Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-09-16
COLONEL TALKS ON
COLUMBUS STRIKE
ROOSEVELT SCORES OFFICIALS
AND sYMPATHIZERs REsPoN-
SlBLE FOR RIoTlNG.
EX-PRESIDENT ExCORIATES DYNAMlTERS
Discusses the Necessity of Maintain
ing Law and order-Denounces
Thirty Policemen Who Mutt
nied-Uses Mailed Fist.

Columbus, O.-Speaking before 30,
600 people at Gooddale park Theo-
dore Roosevelt used the mailed fist
on municipal officials and strike SYM
pathizers responsible for the rioting
in connection with the railway strike
that has, he says, disgraced the cap
ital of Ohio. The colonel confined his
| entire speech to comments on the
| strike. He had hardly gained the
speakers stand when he plunged into
a discussion of the necessity of main
tanning law and order. AS he took
up the dynamiting outrages here in
the last few weeks Colonel Roosevelt
turned and advanced toward Mayor
Marshall. Stopping within foot of
the mayor the former president
swung his fist almost under the nose
of the municipal executive.
Scores Dynamiters.
Every power of the state as we'll
as the municipal government must be
exerted to suppress the mob," he said.
Justice can be secured only after
the mob has been put down. The Of
fetal who temporizes with the mob
is worse than the law breaker"
A tremendous outburst greeted his
excoriation of the dynamiters. THE
dynamiters, the cowardly assassin
who skulks in the dark to strike down
innocent people without even daring
to face any personal danger, occu-
pies the highest eminence on the
tableland of blackest infamy," said
Mr.. Roosevelt.
The former president then turned
his verbal batteries on the 80 police
men who refused to obey orders to
ride the cars during the strike. 81
have the highest regard for police
man who does his duty" said Colonel
Roosevelt. But a policeman who
mutinies and refuses to do his duty
stands lower than the professional
law breaker. Such a policeman ranks
on the same plane as the soldier who
mutinies and refuses to do his duty
in the hour of greatest peril and they
should be consigned to the same pit
of oblivion
Attorneys Damage Cause"
THE fact, as l am reliably In
formed, that the attorneys for the
| nave SOnc lulO pOllCC COull
and defended every thug and assassin
that has been apprehended is a thing
that works tremendous damage to the
strikers" he said. In justice to
themselves, the strikers should dis
miss such attorneys. They only work
damage to the cause they are sup
posed to represent"
Colonel Roosevelt also turned his
oratorical batteries on the street car
company, using his greatest emphasis
In setting forth that the men should
organize and declaring that the posi-
tion of the company in refusing to
treat with the men as union men was
indefensible and little short of in
famous. Colonel Roosevelt made a
square cut and unqualified declara-
ton for compulsory arbitration as far
as disputes affecting public service
corporations are concerned. He called
attention, however, to the fact that
the laws of Ohio do not provide a
way for such procedure. "If that is
so, as l understand 1t is" he said
then see to it that the laws are
changed at the next session of the
legislature. If an amendment to the
constitution is necessary then amend
the constitution. In the meantime,
however, see that justice prevails"
People Should Know Facts.
In speaking of the strike situation
generally, Colonel Roosevelt said:
1T is not merely your duty but
your right, you people of Columbus,
you people of Ohio, to insist on know
ing all the facts that led up to and
brought on this strike, and pass judg-
ment upon it. 1t has been alleged to
me that the trouble began because of
dismissal by the company of some of
its employees for asking higher wages.
1t is also alleged that 1t has continued
because of the open or covert effort
of the corporation to prevent the for
nation of a union among the en-
ployes. Both allegations are denied.
You should get authoritative informa.
tion as to whether they are true or
false. OF course to dismiss men for
asking for an increase of wages would
be such an infamy that l can hardly
: believe it occurred; but you should
find out definitely. To dismiss men
for membership in or for proposing
to join union would be almost as
bad. The union is just as much a
necessity of our modern industrial
,, system as the corporation itself
|, Both must obey the law, but each is a
necessity"
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