line was out and made fast.
Why was it, then, he did not say to the captain, 'Take your boat out?'
He said he was afraid they would go somewhere else. Well, when he told
those boys they could not land he expected them to go away. Or did he
expect them to go away? Which was it?

"The manner in which McRae handled this thing indicates nothing so much
as that he intended to get them there and administer to them another of
the things that he calls a lesson, another of the things that other
people call infamous, damnable brutality.

"Counsel says there have been mistakes made. He doesn't want to
apologize for them, but clearly he doesn't want to be held responsible
for them. There were mistakes made. Beverly was one! The "Wanderer" was
one! From the beginning to the end of all their operations in Everett
everything has been a mistake--a mistake because the ordinary processes
of law and the rights of other people were ignored. There was no
ordinance prohibiting speaking. The boys were yielding implicit, careful
obedience to such law as there was. McRae unblushingly tells you that
the reason he made arrests was because there were labor troubles in
Everett and the shingle mill owners didn't want things embarrassed by
the truth, by the disclosures contained in this little report of the
Industrial Relations Commission.

"They were not afraid of the I. W. W.'s going up there to incite
violence, to advise disorder, to invoke a reign of terror. Reigns of
terror are the employers' specialty! They were afraid of cold fact.
Never a man went up there to speak on the street and used that little
Industrial Relations report but was thrown in jail for it--Thompson,
Rowan, Feinberg, Roberts, all.

"It's nice to enjoy the powers, the position and authority of a dictator
who can repeal, amend and modify, ignore, disregard laws when it suits
his fancy, but it's kind of tough on other people. That's what McRae
did!

"On the 5th of March, nearly nine weeks ago, His Honor called this case
from his bench 'State versus Thomas H. Tracy,' and my friend Mr. Cooley
rose from his chair and said 'Your Honor, the State is ready.' I say to
you, Mr. Cooley, you slandered the fair name of your state! What has the
State of Washington to do with this thing? The name of the State of
Washington in such a case as this should stand for law and order and
decency. The State is supposed to protect the innocent against abuse and
injustice and you who are now run