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Show I UTAH OFFICIALS ARE I CURSED BYHAYWOOD Hj Judge Milton Warns This State That a Day H of Reckoning Is Coming Red Flag H Flaunted At Hillstrom Funeral. H In the absence of n verified report of the speech by Lawyer H Hilton nt the funeral services of his late client Hillstrom in Chi- H cnRo yesterday, perhaps not ns much should be said by way of H comment ns the synopsis appears to demand. His intimation, Hj however, Hint in some way the "imponderable and undefined, but Hj always present and dominating fear of the Mormon church" in- K fluenccd the courts and the officials in determining that the mur- H dcrcr should die, is so familiar and characteristic that present H allusion to it will not bo premature. B Such a charge is so monumentally silly thnt one wonders how H anybody can bo so densa ns to listen to nnd credit it, much less H nttcr it. It is ns false as if fresh coined in the throat of the pit H Itself, as slanderous and scurrilous as if formulated by the vcrit- H able father of lies. The Mormon church hnd no more to do with H Hillstrom's trial, conviction and death than the pope of Rome or H the metropolitan of Petrofrrnd. It had no more part in the verdict H than it had in the crime for which the verdict was given. It used H neither direct nor indirect influcnco upon anybody nt any time in H the whole proceedings. H Hilton if he has any sense left knows this as well ns wc do, nnd H yet with impudent nnd contemptible mendacity he tries to play H upon the strings of prejudice, nnd miserably hopes to win sym- H pnthy by methods unworthy of n cuttlefish or a polecat. It used H to be a saying with light brained pulpiteers nnd plntform Ie- H clnimcrs, "If you don't know nnything else to say, open up abusive- H ly on the Mormons they haven't n friend in the audience." Hilton H seems to have heard this bit of counsel nt some time in the past, H nnd dragged it out from the back pnrt of his head for use yester- B day. H He has practiced, wc believe, in the courts of Utah, nnd may H hope to do no again. Ih there no way by which these courtH can H vindicntc their own honor nnd dignity ngaintst hucIi aspersions and H defnmations as his? The suspicion and the evidence that he has H reached a condition of doddering imbecility may be urged as a H matter of charity, hut even nt that there is a limit of insult which H he ought not to be allowed to pass unrcbuked. Dcscrct Evening H News, November 2Glh. m CHICAGO, Nov. 20. The body of Joseph Hillstrom, executed H November 10th nt the Utah state prison for the double murder of H John C. and Arling Morrison, was cremated i(t Gracclnnd cemetery K nt noon today nnd his nHhes delivered to the Industrial Workers of H the World, This was done in accordance with Hillstrom's final B will, which hu wrote in his death cell in the form of nn eight-line BCi jroeni. H Hillstrom, alias Joe Hill, was given about such a funeral yester- B day as hu would hnvu desired. Anarchists, nihilists, sabotagists, BB bums nnd hoboes generally, of which aggregation less than 10 per B cent was American, nsscmblcd for the ceremony in the West Side BB auditorium. Tliree thousand persons mnnnged to get inside the BB auditorium, while outside twico ns many battled with the police to BB gain admittance. H Red Flag of Anarchy Floats. B Tho red flag of anarchy flontel undisturbed nt every turn. The BB pino coffin contained tho lody of tho man executed by thu Utah Bj nuthoritics for double murder was draped In n red flng. There was BB no touch of religion in tho ceremony. Bitter nttneks upon thu ex- BB isting social system and dire threats against the Utah authorities BBf wero the themes of tho orators. Tho gathering was greatly aug- BBj mented by tho striking garment workers, who chose tho occasion BB for a demonstration, passing contribution boxes nnd peddling BJ anarchistic literature. Blazoned on a banner thnt hung over thu BB coffin wns this Inscription: B1 In Mcmorinm B Joo Hill B We Never Forget H Murdered by thu Authorities of tho State of Utah, K November 19, 1915. H Ceremonies were opened by a quartet, clad in overalls, which BB enng one of UillHtrom's songs. Then a Polish girl, introduced as BB tho "Rebel Girl" by "Rig Hill" Haywood, sang a song written by BB Hillstrom while awaiting execution. m Some Hitter Speeches Arc Delivered. H Jim Lnrkin, former leader of thu dock workers' strikes in Eng- BJ land, and "Hill" Haywood delivered bitter speeches, calling down BB curses upon tho officinls of Utah. Judge Hilton of Denver, Colo., BB followed with nn address, in which he warned Utah thnt a day of BB reckoning wns coming. Eight anarchists then shouldered the B coffin and led a street procession nearly a mile in length. All BBt along tho lino of march thu crowd yelled and sang Hillstrom's BBf songs. Policu battled with tho disorderly members all the way to BBj tho railway station. At Graccland cemetery addresses wero de- BJBJ livcrcd in nine languages, all fiery in thu extreme. The body was BBT then cremated and tho ashes will bo delivered to tho Industrial BBT Workers of tho World for distribution all over tho world. |