Don’t you find it curious...

Don’t you find it curious that Clarence Darrow chooses to bring up the abolitionists fighting over the issue of slavery? Is there a more perfect illustration of how our law-abiding leaders, specifically Honest Abe, couldn’t enforce the law and eventually fought the bloodiest war in our nation’s history?! The slavery we are confronting today is just a different kind. It's the slavery that arises when men of power abdicate God in favor of greed. The shackles of slavery today hold a worker to the grindstone by keeping them so poor… that an escape to freedom is impossible.

(circling Darrow and John Mitchell)

You want to know the real reason they can't support me? Fear. Clarence Darrow has made gains for labor from inside a tidy, safe courtroom. John Mitchell built his reputation by bringin’ miner’s from all nationalities into the U.M.W., yet he was willin’ to make a deal for only the English speakers in northern Colorado because it was "the best deal he could get". When he hired me he promised he would stand shoulder to shoulder with me in the trenches. LIAR!! There, I said it. We needed you in Ludlow!

(turning to the miners)

The very idea of what I do tops ‘em off with fear. All I have to fear is my conscience. Clarence mentioned the ingenuity of my mill campaign, thank you. What he failed to add is that, once the legislation was passed, the mill owners complied with it. Governor Ammons cannot enforce the laws which the C.F.& I. disregard. Rockefeller sayin’ he’ll listen to his advisors is a bunch of malarkey. Please! If one of his men reports a prob­lem, he’s replaced by someone like good old “Jesus Christ” Linderfelt. Problem solved with a gatlin’ gun!

(eye to eye with the miners)

There is only one way to fight organized greed, and it’s with organized labor. Back me. I won’t surrender.