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Show HILLSTROM FHEHL HELD SUNDAY IN SALT LAKE Salt Lake, Nor. 22. "Authorities of this stato will have cause in the near future to remember the day they took Joe Hillatrom out at sunrise and shot him." In measured and clear tones Edward Ed-ward Rowan, secretary of the Salt Lake local No. 69, Industrial Workers Work-ers of the World, spoke the foregoing words yesterday at the funeral services serv-ices for Joseph Hillstrom, which wore held in. the mortuary chapel of O'Don-nell O'Don-nell & Co., on South West Templo street. "We are satisfied to faco the world," continued the speaker, "no matter what may come, for time will show the sterling qualities of our fellow fel-low worker." Everj address made at the funeral was marked by bitter criticism and attacks upon the state, upon tho authorities au-thorities who were connected with the execution, and oven upon tho Mormon Mor-mon church and other religious hod-ios hod-ios of Salt Lake City. The namo of God was not directly spoken in the services, nor was there any direct reference to Christianity, except in a vague outline of a "spirituality" "spirit-uality" somewhat similar, perhaps, to that .professed by Hillstrom on the day of his death. Women Are Pallbearers. Hilda Erickson, who was a friend of tho murderer, and to whom he left ono of his few possessions, a picture of the son of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, was among tho weeping pallbearerB. All six of the .pallbearers were Swedish Swed-ish womon. members of the Verdani, tlic Swedish Temporance society. Mrs, Oscar W. Larson, Miss Hilda Olson and (Mrs. Florence Lemon were among tho others The sixth girl refused to givo her name. The girls wore red sashes across their shoulders, and each of them picked roses from tho bouquets laid on the coffin when it was placed in the shipping case at the Oregon Short Line depot, from where it was shipped ship-ped to Chicago for burial. The women's wom-en's eyes flooded with tears as the undertaker's assistants fastened down the lid of the shipping l)ox, and as an after-thought they took off their sashes sash-es and tied them to the box. Burt Lurton, a local I. W. W. member, mem-ber, accompanied the body, which will arrive In Chicago at 2 o'clock Tuesday Tues-day afternoon. There it will be taken tak-en in charge by William D. Haywood, leader of the organization. An elaborate elabo-rate funeral and burial service will be held there, the mourners planning to walk seven miles to the cemetery. Red Ribbons Are Worn. Hundreds of people, some of them sympathizers and others merely curious, curi-ous, gathered outside tho O'Donnell establishment at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Members of the'l. W. W. wore red ribbons tied in bows on thoir coats, and a committco saw to it that tonly their own people were permitted to enter the chapel After the service, however, tho doors were thrown open for fifteen minutes to permit many of those outaide to file past the coffin before it was closed. George Child, treasurer of the I W. W. defense committee, which conducted con-ducted the long legal battle which ended in defeat at the execution last Friday morning, acted as chairman of the meeting. In opening the service he 'branded the execution as "murder" committed by tho authorities who had permitted it-He it-He then introduced a "worker from Denver." The man was George Faul-kener. Faul-kener. He declared that he had been shocked at the newspaper reports permitted per-mitted by Salt Lake editors during the last few months on the Hillstrom case. He bitterly attacked the newspapers news-papers for their reports which, he said, ho d.id not believe had been fair to Hillstrom. Faulkenex read the will left by Hillstrom In poetic form, declaring that it contained more "spirituality" than could be found among all the clergymen of Salt Lake, "from the strictest Mormon to the broadest Unitarian." Uni-tarian." Ho said he was glad Hillstrom Hill-strom had persisted in not seeing a minister, because ministers of Salt Lake could have done nothing "spiritual" "spir-itual" for him. Attacks Mormon Church. Oscar W. Larson, president of the Swedish Temperance society, was called upon to speak for that organization, organi-zation, which has taken an interest in tho Hillstrom case. He made his address in Swedish, but those who understood un-derstood it translated his principal text as being an attack on the Mormon Mor-mon church. Larson called attention to the teachings of Mormon missionaries, which he said the followers of Hillstrom must correct. These missionaries, mission-aries, ho said, went out and taught that this was "Zlon." and that people could come here and live in peace and happiness. Then, he said, when they camo here they were shot. The .Swedish Temperance society choir then gathered around the open coffin and sang the I. W. W. "Internationale." "Inter-nationale." M. Brennan was the next speaker, representing the Socialists, it was said. Brennan declared he was glad Hillstrom had not betrayed "the woman" wom-an" who was supposed to hav0 been in the quarrel in which Hillstrom was shot. He said the press had lied about Hillstrom. He said Governor Spry had "now declared that members of the T. W. w. had to leave "town. Calls Spry a "Nonentity." "He has nothing to do with this," shouted tho speaker. "He is a nonentity!" non-entity!" Referring to the board of pardous, in describing them, he said he had to turn to Darwin's "Origin of the Species. In that book ho said Dar-win Dar-win had described a certain worm as being "without backbone." That fitted fit-ted thoso men, said Brennan, as a number of thoso in the audience laughed. PIo said the Utah authorities had been angerod because President Wil son had not stood with them in the matter. He said the Utah authorities had expressed tho beliof that the president did not understand the facts in the case fully, J'Th! nn;sldent understood bettei than they know, ' asserted tho speak er. Ho had his own secret servlc men here, and they Investigated fully But their report was different, be cauFo they would not bo subsenienl to tno Mormon church." Phil lingel was the, next speaker reiterating- the declarations, of othei speakers and urging that the I. W. W. continue to "organize" and march on toward the emancipation of the working class. Edward Rowan, secretary of the T. W. W. local and chairman of the defense de-fense committee, then delivered his oration as representative of the Industrial In-dustrial Workers. He told of being refused admission to tho execution, though he said he made efforts to get in so that "a friend could stand' by Joe while ho met his fate." But he added, ho bad to stand outside tho walls in the turnkey house. Authorities Threatened. "But Joe has been judged now by a higher tribunal," said Rowan. "And that higher tribunal is the working class of tho world. They have passed their judgment upon his case, and H Is a higher one than the Utah authorities." authori-ties." He then expressed the prediction, that in the near future the authorities authori-ties would rementbor the day they took Hillstrom out and shot him. Rowan told of receiving a silk handkerchief hand-kerchief from the condemned man the afternoon before his death, and of receiving the picture of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's son, to be given to Hilda Erickson, who lived at the Eselius home in Murray, where Hillstrom Hill-strom was living when arrested. He took the slip of paper on which Hillstrom Hill-strom had written the will poem out of his pocket and read it again. The only other speaker was Emil S. Lund, representative in the last legislature, leg-islature, who was introduced by Child as "Senator Lund." Mr. Lund said that if Hillstrom was guilty the state had exacted the penalty. But, he said, if an innocent man was shot it was a tragedy. He said he was speaking as an opponent of capital punishment -and wanted to call upon tho people present to stand back of him in an effort to wipe the law of capital punishment from the statute books. He was always, he said, a friend of the laboring men. |
