Montana news., 1907-05-09

change the order of American democ.
raey of this pretender, and make him
Theodore the First Of Unlimited Rule
BY what right does a man who has
never labored speak to mighty labor
and instruct il as TO its own internal
structurei 1t is for Labor, the World,
Builder, to speak to all parasites, strut.
ters and cacklers, the word that shall
tumble them from their gingerbread
thrones, and make honest workers and
honest men out of them.
That the Meyer Haywood Pettibone
case has become a national issue be
tween the capitalist class and the la.
boring class there could be no better
evidence of than that Tin-god Teddy
should butt in to the Cook county Moy
erHaywood conference with a letter
that defines, according to His High
ness ideas, when labor is in its "prop.
er place" He condemns them for
forming Societies" as he calls them,
and attempting to influence justice.
Ii has evidently been so long since he
looked at the U. s. constitution
that he has forgotten that essential
provision, that "the people shall have
a right to assemble peaceably and pc
tition for redress of grievances. "
But he condemns what he calls their
"flagrant impropriety." He says he
is not trying to influence justice. Why
don't he keep still then' This is a
strange time, on the immediate eve Of
the great trial, for him to burst forth
with vindictive TRADE against the
imprisoned leaders as undesirable cit.
liens" 1t were we'll that he looked
at home. He and his gang of useless,
conceited silk-hat parasites are the
most undesirable citizens a nation
could have.
He says that Meyer and Haywood
stand as representatives of those who
habitually incite to bloodshed and vio.
lence. II is useless to review this 10.
cument that marks final official split
in the American republic between la.
Dor seeking to throw off its chains,
and the iron hand in the velvet glove
of capitalist rule. Roosevelt speaks
for the insolent demands of his class
and its institutions whenever its an.
eient prerosative of exploitation is
assailed.
When he speaks # the papers ''eon.
trolled and inspired" by men like the
Western Federation prisoners, as incit.
ing to bloodshed he tells a pointblank
lie. But the strenuous executive is so
busy calling everybody else liar that
it is not surprising that he overlooks
that failing in himself There is not
a labor or socialist paper in the world
that cites to bloodsheI. Their columns
are filed with articles protesting
against the wholesale blood.spilling Of
which the strenuous Teddy is the chief
advocate. and il is their utmost and
constant effort to bring about eondi-
tions by which there will no longer be
any incentive to the employer to
butcher and impris"u the laborers.
In assailing the unions that do not
work on the Legitimate lines" that
Teddy and his gang Of sharp-shooters
would like, the nation 3 chief simply
defines what the bosses will let labor
do. He blandly ignores deportations,
kidnapping. bull-pens, supreme court
confederates, and the whole adamant.
inc conspiracy to keep labor poor
helpless and ignorant. His twaddle
about all citizens alike, fair chance 10
all and such empty platitudes shows
such amazing Ignorance Of even ordi-
nary economic questions as to disgust
any intelligent mind.
Let the merry game go on. Teddy
and his gang are marching to their his
torical Room, snd the workers are
marching on to universal conquest
Those who rule So 'nsolently now may
hang few labor leaders but they
cant hang them all.