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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1912)
THE TIMES o f the former city with both coasts of North America will use the rail and Pacific Ocean route. So fully is this recognized that extensions Published e v e r y Saturday by THE T IM E S COM PAN Y, Incorporated o f other Argentine'roads running west and northwest are projected, ftt 212 First Street, Portland, Oregon. P h on es: Main 5 6 3 7 : A -2666. some o f them coming out to the Pacific Coast as far north as Peru THE TIMES is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents Other roads are building or projected south o f the Valparaiso-Buenos appearing in its columns. Ayres line. The revolution in commerce wrought by the canal is world-wide. Entered in P ostoffice at Portland, O regon, as second-class matter. It extends north and south, east and west, around the globe. Only jn rough outline are its effects now perceptible. When the canal has A FEARLESS E XPON EN T OF IN D U STR IAL PEACE been in use for a few years we shall be able to trace them in detail to and through all continents. THE TIMES SUBSCRIPTION RATES— $2.50 per year, in advance. DIGNITY FOR LABOR. ADVERTISING RATES made known upon application. Saturday, July 27, 1912 ATTORNEY DARROW S PLIGHT. The following editorial comment from the Garment Workers’ official organ is worthy of publication; also comment: “ The trial of Clarence S. Harrow for alleged attempts to bribe jurymen in the McNamara eas^ is now on in Los Angeles. As one of the great attorneys of this country who have ably defended organized labor and its leaders in trying situations his case will be watched with great interest by trade unionists and their friends in the hope that, he may he fully vindicated from the accusation. It is hardly con ceivable that a man o f his character and intelligence would resort to the method with which he is charged to win a case. In his defense he is confronted mainly by a detective who, it is charged, was a paid detective in the employ of the prosecuting attorney while employed by the McNamara defense. If this is the case, it will invalidate his testimony. Attorney Harrow has expressed absolute confidence that he will he acquitted. Clarence Harrow has fought many a good tight for labor unions, and the working class ought not to forget him now that lie himself is in need of friends. If he needs financial assistance, it should he freely given ; and it is hoped that the labor papers o f this country will do all possible service in his behalf that he may have a lair trial and a just verdict. He is confronted with implacable ene mies, and his friends must rally to his support that the labor haters of California may not flatter themselves that Harrow has been deserted by his former friends in the labor movement.” The writer docs not agree with the editor of the official organ of the Garment Workers’ organization when he says the labor papers and the members o f organized labor should contribute to a fund for the defense of Mr. Harrow. Neither do we share the opinion that Harrow lias always been a friend of organized labor. Whatever lie did he charged saucily for it, and labor paid the price. lie never turned a hand in the defense of labor unless he first had an under standing concerning the price he was to receive and it generally reached the highest point. When he appeared before the Anthracite Coal Commission for the miners who had been on strike for six months and then went hack to work pending the result of the coin- mission’s deliberations, he put the tariff on, and yet there were ofli- cers in the Miners’ Union who knew that Harrow bungled things and bungled them badly. The hill he charged for the work he did in the Mnyer-llnywood-Pettiborie trial was enormous. When lie was engaged to defend the McNamaras at lirst he said he did not want to engage in the trial because it would be a long one. Then lie consented and decided to live in Los Angeles, lie charged an enormous sum of money for his services in this case, and liiql the case gone to the jury, would have charged one thousand dol lars for every day he spent in court. Clarence figured the matter out all right for Clarence. He knew the McNamaras were guilty months before they confessed and yet foxy Clarence permitted the thousands in tljis country to believe ill tllcir innocence after they confessed to him that they were guilty. Why did Clarence do so? Was it to up hold the dignity of labor, or to get sufficient money in the fund, over which he exercised supreme power, in order that Clarence in the future would not need to care which way the wind blew? It is possible to pull the wool over the eyes of the laboring people once in a while, hut you can’t do it all the time! Harrow committed an unpardonable offense when he failed to disedose the truth to the millions of wage-earners