heavy guard on a special train to Idaho, on the charge of having conspired against the life of Mr. Steunenberg. Interest in the case deepened when it was learned that Division Manager James McParland of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, famous the universe over for his marvellous exploits among the Molly Maguires thirty odd years ago, had engineered the arrest of the
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Ijeaders of the Federation, and would personally conduct the campaign against them.
Much has been said and written about Manager McParland and his wonderful achievements against the Molly Maguires, which resulted in the extermination of tiiat gang of alleged cut-throats.
The Pinkerton Agency claims public consideration for a piece of detective work done over thirty years ago; and on the strength of the Molly Maguire operation has built up an edifice of slander, perjury, graft and treason, the outside walls of which structure are hidden from the public gaze by brilliantly-painted lettering proclaiming the fact that the Agency represents the American Bankers' Association, the Jewelers' Protective Union, the Jewelers' Security Alliance, and the Railway Ticket Protective Bureau.
By virtue of this optical illusion the credulous public still believes the Pinkerton Agency to be a wonderful crime-exterminating institution, and the Agency, taking a bold advantage of this credulity, now comes before the bar of public justice, and insolently demands that its bare word be taken as proof sufficient to send three men to the gallows and discredit and brand as criminals the tens of thousands who are members of the Western Federation of Miners.
We will not enter into any controversy regarding the guilt or innocence of the Molly Maguires, as that case has no connection with the case in