New-York tribune., 1910-09-11
"Violence Should Be Repressed."

| see that justice prevails"
Violence Should Be Repressed"
The first essential to the achievement of
/ Justice is that law and order shall obtain,
/ that violence shall be repressed." Mr..
| Roosevelt declared Slowly and with empha-
/ sis and added:
! Especially should we abhor and repro
| bate the conduct of the public servant who,
for any reason, fails In his duty in this re-
gard; but must equally condemn the
public servants and ourselves-the people
also are as responsible the public ser
wants. If we stop content with the mere
establishment Of law and order, We fail to
do our further duty. which is. 10y thorough
going investigation to find out whether jus
tice has been denied and injustice COM
mitted. and then to the whole power of
| the government TO right any wrong that
| has been done
/ Then he went on TO say that such conflict
ing statements regarding the causes of the
strike Of the motormen and conductors had
been made to him that it impossible
for him to determine the merits OF the case.
1T is alleged by almost every one he
said, that there have been repeated and
brutal acts of violence. ranging from ac-
tual assault TO bomb throwing, and finally
TO the use of that weapon of the nearest,
the basest, the most coWardly type Of as
sassih dynamite The man who Will be
guilty of using dynamite to inJure his fell
low men and then himself to escape unhurt
he described as occupying 'the most evil
eminence of that table land Of lnfamy on
which all assassins stand
With the recent mutiny of members of
II, aI+ u
that he had always looked back with pride
10 the time when he had been connected
with the New York police force, and that
he held the policeman who did his duty in
high estimation. Then lie added: - police
man who mutinies, who refuses to do his
duty. stands on q lower level than that OF
The professional Iaw-breaker- Such q police
man ranks with the soldier who mutinies i'll
the face of the enemy. and should be con-
signed TO the pit Of oblivion
Gives Attention to Attorneys.
From, The n,tinous policemen the eA-
President turned his attention to the at
torneys for the strikers, one OF "l""''
l7ranl. s AIorett is the Democratic can
6idate for CONGRESS. 1T has been allegen,
said Mr.. Roosevelt, that the attorneys Tor
the strikers habitualiy appear Tor every
nliscreant who is arrested for assault or
other disorder and furnish him bali ii
that IS true. in order TO maintain theif 8ooo
name wage workers should get rld OF lhe
attorneys They should get rld of attoi-
ncys who bv such action cast doubt upon
the sincerity of the men who ctscIalfl re-
sponsibility for or sympathy WIN such
outrage
Agajn insisting on the necessity Of first
eli
on the responsibility of the employers and
their disgrace should it prove that they or
their Heutenants had been guilty of viola
tions of the law He declared that the
people were interested parties in this con
hict. and that they should see first that
order was restored and then that those re
sponsibIe for the strikes long continuance
should tie punished. He said he had been
informed on the one hand, that the or1gI-
nal cause of the trouble had been the dis
charge Of certain men who had asked for
an increase OF wages. and that Il mat
were true, such conduct on the part of the
railway company would be infamous.
on the other hand. he had been told the
strike was due TO the determination of the
railway company to prevent the formation
Of q union among its men. That, he de
dared. would he almost bad as the first.
he said he Was an honorary member of
!Inion himself. and, We're he wage work
er he would certainly join the union; but
when he had joined he would always re
member that ne was first American
citizen. because, lie said, Uncle Sam comes
at the top OF everything
In our modern Industrial system the
union is Just as necessary as the corpora
f;ou" continued Mr.. Roosevelt, and in our
modern system of industTiaiism il is often
an absolute necessity that there shall be
collective bargaining by the employees, aud
stci2 collective bargaining il but one OF the
many benefits conferred by a wise and hop-
est union tnat acts properly. But II K, oli
the other hand, a. much OF an outrage TO
force i man 10 lOin a union as 1t is to take
Dsrt in or encourage or tolerate ii secon-
aarv boycott. But il is not less an outrage
to discriminate against bin because he
wishes 10 have union or to refuse TO deal
with a union wnen organized
Want law Absolutely Obeyed.
Afte: insisting on the 2scert anment ot
the facts a. The essential to enact justice
ard On the advsabiity of arbitration, Mr
Roosevelt concluded as foliows:
You wage workers and you representa-