The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-16
NJ 'hAMARA CASE
is DISCUSSED
BY ROOSEVELT
Ex-PREsIDENT HAS INTEREST
ING ARTICLE IN THE
OUTLOOK.
Condemns Rich Along With Poor in
Their tWrongdoing-Murder is Muir
der Even When Done for a Cause"
Discusses McNamara Case.

New York, Dec. 15.-Theodors
Roosevelt has an editorial article in
the current issue of The Outlook re-
lating to the Mcnamara case, entitled
Murder is Murder" The aruc!e
says:
Not 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
guilty of murderous violence The
TWO oifenses stand on par from the
standpoint of damage to the commun-
ity In San Francisco in one munici-
pal contest the capitalists who desired
to be free from all check on corrup-
ton had the labor leaders who de-
sired to be free from all check on
lawless violence struck hands and
elected their ticket; and this proved
in the end to be lasting misfortune
to San Francisco, to the cause of
honest business and to the cause of
honest labor.
Since the startling outcome of the
Mcnamara trial certain apologists of
these men have made themselves con-
spicuous 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 classl The
plea is monstrous in it's folly and it's
wickedness. 1t is precisely the kind
of plea sometimes advanced on benalf
of a crooked man of great wealth
caught bribing a legislature-that he
has to do it to protect his business.
We are not here dealing with any of
the kinds of offenses incidental to the
sudden and sweeping changes brought
about by modern industrial conditions
into which capitalists or labor men
are sometimes drawn without any
very great conscious moral turpitude
on their part. We are dealing with
crimes as old as the lawgiving from
Sinai, with crimes-murder and theft
that have been prohibited ever since
the decalogue was formulated
The murders committed by men
like the McNamaras, although nomi-
nally in the interest OF organized la
Dor, differ not one whit in moral cul-
pability from those committed by the
Black Hand or by any band Of mere
cut throats, and are fraught with all
infinitely heavier menace to society.
Yet, great though the menace to the
community, the menace to the cause
of honest organized labor is still
greater, and no duty is more impera-
lively laid ON the leaders of labor
than the duty of affirmatiyely freeing
themselves and their followers from
the taint Of responsibility for Asuch
criminals and such crimes. The labor
of the McNamaras-as previously of
Meyer and Haywood succeeded
in Identifying them with the cause
of labor in the eyes Of the public, have
rendered an evil service to that
cause. Mr.. Debs and the extremists
Of MS type among the so-called politi-
cal socialists say so-called because
Debs and his followers Of the Emma
( Goldman kind are not socialists at all
in any true sense of the word, but
were meters to murder and preachers
Of applied anarchy-and the labor
leaders affiliated with them have al
ways boasted of the part they played
in the trial Of Meyer and Haywood,
and in this case they repeated their
familiar tactics, and held mass meet
t1ngs and scattered broadcast papers
and addresses in which they furiously
denounced the effort to bring wrong
doers to justice, and sought to arouse
every evil class instinct against all
who upheld the cause Of law or sought
to put stop to assassination and
murderous violence.
| Murder is Murder.
| Murder is murder, and the foolish
sentimentalists or sinister wrong
doers who try to apologize for 1t as
an incident Of labor warfare are
not only morally culpable but are enc
mics Of the American people, and,