Nome industrial worker., 1908-05-08
The working class and the
 employing class have nothing in common.
R00SEvELT'S LETTER
 IS MADE PUBLIC

Roosevelt's s famous letter to Cover nor Sparks has been made Public-ol at least part of it has been permitted to reach that sacred institution by the omnipotent censors of the Associ ated Press. The fact that only part of the letter has been made public is noteworthy. Perhaps the President, with view to the precarious condi- tion of the Governors health, has been this little "bunch' to the chief executive of Nevada in homeopa- thic doses; and the whole story of nn merciful, official castigation has not been given to the world because it has not yet left Washington. Or per haps, again. the dear friend of Ne vada workingmen is persona grata with the Associated Press outfit, and it is merely case of friends to the rescue. However what of the letter has been published is what is com monly known as hot stuff. '''The sac red etiquette which, ordinarily, smooths the speech of one official to another, is not in this instance, permitted to obscure the Presidents peaning. The Pres dent plainly states @that he has been guided to his conclusions by the report of the labor commiss toners who recently visited Goldfield; ; and what they told their superior officer is exactly what they hinted to the committee of the miners union, and what is here indicated by Roose- welt as follows CT have just received the report of these gentlemen, Murray, Smith, and Neill, which sets forth ill most emphatic language their belief, after a careful examination on the ground that there was no warrant for calling on the President for troops and that the troopf should be kept indefinitely. The report further states that there was no instruction against the power of the state at the time the troops were called for; that nobody supposed that there were such an insurrection, and that none of the conditions described in Sections 52o7 -S-9 of the revised statutes as warrant ing interference by the Federal gov ernment existed, and that the efforts by the state of Nevada to secure the performance by the United States of the ordinary pollce duties which should, as matter of course be per formed by Nevada herself.
 'The report further states: There is absolutely no question if the state of Nevada and the County of Esmer- aida exercise the powers at their dis posal they can maintain satisfactory order in Goldfield; that, so far, the authorities have done nothing but rely on Federal aid, and their attitude now is expressed by that of refusing to do anthing and to throw their own burdens on the Federal govern ment for the maintainance of those elementary conditions of order for which they, and they only, are re- spOnsible,
 'The signers of the report express their conviction that troops should remain in. Nevada until the assembl- ing of the Legislature, so as to pre- serve tho status ae in order that the Legislature mayeal with the situ- ation as it exists, but that shortly thereafter the troops should be re- moved"
 The labor commissioners seem to have gained a true insight into the plans of the mine owners. That the latter gentry failed to satisfy the rep resentatives of the President is shown in the following language:
 "Inasmuch as we were by this time satisfied that the mine operators had not in any particular, established a case justifying either the bringing or retention of the troops, we did no deem it necessary to take any exten- sive evidence on the other side, and that the hearing was substantially closed with brief formal interview