up there setting
those fires. That, I know, is an insinuation not supported by any
evidence in this case, and the detective wasn't working up there, he was
operating down here in the city of Seattle. He was sending his reports
to Blain before the Wanderer started out, before the men started out on
October 30th, and that goes a good way to explain how it happened how
these people were met on these different excursions and were not
permitted to come within the city of Everett. They were trying to get
into the city of Everett, to use their own judgment, to act on their own
initiative, according to instructions that had gone out. And the
officers stopped the thing before it started.

"What were they coming to Everett for, these forty-one men who were met?
Were they coming to hold a street meeting? Forty-one men, enthused with
the enthusiasm of the belief in their grand and glorious doctrine that
they are teaching, forty-one men starting out as crusaders to carry the
gospel of their organization to the benighted of Everett, forty-one
going up there to be martyrs, to be beaten for the cause, and nothing
else!

"I have told of the tactics and methods advocated, used and encouraged,
by this peculiar, particular organization, so you can judge the
character, purpose and intentions of the individuals that were seeking
from time to time to force themselves into the city of Everett, in order
that you may judge the two hundred and sixty that left on the Verona on
November the 5th.

"But there is another matter you should likewise take into consideration
in determining the character of the individuals of that crowd.
Regardless of all environment, regardless of the effect of all
legislation, regardless of all social conditions, men are born--not all
with the same propensities, not all with the same natural ambitions, not
all with the same qualifications, and out of the entire mass of humanity
there is a certain percentage that were born without any ambition, born
without any incentive; they go thru life without any incentive,
constantly tired. Now I am not here to say that all the I. W. W.'s are
that kind of people. I am not here to say that because a man is a member
of the I. W. W. he is a tramp or a hobo. But there is a class that has
been recognized in this country ever since the country existed, a class
that don't want to work, that would not work if you gave them an
opportunity. These are a percentage, I don't know how large,