osevelt
displayed, the debauching funds of the trust pirates, they would not now
languish in felons' cells.

The same brazen robbers of the people and corrupters of the body politic
who put Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone in jail, also put Theodore
Roosevelt in the White House.

This accounts for his prostituting the high office Lincoln honored and
resorting to methods that would shame a Bowery ward-heeler.

Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone are not murderers; it is a ghastly lie, and
I denounce it in the name of law and in the name of justice. I know
these men, these sons of toil; I know their hearts, their guileless
nature and their rugged honesty. I love and honor them and shall fight
for them while there is breath in my body.

Here and now I challenge Theodore Roosevelt. He is guilty of high crimes
and deserves impeachment.

Let him do his worst. I denounce him and defy him.

During my recent visit at Washington I learned from those who know him
what they think of Roosevelt. Among newspaper men he is literally
despised. Their true feeling is not apparent in what they write, for
they know that the slightest offense to the president is _lese majeste_
and means instantaneous decapitation.

For the second time, Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States,
has now publicly convicted Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. He has not
pronounced condemnation upon Harry Thaw, or any rich man charged with
murder. He has, however, made a postmaster of a man at Chicago charged
by the Chicago _Tribune_ with having shot another man in a midnight
brawl over disreputable women, and then used his influence to make the
same man mayor of that city.

Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, the three workingmen kidnaped by the Mine
and Smelter Trust, have now been in jail fourteen months; they have not
been tried, but twice condemned by President Roosevelt, the last time
but a few days ago, in connection with Harriman, his former political
pal and financial backer. These men are in prison cells, their bodies in
manacles and their lips sealed. They cannot speak for themselves. They
are voiceless and at the mercy of calumny. No matter how grossly
outraged, they must submit.

For a man clothed with the almost absolute power of a president to
strike down men gagged and bound, as these men are, he must have an
unspeakably brutal and cowardly nature, just such a nature as the
governor of an empire state must have to turn a deaf ear to the
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