Nome industrial worker., 1908-05-01

"OOus VAo S0CToLdTy OI bu0 WOSGcII Federation of Miners, and the mar who vas the center of attention in th' great battle of labor and capital ir Idaho for the past few years, last even ing appeared before an audience o1 several hundred men and womer in Saenger Hall and in ringing speech dld not duck the question that he says both William H. Taft and Will liam J. Bryan dodged: "What shall a man do if he is starving?" Bryan took column in newspaper to evade the question while Taft took the other extreme and answered it in a single sentence that still left the question open, God only knows. Haywood stuck to the advise given to a Philadelphia audience this week-"Beg borrow or steal. 7" Haywood, in addition to giving an answer to this question gave an interesting talk on the recent trou- bles in Colorado and Idaho and the trial that he was central figure in. He severely scored the courts, federal and state, which the labor element have been compelled to battle and the civic authorities, all of which he de- clares were arrayed against him in tho fight.
 His address was full of striking epi- grams as "When the bankers wore starving in the recent financial crisis, they appealed to the government.
 When the laboring man is starving why dare he not appeal to the govern ment and be helped as were the bank ers?''
 "A nan must follow the laws of na- ture. Self preservation is the first instinct. If he is starving and there is no other alternative he dare beg, borrow, or steal.
 ''It is wrong to steal coal to keep the babies wram. If you steal the franchises to the Philadelphia streets, you can be elected to the United States Senate"..
 TheWestern Federation of miners was born in jail and many of it's mem bers spend most of their time there.
 "When St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland he sent one over here His name was Nc Partland.
 MT. Haywood upon opening, at 0Ooo +o tho c.oooh kbck hoe caused so much stir in the newspapers.
 He said: "I have no apology to make for articles that have been ap- bearing in the Philadelphia papers. But I want to tell you under just what circumstances those remarks were made.
 'I did say that man has right to steal under certain circumstances and it came about like this:
 "A man who is likely to be presi- dential candidate was asked in New York what man should do if he was starving. MT. Taft replied God only knows.'
 The same question was asked of w. J. Bryan and he took an entire col umn ill the newspapers to never get near or answer the question.
 It put me in mind of Bourke Coch- ran, who compared the speech with a stream, thouasnds of miles long and only foot deep.
 ''Neither of these men were suffic- iently informed on a sociological ques- tion to answer this query.
 "When the financial crisis came last fall. the capitalists and bankers appealed to the government when they were starving. Cortelyou threw the peoples money into Wall street to dam up the Johnstown flood of water squeezed out of the securities. Why did not Taft reply to the ques- tion Let the starving man appeal, as the banker did, to the nation?'
 "I say, appeal to the oity, the state, the nation?' The working class has the right and the desire to work. If the unemployed secure no relief from the government then they must fol- low the instinct of self preservation. They have the right to take advantage of the first law of nature. self pro- tection. The working class has the right to beg, borrow, or steal. "In the wartime when the people were starving, Lincoln said Break open the warehouses, and the next day flour was back at a rational figure.
 "During the London dock strike, Cardinal Manning said it would be pardonable if man who was starving committed theft. So you see I am not without precedent in advocating the law of self protection.
 If your children were starvnig anG there was no way to save them excep' by theft. would not trust yon If yor
 did not commit the act.
 ntsThis h exactly what said in Phil