The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-11
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
THE CASE OF MOONEY.

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THE CASE OF MOONEY.
Madison Capital Times: Laboring
men all over the country believing
Mooney to have been convicted on
perjured testimony, asked that the au-
thorities give him another hearing.
The president appointed commission
to Investigate the facts and on its re-
port he wired the governor for Glenn
cncy for Mooney. Thereupon certain
business interests protested that the
action of the president was an i'm
pertinence" and demanded that the
law take its course and Mooney pay
the forfeit Of his life. The haters of
organized workers have taken up the
demand for MONEYS life and a local
paper reechoes the savage cry.
What travesty on justice! What
an example to set before the world!
The courts of justice that do not
hesitate to set aside verdict for
damages against corporation or cut
down verdict for damages because
it seems too high can find no relief
for man who has been convicted
upon what appears to have been per-
jured evidence. When the copper
companies of Bisbee, Arizona, unlaw-
fully deported men guiltless Of any
offense, when these companies inter-
fered with the draft by refusing to
allow men to return to their homes
to enter the government service un-
der the law, no word of protest ever
fell from the system press. A report
of special commission showed that
the copper companies were guilty Of
great outrage against the working
population of Bisbee. But nothing
has been done to punish these pow
erful offenders.
1t were better for the country that
the impression, only too fell founded,
! that there is one course of justice for
! the laboring man and other for a.
| wealthy employer be changed before
it is too late
BACK TO THE BILLET!
| Milwaukee Leader: Soon after we
entered the war, the hearts of patri-
OTIS were cheered by the intelligence
that Frank Vanderlip of the National
! OASJ A1AN W 4NO" l. VI n, lldSl luSuSu
to his country's defence at dollar
a year.
Mr.. Vanderlip, having attained a
snug fortune by the thrift and indus
try which is dear to Prof. Seligman
and the Saturday Evening Post, it
was thought eminently proper that he
be put in charge Of the thrift cam
paign, and teach the young idea to
lick the kaiser by licking stamps
with no thought on Mr.. Vanderlip'e
part of saving anything in tax on
war-profits or income thereby.
The great financier was touring the
country in a private car, in the in
terest Of thrift, when the Hog Island
scandal broke like bunch of shrap-
mel over the landscape.
The car was sidetracked and Mr..
Vanderlip was rushed to California
for rest-probably suffering from
! shell shock.
again, when a paper at Los Angeles
is rude enough to report that syn.
dictate, including Mr.. Vanderlip in its
membership, is asking the government
$4,000 per acre for a lighthouse site
that cost 1T but 500 per acre five
years ago.
The psychologists connected with
the medical service would doubtless
say, if they dared, that men who have
all their lives worked at the game Of
making profits are tenperamentally
unfit for any social service.
They simply can not grasp the idea.
The change is too sudden. Can leo
pard change his spots?
Mr.. Vanderlip may mean WELL but
the government in pure humanity
| should send him back to the rest sta
ton. AS patriot he is not howl
| ing success.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW.
Cleveland Citizen: If you want to
know why the price of meat is so
high, why your wages melt away
like snow in July sun, why it is
difficult for you to purchase Liberty
bonds and thrift stamps, and how the
American profiteers are giving aid
and comfort to the enemy (and keep
ing out of Jail besides) read this
dispatch from Chicago:
shareholders of Swift e. Co. will
! be paid an extra dividend of at least
] S25,000,000 in stock of the company's
f0raion subsidiaries and will he nf.