IT FOLLOWS THAT IF THERE COULD BE NO FRIENDLY, LET ALONE CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE FEDERATION AND ORCHARD, THAT THE LATTER'S CONFESSION MUST BE FALSE FROM THE BEGINNING UNTIL THE END.
His confession being false, we can readily understand the desperate efforts of the prosecution to secure a corroborative confession, and we can also easily perceive why Orchard helped Manager McParland so zealously to torture Adams into siting a false statement We also believe we are striking the nail squarely on the head when we now charge that Orchard's confession was composed for him in its entirety by Manager McParland, and is as false in all of its infamous details as the confession which he composed for Stephen Adams. The only difference is that Adams' honesty triumphed over his fear of Idaho injustice, while Orchard is true to his evil reputation, and prefers to remain a blackguard and well-protected tool.
222 The Pinkerton Labor Spy.
In view of our analysis, tlie sum total of our deductions is that Moyer^ Haywood and Pettibone are not being PROSECUTED but PERSECUTED.
The only REAL achievement of Manager McParland against the Western Federation of Miners was the KIDNAPPING of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. All his subsequent talk of what he DID and INTENDED to do, is merely so much BRAG.
The confession of Orchard is a document which has no more claim to truth than have Harry Orchard, James McParland, Governor Gooding and ex-Governor McDonald to decency and respectability. And to perfect the claims of these distinguished gentry to all the honors due such a precious crew of villains, we refer them to the disclosures of their unfortunate victim, Stephen Adams.