Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-25


 the murder of Governor Steunen- berg. If they are guilty they cer- tainIy ought to be punished. 1T they are not guilty they certainly ought not to be Dunishsed.
 But no possible outcome, either of the trial or the saits can affect mv judgment as to the audesira- biIity of the type of citizenship of those whom | mentioned. IessEs Mover Haywood and Debs stand as representative of those men who who have done ass much to di#- credit the labor movement as the worst speculative fnaneiers or anscrnpuIous employers of labor and debauchers or Legislatures have done to discredit honest cap 8atists and fair dealing business men.
 They statnd as the representa- tives of those men who, by their public ntterances and manifestoes, by the utterances of the papers l they control or inspire and by the words and deeds of those associated with or subordinate to them, habitually appear as guilty of in- eftement to blOodsbed and violence or apology for it.
 
 desirable citizenship, then there can never be any undesirable citf- zens The men whom I denountee represent the men who have aban- doned that legitimate movement for labor with which have the most hearty sympathy, they have adopted a practice which eut them off from those who lead this legitimate movement In every way I shall support the w-abiding and upright representatives of labor and in no way can I better support them than by drawing the sharpest possible line between them on the one hand and on the other hand, those preachers of violence themselves are the worst foes of tho honest laboring men.
 Let me repeat my deep fegre3 that any body of men should so far forget their duty to their country as 10 endeavor by the formulation of socities and in other ways to in- aaence the course of justice in this matter.
 T have received many such let ters as yours. Accompanying them were newspaper clippings an nonncing demonstrations, parades and mass meetings designed 10 show that the representatives of labor, without regard to the facts demand the acquittal of Messrs. Moyor and Haywood
 Such meetings can of course, be designed only to eoerce court or jury in rendering verdict, and they therefore deserve all the con demnation which you in gour letter say should be awarded to those who endeavor improperly to influence the course of justice.
 Matter of Priveieee.
 You, of course, would be en- tirely within your right if yon merely announced that you thought Messrs. Mover and Haywood were desirable citizens, though in sucn case I should take frank issue with you and should say that, wholly without regard to whether or not they are guilty of the crime for which they are now being tried, they represent as thoroughly un- desirable a type of citizenship as can be found in this country; a type which in the letter to which you so unreasonably take excep- tions, I showed not to be confined
  some representatives of great cap italists as well as among some rep resentatives of wage-earners.
 Tn that letter I condemned both types. Certain representatives of the great capitalists in turn con- demned me for including MT. Harri- man in my condemnation of Mover and Haywood Certain of the rep resentatives of the labor in their turn condemned me because I in- cluded Mover and Haywood as un- desirable citizens, together with Hartman. am as profoundly in- different to the condemnation in one case as in the other. I chal- lenge as a right the support of all pnnI Anapricanc whether wage