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State cumbered the record with the I. W. W. preamble and constitution?
Why with two pamphlets on sabotage? Why with an I. W. W. song book and
such matters? Why?

"Because out of some of the phraseology here, phraseology far removed
from you and me, they may build up a condition of prejudice which may
result in your returning a conviction on a smaller degree of evidence
than you would otherwise require. Mr. Cooley is going to stand here and
read little, short, listed extracts from the context of the whole. The
pamphlets he has introduced on the question of patriotism and the worker
is the foundation from which Mr. Cooley will appeal to your prejudices
and passions.

"We are not afraid of the evidence. We are afraid of this deep-grained
interest that goes down into men's conscience and that reached back a
thousand years.

"Remember that behind this case are many women and children whose cause
these boys represent; whose cause these boys are attempting to fight
for. They fight because they must! They fight because to do anything
else is suicide. You could not have stopped the American Revolution with
all the powers of the British government. Since this jury was empaneled
you have had the collapse of one of the greatest powers of modern times.
I refer to Russia. It has passed from an absolute monarchy to a stage of
a republic.

"The trial of this cause is the presentation of a great social issue,
the greatest issue of modern times, namely, what are we going to do
today with the migratory and occasional workers? These migratories, they
are the boys who have told their story on the stand.

"If there is one principle that is ground into Anglo-Saxon thought it is
that of liberty of the press and freedom of speech. Those two things
stand as the bulwark of our liberty. They are the things for which the
Anglo-Saxon has fought from time immemorial. Away back in the eighteenth
century Charles Erskine, a member of the British bar, defended Thomas
Paine for having written the 'Rights of Man'. Case after case was fought
out during that period when English thought was budding into fruition;
when English thought was being tremendously influenced by the French
Revolution and when those thoughts were bearing fruit in England. Time
and time again the British crown attempted to throttle freedom of speech
and liberty of the press. Time and time again Charles Erskine's voice
was raised in the House of Lords in protest. Time and time ag