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Now I am a woman
reared in orthodoxy, and
used to thinking in conven-
tional lines, but, that I never
even witnessed a deed of
violence in my life, as those
two documents showing how
law is administered in this
nation lay before me, I won-
dered why I.W.W. and other
Protestants had not cele-
brated more criminal in-
justices with murder and
bloodshed.
I do not write to ask
you to take action in the case
of Joe Hill, but I present my-
self to you as a sample of
the manyy people in whom suspicion
of the law's methods and tolerance
for the law breaker are being fas-
tened by these glaring inequalities of
rich and poor before our courts.
Joe Hill may be guilty. If
so, and his sentence is commuted,
no millions wil be poured out to
free him that he may further miss
all human life. If he is shot, thous-
ands who read of it will shout and
say, "Pity he was poor!"
Your pardon if this letter an
impertinence. It is well meant.
Louise Connolly

Now I am a woman
reared in orthodoxy, and
used to thinking in conven-
tional lines, but, that I never
even witnessed a deed of
violence in my life, as those
two documents showing how
law is administered in this
nation lay before me, I won-
dered why I.W.W. and other
Protestants had not cele-
brated more criminal in-
justices with murder and
bloodshed.
I do not write to ask
you to take action in the case
of Joe Hill, but I present my-
self to you as a sample of
the merry people in whom suspicion
of the law's methods and tolerance
for the law breaker are being fas-
tened by these glaring inequalities of
risk and poor before our courts.
Joe Hill may be guilty. If
so, and his sentence is commuted,
no millions wil be poured out to
free him that he may further [men?]
are human life. If he is shot, thous-
ands who read of it will [?] and
say, "Pity he was poor!"
Your pardon if this [?] an
impertinence. If is [?] meant.
Louise Connolly