The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-27
NEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE MOONEY CASE.

THE MOONEY CASE.
The case of Thomas Mooney, con-
v:rted of numbering 10 persons and
wounding so others by exploding a
bomb during 1.-The preparedness day pa
rade i'll San Francisco, like Banquo's
ghost, will not down." Labor unions
and labor agitators continue to try to
make it an issue and threaten strikes
if Mooney is not released, given new
trial, or something done with him.
One might be inclined to pay some
attention to these demands were they
the first that had been made by union
labor for the release and generation of
murderer who happened to be
member of labor union. But it has
not been so many years since the Los
Angeles Times office was destroyed by
bomb and q persons murdered. When
this murder was charged to members
81 labor union and they were arrested
union labor all oyer the United States
made the same howl that has been
made in the case of Thomas Mooney.
against labor and that the Mcnamara
brothers were being prosecuted. Vast
sss.suns of money were raised by soliciting
the laboring people. (menbers OF
unions) for donations to save labor
from being convicted of crime by
frame up" and the poor, gulible labor
ers dug up, believing honestly that cap
ita1 was making an unjust fight against
union labor and that the Mcnamara
brothers were about to be "rairoaded
TO the galIows" for crime of which
they were innocent.
But the two Mcnamara brothers con-
fessed to the crime, gave full details,
told of the plans for blowing up the
Times building and many other struc-
lures. showed the records i'll the cases
where crimes had been planned and
executed by thugs employed by the
labor unions, and after the McNamaras
had been sent to prison. one for Il
years and the other for life, more than
:. score of other officers of the labor
unions were sent up for long terms
upon the evidence furnished by the Nc
Namara brothers, whom the average
union laborer had been led to believe
were innocent.
1t was the same when the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan concentrator was blown
up in this state When bomb set off
by Harry Orchard in Colorado killed |
more than a score of norl-union miners |
at a depot when they we're changing
shifts; when Governor Steunenberg was
murdered in Idaho and Haywood, Moy
er and Pettybone were arrested. Union
labor set up the howl that fight was
being made by capital against labor and
secured hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars from honest laborers to help pay
for the defense of these muTderers.
Then Harry Orchard confessed and told
all of the details and showed that these
men were guilty, beyond reasonable
doubt True, they were acquitted by
a jury after $250O00 had been spent by
the defense at their trial, but they were
convicted before the bar of public opin-
ion
The trouble is that the average mem-
Der of labor union is too easily mis-
led by the leaders and is always wiling ,
and generally anxious to believe that he
or his union are being prosecuted. This
makes him an easy victim for the mn .
scrupulous walking delegate whose
business it is to stir up strife and dis
content, otherwise he would be out of
job. BY making the union member !
believe this rot the leaders are able to t
collect vast sums from them to fight Vt
for our rights" and the money goes in
paving enormous fees to INSCRIPTIONS :
lawyers or paying salaries to these trou- =
BILE makers. d
Mooney was prosecuted by district q
attorney elected three times by the !
union labor vote and one who had al
ways fought for union labor He was
tried and convicted in the strongest Y
union city in the world San Francisco, y
not because he was a member of the :
nnion, but because the evidence showed
him to be guilty.
The agitation for new trial; the
.harges that Mooney was framed by
he enemies of labor" and all such rot
:nsues from Fremont Older, an able :