put up the funds and used its vast
machinery for Roosevelt, and now Roosevelt must serve it even to the
extent of upholding criminals, approving kidnaping and murdering its
helpless victims.

When Roosevelt stepped out of the White House and called Moyer, Haywood
and Pettibone _murderers_, men he had never seen and did not know; men
who had never been tried, never convicted and whom every law of the land
presumed innocent until proven guilty, he fell a million miles beneath
where Lincoln stood, and there he grovels today with his political
crimes, one after another, finding him out and pointing at him their
accusing fingers.

No president of the United States has ever descended to such depths as
has Roosevelt to serve his law-defying and crime-inciting masters.

The act is simply scandalous and without a parallel in American history.

What right has Theodore Roosevelt to prejudge American citizens,
pronounce their guilt and hand them over to the hangman? In a
pettifogging lawyer such an act would be infamous; in the president of
the nation it becomes monstrous and staggers belief.

All that Roosevelt knows about Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone he knows
from his friends, their kidnapers.

The millions of working men and women, embracing practically every labor
union in America, count for nothing with him. He is not now standing for
their votes. He is fulfilling his obligation to the gentlemen (!) who
put up the coin that elected him; paying off the mortgage they hold upon
his administration.

Theodore Roosevelt is swift to brand other men who even venture to
disagree with him as liars. He, according to himself, is immaculate and
infallible.

The greatest liar is he who sees only liars in others.

_When Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, denounced
Charles Moyer, William Haywood and George Pettibone as murderers, he
uttered a lie as black and damnable, a calumny as foul and atrocious as
ever issued from a human throat. The men he thus traduced and vilified,
sitting in their prison cells for having dutifully served their
fellow-workers and having spurned the bribes of their masters, transcend
immeasurably the man in the White House, who, with the cruel malevolence
of a barbarian, has pronounced their doom._

A thousand times rather would I be one of those men in Ada county jail
than Theodore Roosevelt in the White House at Washington.

Had these men accepted, with but a shadow of the eagerness Ro