The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-12-15
fzs7f 800 cIERKs HONEST LABOR It s. s6e
AND AlsNzA STATI0
Former Presidents otlTlces
in CharacteF TIC ernls
LaWless Niole nce
ADVISES TIE ssa9R k 4
To See That IL eir Leaders
Stand for Obedience
90 the ~.

to the law
NEW York, Dec. Is Theodore
iRosevelt has an editorial article IN
the current issue Of The Outlook
relative to the mcnamara case. en-
tied Murder is Murder The
article says:
'Sot only laborlng men, but bust
ness mon, capitalists, have at times
shown the worst form Of class con-
sc,oushess-that Of sinister and
brutal class sel1shness in stand!ns Y
by crimanls simply because they
were one OF their own class THIS
has been done by capitaiists N the
case Of capitalists who have been
guilty OF brazen corruption, and By
1aborers In the case OF labor leaders
who have been guilty Of rhurderous
violence. The two offeuses stand on
a par from the standpoint OF dam
age to the community. In san Fran
eigco in one municipal contest the
capitalists who desired to be free
from all check on corruption and
the labor leaders who desred'to be-
free from all check on lawless v,o-
lence struck hands and elected
their ticket; and this proved in the
end to be lasting misfortune to
san Francisco, to the cause of hon
est business. and to the cause OF
honest labor.
'ssslnce the startling outcome OF
the Mcnamara trial certain apollo
eists OF these men have made them
selves conspicuous by asserting that
these deprayed criminals, who have
on their scared souls the murder OF
so many inRnrgnt persons 5ail of
them laboring people, by the way
are victims or at worst, fanatics
who should receive sympathy be-
cause they were acting in what
they regarded as a war on behaft
of their class, The plea is mon
strous in its folly and it's wicked
ness. 1t is precisely the kind OF
nlea sometimes advanced on behalf
OF a crooked man Of great wealth
caught bribing. Iegislature-that
he has to do 1t to protect his bust
ness. we are not here dealing with
any OF the Kinds Of offenses incl
dental to the sudden sweeping
changes brought about by modern
Industrial conditions into which
capitaIists or laborIng men are
eometimes drawn without any very
great conscious moral turpttude on
their part. we are dealing with
crimes ma old as the lawgiving from
siani, With rimes-murder ana
+beft-that have been prohiDlteo
ever since the decalogue was Tor
,,ulated. The murders committed
nv men like the McNamaras, al
tbonph nominalIy in the interest OF
oragnized labor, differ not one whl1
in moral culpabllity from those
committed by the Black Hand, or by
any band Of mere cutthroats' anu
are fraught with an infinitely HEAVIER
menace to society. Yet great
thonph the menace IS to the COM
1runftv. the menace to the cause OF
I,orest organized labor - SUI
-raater and no duty is more impera-
tiyoIv laid on the leaders OF labor
th.n tho duty OF afirmatively 1ree-
80 - themselves and their followers
from fro the faint OF responsibility for
such criminals and such crimes mes,
RIO labor leaders who by their louo
o,,a nnionship OF the McNamaras----
40 previously OF Meyer and Hay
good--have succeeded in identifyins
thsm with the cause Of labor In the
ewes OF the public, have rendered
an evil service to that cause VT
Debs and the extremists OF his type
49, ------------., r.,
continued on page three')