Show Sinclair Writes Expose of Sacco Affair Gives Capital Institutions Institution's cLam cLam- Judge Th yer By HARVEY HANCOCK widely h d expose ex pose ot tho V Sacco-V case Is typically Upton Meaning of course that m a of the expressions on pages contained two volu es are an excorIation of persons and opinions ions repugnant to his his' philosophy and of institutions and their management man man- in opposition to his so- so precepts If anything the theauthor author has sharpened his shafts of rebuke with a slightly leener than In many of his bools alJ for forthe the benefit of Bostonians who had placed an official ban upon his prevIous pre pre- publication CRITICIZES DECISION One cannot wholly criticize Mr SinclaIr's viewpoint of the Sacco- Sacco affaIr Many men and women wo- wo men of all classes entertaIn the belief be- be lief that the radIcal activities of the two Italians were far more In- In In their conviction and execution than the circumstantial evIdence connecting them wIth the South or murders In this however how how- ever the author is positive He accuses ac- ac the blue bloods of New England with the men mento to the electrIc chair he Judge Thayer for his unfairness un- un fairness tho prosecution for its deception de- de the supreme court justices for theIr susceptibility to the influence in- in fluence of money the governor his of attention and the academic aca- aca demic commission headed by A. A La wrence Lowen for its drowsiness man who wIll sit in his arm armchair chair at night and reflect on his days day's activities recall many things he wished he had done dif dif- One wIshes he not said this or that or had not done this or that lIe realizes his perhaps more fully ihan those with whom he comes in con con- tact in connection with his business 01 private life he has forced upon his own consciousness errors of judgment Conceived often in sometimes haste in and deliberation Unquestionably when he mc on the of the Sacco- Sacco case wIll recall Incidents which he wished had not occurred remarks he wished he had not made Possibly others playIng influential parts iri the case wIll recall with equal forcefulness mistakes that T n hl I were NO nan His acts however usually bc omo detrimental to public welfare onlY when they are conceived for selfish ends and not in sincerity of Purpose Pur pose as was in this case HACKS AT ERRORS lave been more convIncing if he aad stressed mOle fully the acts of the public officials he condemns for subversive conduct rather than hack away at lIlO little inconsequential errors that crept Into their lives Every mistake mis- mis take that was made by the judiciary in handling the trial no matter how small 01 b the in disposing dis- dis posing of the application for a reprIeve re- re were darts f l' l tho authors author's bow Readers are not by his methods they wIth him Sometimes they dis- dis agree but alwa s they understand Mr Sinclair was more convincing in his arguments even to those who different theories of liCe at the end of his first volume than at the finish of the second lIis persistent Invectives In thc later in turnIng turn turn- passages were Ing the readers from ant students of his thought fo sKeptics of his motives can be classified as one of the books of the year mainly of tile keen and comprehensible manner It which he has explained tho Inside of Institutions rJ the student stu- stu dent of economics history or industry indus indus- book are far try these phasE of the more Interesting than the story of Cornelia Thornwell's conversion as a labor sympathizer lr the details of the Sacco- Sacco A. C. C Boni Co New |