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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUTfG 9,- 1C07. -t WIL LI AM D. HA YWOMMmUlS Margkcrita Arlina Hanim, Author and War Correspondent, Gets the Only Authorized Interview With the.De7cnd- 'ii:r&'--' ' ant in the Idaho Jlurder Case. . . . . ' B The Br Margherlta Arlina Hamra. OISB, Idaho, Jme.s. -The trial of William". JX Haywood for ths murder of ax-Qovernor Bteunen berg of Idaho la said to bo a cap ItaUstlo conspiracy by the labor , organisations r of the country. Mlneownere association and the "state of Idaho assert that It la an lm t partial effort, to fix the responsibility tar a., crime. Whatever mar ne fact, which history alona may reveal the Interest -of . both parties centers around the brawny yet boyish looking i man tof .88, admittedly the leader of the Western Federation of Miners, an army jof 100,080 worklngmen. He la believed to h the magnet who has swung tne Federation" to socialism. II has been called the Bebel of America, His pollt leal comrades offer him the position of j candidate for the presidency on, the 80- Iclnllst ticket for the. next presidential "campaign. Even those not Ms enthus- i lastlo champions say that If he Is given htm freedom he will be the leader of : labor In the United States. What sort of a man ta hT He has I nerslatenUv refused himself and his i opinions bf the capitalistic press. Fit . teen minutes has been the longest time 1 given In general conversation to press 'correspondents, and half an hour or so f to other visitor The hour and a half , talk that I had with him la his cell the ; other dsr surprised even his counsel vend "guard, j Haywood the reticent, spoke freely of his life and of his be- lief s: he smiled and chatted and ear- nestlr declared the convictions that have animated his career. I have Inter ; viewed many men on trial for their ' lives, but never one like thla There ' is something extraordinary about him. I whether he Is a great assassin or 'great martyr, --v.-.-. --, . Personality of Prisoner. '' ,'; J William D. Haywood In the eourt- house cell studying and letter writing is Suite a different man from either the efendant at the trial or the sturdy miner leading the Western Federation, i As the union leader he was energetic ' and oommandlng; as the defendant he Is sober and attentive; as a man com i paratlvely at home tn a eteel cage after S months' confinement, he was all these thing, and besides a inougnirut noei. an intellectual presence, a kindly , and harfnl rnimnnnlon. His voice and f handclasn and beaming smile would have astonished me if they had not mad me forget; they seemed entirely nature. .. and appropriate. , . It waa durtnc a respite, wlien the - BVinrlff waa rAttlnr a new lot of lurorS and Haywood had some time to himself i that I spent an nour ana nan in un . cell with him. The state prosecutors of course had. granted permission. A : guard. . Beamer, opened the cell door, S and I was admitted. ' Haywood rose, closed a law book " was reading and shook - hands. His frrasp waa that of the communard. His iand was a vital introduction to the riant frame and -leonine head. The Minded eye seemed a symbol written on . the face of toll. He has a rather small, thin-lipped mouth, but large teeth wide- t lv placed, sanay eyeDrows, aar Drown , hair. His voice is soil, rant. Inclined to bass l We .fiat down. Georse pan to mix water colors. Clarence Dar row, counsel for the defense, picked up. ; a book and glanced at the title page, someone addressed Haywood aa com rade, narrow smiled and said: i "I wish the Socialist party would drop the comrade business." 