The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-05
ROOSEVELT WRITES
On THE BOMB CASE
Scores Labor Leaders Who
Talk of Conspiracy in
Recent Arrests.
(American News Service)

New York. May 5.-Ex.Presiden
Theodore Roosevelt will have a signed
article entitled Murder Is Murder" in
the Outlook this week. dealing with
the dynamiting OF the Los Angeles
Times. and the arrests recently made
by Detective Burns. Mr.. Roosevelt
says:
There Is one feature of the de-
ve;opments as regards the arrest OF
certain alleged labor men in -connec-
tion with the dynamite outrage .perpe-
trated against the Los Angeles Times
to which special attention should be
called.
If the explosion was not an acci-
dent, but the deliberate act of any
man or men, 1t was an outrage OF das.
tardly iniquity. for 1t was one of these
crimes In which the murderer, in or
der to crafty his spite against an in
dividual. not merely wrecked that in
dividuafs property, but with callous
indifference took the lives of scores of
innocent people as an incident to the
achievement of his sinister and crimi.
nal purpose. The men responsible
for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times
building are responsible not only for
the wreck Of the newspaper offices
but for the loss OF many lives.
THE arrest was made in conse-
quence of testimony secured by Mr..
Burns. who has been Mr.. Henry's right
hand man In bringing to justice graft
ers who violated the law of the United
States in Oregon and grafters who vio-
lated the laws Of California in San
Francisco.
Praise Work Of Burns.
'He has proceeded with impartial
severity against the most influential
politicians and the richest business
men. 1t happens that the men whom
he has now arrested are members Of
labor organization; just as men
whom he formerly arrested were mem.
bers OF the Republican or Democratic
parties. OF Of great wealthy corpora
tions.
1T would have been a wicked thing
in the former cases with which Mr..
Burns had to do for leading Republi.
cans or Democrats to combine to
break him down and support the ac-
cused. merely because the accused be-
longed to their political parties, and
Ii would have been a wicked thing
for big capitalists and big business
men to make common cause with the
capitalists. against whom he proceed
ed merely because they were capital
lists.
IN exactly the same spirit I state
the convictions of the Outlook in ex-
pressing its hearty reprobation Of the
conduct OF those labor leaders who,
without waiting to know anything Of
the facts OF the case. have at once
flown publicly to the defense OF the
| alleged dynamiters whom Mr.. Burns
has now arrested. and who talk about
the arrest as being part of conspira.
cy against labor unions
Calls Il Grossly Improper.
"No worse service can be rendered
by labor union leaders to the cause of
unionism than that which they render
when they seek to identify the cause
OF unionism with the cause of any man
guilty Of murderous attack of this
nature. It is grossly improper to try
to create q public opinion in favor Of
the arrested men simply because the
crime of which they are accused Is
committed agains: a capitalist or q
corporation. and because the men who
are charged with committing 1t are
members Of labor union.
ANY man who seeks to have them
convicted II they are innocent is gull
~ Of crime against the state and
any man who seeks to have them ac-
quilted II guilty is also guilty of a
crime against the state"