ning this case do not now maintain
these things, or if you do, you protect them only when convenience
requires it.

"It is not the State of Washington versus Thomas H. Tracy at all, and if
the decent people of Everett who know the facts could decide what course
this action should take it would never be here. Even the title of the
case is a mistake. It is the case of the Commercial Club of Everett, the
mill owners of Everett, against Labor. This is an attempt, just as all
the actions for months have been an attempt, to keep Labor out of its
rights in Everett. The same people who took possession of the machinery
of law in Everett, who took possession of the sheriff and furnished him
with guns and clubs and murderous things like that and instructed him
how to act, the same people who employed detectives to set fires in
order that they might manufacture evidence and public sentiment against
these boys, those same people are today prosecuting this case.

"I don't know where Governor Clough was on November 5th. I suspect he
was not anywhere where there was any danger, but I know the smoke had
not left the decks of the Verona before he was hot-footing it to the
telegraph office,--Governor Clough, not the prosecuting attorney, not
the sheriff, nobody but Clough and Joe Irving, the man who was so drunk
that he beat up Schofield,--to send a telegram to Judge Burke of the
Chamber of Commerce of Seattle, to the Mayor of this City and to the
Chief of Police of this City to arrest the whole bunch of them.

"Then right away they got their other emissaries at work, Reese and
Smith, down here with two fingers out of the door of a darkened cell,
deciding for the State of Washington who should be prosecuted in this
case, and H. D. Cooley, who surely then was not a prosecuting attorney,
giving them legal counsel and directing their energy, taking out the
men, preparing statements, and getting ready for the work he was going
to do in this case, because his employers wanted it.

"There is a conspiracy in this case, a conspiracy supported by evidence,
a conspiracy of men in the Commercial Club to take over the machinery of
government, and by it club these fellows out of their rights, club them
out of Everett, club them out of all contact with the workers in order
that they might not bring to them the gospel of their organization.

"But I say to you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that this struggle,
the struggle of Capital against Labo