Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-12-15
MURDER IS
ALWAYS MURDER
Roosevelt in Outlook Today
Comments on McNa.
mara Case
ENEMIES Of CAUSE OF LABOR

Crime 10 Crime Whether Com
mitted In Name of Just
Cause or Not.
<By Special Leased wire to New Mexican)
New York, Dec. 15.-Theodore
Roosevelt has an editorial article in
the current issue of the Outlook re-
lating to the Mcnamara case entitled
Murder is Murder" The article
says:
mot only laboring men, but busi-
ness men, capitalists, have at times
shown the worst form of class con-
sciousness-that of sinister and brutal
class selfishness in standing by Grim
inals simply because they were of
their own class. This has been done
by capitalists in the case of capital
lists who have been guilty of brazen
corruption, and by laborers in the case
of labor leaders who have been gull
ty of murderous violence. The two Of
fenses stand on par from the stand
point of damage to the community.
San Francisco's Disgrace.
I'm San Francisco, in one municipal
contest the capitalists who desired to
be free from all check and corruption
and the labor leaders who desired to
he free from all check on lawless vio-
lence struck hands and elected their
ticket; and this proved in the end to
be lasting misfortune to San Fran
cisco, to the cause of honest business,
and to the cause of honest labor.
No Sympathy for McNamara.
Since the startling outcome Of the
Mcnamara trial certain apologists of
these men, have made themselves
conscious by asserting that these de.
praved criminals, who have on their
scared souls the murder of so many
innocent persons-all of them labor
ing people by the way-are victims
or at worst fanatics who should re-
ceive sympathy because they were
acting in what they regarded as a
war on behalf of their class.
A Monstrous Plea.
'The plea is monstrous in its folly
and its wickedness. 1t is precisely
the kind OF pleas sometimes advanced
on behalf OF a crooked man of great
wealth, caught bribing legislature
that he has to do it to protect his
business. We are not here dealing
with any of the kinds of oftenses Incl
dental to the sudden and sweeping
changes brought about by modern in
dustr1al conditions into which capital
lists Or labor men are sometimes
drawn without any very great con-
scioun1ess of moral turpitude on their
part. We are dealing with crimes as
old as the law giving from Sinai, with
crimes and theft-that have
been prohibited ever since the dec
alogue was formulated.
Worse Than Black Hand.
"The murders committed by men
like the McNamaras, although nomi-
nally in the interest of organized Ia
Dor, differ not one whit in moral culp-
ability from those committed by the
Black Hand, or by any band of mer>
cut throats and are fraught with an
infinitely heavier menace to society.
A Menace to Labor.
"Yet, great though the menace is to
the community, the menace to the
cause Of honest organized labor is
still greater, and no duty is more i'm
peratively laid on the leaders of labor
than the duty Of afirmatively freeing
themselves and their followers from
the taint of responsibility for such
criminals and such crimes.
Evil Service Of Leaders.
'The labor leaders who by their
lcud championship of the McNamaras
las previously of Meyer and Hay.
wood-have succeeded in identifying
them with the cause Of labor in the
eyes Of the public, have rendered an
evil service to that cause.
lnciters to Murder.
Mr.. Debs as an extremist of his
type among the so-called political So
cialists-I say so-called because Debs
and his followers of the Emma Gold
man are not socialists at all in any
true sense of the word but mere in.
citers to murder and preachers Of ap
piled anarchy-and the labor leaders
afiliated with them have always boast
ed Of the part they played in the trial
Of Meyer and Haywood and in this
case they repeated their familiar tao
tics, and held mass meetings, and
scattered broadcast papers and ad
dresses In which they furiously de
nounced the effort to bring wrong
doers to justice and sought to arouse
every evident class instinct against
all who upheld the cause Of law OF
sought to put stop to assassination
and murderous violence.
Meyer Denounced.
1T worth noting that since Nc
Namara confessed his guilt, Mr.. Moy
er, the head Of what purports to bt
4 q labor organisation, IL reported II
the press as commenting upon It, no
4 BY denouncing MCNAMARA for having
committed the murder, but By de
bouncing him for. having confessed it
Such denunciation IL significant.
Murder Is Murder.
Murder Is Murder, and the foolisl
l, sentimentalists or sinister wrong
idnern Who trv TO anOlooize for II M nj