approached by the agents of the capitalists. But, unlike
Pervaise the confession of Romaines was made public in his
own time.

Then, during this same period, there was the case of Moyer
and Haywood, two strong, fearless leaders of labor. One was
president and the other was secretary of the Western
Federation of Miners. The ex-governor of Idaho had been
mysteriously murdered. The crime, at the time, was openly
charged to the mine owners by the socialists and miners.
Nevertheless, in violation of the national and state
constitutions, and by means of conspiracy on the parts of
the governors of Idaho and Colorado, Moyer and Haywood were
kidnapped, thrown into jail, and charged with the murder.
It was this instance that provoked from Eugene V. Debs,
national leader of the American socialists at the time, the
following words: "The labor leaders that cannot be bribed
nor bullied, must be ambushed and murdered. The only crime
of Moyer and Haywood is that they have been unswervingly
true to the working class. The capitalists have stolen our
country, debauched our politics, defiled our judiciary, and
ridden over us rough-shod, and now they propose to murder
those who will not abjectly surrender to their brutal
dominion. The governors of Colorado and Idaho are but
executing the mandates of their masters, the Plutocracy.
The issue is the Workers versus the Plutocracy. If they
strike the first violent blow, we will strike the last."