The Ketchikan miner., 1907-05-11
ROOSEVELT AND THE UNIONS

z 4A -C A> SSttAAS tAASSs NA S4S AeSNaN the unions and people of that ilk are
 raising over the Presidents remarks
 anent Mover. Haywood aud Harri-
 man. Yesterday an animated session
 of the Federated unions of this city
 was held at which the principal topic
 of discussion WAS the same old story
 of what the President has said. A ! letter from him was read in which he
 demanded that tine unions show him ! what actual wrong he had rGone the
 prisoners He said II have not said a
 wcrd about this present trial.
 But it is simple ahsuriity to sup
 pose that because any man is on trial
 for given otfense he is therefore to
 be freed from ali criticisms upon his general conduct and manner of life. E In my letter, 10 which you object. referred to certain prominent fnancier, Mir. Hartman. on the one hand, and 10 Messrs. Mover, Haywood and Debs on the other. as being equally undesirable citizens.
 .'It is fooish 10 assert that this was designed 10 influence the trial of Moy
 nd Haywood as to assert that It WAS designed to influence the suits that have been brought against Mir. Hartman. I neither expressed nor indicated any opinion as to whether Messrs. Mover and Haywood were guilty of the murder of Gov. Ste uen- berg.
 But 10 possible outcome either of the trial or the suits can affect my judgment as to the undesirability of the type of citizenship of those whom [ mentioned. Messrs. Mover. Hay wood and Debs stand as representa- -ives of those men who have done as much 10 Giscredit the labor movement as the worst speculative inanciers or most unscrupulous employers Of labor and debuchers of legislatures have done 70 discredit honest car- italists and fair dealing business men.
 Trey stand as the representatives of these men. who. by their public utterances and manife,toes. by the utternaces of the papers they control or inspire and by the words and deeds of those associated with or subord- mated to them, habitually appear, as guilty of indictment to Or apology for bloOd-hed and violence.
 If this does not constitute undesir able citizenship. then there can never
 5e any undesirable citizens. The
 men whom 1 denounce represent the men who have abandoned that iegiti
 mate movement for the uplifting of labor. with which I have the most hearty sylhpathy: they have adopted practices which cut them of from
 those who lead this legitimate move ment.
 Certain representatives of the great capitalists in turn condemned
 me for including Mr. Hartman in
 my condemnation of Messrs. Mover and Haywoods. Certain of the repre- sentatives of labor in their turn con- ahmed me because included Messrs. Mover and Haywood as undesirable citizens together with MT. Hartman. an as profoundly indifferent 10 the condemnation in one case as in the other.
 '.I challenge as a right the support of all good Americans. whether wage ! earners or capitalists whatever their occupation or creed. or in whatever portion of the country they live.
 when I condemn both the types oi
 bad citizenship which ] have held up to reproduction. It seems to me Q
 mark Of utter insincerity to fail thus 10 condemn both and to apologize. for either robs the man thus apologized. . of all right to condemn any wrong doing in any man, rich or poor, in public or Trlyate life.
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 T1e Miner was mistaken, in part, ' in it's statement concerning the sur
 yey of the Petersburg townsite. The
 survey of the forty scrs tract which { it is now proposed 10 utilize for town site purposes. was made and paten [ obtained some sears ago. by soldiers.
 additional homestead entry. 90 tha! the title is already vested in the con- pany operating the cannery and other ! industries at that place. MT. Ryus will, therefore, 20 there for the pur- pose of plating the proposed sits preliminary to putting the lots or
 the market. Thus, it is believed
 that Petersburg. already the seat 0. large industrial enterprises, vii speedily become town of consid- erabIe importance. It already boasts large salmon csrnery, saw mill. ship building aid repair plant with marine ways, and E practically
 the headquarters of the hslibut fishing ! industry which censers in WrangeII ! narrows.
 { The incorporation at Chicago oi the Aneric1n Executing Company. organized to execute criminals who ] sr., ua-.a,ced tn fpatf4 ia either 2