The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-06-08

istered this rebuke had he not himself
read his letter condemning Meyer and
Haywood to members of the supreme
court when their case was pending in
said court?
f; Was this not an attempt to "intlu-
ence the course of Justice?
! Will the president publicly rebuke
it? =. * ,.s
When Meyer, Haywood and. Petit
bone, three workingmen, rugged as
Patrick Henry, honest as Abraham
Lincoln and brave as John Brown,
were brutally kidnapped and told that
they would be killed by the outlaws
who kidnapped them;., when two. con-
spring governors were the jnstigators
of the kidnapping and all legal rights
denied; when the special train lay in
wait to rush them to their doom while
their wives listened in vain all night
long for their returning footsteps;
when all law was cloven down, all
justice denied all decency defied and
all humanity trampled beneath the
brutal hoofs Of might, a monstrous
crime was committed, not against
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone mere
!. ly, but against the working class,
against the human race, and, by the
eternal, that crime, even by the grace
Of Theodore: Roosevelt, shall not go
:unwhipped Of justice. /, s,f+. -
Undesirable citizens" they are to
the Christless perverts who exploit la
Dor to degenracy and mock its mis-
cry; turn the cradle into q; coffin and
call; it philanthropy, and debauch the
nations politics and morals in the
name of civilization.
Undesirable citizens'' though they
are,- these are the loyal. leaders Of the
men who have toiled in the mines and
who have been subjected to every con-
civable outrage; who have hau their
homes: broken into and who havea been
beaten, bound, robbed. insulted and
imprisoned; who have been chained
to posts in the public highway, de-
ported from their families under PEN
atty of death, and bullpenned while
their wives and daughters were out
ragged. In. the light Of all these, crimes
perpetrated upon these men in aviola-
ton Of every law by brutal mobs led
by the presidents own personal
friends as the official reports Of his
own labor commissioners will show,
without "a word Of protest from him,
it required sublime audacity, to put it
mildly, for the president to saffirm that
he stands, for. exact ssjusticev~tos -all''
and that he "conceives it to be his
duty" to denounce Unreasonable and
murderous" language. EEy5l KIN ia
, If the miners of Colorado had been
less patient than beasts of burden they
would have risen in revolt against the
outrages perpetrated upon them by
their heartless corporate masters. =
Were a mob OF workingmensto seize
Theodore Roosevelt-and chain him to
a post on a public street in Washing.
ton in broad daylight, as mob OF
his capitalist friends seized and chain
ed a workingnan In Colorado; or
throw him into a foul bullpen, without
cause or provocation, prod / him with,
bAyonets and outrage his defenselesss
family while he was prisoner, as was
done in scores of Observation-Disclosures,
cases IN both Colorado and h Idaho,
would he then be inSthe mood to listen
complacently to hypocritfca1 homflies
upon the ..temperate" use. Of language,
the sanctity OF Flaw. and order and
the beauty OF exact Justice to all, 2
Ana if he heard spf some ma As who
had spfficie lent decency To- demo ounce the
!outrages he and his family had 4suf-
Tered would M conceiye