The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-21

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Editor Palladium: The editorial In
The Evening Item of May IL under the
caption "A Friendly Warning" IL 50
unfair to Socialist propaganda and to
answer. His attack upon the Appeal
to Reason will not be answered here
except to say that IL 1T is an appeal
to every diabolical passion in human
nature. with reason left out" then the
passions of humanity are not what
they should be and human nature and
this country are in bad way. The
Appeal is going to almost half mil
lion subscribers weekly, and this on a
paid in advance subscription list. 1t
Is beyond a doubt the most widely and
carefully read paper published in
America, SO we will take it for grant
ed that the people are in a mood to
listen to "a diabolical appeal"
Next. in an effort to prove his argu-
ment tout Of the mouth CT the enemy,
he quotes from a recent issue of the
Appeal. but has used the blue pencil
with telling effect. He has carefully
!, cut out that part of the Appeals arti-
Gle which would show his readers
there is cause for labor's protest in
the Mcnamara case. His statement
Of facts (?) covering the cause of the
arrests does not meet with approval
among men inclined to be fair. He
states positively that the Times build
ing was destroyed by dynamite placed
there for the purpose.
| Since it is a question whether it
| was dynamite or gas explosion, and
since practically all other writer's have
recognised that doubt, we must con-
clude that he expects to delued his
readers, or else that he possesses
Information that would be of value to
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
ISOLATION.
His other facts CO are on a par
with this He attempts to warn labor
lest, by allowing itself to voice it's col
lective protest against the manner of
arrests, and the trial, the unfairness
of which recent events tend to fore
cast. it lose the sympathy of the pub
lie. After admitting that the manner
of taking Mcnamara from the state
of Indiana may have left something to
be desired, he attempts to show why
the course taken was the proper one
ut his argument lacks sincerity and
fails to convince
He asks: "How can the unions and
it in their hearts to condemn the kid
mapping of man. believed to be guilty
and yet say nothing in reprobation OF
this awful Slaughter
The workers are not judging the
slaughter in this wave of protest
which he deplores. II anyone feels for
those who suffered in this or any 9TH
er recent slaughter, it is the workers
lcvery time. They are the slaughtered
and the sufferers, and the carry the
weight OF sorrow and deprivation
caused. Those who lost their lives in
the Times explosion were workers
land the bomb which. we are told was
meant for Gen. Otis was found at
his home "just in the nick Of time .
|
there is enough intelligence among
the workers to bring about more fit
ting climax, granting such to be their
[desire?
Speaking of s,aughters, who is to
suffer as result of the Triangle shirt
waist fire? Will 1t be the owners Of
the factory, men who violated the laws
of God and man in the erection and
conduct of their factory, and who are
directly responsible for the horrible
death of one hundred and twenty-five
girls and twenty men. or will it BE-
the mothers and fathers, sisters and
brothers. sweethearts and lovers anG
in some cases the children Of those
who were trapped like rats and forced
to choose between roasting alive OF
leaping to the street ten stories be
low? The owners had their building
and stock fully insured, 80 they suffer
ed no great loss financially. Moreover
these owners are notorious unior
, haters, and the world Of labor has il
this factory concrete illustration o.
the conditions existing in shops where
the workers have no voice in govern
Ing conditions. Labor'e protest in the
Mcnamara case Is against the mannel
of the arrests, the duplicating of thu
infamous tricks of the Moyer-Haywoot
Kidnapping case of six years ago The
working class cannot and will not sub
NIT to such tratment. Every similal
case only tends to emphasize the fac
that there is one law for the toilel
and another for the capitalist-employ
er.
Mr.. Item takes the stand that Il
the iron workers are held innocent un
til proven guilty, as we assert, then u
also must the kidnappers." Does an!
man who claims reason doubt that tn.
right men were charged with kidnap
ping? Or that it is manifestly hard
er proposition to determine who. i
anyone, is guilty of blowing up tn,
Times huildinr Has the class whom