1.' rows, auric vrvwa t, persuasive, j-eso-pltch. V rge Pettlbone be- All Toilerg One Family. . " ' ' Perhaps It was one of the Chicago lawyer's characterlstlo provocative re marks, whereby he challenges opinions. Haywood rose from his chair and oteDned to the iron arreted window. His fingers -were clinched In the palms of big -hands, the muscles au over nis body visibly stiffened. His deep voice trembled as he faced us. He opened lils hands and spread out his arms. -i "No one 'knows what comrade means better than I," he said. "I do not be lieve the party will ever drop it and ' I hope not It means that the tollers are all one family and as auch must r ; resist any; and every attempt made to break up the family or Injure its mem ' sbers." - . . I "You believe In the solidarity of la iborf" I asked. . i - 1 "Thoroughly; and I know that everjr flsborlng man, consciously or uncon sciously, believes In it Witness the tak . iing into unions of Chinese, Indians and so on. The fact that the man Is a Holler make him a unit of, an organ fixation. r I "Whera did you get these; Ideas V--':-j "It seems as if J always had them, fl have always worked and . had the de 'tiire'to better my condition. Early in j boyhood I learned that only through or ganized action could that be done.' 'Al truism X don t understand mucli aoout comradeship and brotherhood .-, I ' do. . These words are not the same. I be . lieve the class struggle Is the; outcome of the organised efforts of capital and i Industry, and that It Is a part of the law of the ? unl versa" t 'This opinion has come through ex- Beriencer' ,' . - - "Both experience and reading." said -the secretary-treasurer of the Miners , ' Federation. -, .t. ., . ? "What reading have you done along : tnese unesrv- . :t ' Tolls nf His Reartinf -- '. "I began going to night school when 'a lad and science has always attracted me. I've been going to some kind of a school ever since, and here in Jail , ! am taking . a course in law and eco- -rtomlcs. . I've read Draper's Intellectual "History or Europe, Leckya works and 'those of Buckle; the physical scient ists Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall and Wal- ' lace: the social scientists Marx. En eels, Morgan, Bachoefen, - Adam Smith let's eee. Untermann and some more. Then " X have talked and got some idea . of riilebknecht, ' joria,."' Ferrl, Iorabro80, ; Xilssagaray, .Romanes and. HaeckeL . i think science is the gedfather of the worker. He atands for him. He pushes . clara ror. him. . .. .... j. "Science, you think, Is behind the In dustrial movement that you represent?" i "Tea V The hour has struck; the toiler . mntit Aneatm hlmftnlf for hli narf Aat -a Socialist I believe the coming new . system will be proletarian, 4 or of the workers, o The master and man Idea will pass out with, the bourgeois. - The an tclent prophecy will be fulfilled that the Jioor wm innent me eartn. you may ook at it from the religious viewpoint : of Just deserts or from the scientific viewpoint of economio necessity.. ', It's r true either wayv-... : ?Wage Earners Attitude, , I . Haywood paused, took down a book , on economics and a dictionary from his helf library, and pointed to his pen- tinea coiiiiiiBnia. .vi'eople don't seem to feel right to ; ward wage-earners," he continued. V "Some of them call os Ignorant, idle, . ungrateful. Before I waa 20 this made me hot. Now I know It Is part of the capitalistic system . to view us that 'Way. If we' are ignorant and dirty, we who do the world's work, why have they - lAin walvhlntf lit, ilnvn ur (4V. K.ivIam during all these, ages instead of lifting ,ia. lint Who iri our tearhora mrtA Mim. plea, who are our good Samaritans? The fort Is bURlneffs is business, capital is capital, labor Is labor, and if the toller evr expects to be anything else than icnorsnt and dirty, and all the rest V lnMxt pt-rform the miracle himself. 1 we are not all aa ignorant as v ur reputed to be. We have a hard ' ''1' I ' r' !-J. ' ( ' ' ' '. ' . v' . ;. j i ' - '.' r i ' :V'N,;:-' -$ t)&CH l;'J-',;- -sM V: K0 OBSTACLE TO ' KLAMATH PROJECT Itifmora That Work Is About to Do ' - . or" Ha Been Discontinued , ,, ,J ,i ' v Are Groandlens. ... i , "WilJIam D. Haywood -nd, HisTXVlfa -and Child, time retting knowledge, get sucks by us and to but what we we're determined bass it on to our brothers.' He smiled and blinked his large dark eye. . "The dictionary has quite a col lege course In it I like to stud v the definitions of interest, rent and profit. 1 -we an use dictionaries." said uar row. "and even then some of us can't SDelL ..