The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-05-11
RAPS
LABOR UNION MEN
in DYNAMITE CASE
C~riticises Them for Assuming,
IN Absence Of Facts, That Ac-
cusedA Are Not Guilty.

New York. May 6.-Nx-Prsssdsnt
Theodore Roosevelt has prepared for
publication an article entitled Murder
is Murder," dealing with the dynamit-
ing OF the Los Angeles Times and the
arrests made by Detective William J.
Burns. The erticle ays ase
There Is one feature OF tho Develop
tnents as regards b arrest OF certain
alleged labor men in connecti9n With
against the Los Angeles Times 20
which especial attention should be
called. II tho explosion was NOT An
accident. but the deliberate act os M
man or men, It vas an outrage 81. 4aS-
tardly iniauity. for It WAS ofsthess
to crafty his spite against. m indlv!d-
ual, not merely wrecked that 1ndivt0-
ua1's property. but with caiious Indie
ference, took the lives OF scores OF IN
achievement OF his sinister and crirni-
nal purpose.
"The men responsible for dynamiting
tne Los Angeles Tlme1 uiiuii 50
responsible not only for the loss OF the
newspaper offices, but the loss ct
auence OF testimony secured by MT.
Burns, who has been MI. Heney'E right
hand man IN bringing to Justice grR1ss-.
ers who violated hi law Of the limited
\ STGKOn 0IlQ 6IakbCk
lated the laws OF California In San
francisco.
Pays Tributs 10 Burns.
HE has proceeded with impartial Sc
verify against the most influential poll
ticians and the richest business 0len,
1t happens That the men who he has
now arrested are members OF q labor
organization. just as men whom ~
!, formerly arrested were members of the
republican or democratic parties or OF
great and wealthy corporations
ut would have been "a wicked thing
: In the former cases with WHICH Mt
Burns had to do for leading republt-
cans or democrats to combine to break
him down and support the accuses
merely becaus the accused belonged
!, to that political party, and 1t woulc
!, have been q wicked thing for big cap
~italists and big business make
: common cause with the capitalist
= against whom he proceeded merely be.
cause they were capitalists.
: Cautions Union Leaders.
mo worse service can pc rendered
by labor union leaders to the cause o.
when they seek to identify ths caust
of unionism with the cause of any mar
$ guilty OF a murderous attack of thi'
nature. I have no idea whether thu
men arrested on MI. Burns state
ments are or are not guilty: the la
Dor leaders in question have no tdet
whether or not they are. They are en-
titled to an absolutely fair trial. /
they have no money to provide coun
sci for themselves, then it would b.
4 furnish them the requisite funds, sim
= ply as an incident OF securing them
fair trial.
Q 'But it is grossly improper to t-
. to ereate=a public Her.e
the arrested men simply because tn
crime OF which they are accused !
committed against a capitalist or
corporation, and because the men VIII
are charged with committing it ar
n members Of a labor union. This Is a
iniquity as gross as 1t would have bee
- If, when three years ago the suga
: trust was indicted for swindling .oper
IS atoms In the New York custom houst
.. the forces OF organized capital had bee
put behind the indicted men o. TIL
70 ground that the attack on capitalist
). guilty OF crime meant an attack on a
a capitalists.
Unionism Not Involved.
THE question of organized labor, {
~ organized capital, or of he relation
= OF either with the community at larg
20 has nothing whatever to do with tn
10 issue. All we are now concerned wit
= is the grave and vital questions of fac
!. whether or not the accused men ha,
.; been guilty of murder, and of murdt
~ under circumstances of peculiar fou
= ness and atroclty. Wnether we 90
~ do not approve the policy of the L.
Angeles Times-and we very hearth
disapprove of its policy or certain ma
ters-has nothing whatever 10 do Wi
the question:; the stern repression
Y murderous violence-above all Of mu
derous violence under circumstances
such cowardly infamy as always a.
compan the use of dynamite-must,
a necessity. be a prime need of any civil
cation calling itself such.
- whether the man attacked If
I'D capitalist or a socialist, a age earn
It's or a professional man, has nothii
C. whatever to do with the question, al
IT, whether the man attacking him do
o. or does not belong to any organizatic
in whether of labor or capital, wheth
he social or religious, has nothing to
as with the question. The n and on
ba question has to do with the guilt or
,r- nocence of the accused. Any man W
int seeks to have them convicted If tn
are innocent is guilty or a crime agar
to the state, and any man who seeks
ere have them acquitted, If guilty, is al
he guilty of a crime against the state.
ew Theodore Roosevelt
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