What evidence can we deduce from the foregoing, which would justify us in pointing an accusing finger at the Mine Owners' Association and saying: "We believe you are the ones responsible for the Independence explosion! We charge you with being the conspirators who sent fifteen innocent men to a terrible death!"
First: Barring the Federation, no one else except the mine owners, would have spent the large sum of
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money which the dynamiters must have exacted for their bloody work.
Second: If the mine owners had honestly believed that the Federation perpetrated this crime, they would not have deported, en masse, all the unionists from the district, knowing that the assassin or assassins would more than likely be among the men so deported.
Third: The Mine Owners' Association, which was always so ready to charge the Federation leaders with all crimes, whether they had any evidence or not,