-,--;-).. - i i oeneva Kiniinr ooesn t (now now to soelL" said a -third nartv who was literal. , . ' Kipling a Favorite. Ts that- soT Queried Havwood with eager, smiling Interest. "Kipling is one of my favorite writer His poem called -me eons or wary - ana Marina- - nas cheered me- many an hour; so have his 'Plain Tales' and his poems on ships and engine . I wonder If he was ever in JalL Wa asked him to recite. The big miner. after combing his hair with his fingers in a characteristic thoughtful way, re cited several verses in a lull, resonant voice. He had his own manner of pause and emphasis, softnessanud forte that waa as natural aa it was deeply arrect In. The accomplished Darrow also re cited and read. George PeUlbone, a lit tle, humorous man, with artistic tastes, only mixed water colors and . painted Gibson's figure of a babe telling the for tune of an old man, with the inscription, "you're going on a long Journey." , Someone who was present could not but shed tears at bearing the voice of Haywood in deep, musical rnytnm and seeing that too ominous inscription. Discusses HaeckeL 1 We got to the cellular theory of Haeckel and the man who Is on trial for his life aeemed wonderfully keen upon the subject, though admitting be had not read much, since. "The Riddle" and Its companion volume have not reached Boise. Some brilliant spears by nature and habit and a then were thrust into the hypothesis by Dar row. wno -is a sceptic oy thought-provoker by , Haywood called off the discussion. - Tt doesn't matter what these men do or say," he observed-. "They can't get away from the fact that progress gives the future to the toiler. As I under stand it all scientific Investigation does away with superstition. It gives an economio basis for everything that is. It shows ' that the toiler is uneducated and all the other things that he is be cause of his economio basis. He's poor, he's starved, he's bent down to earth by bis burden. It him own the tools of production and distribution. : Let him not : be exploited. ' Let him share In what money can do and buy and he will no longer be the under , dog, but really tree ana eauat. . . .. bought Out His Theories. - - Tve bad time to think these things out for myself,," continued Haywood, lifting and squaring his large shoulder hands behind back, as he paced the ce ment noor oesiae tne oarrea window "Not here only. Many is the long day I rode over the mountains and plains on my little cayuse. meeting nobody, giving me a cnance to tnina aoout every- tninc in this world ana tne next, .'men I'd meet men alone or In camps. Some of them never knew what money was in their solitude -'Some of the workers Just had pieces of paper to exchange for food and clothe Where there wasn't much money there waa more real equal ity. Man stood square to man, exchang ing labor time on an eauai basis, with out the artificial machlnerv of canltal Ism to conceal exploitation. . Out in the wilderness the notion of one man mak ina a sroflt out of another waa natural ly ridiculous, you'd neip and be helped like a friend and brother; or if you acted otherwise, -you'd be honest enough to class vourself aa a road agent. ... . . As for race prejudices, I've been thrown in with foreigners all my life, that is, those of the-toiling kind. Work makes us all kin. It has comDelled me to be cosmopolitan. Besides, it is the doc trine of the International workers. There Is no difference in men we can leave that to Haeckel , and the other scientists save the industrial differ ence." . :";. : "You have suffered and are suffering ror tnese opinions, at, iiaywooar ,, "JJon t .speaK or that." ; . (; -- Was Bora a Toiler. . V v Sy'- The tone was simple and sincere. . I realised that this man waa fully aware of his position and did not flinch before it; that he thought more of his princi ples than bis life: or rather that he waa 40 wrapped ud In his faith, that self was a disregarded quantity. "1 was Dorn a- toner ana all that It mean but when ' I became a socialist I hODtt I learned 'te be . lmnarannal. Think of it Darrow," and he turned to his devoted counsel "Twelve thousand men ." He paused and atrode a nar row space like, a " soldier v marching. "Twelve thousand men have had wages Increased since I have been, in the can. I'm not good at figures but just you go into the mathematics of the thing; see how many days I've been in Jail and how man v more dollars thoae nonr fal lows will get - How many dollars a day ORATOR CHAMPIONS , FOR THE TRI-STATE - (Special Dispatch to The 7ooraal) '. . University ; of .