The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-12-15
FAR REACHING RESULTS OF THE
! CONFESSION
(Pocatello Herald)

Namara brothers made not because
of a change of heart, but because ev-
en- the shrewd barrow saw no way
out. comes to US as a thunderbolt
out of the clear sky. 1t is no doubt
the most shocking to those who have
been inveigled by the Appeal to (T)
Reason, and other incendiary period
icals into sending hard-earned wages
for the defense fund of the confessed
criminals.
From all over the land, unionism
and socialism raise the one cry, Give
the McNamaras the full penalty!
Have no mercy!" This is strange
language coming from the throats Of
the same persons who without wait
ing to establish innocence or prove
guilt of the accused men, for four
months have kept up the cry, Gap
ital is irving to murder innocent
men," What would the same per-
sons have said If the trial had gone
ON and the men been convicted by
due process of law? We would have
heard the same cry Numbering in
nocent men," and there were dire
threats of revolution of labor
against capital if such an outcome
would present itself. If these same
men had been turned loose by the
officials, unionists and socialists
would have used the example as a
case of right and justice triumphing
over wrong and injustice.
Why then such sudden revu,sion
with odious epithets and vitrolic crit
icsims against men who have been
SO favored before? Do not the men
who called forth such universal COM
mendation, appreciation and financial
assistance in time of great peril
when the finger of guilt was point
ing strongly toward them; who won
glory because they were charged with
a crime against capital, do they no
longer need your assistance?
Do you wish them to be punished
as guilty murderers or as traitors to
great cause? o thou Meyer, have
you so recently forgotten Idaho and
Steunenberg to stand up and say "No
matter how guilty / was, l never
would have confessed. 1t will be
club against United Labor forever"
Do you mean to say you would abort
justice to save just criticism or
merely to save your own neck? Was
that why no confession was drawn
from your lips in Idaho, when the
fair name of the state was polluted
with conspiracy traced directly to
your door? Meyer, you have nothing
to say, you had best be content with
silence. Then why hurry these men
to the tomb? In vengeance SO dear
and malice so sweet to add wings to
mans all too rapid pace to a doubtful
hereafter?
There is no occasion for union men
and socialists to feel deeply injured
and surprised over this outcome
since Gompers, Nockles and other
men higher up have known of the
guilt of the accused men for months
and have only been dickering over
the Thirty pieces of silver"
Whether or not the McNamaras
were instigated by labor will no
doubt soon be shown by the efforts
of Burns, the detective. But no one
that the unions will in
sist on the responsibility of the death
Of twelve innocent men, We are not
it. But the end is not yet.
Too many high ups" are interested
to be only a private Mcnamara af-
fair.
This is by far the greatest blow
that has ever beta. len unions and
socialism in the United States The
blow is heavy on unionism because
the McNamaras were officers. So
cialism gets good check because it
was SO rabid to defend before it used
reason and thus, as in many cases,
allied with the wrong cause.
The one great lessen taught to
united labor is that the rough ele-
ment, radical, lawless, unprincipled
men must be excluded from the Of
ices of such organizations. Every
,ne believes in a good labor organi-
.ation, for the benefit of the working
men, but all unite to condemn the
of such an order as an
lnarchistic club; as fire-brand ov-
n the heads of anyone. Unprincipled
eaders with no working interest
rave dictated too long the policies
II honest workingmen. The result
will be of vast benefit finally to unite
abor, but at present, unionism will
lave hard pull to land on a safe