To begin at the beginning: the "Goober case" parallels in its main
outlines the case of Tom Mooney. If you wish to know about this
case, send fifteen cents to the Mooney Defense Committee, Post
Office Box 894, San Francisco, for the pamphlet, "Shall Mooney
Hang," by Robert Minor. The business men of San Francisco raised a
million dollars to save the city from union labor, and the Mooney
case was the way they did it. It happened, however, that the judge
before whom Mooney was convicted weakened, and wrote to the
Attorney-General of the State to the effect that he had become
convinced that Mooney was convicted by perjured testimony. But
meantime Mooney was in jail, and is there still. Fremont Older,
editor of the San Francisco "Call," who has been conducting an
investigation into this case, has recently written to the author:
"Altogether, it is the most amazing story I have ever had anything
to do with. When all is known that I think can be known, it will be
shown clearly that the State before an open-eyed community was able
to murder a man with the instruments that the people have provided
for bringing about justice. There isn't a scrap of testimony in
either of the Mooney or Billings cases that wasn't perjured, except
that of the man who drew the blue prints of Market Street.
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