-Oregon, . Eugene, Or. June 8 The contestants for the - tri state oratorical contest to be held here June 20. the Universities of Idaho. Washington and Oregon participating, have been chosen.-' Oregon will be rep resented by Henry E. McKinney, who trraduates . this year. - Washington by student named Erlckson and Idnho hv a crack debater named Frazier. McKin- neys subject is 'The President . Brick son's "Powers of the Press." and Fra xler's," "Problems of the Twentieth Cen tury." The judges have not been chosen. It is the most lmcortant oratorical contest of the year In the northwest and great Interest la taken by the three State . - ' ", :, : :;(, ,J:...:s- i., v,:. HARD STUDY WRECKS Y0UKGF MAN'S MIND (Hearst News ay Jjaogtttfati Wire.) Los Angeles, June J. Because , of toe diligent study at the University of Cali fornia, WUliam McHale is insane at the receiving hospital. V -: ;': r s -; McHale has been a student at Berks ley for three years. At the openlne of ' A Uangeroua Deadlock, that sometimes terminates fatally. Is the Stoppaae. of liver and bowel funn. tlon- To quickly end this condition without disagreeable sensations, Dr. King's New Lite Pills should always be your remedy. Guaranteed ahanlntxiw satisfactory 1.-every, case or money back, at Red Cross Pharmacy. 36a, : have I helpe to earn for those fellows? i xAwaing ai it mis way my time nas not been wasted and i m- glad I had the chancto help--? VnvnTT ; Darrow turned his prescient dark ayes upon tha aoeaker. j , . - - - j j5v -"Brother Haywood's tmp'uIalv.M':!: " "Bo-the prosecutors say," . I remarked, "and I've found a lot of bis so-called in flammatory speeches are Just the same talk that, Roosevelt ' Bourke Cochran, Carl 8churs or any other ardent orator has. often made.', . t ,, . ' t. v . Real Conditions Unknown. , Haywood, seated, '.leaning forward, elbow on knee, chin in hand, became the student for the first time since the, visit "I have often thought what these mv would feel and say If they knew i the real condition of the worker The miner for example. Their wages, the vinuwuon or tu mine, accidents and disease caused by old and broken-down machinery, the scrip system In tha Trinidad COal field, and tha Imnnaltlnn. of the spy system." v ,v . . ,. -Haywood's naive," drawled Clarence Darrow. "He doesn't vet believe tha people know-real conditions." "What's that comrade?" His eye brightened aa he thought ha had heard a new word. Then be remembered he'd read and looked It un in Hum ,rp- haps I am ingenuous, but still I do be lieve that If all men knew the rirht nt our cause they would be with u' Uavo you anvthlnr In ttartlimiaii tn MV thMllvh, fh. . A a. T T . mil I asked, when . leavetaklng became Imperative.- -..:,:--' as a rule understand that our cause is tlllMl OT A .tmnl. . .1... ..... , .. T 1 the other workers who are not organised 1 I would bid them orsranlce. wui . come.Ircompetition I bound to touch them.; Then I would ask them to read the history of our case understand- ina-lv. tA Ihlllv, th llva. n ..11 the kind of work they do, the physical disadvantages of their occupations, the labor struaaies of Idahn mi pi.j. They j will find our men non-resistant 7.'?'wlil,lnjL 'the Astern Federation u.uuiub umm ip m no. i tninic i un derstand our men when I. say that they have always worked for a peaceful Solu tion of our troubles. - And I hi i t uuuuownu ini Dociaiisr. party, or which , A raember, when I eay that it stands for evolution, not revolution In a violent sense,. And the founding of the cooperative commonwealth through the means of the ballot" .. " , the last semester he showed signs of a mental breakdown and yesterday be was orougni noma mental, wreca, ' last dltlon- and called the officers. An In his mother and two sisters became gntenea regarding his alarming com vestigation regarding- his condition wlU ba made. . . . CUTTING UP LARGE ' .;: KLAMATH . RANCHES , '; (Special Diipatefe ts The JoernaL Klamath Falls, Or,, June i. Another step In . the 1 cutting up of the - large ranches of the Klamath basin was taken when the Tule Lake Land & Livestock company,- tnrougn its president v.