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VJ M SON’S WEEK£ V JEFFERSONIAN THOMAS E. WATSON’S NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE ADVOCACY OF THE JEFFERSONIAN THEORY OF GOVERNMENT Vol. IL JUSTICE IS NOT ANARCHY. ~L gB B? _ z*in SjdHSKK JI W&- Iflfe ft WV_.' FTT - I \ Zz l / / a/// y //x l v3i - WWO ’iaWa Jew /Z% 1 JW' ! ZZs» ■ -- :? ’’«SiiMip? I DRAWN BY GORDON NYU FOR THB WBIKLY JBBFBIOONIAN. IDAHO’S GREATEST TIURDER TRIAL (Collier’s Weekly.) One of the great state trials of American history began at Boise, Ida ho, on May 9, when William D. Hay wood, secretary and treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, was arraigned for the murder of ex-Gov ernor Frank Steunonberg. All the circumstances of the case were extra ordinary. The crime was of peculiar atrocity, and Russian rather than American in its character. Mr. Steu nenberg was killed by a bomb at his own gate, six years after he had ceas ed to have any active connection with the troubles that were assigned as the cause of his murder. Haywood and his co-defendants, Moyer and Petti- Atlanta, Ga„ Thursday May 23, 1907. bone, were not in Idaho when the crime was committed. They were connected with it by the confession of the alleged principal, and were brought from Colorado by a process described by their friends as a legal kidnaping. But what gives this trial Its chief significance is not the personalities of the actors in it, but the fact that hundreds of thousands of men and wo men, not only in the United States but all over the world, have worked themselves into the belief that it is not an ordinary criminal proceeding, but a pitched battle between capital and labor. They think that Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone have been mark- ed for destruction as a means of de stroying the Western Federation of Miners, and that all the powers of government are being unscrupulously used to that end. This belief has been assiduously propagated through one of the most energetic missionary crusades of modern times, and through tireless appeals to the class spirit of working men the defendants in the case have been put in posses sion of a campaign fund that puts them on an equality with Thaw or any other millionaire who has had to fight for his life or liberty in the dock. President Roosevelt’s incautious ref erence to Moyer and Haywood as “un- desirable citizens,’’ which he subse quently defended and elaborated in his letter to Mr. Jaxon of Chicago, en raged the more radical followers of the prisoners, and demonstrations were organized to express the Social istic opinion of him. In New York there was a procession on May 4, in which a number variously estimated at from twenty to seventy thousand men and women, wearing buttons in scribed: “We are undesirable citi zens,” marched under red flags to a hall where as many of them as could get in listened to inflammatory speech es denouncing the president. But the effort to array organized labor sol (Continued on page 16.) No. IS.