The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-16

New York, June 16-"Certain capi- by General Otis have made more bru- tai utteranceS than can be attribut- ed to any recognized labor leaders" says Theodore Roosevelt in a leading editorial in the current Outlook head ed. "Mr. Gompers, General Otis ana The Dynamite Charges"
 He refers to his original editorial on the McNamara charges in the Out look, which, he says, was only a per Sonal plea for a fair and impartial trial of the accused men. He then quotes the following as General Otis reply to him:
 If the Times building was dyn- amited says MT. Facing Both Ways. then those who did the work should be punished. The Times feels that the If is an upholding of the cause of disorder and a distinct aid to the villains who melted and procured the death of 20 innocent victims.'
 General Otis in this article, has taken the very position against which all good citizens should protest when taken by the labor men," continues Roosevelt. That is, the purpose of my article was to protest against as- suming before the trial what l hoped to be proved or disproved at the trial, and in this way General Otis is guilty of conduct which could not be too severely denounced if the offender were labor leader, and which, there- fore, cannot be too severely denounc- ed when the offender is a violent op- ponent of organized labor and con sistent enemy of every movement TOT social and economic betterment-1ust as he has shown himself the consis- tent enemy of the men in California who have dared resolutely to stand against corruption and in favor or honesty.
 .'The article by MT. Gompers in the American Federationist offers the most striking contrast in tone ana temper, to the article of General Otis. Mr. Gompers' editorial is a fair and honorable statement of position with which I only in part disagree, couched in language which warrants respect full and careful attention"
 Colonel Roosevelt then quotes Gom- pers and says:
 "This is an honorable invitation ex- pressed in an honorable way for an independent investigation.
 T shall certainly take advantage or it. MT Gompers says the trades un- ionists only want a fair trial. That is all we wish Let us find out who is guilty and who is innocent X. Now let me most earnestly ask MT. Gompers and those associated /Wltn him in the cause of labor that they take their turn and make 1t equally evident that they do not intend to stand by the men right or wrong, that they wish them to have an absolutely fair chance to prove their innocence, but that they will join with every other citizen in hearty condemnation of them and will endeavor to bring them to punishment if they are gull ,ty. No feeling of hostility +o the Los Angeles Times must be allowed to interfere with this.
 'It may be quite true that this pa per has again and again shown it. self to be as much an enemy of good citizenship of honest and decent gov ernment and of every effective effort to secure fair play for workingmen or women as any Anarchist could show himself to be. But that has nothing to do with the case. If the paper dvnamited had been a Socialist paper in Milwaukee I should strive just as hard to bring justice to the wrong doer as now when the paper dyna- mited happens to be a capitalist paper in Los Angeles"