Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-07
THE INSIDE STORY. "

Lincoln Steffen S inside story of the events
leading up to the confessions made by the Nc |
Namara brothers is printed in the Tribune
1t is more than an exact narrative of the growth |
and progress of a most dramatic Sensatien-it is |
noble contribution to the sociological history OF
the republic. 1t is tale of unselfsh effort
born of alruiStic inspiration, the story OF the
successful labor of one who took upon himself
a great task IN sheer love of his fellow men, With
the earnest desire to do what in his power lay
to set Alright conditions gone far wrong All the
world knows what measure Of success attended
his cndeayor 1t but remained for him to tell
the purpose that inspired 1t and the methods he
employed to obtain results
What are going to do he asks Ill the
course Of his narrative, "about conditions which
are breeding up healthy, good-tempered boys like
these Mcnamara boys to really believe, as they
most sincerely do-they and growing group of
labor-that the only recOuse they have for I'M
proving the condition of the wage-eamer is to use
dynamite against property and llfe?'
WE'LL what we going to do? Vengeance
is not remedy. Conditions capable OF IN
spring such beliefs not to be eXtinguished
by any punishment the collective power OF so
rcty can administer with whatever majesty Of
form severity of application. Back Of the
beliefs are the conditions, and the responsibility
for the conditions rests upon all-upon the
laborer at the forge, the merchant in his count
ing room, the peacher in his pulpit, the editor
at his desk and the carpenter at his bench, upon
all classes Of men and women equally.
Take the Mcnamara brothers. They have
Wickedly waged actual on society for years
What its motive? What the real pur-
pose behind the murderous blows they leveled
at the structure Of which all builders
1t was not the hope of gain. 1t not the
qualification Of passion Cold, deliberate and sys
tenatic the operations of the con
Quoted with the mperSona regularity Of the
ticking of time clocks they set for the explosion
of their dyname-flled hobs. Why did they en-
list in such horrible crusade Of murder?
Lincoln Stetfens tells why. 81 have talked
with these in their jail, y he says, and
think | know them and something Of what they
think They think they serving cause
that they fighters in war
If society means to solve the problems thai
confront it. and it must solve them if civilization
to be maintained, it must first strive to m
trrotand the true nature of these problems, In
difference means failure, and neglect will in
evitably result in overwhelming social disaster
1t must find its way into the minds and hearts
Of men of the Mcnamara type and assimilatC
and comprehend all that there it discovers /
must put itself in their place and look out upOl
life from the dark viewpoint of their souls ant
then in that knowledge, set about the readjust
mcnt of affairs in the faith that when the causes
have been removed the evils will be destroyed
Such as the McNamaraS are, they the prod
ucts of conditions that society has allowed t.
develop unchecked, and society cannot escape
It's share of responsibility for the results.
If there be, dynamited ruins and feC
graves attest, men who have come to believ
that labor's only weapon for redress agans
hardship and injustice, real and fanced is tn
bomb, that only through the coercion of violenc
it achieve recognition of its rights so ar
there men given to the idoatry of money tina
they would coin into capital the tears of women
the opportunities of children and the lives 0
men. They would extend the hours of labo
to the utmost limit and reduce wages to tn
lowest minimum on which human life can b
sustained. They care for the welfare Of thos
whose death sweat swells their fortune than if tn
and women laboring in their service wer
beasts of the field.
The Tribune declares again that capital hence
forth must check the eXcesses and eXtortions CON
mitted in its name and resolve upon a revision
OF the scheme of distribution of the profits tina
flow from labor In the same manner organ
lied labor must east out from its councils &C
yocates of violence and seek betterment of cor
ditions in an appeal to the enlightened conscienc
of the people, relying with certainty upon til
justice that sits enthroned in the bosoms of tn
men and women of the republic If society ha
been blind to the growth of unwholesome cond
tions threatening its very safety if it require
successive shocks of exploding dynamite batter