it? Or was it McRae and his deputies?

"It is only formally correct to refer to these as deputies. They had
commissions, but in nothing else in the world did they bear the remotest
resemblance to officers of the law, not in their conduct, not in their
training, not in their purposes, not in anything. They were the
hirelings of either the mill owners of Everett or the Commercial Club.
Did you ever in your life before hear of officials taking their
instructions from representatives of an industrial movement? Did you
ever before hear of deputy sheriffs being instructed in the propaganda
of the open shop, being instructed in the methods employed at Minot
unlawfully to prevent street speaking? That is where the first mistake
in this case was made. First in the selection of that kind of men;
second in the deliberate attempts which were made to color their
actions, to pervert them, to make them the tools of the employers.

"That is the reason Henig and Carr were beaten, that is the reason
Feinberg and Roberts were beaten, that is the reason men and women were
knocked down in the crowds, that is the reason that this boy, Schwartz,
was taken out by McRae and chased zigzag down the road in mortal terror
of being run down by the sheriff's automobile, that is the reason
'Sergeant' Keenan was hit over the head with a gun, that is the reason
James Rowan was taken out and beaten black and blue. How do you suppose
Rowan got those marks on his back? Did he put them there for fun, or
were they put there by somebody else's rotten, dirty brutality? If you
didn't know a thing about him except what you know about Beverly and
these other incidents, and it was deep darkness where this happened, I
venture you would all say off-hand, 'It must have happened at Everett,
anyway. There is no place else that I know of where they do such
things.'

"Black says the "Wanderer" has been greatly misrepresented to you, that
the things we claim happened did not happen there at all. Well, there is
a lot of evidence that they did happen. There are a lot of people who
could have denied it. There are a whole crew of deputies who could have
come up here and denied it. Why didn't they? Because they were ashamed
of it and they knew they could not stand the grilling that was awaiting
them in the court room. It is true, certainly! And I say here that
nothing but providential intervention prevented McRae on that day from
being a cold-blooded murderer! That is the ma