I, of course, was not alluding to him; but I most emphatically _was_ alluding to men who write such articles as that you sent me.

These articles are to be paralleled by the similar articles in the Populist and Socialist papers when two years ago I had at dinner at one time Pierpont Morgan, and at another time J.J.Hill, and at another, Harriman, and at another time Schiff.

Furthermore, they could be paralleled by the articles in the same type of paper which at the time of the Miller incident in the Printing Office were in a condition of nervous anxiety because I met the labor leaders to discuss it.

It would have been a great misfortune if I had not met them; and it would have been an even greater misfortune if after meeting them I had yielded to their protests in the matter.
"You say in your letter that you know that I am 'on record' as opposed to violence.

Pardon my saying that this seems to me not the right way to put the matter, if by 'record' you mean utterance and not action.