OCR Text |
Show December 17, 1971 Joe A Murderer Turned into a Martyr Hill being one of them and looking forward to that bright dawn, as he hoped, of an industrial freedom and liberty a Mormon jury to convict him and a Mormon Governor to deny him the poor boon of a commutation. Do you believe, men and women of Chicago, that this silent form would be in your midst today if Joe Hittstrom had been a good ... had two , three or four wives to call him husband? And when that jury was sworn, Joe Hills fate was sealed. That was all there was to it. And when the villany of the conviction became known and its awful imparts swept over the land, more than a hundred thousand petitioners, grand men and women from every state, wrote and whined to the board of pardons. ... Mormon, paying his tithes After Hilton asserted that he promptly to the Church, and had would tell his hearers all the facts i jA The UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 5 concerning Attorney Hilton, we state before the Supreme Court, find these words: We think the and all three members of the law as announced by the Authorities heretofore referred to when Supreme Court were all nonMormons; that no Mormon had applied to the facts in hand well been a member of the Supreme justify the respondants disbar- Court since statehood, a period of ment. The maintenance of proper more than 20 years; and that only respect due the courts and ju- two Mormons had ever been dicial offices requires it. It there- members of the Territorial fore, is ordered and adjudged that Supreme Court during a period of the respondant be and he hereby more than 40 years (the two is, disbarred from practicing as an served only about a year); and attorney and counselor at law in that the jury that convicted Hill-- any of the courts of the State, strom was made up of Mormons that his name be stricken from and alike. One of the roll, and that he pay the costs Hiltons counsel stated at a hear- - of these proceedings. Let the ing that, to his knowledge, only order so be entered. (Ibid. pp. one of them the members of the ) Justices J. McGary and jury the foreman, was known to J. Frick unanimously cqnsented. be a Mormon. (Pacific Reporter An interesting and revealing conclusion to this case (of Joe 158PAC, P.697) Iii the final portion of the stateHills attorney Orrin N. Hilton) Chief ment of Justice C.J. Stroup occurred just seven years and two months later on September 14, 1923. Hilton made application to the Utah Supreme Court that his disbarment be annulled and set aside and that he be reinstated and readmitted as an attorney and counselor of the court. The following statement was made by Justice J. Frick: The Court has carefully examined into the application . . . the misconduct arose after the conviction and execution of such client and consisted of criticisms of the members of this court in disrespectful language. The applicant has, however, made a full and complete apology to this court for his conduct and has thoroughly purged himself with regard to that misconduct. He has convinced this court that his apology is now made in good faith . . .and he now concedes that he erred in As well as our regular stock we now have his criticisms of members of this available Metaphysical, Religious, and court. The court is therefore Brifish-lsrae- J literature. unanimously of the opinion that and circumstances of the case, he gave them but garbled portions, misrepresented the proceedings held before the courts and the board, and withheld the most essential facts connecting Hill- strom with the murders. He villi- fied and abased the Mormon Church, falsely charging it with influencing and interfering with judicial action. He characterized the courts of Utah as but fearing slaves to the preponderating power of the Mormon Church. Attorney Hiltons counsel at a subsequent .hearing in open court unqualifiedly admitted that the Mormon Church had nothing whatever to do with the Hillstrom case; that the slain storekeeper and his son were that the district attorney who prosecuted the case, the district judge who tried it, the Attorney non-Mormo- General who represented the . non-Mormo- ns 700-701- ns; for his misconduct, his disbarment, should be and accordingly is, set aside and annulled. (218 P.A.C. p. 273.) So we have the fully story of Joe Hillstrom, alias Joe Hill, together with his attorney as an accomplice in a deliberate attempt to smear the Mormon Church in order to win reprieve from a murder conviction. Now .his comrades and fellow travelers of a later generation would attempt to lift him up to the world and the people of these United States as a martyr in the cause of the lowly working man. The evidence is, however, to the contrary. He was a dedicated socialist and communist and devoid of the conscience and morality of a martyr. He was a criminal and an enemy of the people as well as the state. He had his day in court and was found guilty. Let not the people of this generation be misled by those who continue to follow the communist program of attack on the Mormon Church. FEELING YOUR OATS Kicking cigarets may well depend on what you have for breakfast. Dr. C.L. Anand, a Glasgow, Scotland, physician, tested 13 heavy smokers with doses of common ordinary oats and found that oats reduced their cigaret craving As scientific dramatically. theories go, we find this one plausible. Weve never seen a horse with the cigaret habit. -Chicago Tribune |