. Revolution in Los Angeles (1911). e comes, I shall tell of a message Darrow gave tome after that arrest to carry to the other side. It is enough for thepresent to say that it will let Darrow out of any charge of selfishness. What the public here will think about it when all the facts areknown; what the effect on the election may be, are interesting ques-tions to be answered in the next two or three days. But the ques-tions that I should like to leave on the national mind are just these: 73 What are we Americans going to do about conditions which arebreeding up healthy, good tempered boys lik
. Revolution in Los Angeles (1911). e comes, I shall tell of a message Darrow gave tome after that arrest to carry to the other side. It is enough for thepresent to say that it will let Darrow out of any charge of selfishness. What the public here will think about it when all the facts areknown; what the effect on the election may be, are interesting ques-tions to be answered in the next two or three days. But the ques-tions that I should like to leave on the national mind are just these: 73 What are we Americans going to do about conditions which arebreeding up healthy, good tempered boys like these McNamara boysto really believe, as they most sincerely do, they and a growing groupof labor, that the only recourse they have for improving the conditionsof the wage-worker is to use dynamite against property and life? And is it possible for a group of employers, well meaning as theseare whom we have dealt with in Los Angeles, to understand theiremployes point of view, not to take it, mind you, but simply to com-prehend it?. The New York Tt bunes idea of Lincoln Steffensafter having played peace-maker These are real questions, they are pressing here. They are com-ing to all of us in all our cities. Isnt it time to consider them seri-ously? Certainly it is worth while to watch what happens here in LosAngeles during the next few months. I propose to follow this in-quiry East for a while and then come back here. We are getting an 74 understanding of .politics, we are coming even to get some sense ofthe evils of direct action by organized capital. Why shouldnt we goon and find out about labor?—Lincoln Steffens. It is easily observable here that Steffens scarcely alludes to thepolitical campaign raging in Los Angeles. What the United Stateswas thinking about, our splendid victory at the primaries and the ex-pectation that we would carry the city for Socialism, seems to be ofno importance to him in this article; and yet the one fact that thewhole world now knows and believe
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