in this country con cerning the guilt of the McNamaras. Clarence knew how to play the game, however. He had charge of the fund that was created for the defense of the scoundrels who betrayed organized labor and joined with the wreckers of it in an effort to destroy it for all tiiilt Ifa half million dollars : Were were raisei raised Clarence would no doubt get 111 greater part of it for his work. When he learned that niaras were guilty, am the money continued to pour in. flash a message to thosi who believed in their innoeene were contributing. No. foxy Clarence held the hag with di<l not whimper. Now. some of Ids friends claim that contribute to a defense fund for him. There are verv earners in the country who share this opinion. lie knew laid if he told the truth to the million of wage-earners who believed the McNamaras innocent, not a cent would come from (lie burdened hacks of labor, lie knew then and lie knows now that organized labor abhors brutality and injustice. Yet Clarence with held the facts from people whom lie wished would continue to send ill their mite because he realized if the truth were made known lie would have to go hack to Illinois. Now that he is in trouble himself lie can not expect support from those whom he deceived hv keeping the truth which lie possessed from them Miners’ Magazine. THE CANAL S FAR REACHING EFFECTS How far reaching will he the effects of the construction of the Panama Canal may he seen in the fact that the traffic between Buenos Ayres and the I’aeitie Coast is relied upon to make the Chilean \ Trans-Andean Railroad profitable This road, which runs from Val paraiso to the boundary on the summit of the Andes, connects with a road built by Argentina from the summit to Buenos Ayres. It has been operated by the Chilean government at an enormous loss, which lias brought the republic into financial difficulties. Financiers of various nationalities have offered to lease the state railroads of Chile and provide the facilities needed. They evidently rely upon the di version of Argentine commerce to the Pacific Coast h\ way of the] Trails Vndean railroad and Valparaiso to make that road profitable. Tilt' effect of the canal will he practically to annex Argentina commercially to the I’ aeitie Const of South America. The great bulge eastward in the Atlantic Coast of that continent and the fact that the Atlantic Coast of North Vmerinea is in almost a direct line north and south with the Pacific Const of South America combine to make the Trans-Andean railroad and the canal the shortest route between Buenos Ayres and New York. The distance from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso through the Straits of Magellan is s o great that the traffic i It should be an unmixed good that a department of labor may he constituted at Washington and take its place as a distinct organ ization in the government of the country. Apart from the satisfac tion to federated and unionized labor by the passage of a hill which they have long advocated it will be to the advantage of the nation that there may be a department where labor may have its recognized representation, on the same plane as public health, child welfare, for estry. commerce and industry, and the rest. While all civilized nations are striving to haromnize the relations between labor and the community it is well that labor—so-called— be recognized as a part o f the organic whole o f the nation’s life, and that the class consciousness may be minimized, to which so much of the existing antagonism which organized labor suffers from is due. The great danger o f the times in England, France, and, in a less degree in America, is that organized labor, wanting recognition and aid from the nation through its government, should go after false gods and yield itself to the seductions of syndicalism, of direct action, and of anarchistic socialism. Largely these dangers are the direct fruit of want o f confidence of the individual men on those whom they have elected to leadership and influence. The remedy is to surround the management of organized labor with evidences of national confidence and respect— for like begets like. In recent disputes it lias been repeatedly seen that the influence of disinterested officials of a high class lias been a potent power in file settlement. The department of labor will he. or should be, the strongest source whence that harmonizing influence mav flow. Book tie of Culloden in Scotland in 1745, when the English army, un tier the Duke of Cumberland smashed the hopes of Bonn if Prince Charlie and his adherents Reviews Fame-Seekers, by Alice Woods $1.20. Illustrated. George II Horan Co., New York City. With illustrations by May Wil son Preston, this attractive novel depicts with, cleverness an Amer iean artist-story of Bohemian Paris, known and Trilby Land. 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