tles, under the hoofs of the horses in Sands
Park this morning, and if the Greek woman, who claims she was
dragooned should die, the fault, the crime of her death in
revolting circumstances, will be upon Grant Adams's hands.

"When such a leader followed by blind zealots like the riff-raff
who are insanely trailing after this Mad Mullah who claims
divine powers--save the mark--when such leaders and such human
vermin as these rise in a community, the people who own
property, who have built up the community, who have spent their
lives making Harvey the proud industrial center that she is--the
people who own property, we repeat, should organize to protect
it. The Governor suspending while this warlike state exists the
right of anarchists who turn it against law and order, the right
of assembling, and speech and trial by jury, has set a good
example. We hear from good authority that the Adams anarchists
are to be aided by another association even more reckless than
he and his, and that Greeley county will be flooded by bums and
thugs and plug-uglies who will fill our jails and lay the burden
of heavy taxes upon our people pretending to defend the rights
of free speech.

"A law and order league should be organized among the business
men of Harvey to rid the county of these rats breeding social
disease, and if courageous hearts are needed, and extraordinary
methods necessary--all honest people will uphold the patriots
who rally to this cause."

At twelve o 'clock crowds of working people began to swarm into Adams's
grove. Five hundred horsemen were lined up at the gate. Around a
temporary speaker's stand a squad of policemen was formed. The crowd
stood waiting. Grant Adams did not appear. The crowd grew restless; it
began to fear that he had been arrested, that there had been some
mishap. Laura Van Dorn, sensing the uncertainty and discouragement of
the crowd, decided to try to hold it. It seemed to her as she watched
the uneasiness rising slowly to impatience in the men and women about
her, that it was of much importance--tremendous importance indeed--to
hold these people to their faith, not especially in Grant, though to her
that seemed necessary, too, but at bottom to hold their faith firm in
themselves, in their own powers to better themselves, to rise of their
own endeavors, to build upon themselves! So she walked quickly t