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Show The Arrest Of McNamara CERTAIN chiefs of certain labor organizations do not like the methods pursued In arresting arrest-ing McNamara. Mr. Gompers calls Itkld-naplng; Itkld-naplng; others declare that it was a put up job. It most likely was, but so was the blowing up of the Los Angeles newspaper office. But there is a difference. McNamara will be judged as innocent until proved guilty, and unless the proofs of his guilt are established beyond any possible reasonable reason-able doubt he will go free. But the lives destroy ed in the Times explosion and the property destroyed de-stroyed at the same time, are lost forever. The benefit of no doubt will restore tnem. And those at - ork in that office were guilty of nothing more heinous than of trying by their labor to earn their bread. And that was but one explosion. There have been many more, and surely a vigorous vigor-ous effort ought to be made to find out and if pos- a , slble convict the perpetrators, because we want no American "Black-Hand." It will be easy for McNamara to establish his innocence if he is in- nocent, or, stated the other way, it will bo im- possible to convict him if he is innocent. ' But whoever the cowardly murderers were who perpetrated the Los Angeles outrage they ought to be gathered in if skill and money can find them, for they aie simply wild beasts in human lj form, and of all human wild beasts the most cow- l ardly and fiendish breed. If the evidence was suf- w ficient to justify the arrest of McNamara, the 1 manner of his arrest does not matter so that it M was legal, and the cry made against it counts for jgj nothing except to show where the sympathies are 1 of those who raise the cry. Jj i . |