Arizona republican., 1911-12-02
The McNamsra Confession.


 Yesterday evening when the uews was flashed to all parts of the civ ilized world that the McNamaras had pleaded guilty to one of the most dastardly crimes of the century th, thought that inevitably presented it. self to the minds of thousands of people was that a staggering blow had been dealt the cause of union labor.
 But the reflective mind that looks farther than the apparent obvious for its conclusions will have decided long before this that the confession of these two men will eventually prove a godsend to the cause of labor cl cry where.
 And the reason is that it will serve to eliminate from the ranks Of the workers all men who think crime and who act crime with the profcssed aim of benentting the men they are supposed to serve.
 It will also mean the elimination of the Debses. the Warrens. the Hay woods. the Mosts and others of their ilk.
 There are now. there always have been, and there always will be place and preferment for the honest man who tolls But for the hloodsuckers who work only with their mouths. who cling like leeches to the organiza- tions they have betrayed. who have preached envy and malice and hatred the men to whom honest industry is a reproach and who have not and never had the faintest conception of the true dignity of labor-for such as these hencefor;h there will be nothing but cxocration. contumely and contempt
 Probably a more devilish crime was never committed than the blowing up of the building Of the Los Angeles Times. IL was a crime that might have been conceived in the depths of the bottomless pit. For deliberate and premeditated malice-for cold blooded ferocity it stands almost without parallel in the criminal annals of this country. Even when everything pointed to the guilt of the McNamaras there were thousands Of good people who tried to believe them innocent because it seemed unthink- able that there lived a single human being with the brains to conceive and the hand to execute deed so utterly fiendish
 And then the slaughtered victims of that awful outrage were them selves working men-men who by the toll of their hands and the sweat of their brows were earning d living for themselves and their families
 These men were earning their liv- ing in the sweat of their faces-ac- cording to the injunction Of the Master of all life.
 The McNamaras were earning a iiv- ing by murder.
 But after all. are the McNamaras solely to blame for this monumental outrage? Is there not something deeper to all this than the blowing up of the Times building. the mur- der of a score of innocent men. and the attempted destruction of the LleweIIyn Iron Works Are there not others who should take at least a share of the responsibility?
 Every fair minded and thoughtful man will answer these questions in the affirmative.
 For the last decade men have been going about this country preaching discontent and. as much as they dared. they have preached violence. And certain newspapers have preach ed the same thing. These people and these newspapers have taught that riches are a crime that wealth couri be gained only by oppression; and they have implanted in the minds of the weak and the irresponsible the seeds of malice and of murder. They have melted a spirit of warfare be tween the employers and the em- ploved and they have raucously ar .u,ed that since the employing class is made up of thieves, the men Tn its e,rplov are justified in following a course of repris1l and destruction.
 II IS time for a change. It Is t,ne