What did the Government prove against the I. W. W.’s? That they had been guilty of almost everything a depraved mind could invent in the way of crime. The public is already conversant with the argot of the band. The “sab cat,” or worker of sabotage—secret destruction of property—was a title of pride among them. “Wobblies,” “high jacks,” “scissor-bills,” “bundle-stiffs”—all were part of the personnel put in evidence. A “clock” was divulged to mean a phosphorus bomb, intended to be fired by the sun and set a wheat stack ablaze. These men spiked a great many spruce trees so that mill saws were ruined on the logs. They killed vineyards in California, and claimed to have burned $2,000,000 worth of wheat in that state alone. They not only burned wheat in the stack, but sowed spikes to damage reapers. They dropped matches and bits of metal in threshing machines. They put emery in delicate machine bearings. In canning factories they mixed the labels, so that grades were vitiated for the vegetables sent out. They polluted or poisoned canned goods with dead rats and the like in factories where they worked. No doubt also they set forest fires, and beyond doubt caused explosions that destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars in property. They did this to terrorize their own country in its day of peril. They were not worth the name of men. You can not make citizens out of such creatures. _Fear_ is all they understand. Their literature was a continuous blasphemy. Cursing the name of the Savior was nothing to their writers. They put lime in men’s shoes and burned their feet to the bone. They had a special sort of club they used in attacking “scabs.” It had short, sharp nails driven along it, painted the color of the club so they could not easily be seen. The victim would catch at the club to wrest it from his assailant. It was then jerked through his hands, often tearing out the sinews, always scarring and often maiming him forever. Always they were cowards. To injure and not destroy was part of their religion. “Strike while you work” meant to disable a machine for a while and so to stop work for the crew or for the whole plant. “Feed the kitty more cream” meant to use more emery on bearings, to do more dirt in factories, to wreck and mar and mutilate more cunningly and covertly—and to escape by feigning the innocent laboring man. If they were not all Huns, they had the foul Hun imagination, and also the methods of the Hun. By December of 1918, the trial of a half hundred more alleged I. W. W. men was progressing at Sacramento, California. The attempt of the prosecution there was to show a nation-wide plot against the Government of the United States. And again, A. P. L. had the evidence ready, ticketed and tabulated, for A. P. L. covers all of the United States and not merely one part. On January 16, 1919, forty-six of the defendants were convicted.