The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09
TAFT, YOU ARE A CowAnD.

Warren TO Jail, Mr.. TAFT. did your
You were afraid OF him and his cour-
age. his fidelity TO truth, TO justice
You were afraid of the people OF
this country, because you knew yoa.
were being watched.
You skulked away in your cham
bers like a cowardly cur and mutterci
something to yourself and then gave
it out to your attorneys and judges
You said you did not want to serve
his vanity by treating him seriously
when his violence. exaggerations, his
wild accusations and his mock hercics
ought to be treated with ridicule."
But you have not treated him IN
that way during the last four years.
since he was arrested. You took the
matter quite seriously. You brought
him before Judge Pollock and tried
him on charge OF crime.
Was that to treat him with .rrid:'
cule?"
You took him before your Appellate
Court Mt St.Paul and hung up the yer
dict for months until after the cleo
ton.
Was that to treat him with ridicule
Did you arrest this citizen and make
him a defendant in a criminal suit
on account of his mock heroics?''
Are your courts only mock courts
and have they only been knocking
during these four years?
And can you let this man go free
whom you charge with violence. cx.
aggerations and wild accusations?" Do
you treat violence" with "ridicule ?"
Mr.. Taft?
Are you buffoon?
First you arrest 4 citizen rs 4 crimi-
nal, and your courts pronounce him
criminal and sentence him 10 Jail and
fine. and then you come and say that
Ito deal with him with such SEVERITY
is to manifest a concern as TO the
evil influence he exerts out OF all pro.
portion to facts
But have you not manifested this
concern" for four years? Have not
your courts passed upon his evil in
fluence"? And do you now treat this
evil influence" with ridicule"?
And you think that doubtless his
writings are read with pleasure by
number whose views are rs wild auI
as perverted as his; hut for all per-
sens of common sense 4 reading cf
his articles-is the best sntidote for
the poison he seeks to instill.''
Do you. Mr.. Taft, treat poison"
with 'ridicule?"
Have You gone too far? Have yol
/ not become a veritable traitor 20
your people-the people you have been
chosen to protect? And you protect
your nation from poison" by ridicule ?
Mr.. Taft, YOU are coward and yoi
will go down in history as cow
ard.
You think you can rldiculc Warren
ont of Jail. You sneer ut the num-
Der whose views are as wild and pe--
veted as his" But this number" is
growing. MIR. Taft.
Tho greatest scientists and states
men OF THIS age nave views as VIII
and perverted as his"
Thomas A Edison has views as
wild and perverted as his"
Jack London has views a wild and
perverted as his"
Karl Marx had views as wild and
perverted as his
Victor Berger, who will be with yon
in congress, has views as wild AMI
as perverted as his
But you are a coward, Mr.. Taft,
You do not dare to meet the issue like
a man.
You take the case out of the courts
before 1t Is time. You are afraid
of the number"
You offer Warren freedom. He was
free before you spoke. You grant
him pardon. He SCOTS at it. He huri
it back into your teeth.
You are coward, Mr.. Taft. or YOU
would have treated this case with
dignity as becomes the chief execn-
tive of our nation-Chicago Daily