Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of AppreciationsDebs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor)
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Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of Appreciations
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor)
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Is there any treason in this?
Has the President condemned it?
Dare he do so?
Is this his idea of “exact justice”?
A “square deal”?
Again, is kidnapping according to “law and order”?
If the kidnapped are workingmen?
And charged by their kidnappers with being murderers?
And by the President “undesirable citizens”?
Would the President have taken the same view if workingmen had kidnapped
capitalists instead of capitalists kidnapping workingmen?
If it had been Ryan, Root, and Paul Morton, instead of Moyer, Haywood
and Pettibone?
Will the President kindly answer?
Has the President ever heard the expression, “They shall never leave
Idaho alive?”
Is this “murderous” language?
Except when used by “officers of the law”?
Has the President condemned it?
Does he approve it?
Has the President heard of one W. E. Borah, senator-elect, indicted for
theft?
Visiting at the White House and coming out “smiling and confident”?
Is he innocent and desirable in spite of his indictment and Haywood
guilty and undesirable in spite of the lawful presumption to the
contrary?
Has the President ever heard of one Theodore Roosevelt?
Charged by the New York _Tribune_ and other leading capitalist papers in
1896 with threatening to lead an armed force to Washington to prevent
the inauguration of a lawfully-elected President of the United States?
Is there any “treason” or “murder” in this?
Does the President remember one John P. Altgeld?
And one Theodore Roosevelt who in the same year of 1896 said that said
Altgeld and one Debs should be lined up against a dead wall and shot?
Which said Roosevelt never denied until four years later, when he became
candidate for Vice President?
Is this the “temperate” language of a perfectly “desirable” citizen?
Does the President remember one Governor Roosevelt, of New York, who
ordered his militia to Croton Dam to shoot some of the workingmen who
elected him for venturing to ask the enforcement of the eight-hour law
of that state?
And to protect the contractors who were violating the law?
Is this more of the President’s “exact justice to all”?
Will the President kindly explain what he regards as inexact justice?
Or exact injustice?
Or injustice of any kind?
Or if his “exact justice to all” is not buncombe served in stilted
style?
Can the President say or do any wrong?
Would he admit it if he did?
Has he ever done so?
When the President rebuked the labor unions for attempting to “influence
the course of justice” did he not know it was violent kidnapping they
were protesting against?
That they were seeking to influence the course, not of justice, but of
injustice?
Resisting, not law, but mob violence cloaked as law?
At the time the President administered this rebuke had he not himself
read his letter condemning Moyer and Haywood to members of the supreme
court when their case was pending in said court?
Was this not an attempt to “influence the course of justice”?
Will the President publicly rebuke it?
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