Had there not once been a disciple named John, who was especially
beloved?
XLII
Presently the young agitator began telling about an investigation he
had been making in the lumber country of the Northwest. He was
writing a pamphlet on the subject of a massacre which had occurred
there. A mob of ex-soldiers had stormed the headquarters of the
"wobblies," and the latter had defended themselves, and killed two
or three of their assailants. A news agency had sent out over the
country a story to the effect that the "wobblies" had made an
unprovoked assault upon the ex-soldiers. "That's what the papers do
to us!" said John Colver. "There have been scores of mobbings as a
result, and just now it may be worth a man's life to be caught
carrying a red card in any of these Western states."
So there was the subject of non-resistance, and I sat and listened
with strangely mingled feelings of sympathy and repulsion, while
this group of rebels of all shades and varieties argued whether it
was really possible for the workers to get free without some kind of
force.
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