r regular or citizen deputies, were the aggressors. I
said, who were the aggressors? Is there any question in your mind who
was the aggressor up to Beverly Park? Any question in God's world who
had done the dirty work up to that time? The State would have you
believe that the I. W. W., with its membership coming from the four
corners of the country, changed complexion practically over night,
changed their whole ideas and their methods. I do not believe it and you
do not believe it.

[Illustration: Part of 78 prisoners of County Everett Wn. Released
May 8, 1917.]

"The excuse the State gives for the actions of the deputies is that in
the case of large numbers they could not give due process of law.
Gentlemen, I refuse to believe that the Government is bankrupt in its
capacity to protect itself thru legal and lawful measures of law
enforcement. I have yet to sit in a court room and hear a plea on social
and governmental bankruptcy such as is the plea of counsel for the
State.

"The machinery of the government was there but it was not the kind of
machinery that McRae wanted to use. It was not the kind Clough wanted to
use. It was not the kind of machinery the executive committee, whoever
they were, sitting behind the closed doors of the Commercial Club,
wanted to use.

"And these members and leaders of the Commercial Club passed resolutions
stigmatizing their own citizens, member of their own community, property
owners in their own town, as well as the I. W. W., when they declared
for an open shop. How do they stigmatize them? 'Professional agitators!'
Yes. Lloyd Garrison was a professional agitator. Wendell Phillips was a
professional agitator. The men who fought the battle that lay the ground
work that made Abraham Lincoln possible, the men who are at work to
better American politics, those men have all been professional
agitators.

"Now on the boat they were ninety-nine percent I. W. W.'s, just a few
passengers had bought their passage before. On the dock they were all
citizen deputies, persons interested therein, and persons satisfactory
to the men who had been stationed there to see that nobody but the right
ones got on the dock. That means that as far as the first shot was
concerned the two classes of witnesses are in some degree interested
parties. The State put on a total of twenty-two witnesses, one of them
not a deputy, all of whom testified that the shot came, or they thought
it came from the dock, and of