The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-13
Concerning the McNamaras.

The Citizen reproduces from
"Town Topics the following timely
paragraphs under the caption of
"Saunterings"
Labor leaders and honest work
ingmen are stunned by the McNam-
ara confessions. If the scoundrels
had been tried, convicted and exc
cuted the leaders would have pro-
claimed them as martyrs, denounced
the prosecution for forging and
planting false evidence against them,
and called for more money to defeat
the tyrant capitalists. But the con-
fessions strip the leaders of all sub
terfuges and reveal them as the
promoters and accomplices of MUIR
derers and dynamiters. The honest
workmen now see unmasked the viii
lains who have been misleading and
misrepresenting them. They had
been assured that the McNamaras
were innocent; they had been told
that capitalists had corruptly manu-
factured all the evidence against
them; they had been mulcted of
over $4,000 of their hard-earned
savings for defence fund-and then
came the confessions, disclosing that
all the talk about innocence and a
conspiracy of capitalists was a lie, a
cheat, a fraud, deliberately concoct-
ed by the leaders to obtain more
money from the Labor Unions. OF
course the frightened leaders cry,
I'VE were deceived" Deceived by
whom? For ten years they have i'm
posed upon the workingmen a reign
of terror, similar to that of the Black
Hand, with systematic succession
of murders, arsons and dynamiting,
and, now that two of their worst en-
ployees confess they claim that they
knew nothing about the criminalities
and were deceived" by the wretches
whom they had supplied with instru-
ments of destruction! Does anyone
believe that the labor leaders were
ignorant of the so-called labor out
RACES? If so, what an ignorant, stu
pid class of men they must be, and
how utterly destitute of the quail
fications of leadership! No, the per-
sons deceived are the masses of la
boring men. They trusted their
leaders; they cheerfully paid a per-
centage of their wages to establish
and maintain Labor Unions, but they
did not realize that they were sup
porting a gang of assassins. The
Mcnamara confessions will open their
eyes to the fact that their best
friends are their employers, not the
smooth-tongued Black Handlers who
have tried constantly to array them
against their employers. The intel
ligence of American workmen is con-
ceded; it has been dimmed for long
time by sophistries, but it will reas-
sert itself now that the true charac-
to- Df ha 10
is fully exposed. Nothing can ex-
plain away the Mcnamara confess
sions, and the duty of the Depart
ment of Justice is to follow them up
until all the leaders who employed
such criminals as the McNamaras
join them in deserved Imprisonment.
" One striking and important point
in the Mcnamara sensation has been
overlooked. Had the labor leaders
employed shyster lawyers for the de-
fense the trial might have fingered
along for months and the defendants
have been acquitted upon some legal
technicalities. But they secured the
best and highest lawyer available
Clarence Darrow, of California. He
belongs to the great school of which
William M. Evarts was the exem-
plar. Hence they were hoist with
their own petard, for, when Mr.. Dar-
row was convinced that his clients
were guilty, he discharged his duty
to the court and the country by ad-
vising them to confess, instead of at
tempting to acquit them by trick and
device. The moral is: Do not retain
a great lawyer unless you are inno-
cent" id