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Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER XIII
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Moyer, Haywood and Debs on the other, as being equally undesirable citizens.

It is as foolish to assert that this was designed to influence the trial of Moyer and Haywood as to assert that it was designed to influence the suits that have been brought against Mr.Harriman.I neither expressed nor indicated any opinion as to whether Messrs.

Moyer and Haywood were guilty of the murder of Governor Steunenberg.

If they are guilty, they certainly ought to be punished.
If they are not guilty, they certainly ought not to be punished.

But no possible outcome either of the trial or the suits can affect my judgment as to the undesirability of the type of citizenship of those whom I mentioned.Messrs.Moyer, Haywood, and Debs stand as representatives of those men who have done as much to discredit the labor movement as the worst speculative financiers or most unscrupulous employers of labor and debauchers of legislatures have done to discredit honest capitalists and fair-dealing business men.


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