| Show BAD COMPANY DECLINED it is ie the misfortune mie fortune of some people to have bad friends friend si and it is the ill III fortune of other people at times to be associated with bad company against again their will and contrary to their expectation A remarkable instance iastan 08 of being brought into bad surroundings surrounding without personal contamination occurred iu in the experience of the late F emory mry A storrs the eminent criminal lawyer of chicago A deputation of lough characters called to retain him in an unsavory ewe in which they r their friends figured as aa defendants his bla price was and he would out nos abate a jot of that figure in 4 ya vao a di did id ibi abe expostulate and entreat ao and 1 finally i in reply to a statement abot it was waa more than twice as ae much as aa be bad ever charged before or than others had bad done the same work for he be sald very true I 1 charge for professional services and more for having to keep such company 10 the NEWS aws yesterday took occasion to in terms of commendation of governor altgeld ot of illinois for pardoning fielden Pi elden schwabe and leebe the anarchists under life sentence en tence antho in he penitentiary for corn in the haymarket riot some years ago that they were tried at a time when mens mena men s passions pasa ions in ia that neighborhood ran high and a thoroughly dispassionate proceeding was out of the auest question lon seemed and seems to be a matter of common understanding that a feeling of that kind would have hilive some isolde iL influence fluence upon the ju judge adge who bottled tried the case la Is also unquestionable he would be more or less than human were ere it otherwise other wlee the of fibers several of whose associates were killed or wounded were naturally influenced and almost unnaturally active in securing evidence and siding aiding the prosecution in every practicable way the newe newspapers papers took up the hue and cloy ay iy and tray blanche and heart added dreir voices to the hoarse cry for revenge some through sympathy with the bereaved otters others because they believed the accused guilty and because it was dangerous not to do so we respectfully submit that this was not a proper condition of society in which to place men inen on trial for their lives even though they were guilty the theor theory of our criminal prosecutions to is that no disadvantage ball be placed in the way of the accused and no unfair advantage in tho bands of his bis accusers a condit condition lon of things which was exactly reversed on the trial of the anarchists at this distance we could comprehend the situation more clearly and calmly than those who were enveloped by it and after the I 1 lupse apse of years with aril all the lifted a d the DR Das eions well nigh dispelled it is a reasonable conclusion that the people there look at things more calmly more reasonably and without being befog influenced whether in all ajl cases they are willing to admit it or not this beine the case we regarded the governors erners 10 action as timely ard operand pr have no hesitation in reaffirming that belief now comes the sequel it did not keep us an walting waiting IOB so we ire me axe able to put this and that together while the distinctions are breeb in new york Is published a paper in the german language entitled pred frei hoft by a semi outcast named johann jot an n most it shrieked savagely for revenge and demanded dem andea rivers of blood because of the punishment of the anarchists judging from the press report as telegraphed the article ju justified stilled the papers suppression it took ftc cue from the action of governor altgeld and rejoicing first at the mens liberty raved next because they were ever deprived of it and called for retribution for the hanging atthe of the others by some this may be spoken of as the kind of thing the news proclaimed or endorsed but such are are painfully ily mistaken this thie paper does not it support eup or defend law lesa fiess in whatever foi boim m it may appear it does not believe lik iu the doctrine of anarchy nor some bome of the doings aua and sayings of anarchists none of them that tend to illegality or of disorder it looks upon most and his hie kind as so many MADY living menaces tu to society and jf if be to is a citizen at all which we doubt le is sorry that there Is ie no law by which he could be ex patria ted if anything could cause us to regret that the illin illinois prisoners are free it would be the fear that they will not show their appreciation of the clemency extence i by living lives exactly opposite to that of herr most |
