that the undersigned has ex- ]
ended in labor and improvements j
he sum of one hundred dollars i
or year 1916 on Washington claim, j
placer mining claim situated at the j
ead of Peluck and recorded and i
aore fully described in the records i
f Cape Nome Mining and Record- j
ng District, in the Second Division |
f the Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex- j
ended under the provisions of the j
aw concerning Annual Labor upon j
lining Claims, being the amount |
equired to hold said claim. J
And you and each of you are j
urtlier notified that if within ninety |
lays after the last publication of j j
his notice you fail to contribute j
our proportion of said expenditure, I
our interest in said claim will be- |
ome the property of the under* j
igned your co-owner under section
324 Revised Statutes of the United
itates. '
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO. ,
Co-Owner.
late of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917.
late of last publ., May 21, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
'o Elma McNaught and J. J.
Chambers, your heirs, executors,
Successors, assigns or personal re
resentatives:
You and each of you are hereby ,
lotified that the undersigned |
las expended in labor and improve- j
aents the sum of one hundred do!- j
ars for year 191G on Rosevelt bench
ocated between Newton Gulclf No. j
: and Fox Creek, recorded and more
ally described in the records of the
tape Nome Mining and Recording
listrict in the Second Division, Ter
itory of Alaska.
The above amount has oeen ex
>ended in order to hold said claims
inder the provisions of the lav?
:oncerning annual labor upon min
ng claims.
And you and each of you are
’urther notified that if within
linetv days after the last publication
)f this notice you fail to contribute
,-our proportion of said expenditure, J
,’our interest in said claim will be
ome the property of the under
signed your co-owner under section
1324 Revised Statutes of the United ,
States.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 21, 1917.
NOTICE OE FORFEITURE.
To R. J. Nugent, Homer D. Wheeler
F. Al. Wheeler and W. L. Bruce
your heirs, executors, assigns or
personal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have caused to be
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars for
the year of 1916 on the Buckeye
Quartz Claim located on the North
side of Rock Creek and recorded
and more fully described in Vol. 91,
Page 397 in the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
Second Division, Territor.r of Al
aska.
The above amount lias been ex- \
pended under the provisions of the
law coneerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
requred to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your ,co-o*ner, under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ELIZABETH JOLLIFFE.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., April 16, 1917.
Dale of last publ., July 16, 1917.
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