derscored in its requirements that no meeting of any kind might be
held in the district or on any lot or in any building except upon
written consent of the owner of the lot or building and with the
permission of the provost marshal. Belgian Hall was a rented hall, and
the Wahoo Fuel Company controlled most of the available town lots,
leaving only the farms of the workers, that were planted thick with
gardens, for even the most inoffensive meeting.

And at ten o'clock Grant Adams had signed a counter proclamation
declaring that the proclamation of martial law in a time of peace was an
usurpation of the constitutional rights of American citizens, and that
they must refuse to recognize any authority that abridged the right of
free assemblage, a free press, free speech and a trial by jury. Amos
Adams sent the workers an invitation to meet in the grove below his
house. Grant called a meeting for half-past twelve at the Adams
homestead. It was a direct challenge.

The noon extra edition of the _Times_, under the caption, "The
Governor Is Right," contained this illuminating editorial:

"Seven men dead--dynamited to death by Grant Adams; seven men
dead--the flower of the youth of Harvey; seven men dead for no
crime but serving their country, and Grant Adams loose,
poisoning the minds of his dupes, prating about peace in public
and plotting cowardly assassination in private. Of course, the
Governor was right. Every good citizen of this country will
commend him for prompt and vigorous action. In less than an hour
after the bomb had sent the seven men of the Harvey Home Guards
to eternity, the Governor had proclaimed martial law in this
district, and from now on, no more incendiary language, no more
damnable riots, miscalled parades will menace property, and no
more criminal acts done under the cover of the jury system will
disgrace this community under the leadership of this creature
Adams.

"In his manifesto pulingly taking the blame for a crime last
night so obviously his that mere denial would add blood to the
crime itself, Adams says in extenuation that 'women were herded
before the Cossacks like deer in the park,' while they were
picketing. But he does not say that in the shameful cowardice so
characteristic of his leadership in this labor war, he forced,
by his own motion, women unfit to be seen in public, much less
to fight his bat