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Resolution

WHEREAS, we the Swedish speaking people of
in massmeeting assembled, have learned that one countryman of ours, JOSEPH HILLSTROM, by
name, is being unjustly held in jail in Salt Lake City, under sentence to die on Nov. 19, 1915;

WHEREAS, we from all accounts of his trial have become convinced that the said Joseph Hillstrom
is innocent of the crime of which he is accused and merely a victim of conspiracy, due to hatred
and prejudice on account of his activity in the labour movement.

WHEREAS, Joseph Hillstrom never had a fair trial;

WHEREAS, he has been denied a new trial in spite of the gravest errors in his trial; and

WHEREAS, this innocent man is in immediate danger of being judicially murdered, due to the
stubborn prejudice of his judges, and

WHEREAS, the same judges in the Board of Pardon have tried to justify their position by sland-
ering the character of the man they unjustly deliver to death, by falsely imputing to him a criminal
record;

THEREFORE, BE IT

RESOLVED, that we, one for all, and all for one, demand the execution of Joseph Hillstrom to be
stayed, and that he be immediately liberated or granted a new trial
The sentence has been pronounced by men, and it can be set aside by men as long as
Hillstrom is alive. Law was made for the sake of man and not man for the sake of the law. And
be it further

RESOLVED, that we condem as cowardly the action of the Board of Pardeons in falsely imputing
through the press, a criminal record to a man whom they deny the chance to defend himself; and
be it further

RESOLVED that, should, contrary to our expectations, the sentence be carried out, we shall hold
the whole American people responsible for such an outrage; and be it further

RESOLVED, that in such a case American citizenship has no longer any value to us, and that we
forsware the loyalty and allegiance to American laws, government and institutions, which has been here-
toofore characterized our people. For where law and government cease to be the instruments of
justice and are used for the murder of the innocent, loyalty ceases to be a virtue. And be it further

RESOLVED that these resolutions be immediately communicated to the press, to the President of
the United States, to the Governor of the State of Utah and to the Mayor of our City
Chairman of Meeting
Nov 1915