The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-15
I'VE Appeal to You Work
ers Here to Be Ready for
Work" Said Socialist Lead
er in Local Address.
DEBS CHEERED BY
THE BIG AUDIENCE
He Alleged Accused Men
Were Arrested by Detect
ives Bought by Steel
Trust '-Marshall Raped.
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

81 cSt'Cn 0nIFFIN "Htte.
I believe the Mcnamara brothers
absolutely innocent of the crimes
with which they are charged said
Eugene Debs, famous Socialist propa-
gandist, in an address at the Coliseum
last evening before a large audience,
under the auspices of the local or
ganization of the Socialist party.
They blame us for presuming that
these men are innocent. If they were
guilty they should be tried by an in
sanity commission, not by a Judge of
the court" continued the speaker.
What would they have to gain by
these crimes? Absolutely nothing"
If 1t had been capitalist instead
of a working man." sneered Debs,
would Governor Marshall have hon.
ored that requisition in secret?"
"No-No-No!" shouted the aud
ience.
Easy enough to see the Governors
finish if thrown into the arena of So
cialistic politics.
Il am not here to commit violence
or to condone crime. I am here to
condemn both in the name of justice.
We workers stand for the law" said
Debs.
Stands With the Acused.
These men belong to us. They are
suffering for humanity. l have taken
my choice in this case and I. stand
with them. ! do not know them per-
sonally. But they are my brothers
and choose to stand with them
against as flagrant an injustice as was
ever committed in the name of the
law. 49,
And If it becomes necessary for us
to give demonstration Of the power
of the working classes to save the
lives of the Mcnamara brothers, we
will do it.
1--WE must save the McNamara
brothers and we appeal to you workers
here in Richmond to be ready for
work." added Debs significantly.
That this met with the temper Of
ing cheers and long continued ap.
plause.
Mcnamara was the victim of a plot
by the Steel Trust, was al
legged by Debs who stated that
Mcnamara could not be bought. He
was arrested by detectives employed
by the Steel Trust
Describing vividly the famous kid
and declaring that no one
could be extradited without a hearing
in a circuit court in this state, Debs
denounced the methods of McNamar-
as captors as barbaric, un-Christian
and czar-like, stating
And this was in America-not Rus
sia!'
A Master Of Men.
Eugene Debs, the god of the Social
lists of this country-student, man Of
culture and affairs, of a peculiar mag
netic oratory, an astute master of the
of the human animal, a
clever manipulation of audiences, and,
be it said, Humanitarian, was in
troduced by Dan Voorhees,, the chair
man, as "the greatest man born in
greatest in this country"
when the capitalists cannot intimi-
date a man, they slur him." added
the chairman referring to the long
continued attacks on the character and
of Debs. ...
Debs, in his predatory remarks. de-
clared it his intention to give an hon
est transcript of his Interpretation OF
the vital principles of Socialism.
Starting with the more or less IA
miliar instancing of the United States
as possessed of vast unworked areas
and with the most marvellous machin-
cry on earth to transform this virgin
product into a workable industrial
quantity, Debs stated that while there
were millions of eager workers offer
ing their labor to this machine, thous-
ands and thousands were idle and 9TH
er working for beggarly pittance.
Object Of Socialists.
To remedy this condition and to
bring the labor directly in contact with
it's medium, doing away with all in
handicaps, primarily the
ownership of public utilt-
ties and the necessary material for
human sustenance, was the object of
the Socialists, stated the speaker.
He succinctly traced the evolution
Of the workers from the slave of the
earlier day. through the serf OF the
feudal system to the wage-worker of
the present, to show that no social
condition was permanent. That the
leaven Of individual freedom. paradox
ically to be accomplished by unifica-
ton OF effort, slowly works through
the ages and that it will finally fer
ment into a state OF society which