Valdez daily prospector., 1912-09-17
TUESDAY, SEPTE.iBER i7, 1912.
"SocIAL CRIMES"

TOW, the noted labor advocate, best known as chief counsel for the McNamaras, convicted of th2 blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building and the Slaugh- icring of score or more of hu- man beings, such crimes as thOS" of the McNamaraS are simply SO- cial crimes and not rcpr 'hcnsi- ble from the standpoint of jus lice or the welfare of the people. In the charge that w. NJ. Wood. president of the American Wool cn company. had "plantrd' dH- uamilr in his establishments i'll order that organized labor might hr blamed fer attempted outrage. Mr.. Darrnw simply SrcS another act in the sociological drama in which the wis of the employer are piltcd against his antagonist in the game, and upon the prin- riplc that "al'S fair in love and war;" MT. DarrOw secs nothing reprehcnsiblc in this attempt to east discrcdit upon a large num- her of people, for does not war cX- ist between labor and capital and wouldn't such a scheme as MT. Wood is charged with having at tempted, be but strategy of high order which either side has a right to employ?
 Organized society can no long or tolerate these "sOcial crimes" or lapses and the sooner that men of the DarrOw stamp are made to discover the fact tn, bet Ter it. may be for them. Murder i murder, no matter whether one kills in seeking to rob his victim or whether he is actuatcd by class haired. Murder is murder wheth- OF it is "Gyp the Blood' killing one man or a McNamara slaugh- iorinm his scores. SubOrnati0n of perjury is a crime against hu- maniiy whether a man goes up on the stand and lies against a fellow being accused of crime or whether inc head of great man. ufacIuring institution plants cN- DloSivcs in order to create feel ing against employees who hap pen in be on strike for better wages.
 MT. DarrOw is proceeding upon altogether inc false presumption in declaring that there iS a slate of war between labor and capl- Ial. II is true that the relations of employer and employr are not what they should be, but this IS due more ln misundrrslanding or aims anal objects of each other thau il is to hostility. There ar" many inequalities in the dislribu- lion of inc proceeds of labor and rapilaI combined: there is some thing of injustice in inc diStrI- blltinn of wealth created by the mutual efforts of labor and rapl- ial. but lhcsr differences arc not solved and ihcec inequalities ar" not smonihcd away through arlS of lawlcssncSs upon tn" part Of either labor or capital.
 The relations of employer and rmployc are moi conditions of warfare, they arc problems which must be studied and solved. No problem was ever solved through passion and lawlcSSncSS. The con- tempt for the right of labor en- icriaincd by some employers is a social crimc--ihc irrational and vindictivc striking ai the rights If capital by lhc cnployc is a social crime. but neither murder nor subornalion of perjury arc social crimes, hui on tho contrary ihcy arc crimes which striking aI organized society impcril human fly as well aS government and mako life insecure. They arc IhC lrllinp down of inc bars io Cuabl' wave of anarchy In sweep ovcI Ih" nation, while apologisIS for daslarhly crimes against inc live: nr Inc regulations of fellow be- ines such as arc mon like Oar TOW. arc b,II seeking fo mako Ih' relation nf labor and capital which should work in harmony fol Inc good of humanity, war of Ih'
 most desperate kind, war ir