In the presence of prison doors and prison bars and weary months of
incarceration, I answer a thousand times, NO! In the grasp of despotic
power, as infamous and as cruel as ever blackened the records of Russia,
I treat with ineffable scorn the power that without trial sends me and
my official associates of the American Railway Union to prison. I do not
believe, nor will I believe, that my brothers, beloved of our great
order, will throw their courage away and join the ranks of the enemy,
while their comrades, the victims of worse than Russian vengeance, are
suffering in prison.