The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-03-23

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,ion % Nsnufartufsrs. ant a. rsrarts
tnelf attitucs togart lsElsiafcn q
came 20 an. coux-sior towarf -
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actually Ecus farthsr IN srnur ~
Thar did the forul~r-and ~. furnsr
Nenf xood distance also IN. opt.,
sltion % ths National Assos afior 81
hsnufactursrs - every raftonai and
moderate neasur. Ter h-r.ffinE sea
tnEInsu. such a. measures aholIshIn.
enid labor. or s-curinE workman
compensation. caused me rel and
grave concern. Tor I felt that r was
ominous Of evil tor ths whole cour-
Try TO have men who ought 20 sfand
high IN wisdom and In ruidinE fore
AXE course and sue Language Of
such reactionsrr type directly 10
inctte revolution-for this H. what the
extreme resctionary always does.
Attacks From eo,h sioes AZ Once.
Often I was attacked BY the two
sides az once. In the spring Of 1895
received in the sam. mail letter
from very good friend OF mine who
thought that ! had be- "A unduly hard
on some labor men. and n letter from
corporation. who complained about
me for favoring labor and speaking
against large fortunes My answers
ran as follows
April 90. 1906.
My dear Doctor
In one OF my last letters TO you I
enclosed you a copy of a letter OF
mine. in which quotes from So and
SOS advocacy of murder. You may
De interested to know that he aud hts
brother Socialists-in reality anarch-
ists-of the frankly murderous type
have been violently attacking my
speech because OF my allusion TO the
sympathy expressed for murder in
The Socialist. OF Toledo. O. OF April
zlst, for Instance. the attack ION me
Is based specifically on the following
paragraph Of my speech. TO which he
takes violent exception:
We can no more ard no less afford
10 condone evil in the man of capital
man evil in the man of no capital.
The wealthy man who exults because
there is failure of Justice in the ef
fort to bring some trust magnate 10
an account for his misdeeds is as
bad as. and no worse than, the So
called labor leader who clamorously
strives TO excite a foul class feeling
on behalf of some other labor leader
who Is implicated in murder One
attitude Is as bas as the other. and
no worse; in each case the accused is
entitled TO exact justice: and in Meth
er case Is there need of action BY
Others which can be construed into
an expression of sympathy for crime.
Remember that this crowd OF Ia
Dor leaders have done all in their pow
.er To overawe the executive and the
courts of Idaho on behalf of men ac-
cused of murder. and beyond question
meters OF murder in the past"
MY Dear Judge:
Il wish the papers had given more
prominence TO what | said as to the
murder part or my speech. But oh.
my dear sir, | utterly and radically dis
agree with you in what you say about
large fortunes. | wish IL were in nv
power TO devise some scheme to make
" increasingly difficult to heap them
Up beyond certain amount As the
dithculttes In the way of such a
scheme are very great, let us at least
prevent their being bequeathed after
death or given during life TO any one
man In excessive amount.
You and other capitalist friends,
on one side. shy off at what I saw
against them. Have you seen the
Irantlc articles against me by 1.-THE
anarchists and) the Socialists of The
bomp-throwing persuasion. on the
other side, because OF what I said in
my speech in reference to those who
IN erect, advocate murdep2"
Labor Leaders at Luncheon.
On another occasion / was yehem-
enuy denounced in certain capitaIistic
papers because ] had a number of
labor leaders. including miners from
Butte. lunch with me al the white
mouse; and this at the very time that
the western Federation of Miners
was most ferocious in its denunciation
OF me because OF what it alleged to be
S uhirlendly attitude toward labor.
TO one OF my critics I set forth my
views IN the following letter.
. November 90 1913
IT,. nave your letter Of the 25th in
All Of whom were miners. nv the VA
t ~ mere and were at lunch with me
y COMPANY with AR. carroll ID. Wright
Mr. wayne MacNeagh. and Secretary,
'ortelyou. They are as de-cent "a 81
OF men - can be. They all agreed en-
utsi! WIN me In my denunciation OF
WHAT had been done insthe Occur d'Alene
country and IL appeared that some OF
mem were on the platform with me
thtee years ago In Butte. There IL not
one man who was here. who. / believe
Nas ~ any way. shape or form resp0n-
-,nie Tor such outfageS. I ind that the
ltTa-SocialistiC members OF the unions
lh butte denounced these men for com
ING mere. 10 manner as violent--and 7
tNn 'by The caritalistic Writerb in the
~ llcle YOU sent mo Doubtless the gen
'gtl manager o. an admirable man. T. I
81 course. was not abiding to him. hut
most cmphatic1lly was alludiue 10
men VINO write such articles a. that Won
sent me. These articles are 10 be Uaral .
leled by the similar articles in the popu-
list ana Socialist papers when twn years
ago ! had az dinner az ono time pierp0nt
Morgan. and a. another time T. T. nm
fnd az another Hartman and at an
other time SchiT Furthermore they
could be pnra'lelsd 10y the articles in the 1
s.me tyne ~ paper which 20 the time
- IN" Miller incident Boo the Printing
'Ulce were On o. condition or nervous ans |
Nietv becnuse 7 met the labor Leaders
90 discusa 10 n would have been r. great I
misfortune n . had not met them. and ]
y would have been au ever greater mis- .
fortune " after meeting them 7 had
s. ielded 90 their protests in the matter. ]
tcontiuued EsTt wednesday MorningI
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