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MMffiMiM JVT" " -MJJI "Ff' I laajjl VWW"'' THE DAY BOOK N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. r.00 SO. PEORI4. ST. CHICAGO, ILL Editorial, Monroe 853 T.I..1..... Manorial, nouoe us leiepnones circulation, Monroe 3820 SUBbCRIPTION By Carrier In Chicago, 30 cent a Month. By Mall. United StateB and Canada, 13 00 a Year. Entered 'as second-class matter April 21, 1914, at the postotrice at Chicago. 111., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THOSE BUSINESS AGENT& Theoretically every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. Anyhow, that's what the law tells us. Practically it isn't so. The general run of humanity assumes that an indicted man fy guilty until he is proven innocent? We're even worse than that most of the time we believe charges against a man or woman even if they are mere gossip. So, in accordance with the general rule, most folks will assume that the labor union business agents, just in dicted, are guilty. Mayhe they are. ' I don't know. And the public won't know until the evidence comes out at the trial. If they are guilty, no doubt they'll be punished and that may help the union cause in the long run. At the same time the cause would be better off if they were innocent. . But even if they are guilty as charged, how many will stop to think that all of the dirty tricks crooked labor leaders ever practiced were learned from the bosses? The beef barons divide up the country among themselves and plun der everybody. And if these charges are true nine labor agents divided up Chicago into nine districts and plun dered a few of the people. One id business, the other graft. As for the slugging, the daily news paper publishers have conducted a 1 school for sluggers for many years. They taught crooked labor leaders the trick of taking the law into their own hands by the use of wrecking crews. The town was divided into divi- sions with a boss for each division, and each division boss had his wreck ing crew of sluggers. The police were afraid of the newspapers and let them have their way with their wrecking crews. How many of Chicago's labor slug gers learned their first trick as em ployes of the newspaper circulation departments? How many of them figured it out that if it was all right to slug for the profit of rich newspaper publishers, then it must be all right to maXe a business of slugging for their own profit? Those who want to get at the truth about crime in Chicago will have to go back of the effect and get at the cause. That may carry them back to the boyhood of sluggers and to who taught them how to slug, Answer this question to yourself. What's the difference between city "police and hired thugs beating up garment workers for the financial benefit of clothing manufacturers, and labor thugs smashing windows and beating up men in order to finan cially benefit themselves? And how are we ever going to teach respect for the law in Chicago when the officers of the law have no respect for it and are lawless them selves? o o Capt Eugene Bourassa, a military officer in Montreal, "Who in private life controls a clothing store, states' that the war has. caused among his patrons an average expansion of chest measure from 36- to 40 inches. This is true not only of those in ac tive service, but of all the citizens. He explains it on the ground that all the men are mentally and 'phys ically preparing for service now or in the future. MMiiiiiMiiiilirikii 4jz-.- a-.,