Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1905 — OBSERVE THE LAW SAYS ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

OBSERVE THE LAW SAYS ROOSEVELT

Violence on the Part of Either Capital or Labor Will Be Punished. Chicago, May 11.—President Roosevelt was a figure in the strike situation during his visit in Chicago. In the afternoon he received and responded to a written appeal handed to him by the labor leaders. Tn the evening he referred to the strike in a speech at the Iroquois.club banquet. The talked on the theme of capital and labor, making the point that both must be compelled to observe the law and that violence on the part of either should call for a swift visitation of justice. H< condensed bis speech so far as it touched cn the relations between employer and union into two asphorisms: : “This government is not and never shall be the government of a plutocracy.” “This government is not and-never shall be the government of a mob.’’ In response to the appeal presented to him personally by President Shea of the teamsters. President Dold of the Chicago federation, J. F. O’Neill vice president of the federation; T. P. Quinn of the Canvassers’ union, and T. A. Rickert of the garment workers, the president urged respect tor law and order. He deprecated certain phrasing of the appeal and expressed a wish the labor leaders had not referred to federal troops as likely to be sent to Chicago.