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Show DEMANDING THEIR BLOOD. The labor unions in Salt Lake have sent out word that they are to demand the inflicting of the extreme penal tj- on the Mc-Namaras. Mc-Namaras. That jneans nothing more than a desire to find a quiclc and cas.V'-avcnne of escape from the odium which the McNamaras have brought upon all unions. But executing the misguided and impetuous men in prison in Los Angeles will no more tend to reach the root of the evil than the. lopping off of an infected toe of a, r, sufferer of diabetes Vould effect a cure of the constitutional disorder. dis-order. The public generally is uot demanding or insisting on severe punishment for the iLcNumurns; there is more concern shown as to how the unions will proceed to make impossible another awful reign of crime .should other high officers, occupying commanding positions as did John J. IMeXninnra, decide that the way' to win .strikes is to apply the torch and the deadh' bomb. The McXamnras are not common murderers. They were impressionable im-pressionable men whose fertile minds proved to be rich soil for the growth of anarchistic ideas, placed there, no doubt, by an all-per-vnding spirit of their associates, that to wreck and ruin in the cause of labor meant nothing more than to shoot and destroy in a war of nations, the only difference being that they had enlisted in an industrial war, the ends of which justified the means. How are the unions to check the use of might? So long as they continue to countenance men high in their eouncils who advocate force, they must suffer the humiliation which is brought upon them by the "dynamiters.'1 Instead of wasting. words of denunciation on the McXamaras and demanding that the heads of the two men be placed on pikes and exhibited at the gates to the city of Los Angeles, the union-I union-I ists should turn to other leaders who have been under suspicion but I who have so far slipped through the dragnets of the crime investigators. inves-tigators. . e |