at length would be an impertinence. He who runs may read the
signs of decay of Capitalism, the crumbling of a social system based
upon the slavery and degradation of the vast majority of mankind. And
from the lips of the prosecution counsel--the Voice of the State--we
have the open and frank acknowledgement of the bankruptcy of law and
order, the failure of government as it is now administered.

It is no part of this work to attack The Law. The Law is august,
majestic in its impartial findings and the equality of its judgements,
always however with due allowance for those subtle distinctions so
incomprehensible to the masses which exist between high finance,
kleptomania and theft. The Law strips no one of his possessions; under
its beneficent reign the rich retain their wealth and the poor keep
their poverty. Founded on dogma and moulded by tradition, The Law stands
as a mighty monument to Justice. It is ever in this way that we show our
respect and reverence for the dead. Being an outgrowth of precedent it
gains added sanctity with each fresh proof of antiquity, differing in
this regard from automobiles, eggs, women, hats, the six best sellers,
and the commoner things of life. Surrounded by mysticism, surcharged
with the language of the dead, and sustained by force, who is there
would have the temerity to question the sanctity of The Law?

It remained for Attorneys Black and Cooley--and not for the outcast
industrial unionists, socialists or anarchists--to charge that The Law
is a bankrupt institution, and it was for the citizen-deputies--and not
for the despised workers--to prove the truth of the indictment. Truly
Society moves in a mysterious way its blunders to reform!

With the true logic of the counting-house Cooley admitted that the mill
owners had formed a mob to protect themselves from the rabble, they had
pursued illegal methods to prevent the breaking of The Law, they had
jailed men in order to preserve Liberty, they had even blacklisted union
men in order to give to every man the right to work where, when and for
whom he pleased. There is no escaping such logic if one owns property.
Of course those who possess no property are the natural enemies of
property, and law being based upon property, they are defiers of The
Law, and Society being upheld only by observance of The Law, they are
the foes of Society. It is not best to kill them in too large numbers
for they are useful in doing the work of the world, bu