il officials
furnished the blankets and mattresses that had been demanded.

A few days later the men started their morning meal only to find that
the mush was strongly "doped" with saltpeter and contained bits of human
manure and other refuse--the spite work, no doubt, of the enraged
deputies. Another battleship was started. This time the jailers closed
all the windows in an effort to suffocate the men, but they broke the
glass with mop-handles and continued the din. As before, the deputies
were defeated and the men received better food for a time.

On November 24th an official of the State Board of Prisoners took the
finger prints and photographs of the seventy-four men who were innocent
until proven guilty under the "theory" of law in this country, and,
marking these Bertillion records with prison serial numbers, sent copies
to every prison in the United States. In taking the prints of the first
few men brute force was used. Lured from their cells the men were
seized, their hands screwed in a vise, and an imprint taken by forcibly
covering their hands with lampblack and holding them down on the paper.
When the others learned that some had thus been selected they voted that
all should submit to having their prints taken so the whole body of
prisoners would stand on the same footing. Attorney Moore was denied all
access to the prisoners during the consummation of this outrage.

After obtaining permission of the jail officials a committee of Everett
citizens, with the voluntary assistance of the Cooks' and Waiters'
Union, prepared a feast for the free speech prisoners on Thanksgiving
Day. When the women arrived at the jail they were met by Sheriff McRae
who refused to allow the dinner to be served to the men. McRae was
drunk. In place of this dinner the sheriff set forth a meal of moldy
mush so strongly doped with chemicals as to be unfit for human
consumption. This petty spite work by the moon-struck tool of the lumber
trust was in thoro keeping with the cowardly characteristics he
displayed on the dock on November 5th. And the extent to which the daily
press in Everett was also under the control of the lumber interests was
shown by the publication of a faked interview with attorney Fred Moore
published in the Everett Herald under date of November 29th, Moore
having been credited with the statement that the prison food deserved
praise and the prisoners were "given as good food and as much of it as
they could wish."