sincere and conscientious citizens,
will protect Snohomish County--we believe that your verdict will say 'We
are convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Tracy is guilty, and,
being so convinced, we are going to protect Snohomish County as we would
our own.' I thank you!"

Vanderveer handled the case from two different viewpoints--that of a
first degree murder trial and also as a section of the class struggle.
His address was a masterly array of invincible logic and satire.
Omitting his readings from the transcript of evidence, his speech was
substantially as follows:

"This cause is, as the counsel for the state has told you, one of
momentous importance not only to the defendant but to a class--a large
class of people of whom today he stands merely as an unfortunate single
member, fighting their battle.

"We do not ask in this case for mercy, we do not ask for sympathy, but
it is essential, absolutely essential that we should have cold, stern
justice; justice for the defendant, justice for those who have oppressed
him, those who have denied him his rights. We hope this case is the
beginning of a line of prosecution which will see that justice is done
in the Everett situation.

"It is not the defense who outlined the issues in this case, it was the
State who determined that. They have chosen their fighting ground, and
we had to meet them on that battle. In the beginning of this case the
State, thru Mr. Black, told you that it would prove a conspiracy of very
formidable proportions, a conspiracy in the first place to commit acts
of violence and to incite acts of violence, a conspiracy to commit
arson, a conspiracy to overrun all law and order in Everett and bring on
a condition of chaos. The claim was a very formidable one. The evidence
has been very silly. The State ought to apologize, in common decency,
for ever having suggested these things.

"What is the evidence about the fires? The fire marshall's report, made
by a man who would naturally try to enlarge the performance of his
duties and impress upon the public the manner in which he discharged
them, reports only four fires of incendiary origin for the entire year.
Every one of these were discovered before they did five cents worth of
damage. Who had notice of them? Was it the I. W. W. who set them or was
it Reese or some paid employe of the Pinkerton Agency? Can you conceive
that an organization embracing as many members as this does, bent upon
the destruc