If the crimes committed during the Chicago strike were chargeable to the
strikers, why were they not prosecuted? If not, why were they sentenced
to prison?
The fact that they were flung into prison without evidence and without
trial, and the fact that the Supreme Court affirmed the outrage, seemed
to afford Mr. Cleveland special satisfaction, and he accepts what he
calls the “concluding words” of the court as his own final vindication.
[Illustration:
DEBS’ FIRST GREETING BY THE COMMITTEE
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