There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 6, 1907
The View from Girard, Kansas: Collier’s Licks the Velvet Hand
From the Appeal to Reason of October 5, 1907:
“Crucify Him!”
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Collier’s Weekly, in the face of all the antagonistic circumstances under which Haywood was tried and acquitted, says that it is privately informed by the best detectives in the country that Orchard told the truth. Well, the Appeal is informed by the best detectives in the country that Orchard maliciously lied, to save his craven neck, under the paid expert coaching of a man whose antecedent history in the “Mollie Maguire” period, and at Parsons, Kan., where good citizens made affidavits denouncing him, shows him to be a creature whose moral pulse beats lower than a snake’s. All the time Orchard was “telling the truth” he was telling stories of his own despicable treachery and double dealing for pay.
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Of course, to Collier’s he was ‘telling the truth” when he said that he lay on the roof of Bradley’s back porch watching for the milkman, when a disinterested contractor, unimpeached by any circumstances, came forward and made solemn oath that he built that identical porch several months after Orchard’s “explosion,” which blow-up a gas company paid damages for, as being due to their own defective pipes. For shame, Collier’s! Your best detectives must be the speak-easy pussy-foots who for twenty-five years have been joining labor unions and subscribing to most solemn and binding pledges with the prearranged treachery of violating them. Twelve friends and neighbors of Steunenberg, non-union men, said by their verdict that Orchard lied. You were cur enough to lend your dressy well printed columns to studied articles pretending fairness but in every line breathing over-anxiety to convict Haywood; and all the hosts of the bourgeoisie, and America’s Royal Brute, with the unspeakable Orchard, shouted “Crucify Him!”
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Ah, Collier’s, the Socialists know too well the economic determinism that, true as the needle to the North Star, makes you whimper and lick the velvet hand that feeds you your bread and butter.
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[Photographs added.]
SOURCE
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-October 5, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587011/
IMAGES
HMP, Haywood in Cell, Colliers, June 22, 1907
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=372
HMP, Orchard on Stand, Colliers, June 22, 1907
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=374
HMP, Haywood Jury, Colliers, June 22, 1907
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=372
See also:
Tag: Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case
https://weneverforget.org/tag/haywood-moyer-pettibone-case/
Tag: Haywood Trial of 1907
https://weneverforget.org/tag/haywood-trial-of-1907/
“The Moyer-Haywood Case” by C. P. Connolly
-This eight-part series begins with the May 11, 1907 edition of Collier’s and ends with the edition of July 27, 1907. Sadly, I could find only parts 1-5 online.
Collier’s
(Springfield, Ohio)
Crowell-Collier Pub. Co.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000045638
Colliers’s Volume 39, No. 1-14
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=1
I.-May 11: “The Story of the Idaho Mining Troubles”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=206
II.-May 18: The Murder, and the Arrest of Orchard
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=240
III.-May25: “The Kidnaping”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=270
IV.-June 22: “Harry Orchard and His Story”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=372
V.-June 29: “The Colorado Labor War”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068357771;view=2up;seq=398
VI.-July 6: “The Colorado Labor War (Continued)”
VII.-July 20: “The Colorado Labor War (Concluded)”
VIII.-July 27: “What Has Been Brought Out in Haywood’s Trial”
Source for Connolly’s “Moyer-Haywood Case” series in Collier’s:
On page 815, Lukas lists the eight parts of the series by Connolly along with dates published.
Big Trouble:
A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
-by J. Anthony Lukas
Simon and Schuster, Jul 17, 2012
https://books.google.com/books?id=d07IME-ezzQC