ow it!
Why are they not on trail?

"Deprivation of due process of law and confiscation of property! And yet
Mr. Cooley is going to urge that the I. W. W. does not believe in
government; he is going to urge that the I. W. W. does not respect the
law. That kind of law never gets the respect of anyone. I hang my head
in shame before such a history of usurpation and seizure of public
authority as has been shown in this case.

"Are you going to give the stamp of your approval to this sort of thing?
When you bring in a verdict in this case for the State you give your
approval to Donald McRae. I beg of you to not put the seal of your
approval upon lawlessness, official lawlessness, the kind of lawlessness
that is worse, tenfold worse, than any private lawlessness.

"You are asked to stamp with your endorsement, to give your approval, to
a man; a public official, the chief executive officer of a municipality,
Mayor Merrill, who admits on the witness stand that he allowed a little
group of members of the Commercial Club to take the power of the police
department out of his office and turn it over to the sheriff of the
county.

"Had the State put on Governor Clough and others on their side of the
case we might have wrung from their reluctant lips the evidence of what
occurred at the meeting on August 30th at the Commercial Club. But the
State was careful not to put him on. Indeed, the most significant and
outstanding thing in all this case is not who they put on, but who they
did not put on. Neil Jamison did not testify in this case for the State;
Governor Clough did not testify in this case for the State; Joe Irving
did not testify in this case; Colonel Hartley did not testify in this
case; Captain Ramwell did not testify. Why didn't Kelly, Chief of
Police, take the stand? You might go down the line and you will find
that the assets of all the witnesses for the State combined would total
but a few thousand dollars, while you could take the remaining witnesses
for the State who did not testify and you could build up an enormous
fortune, running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. We didn't
call them because we cannot cross-examine our own witnesses.

"Is the administration of the law to be made a farce? Shall the State be
allowed to blow hot and cold; one minute hot on the enforcement of the
law, the next minute cold when the shoe pinches, and then hot again when
they can use the law for the advancement of the interes