- C. Franks, made final transfer of s.koa acres of as fine land as there Is in lower tviamatn vaney, oordenng on Tule lake. Its cutting up Is in charge of J. Frank aaimi or aierruu, uregon, - . , ? v urArrnTJur a t tat tttttt k 0- l.i iU. V A vXWJU. All Ail v VXXXjJJ J,; : . , .IN f CAR COLLISION (Hearst Ksws by Leagert teased Wire. 'I Loa 'Angeles.' June 8. In a head-on m Hinn i.riirA.n rwn rivtrriM . a ...... cars at Avenue 20 and Pasadena avenue late last night one of the motormen. 8. P. Johnaon, was perhaps fatally injured, four passengers were Injured and badly shaken up and both cars smashed. As to how the collision' could: occur - when the headlights were: on Is a mystery which the company will not explain,- . ' (Speeial- Olapateb ' te- The JoamaL) -' Klamath Fall Or.. June 8. All in coming stages are heavily loaded.-The traffic Is the heaviest It has ever been at una season. Local express compan ies exploiting this country with farm and city-property for sale, did not ex pect a great rush Into this country until the railroad's arrival, but the total num ber of people coming in this season will be.very'great':v,.'-a.''.;:-:-i:'-iv', vr HIS MOTHER'S DEATH MADE HIM DESPERATE '!,ri'.!f!r; " 'f0 V'J..1 -::r''.":.. ' (Special Dispatch te The JoanwL) "; Spokane, Wash.,' June 8. Because his mother died, Ed Croitchfleld, aged ST, a married man and a baker, is supposed to have committed suicide by Jumping iuw oyuKniia rivvr.j t xiv . naa Deen very-despondent ever since hi mother's omui, ma naa oiten threatened suicide. He also had business trouble Search of the river is being made. V . ramhfll Plana Applo Fair. McMlnnvIlIe, '-.Ori, . June ,S.--At a tneat ing of ..faroers, f rait growers and imer- chant it' was decided to hold an apple fair some time next fall. A general commute waa appointed to make mora complete arrangement , The meeting was notable as a reawakening of the people of Yamhill to the great pos sibilities of apple culture in their coun tr7v - 'v - f . vnima will sWthct her baby Is properly cared for to do this a rood nuraativa is essary... Many babies suffer from worms and their mothers '"don't know- it if your baby Is feverish-end doean't iun at -nights - it Is troubled with worm White's Cream -Vermifuge will clean out these worms In a-mild, pleasant way. Once tried always used. Give it a trial.. Price Si cent , Sold by all druggist. " .(Soeelal DtnMtett' te The Joaraat) Klamath Falls, Or.,' June-8. A report Injurious to tha Klamath country has been circulated, namely, that: the work on the . federal reclamation ' project Is being discontinued and that all ma chlnery is -being removed.. The report ls prooaoiy rounded on tne tact tnac the Mason. Davis company had finished their contract and were moving their outfit. , The work on the Klamath pro ject ls going on, and will go on until It is completed. The. government has large forces at work on different parts of the project - The farmers are pre paring to receive the wster and next year many more acres will ba irrigated By the government ditch. ... The Mason Davis i company, contrac tors on ' the big "-ditch. have received another extension, of time with the un derstanding that parts -now finished shall be turned over--immediately to the government. ';.'- The Question as to Whether the Kla math Water -Users association can go into the field as .- a contractor In the construction of the Klamath project has been out us - to the secretary of the interior. , v.