The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-06-08
.DEBs ASKS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT :
SOME VERYfERTtNENT QUESTIONS:

the constitution" made by said Nc
Clelland?
Is this reasonable language?
Did the president condemn it?
Or, is it patriotic language when
used in defense of capital and treason
able only when used in defense of la
Dor?
Does the president know one Ad-
jutant General Bulkely Wells, the of
ficer of the law who forcibly seized
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone and
"special-trained" them to Idaho?
Does he know that his labor COM
missioner Carroll D. Wright, con-.
dennis said Buckley Wells as a mob
leader in his official report Of the
Colorado troubles:
Does the president approve mobs?
"A md consort with mob leaders?
While denouncing mobs?
Has he denounced Buckley Wells?
Will he do so? -. :
Is the president aware that the Mine,
and Smelter Trust behind the prose-
cution of Meyer, Haywood and Petit
do outright, thereby defeating an
eight-hour measure which a popular
majority of more than $4,000 votes had
commanded said legislature to enact
into law? "~'2
r. And that those mine and smelter
owners are among his personal,
friends?
Is there any treason in this?
Has the president condemned it?
Dare he do SO?
Is this his idea Of "exact JUSTICE?
A Square DEAF? - w. - .','
Again, is kidnapping according to
'1aw and order"? As
If the kidnapped are work1ngmen? ,
And charged by their kidnapers with
being murderers?
And by the president undesirable
citizens"? ... 40.
Would the president have taken the
same view If workingmen had kid
mapped capitalists instead of capital
lists KIDNAPPING workingmen?
If it had been Ryan, Root, and Paul
Morton, instead of Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone? 49,
Will the president kindly answer?
Has the pres dent ever heard the
expression, they shall never leave
Idaho alive? ..
Is this "murderous" language? =
Except when used by "officers Of the
law?
Has the president condemned it? >
Does he approve it?
Has the president heard of one w.
E. Borah, senator elect, indicted for
theft?
Visiting at the White House and
coming out Smiling and confident"
Is he innocent and desirable in spite
of his Indictment and Haywood guilty
and undesirable in spite Of the law
full presumption to the contrary?
Has the, president ever heard of one
Theodore Roosevelt?
Charged by the New York Tribune
and other leading capitalist papers in
1896 with threatening to lead an arm
ed force to Washington to prevent
the Inauguration of lawfully elected
president of the United States?
Is there any treason or @murder'i
in this? r.:,. a..
Does the president remember one
John P. .Altgeld? -' ,.f :. s.,.>+s
And one Theodore Roosevelt who in
the. same year Of 1895 said that said
Altgeld and one Debs should be lined
up against a dead wall and shot?
Which said Roosevelt never denied
until four years later when he be-
came candidate for vice president? '<
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a perfectly desirable citizen?
Does the president remember one
Governor Roosevelt, Of New York, who
ordered his militia to 'Croton Dam to-
shoot some 81 the workingmen who
elected him for ve1turing to ask the
enforcement of the eight-hour law of
that state? -. ~,
And to protect the contractors who
were violating the law?.~ 10y -, .fff~f.>
Is this more Of the presidents Eek
act justice to- alp?
Will the president kindly explain
what he regards as inexact justfce?@
Or exact injustice? ~. aTsE = ~ +; !
Or injustice of any kind? q TX q
Or If his exact justice ito all'' is;
not bumcombe served lin Sstilted style I?
! Can the president say or do any:
wrong? >'::h%S = g '.T'S'* srsS:.s.: ~
Would he, admit it if he did? m
! Has he ever done so?< yR$$."s - as,s :;1s
| When the president rebuked the Ia a
Dor unions for attempting irliuence.
the course of justice" did he not know
It was violent, kidnapping they were.
protesting against ss jS
II That they were seeking to sinfu anceH
the course, not Of Jus ice, but OF ms
justice? Isss.sss 5Jl,.
~ Resisting not law but mob olences
nloaked 40 law
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