Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-15
ROOSEVELT WARNS
LlB0R| 1 | Of DANGER
pxotAHEe MURDER . MURDER.
NO MATTER ~ WHOM cow
M,TTsp OR WHY.
rA,cEa RAP At APoLooisTe
FOR M.NAAaARAs' cRsMEs
oraanI.,d Workmsn Must Get Rid Of
passereus Leaders Such % 'osbs and
Moy,,,l- - Cause viii Suffer Irrepar-
able injury-Ex. .Prssidsnt's caustie
\ Comment on Dynamite censPiraeiss.

ab,e slnlury-Ex. Prssidsnt's caustie
Comment on Dynamite consPiraeiss.
& New York, DEC. 15.-Theodore Roose-
welt has an editorial article In the cur
rent issue OF The, Outlook relating to
tho McNa.nara case. entitled Murder
= Murder" The article says:
.Not only laboring men, but
business men, capitalists, have at times
shown the worst form Of class con-
sciousness-that Of sinister and brutal
class selnshness in standing by GRIM
inals simply because they were OF their
own class. This has been done by cap
Z itaIists who have been guilty of brazen
corr,aption. and by laborers In the case
OF labor leaders who have been guilty
OF mur,derous violence. The two Of
lenses stand on par from the stand
point Of damage to the community. In
San Francisco in one municipal contest
the capitalists who desired to be free
from all check on lawness violence
struck hands and elected their ticket;
and this proved in the end to be last
ing misfortune to San Francisco. to the
cause OF honest business. and to the
cause Of honest labor.
Rape MoNamara Apolosists.
"Since the startling outcome OF the
Mcnamara trial certain apologists OF
these men have made themselves con-
spicuous by asserting that these de-
praved criminals, who have on their
scared souls the murder Of 80 many In
nocent persons-all of them laboring
people, by the way-are Victims, or Ut
worst fanatics,' who should receive
sympathy because they were acting IN
what they regarded as q war on behalf
Of their class! Tho plea Is monstrous IN
it, folly and its wickedness. It Is pre-
cisely the kind Of plea sometimes ad-
vanced on behalf of q crooked man OF
9reat wealth caught bribing legislat-
I,re-that he has to do it to protect his
business. We are not here dealing with
any Of the kinds OF offenses Incidental
% the guddon and sweeping chang ss
brought about by modern industrial
conditions into which capitalists or Ia
Dor men are sometimes drawn without
any very great conscious moral turpl-
tude ON their part. We are dealing with
crimes as old as the law giving from
Sinai. with crimes-murder and theft
that have been prohibited ever since
the decalogue was formulated. The
murders committed by men like the
McNamaras, altho nominally in the In
terest of organized labor. differ not one
whit in moral culpability from those
committed by the Black Hand. or by
any band Of mere cut oats. and are
frauRht with an infinitely heavier mem
ace to society,
cause o. Labor Msnaesd.
Yet, great tho the menace Is to the
community, the menace to the cause OF
honest orxanized labor 10 still greater.
and no duty il more imperatively laid
ON the leaders Of labor than the duty
of affirmatively freeing themselves and
their followers from the taint of re-
sponsibility for such criminals and
si,ch crimes. The labor leaders who
by their loud championship Of the Nc
Namaras-ss previously Of Meyer and
Haywood-have succeeded in identify
ine them with the cause of labor In
the eyes o1 the public-have rendered
an evil service to that cause. Mr.. Debs
md the extremists Of his type among
the so-called political socialists-I say
so.called because Debs and his follow
efs Of the Emma Goldman kind are
not socialists at all in any true sense
of the word. but mere meters to mur-
/ dpr and peeachers Of applied anarchy
and the labor leaders affiliated with
tham. hays always boasted of the part
they played In the trial Of Meyer and
Haywood; and In this case they re-
peated their familiar tactics. and held
mass meetings. and scattered broad
east papers and addresses in which