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Agent Provocateur. The man who broke the Molly Maguires was Franklin Benjamin Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., whose ancestors had come from Ireland's Protestant north; and he used another Irishman to penetrate the Mollies. His choice for the job was James McParlan, a gifted, gabby little Pinkerton detective who was as ready with his fists as with his wits...
...denounced by their Roman Catholic priests, shunned by decent citizens, swamped in a new wave of supposedly more docile immigrants from eastern Europe. The trials were swift and of doubtful legality. No Roman Catholic was allowed on a jury, and the prosecution was headed by Mine Owner Franklin Gowen himself. Several of the condemned men were almost certainly innocent; one was hanged while the courier bearing a reprieve from the Governor hammered on the prison door...
...Schlesinger were to expose himself to the common sense of the electorate for a change he might find that you can't fool the people all the time. But then, I don't suppose that is as dramatic as trying to organize things from the backroom. William E. W. Gowen...
...Charles Gowen of Brunswick: empower county superintendents to designate the school and class each student should attend, and if the Supreme Court doesn't like that, "close the schools...
...agree very strongly with the conclusion of your editorial: that there is room at Harvard for a religious spirit which, as long as it does not tamper with individual choice and diversity of ideas, can make a significant contribution to the life of the University. William E. W. Gowen...