The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-05-05
SAYS NO BODY OF MEN HAS RIGHT
TO DEFEND MEN GUILTY
OF CRIME.
"MURDER IS MURDER"
In Signed Editorial in Outlook Former
President Speaks IN Reprobation Of
Defense Of Alleged oynami.ers When
Ignorant OF Guilt or Innocence.

New York, May 4--Ex President
Theodore Roosevelt wil' have 4 signed
article entitled Murder Is Murder" In
the outlook this week. dealing with
the dynamtng of the Los Angelica
Times and the arrests recently mace
by Detective Burns. Mr.. Roosevelt
says:
There Is one feature of the devol-
opments as regards the arrests OF GER
tain alleged labor men In connection
with the dynamite outrage perpetrated
against the Los Angeles Times. to
which especial attention should be
called. II the explosion was not an
accident but the deliberate act OF any
man or men. II was an outrage OF das-
tardly iniquity. for II was one OF those
crimes In which the murderer. I'm or
der to crafty his spite against an in
dividual, not merely wrecked that In
dividuals property. but with calious
indifference took the lives OF score
of innocent people as an incident to
the achievement OF nis sinister and
criminal purpose. sfic men respons-
ible for dynamitIng the Los Angeles
Times building are responsible not only
for the wreck of the newspaper offices.
but for the loss of many lives.
Impartial Severity.
The arrest was made by Mr.. Burns,
who has been Mr.. Heney's right hand
man in bringing to justice grafters
who violated the laws of California In
San Francisco. lie has proceeded with
impartial severity against the most in
fluentlal and the richest business men
IL happens that the men whom he has
now arrested are members OF a labor
organization. just as men whom he
formerly arrested were members OF the
republican or democratic parties. or II
great and wealthy corporations
1T would have been wicked thing
In the former case with which Mr..
Burns had to do for leading republic
ans or democrats 10 combine To break
him down and support the accused
merely because the accused belonged
TO their political parties and II would
have been n wicked thing for big cap
iialists and big business men To make
common cause with the capitalists.
Wherever any politician of either
party or any capitalist did actually
take this position, whether In the case
OF the men prosecuted by Mr.. Burns
or In any other cases, the Outlook un-
hesitatingly and severely denounced
them. In exactly the same spirit |
state the eoyictions Of the outlook In
expressing its hearty reprobation of
the conduct of those labor leaders who,
without waiting to know anything OF
the facts of the case, have at once
flown publicly TO the defense of tho
alleged dynamlters whom Mr.. Burns
has now arrested ana whose talk about
the arrest is that IL Is q conspiracy
against labor unions.
NO worse service can be rendered
by labor union leaders to the cause
OF nnionism than that which they rem
der when they seek to identify the
cause OF unionism with the cause of
any man guilty of murderous at
tack of this nature. ! have no idea
whether the men arrested on Mr.
Burns statement are or are not guilty;
the labor leaders in question have no
idea whether or not they are.
They are entitled 10 an absolutely
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