ents run into five or six hundred thousand. We are here as the
mouthpiece of the workers of America, organized and unorganized, and
they are all behind our voices.

"Tom Tracy stands here in your control. You are the ones to determine
whether or not he shall walk out free, whether or not he shall be
branded for all times with the most serious felony known to the law,
namely, that of a murderer. Can you find it in the evidence to bring in
a verdict of guilty in this case?

[Illustration: Singing to the Prisoners.]

"In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, we want no compromise here. When
you retire to your jury room I beg of you not to compromise with any
verdict other than not guilty. We don't want manslaughter in this case,
we don't want second degree murder in this case; it is either first
degree murder or an acquittal, one or the other. Allow none of those
arguments that we, as lawyers, know are made in the juryroom to
influence your honest verdict in this case. We ask at your hands, and we
believe with all the sincerity of our souls, that the evidence warrants
it, we ask a verdict of not guilty for the defendant, Thomas H. Tracy!"

If the speech of prosecutor Black was a whine, that of prosecutor Cooley
was a yelp and a snarl. Apologies, stale jokes, and sneers at the
propertyless workers followed one another in close succession. The gist
of his harangue was as follows:

"In this case I am going to try simply in the closing argument to select
a few of the monuments that it seems to me stand out in this case and
that point a way to a proper verdict.

"Now, in the first place, a whole lot has been said here as to the
nature of the controversy that existed for a number of months before
November the 5th, 1916, between two classes of individuals there at
Everett. Upon the one side were the people who were living in the city
of Everett, who had made their homes there, who had come there for the
purpose of carrying out their future destiny in that city. It was their
home. Their interests were there. Their families were there. And upon
the other side were a class of people who did not claim Everett as their
home, who did not come there for the purpose of amalgamating with the
citizenship of the city of Everett. They were not coming there because
they had work there, nor because they were seeking work there; they were
not citizens of Everett, nor were they seeking to become citizens of
Everett, and there arose a controver