The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-28


9TH police department has bee
notified 10 pay special attention {
merchants who sweep out their store
onto the sidewalks and then into tn
streets. and all offenders will be pros
cuted vigorously under the provision
cf the clean street ordinaace,'
TT, PRESIDENTS REJoINDER
The pres dent leaves no room fol
doubt Of his opinion Of Mover and
Haywood. the men under arrest or
the charge of conspiring to mmdel
former Governor Steunsnberg, Of
Idaho, When he points out II his
critics thar they are themselves Or
ganizing to Influence and coerce the
court or jury before whom the three
/ prisoners are to be tried, and there
| by are dong the very reprehensible
thing Of YhiGA they errneously az
4 cuse himself Seeking the president
shows the utter weakness and insin
ceriy of their Professions that they
want simply "a square deal It is
because Meyer and Haywood repre-
sent a class of citizens who preach
violence and bloodshod that he con
siders them undesirable and his
position certainly ought TO sound Tea
sonable to all unprecedented and law
abiding persons who have no patience
with meters of hatred. lawlessness
and destruction without regard 10
their poverty or wealth. labor affilia
lions or dwelling place.
The following lines from the presi
dents letter to the Chicago organiza-
ton are especially worthy of the at
tention and consideration of his
critics:
The men whom | denounce repre-
sent the men who have abandone
that legitimate movement FIR the NJ
lifting of labor with which / have
the most hearty sympathy they have
adopted practices which cut them of
from those who lead this legitimate
movement. In every way | shall sup
port the law abiding and up light rep
resentatives of labor, and in no way
can ! better support them than draw
ng the sharpest possible line between
them On the one hand and on the
other hand those preachers of VIC
lence who are themselves the worst
foes of the honest laboring men.
Let ME repeat my deep regret
that any body Of men so far forget
their duty to their country as to en-.
deayor by the formulation of societies
and in other ways to influence the
course of justice in this mater
nave received many such letters as |
yours. IA Accompanying them weIs |
clippings announcing dem |
onstrations, patades and mass-meet |
ings designed to show that the repre-
OF labor without regard to
facts, demand the acquitai Of Messrs
Haywood and Meyer
Such meetings can, of course, be
designed only to coerce court or jury
III rendering a verdict. ami they.
therefor, deserve all the condemna
ton which you, in your letter. say |
should be awarded to those who en-
deavor improperly to influence the |
course of justice.
You would, of course. be, entirely /
within your rights ii you merely an
that yon /. thought .Messrs, |
md Haywood were desirable Citizens /
.hough, in such casesFi should take
rank issue with you. and should say
hat wholly without regard 10 whe.
her or not they are guilty of the i
rhine for which they are now being Il
ried, they represent as thoroughly UNI
desirable type of citizenship as can
&c found in this country; type Il
which, in the letter TO which you so
take exceptions. |
bowed not TO be confined to any one
lass, but to exist among some .epre-
of great capitalists. as
veil as among some representatives.
f wageworkers.
The president-even if he some
lines negleets the square deal"
fhlch ne IS 50 prone 10 preaC n-here
avs down some soand doctrine
ioyer and Haywood are not less sub.
ect to the law because they happen
G be labor leaders than they would
Q We're they not labor leaders. The
iw is made for ali. and il should pro
ect all classes and punish an
hende;s alike. The evidence in this
ase has led suspicion 10 Meyer and
haywood. They should be tried as
ny other prisoners are tried. The
lbor organizations should have such
1gald for the law as t. demand that
found guilty they be punished It
culd be more wholesome exalted
nd patriotic position for them TO
Ike than to clamor for their acquital
nder any and all circumstances. The
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