-; t . i , .v i . TILLAMOOK MEN TO' 3UILD FOR BUSINESS ' ' (Special Ptipatch to The Journal.) ' Tillamook. Or. - June 8. A numhar nf Tillamook capitalists have subscribed the necessary funds to erect a concrete and stone business block. The nullding will be three stories with a baaement. with 100 feet front on Third ' avenue east and 1 100 feet on Fourth street. Proposed store on the lower floor and offices on the second floor have been leased in advance. The third floor is designed for lodge room.' ilA AS WANTS ALL 1 ' '-POLES PAINTED ; (BdmIiI Dinnatch to Tne Journal.) Salem. Or.. June 8. Not content with making the Southern Paclflo company obey the ordinances of the city, Fred O. Hans, a member of the city council. has filed a complalnfagalnst Manager Kollln K. fa m of the Portland Ueneral Electric company of thla city, whom he charges with violating ordinance No. BOB, which requires that all corporations maintaining telephone,, electric light or other poles on which wires are atrung shall paint such poles. ' ; Si . .j, .,, ii n m . i Harbor Hills Running. (Sperla) Dlipatcb to The JnernaL) Hoqulam, Wash., June J. None of the mills of this place have as' yet shut down as the result of "the closing of the logging - camps,' all of them now running on orders already on hand. It Is the opinion of those best Informed that the situation is not likely to re sult In the closing down of all the mills even if some of them may .'con sider, it for their Individual Interest to close JTor a time. '., i . 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SELLING THE : BETTER" GRADES Con First arid Yamhill Streets S A-, On Account of Store Re&uiMlhg We are compelled to sacrifice our entire stock of fine Clothing Hats, Shoes "and. Furnishings. ' Slow delivery by the railroad companies, has placed us in desper ate 'circumstances. Eight cases of fine suits that should have been delivered in May have just been ddivdred to us by the railroad company. We are compelled ' to make the sacrifice all the deeper and more desperate as store wrecking, must ; soon begin. This lot of goods consists of over 600 of bur finest and highest-class' suits, bought for the spring and summer, of 1907 These elegant grays of T all : ; kinds. The newsnappy; ideas in .browns. They come in full hand-tailored gar- mentsin worsteds and velour top cassimere, Rosen uons. ii you Know 01 any nner, or Detxer ciotnes, we are iree to conicss inai wc have never discovered the fact,5 are suited by their productions.4.Well, we jiave .their choices suits IhereX. They must be sola in a. hurry, and we will make prices .do the work. Look- all , over ''town.lXSee' tiie-b'esi md ttee-'suits,' ;iThen" come'.to DeUaVs and see the R, &;W. custom finished suits at prices that will save you about one-half. Read the Wee .SMemeiats A AND REMEMBER DELLAR'S IS A STORE OF FACTS. ; ; This lot consists of several hun dred pure wool and worsteds, in very desirable colors, patterns and styles. ' This lot consists of suits from our best selling $12 to $15 lines where the lots , have been sold so that the sizes are incomplete. There are few opportunities of this kind, that occur, even in a life- time. But on account of rebuilding, Dellar is compelled v to clear out everything to make way, for a new store and new fall stock, r -' ; ' , , Some of the best $15, $18 and $20; Suits that lie under the American flag will be found in this lot. New arrivals that should have brought wholesale cost at least, but on account of the short time left to sell these goods before store wrecking begins we cannot stand on ceremony, or what should be. It's an iron bound fact that we have got them and are going to 6ell them at all hazards For as good and desirable $22 and $25 Suit as there is in the United States. These elegant R. W. & Co. clioicest creations will appeal to every knowing buyer. The sizes are com plete and the variety extensive. Just look at $20 to $25 suits around town,' then come here.; It won't take long for you to see what's what, i The finest Suits we bought for season's trade to sell up to They came in one month late, and we have but a shorfcJ ; tune to clear them out Prices will do . it, when you see v them. r "- V 1 ' Irl V 1 - Going to Build a New and Larger Store, that's : ; .::: why vye are Sacrificing Our Fiiie Stock iL Dcllcr, Docs What Ho Proiniccs-r-Don't Forget That