New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-05-06
ROOSEVELT SAYS LABOR
LEADERS ARE MAKING
MISTAKE.

Angeles county grand jury IL u
be convened today and III nj
probability new indictments il
the dynamiting eases will be re
turned.
| These indictments probably vii
take the place of those already
brought against the McNamar5
brothers and Ortte McManigaI
and provide a way for the ar
raignmcnt of the men tomorrow
| New York. May 4.-Theodor.
Roosevelt will have signed arti
Gle entitled Murder is Murder
in the Outlook this week. dealing
with the dynamting of the Los
Angeles Times and the arrests re
Gently made by Detective Burns
Mr. Roosevelt says in part:
"Thc men responsible for dyna
hitting the Los Angeles Times
building are responsible not only
for the wreck Of the newspaper
offices, but for the loss Of many
lives.
"Thc arrest was made in consc-
qucnce of testimony secured by
Mr.. Burns. who has been Mr.
Heney's right hand man in bring
ing to justice grafters who vio-
lated the law Of the United States
in Oregon and grafters who VIC
lated the laws of California and
San Francisco.
"Hc has proceeded with I'M
partial severity against the most
influential politicians and the
richest business men. 1t happen
that the men whom he has now ar
rested are members of labor or
ganization; just as men whom he
formerly arrested We're members
of the Republican or Democratic
parties. or of great and wealthy
corporations.
at would have been wicked
thing in the former eases with
which Mr.. Burns had to do for
leading Republicans or Democrats
to combine to break him down
and support the accused merely
because the accused belonged lo|
their political parties. and it
would have been a. wicked thing
for capitalists and big business
men to make common cause with
The capitalists against whom he
proceeded merely because they
were capitalists.
Denounces Labor Leaders.
Wherever any politician or
any capitalist did actually take
this position. whether in the ease
of the men prosecuted by Mr..
Burns or in any other case. "The
Outlook" unhesitatingly denounc-
ed them In exactly the same
spirit | state the convictions OF
The Outlook in expressing its.
heartiest reproductions of the con
duet of those labor leaders. who
without waiting to know any
thing of the facts of the ease,
have at once gone publicly to the
defense Of the alleged dynamitersI
whom Mr.. Burns has now arrest
ed. and who talk about the ar
.est as being part of conspiracy |
against labor unions. |,
at is grossly improper to try
o create public opinion in favor
# the arrested men simply be-
'ause the crime of which they are
Reused is committed against a
apitalist or a corporation and be-
ause the men who are charged
With committing it to be members
f labor union. This is an in
guilty as gross as it would have
cen if when three years ago the :
ugar trust was indicted for :
operations in the. New
'ork custom house, the forces Of s
rganized capital had been put be- -.
ind the indicted men on the l
round that the attack on capi.- I
alists guilty of crime meant an
tack on all capital. lc
utility or Not Guilty, the Issue. s.
"The question Of organized Ia D
or or organized capital or of re- II
tions of either with the commuh- u
y at large, has nothing what 81
yer to do with this issue. All p
e are now concerned with is the q
ave and vital question Of facts. c'
neither the accused men have te
zen guilty of murder. OF
"The stern repression Of muir
,rous violence must Of necessity IN
a prime need of any civilization pa
ling itself such. Whether the NJ
m attacked is capitalist or a M
cialist. wage Garner or pro- DC
ssional man. has nothing what M
err to do with the question. and pr
lether the man attacking him is
es or does not be long to any an
yanization. whether labor or en-
pital, whether social or relig- re
Is. has nothing to do with the tn
estion. co
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