The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-06
To Non Union Men.

You men, now workmen of this
county, have the prosperity of the
county in your keeping, and it should
be your aim to cherish your trust with
honest and intelligent care. You are
ALI American citizens, and as your be-
havior during the recent oppression has
shown, you are brave, worthy, indus
trious American citizens. You have
Witnessed the bad, destructive effect of
a body of men organized as Miners
Union, who respected neither law, la
Dor nor humanity. That body has
trampled on all American principles,
and, taking advantage of its power, has
subjected many of you TO insults and
injury. You must profit by the exam
pie of its career, which culminated in
insurrection. The time mar come
when many of you, feeling desire to
increase brotherly intercourse, may
seek to associate yourselves together
for mutual benefits and the promotion
of benevolence. 1t is natural that you
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workingman should be alive to the
care of his toll and lawful resistance
of the encroacLment of avarice and
greed, but you must remember that
every American citizen has a right to
work when, where and for what he
plsases, and no organization can over
come that right without topping over
the Government.
Now each one of you is entitled to
vote; that vote gives you voice in the
Government, and therein lies the
means for your protection and the
rightiDg of any wrongs you may have.
You must not confonnd moral rights
with legal rights. For instance, you
may be ''broke,n which unpleasant
condition many of US have experience
ed. We will assume that you still have
left a gold watch. You go to pawn
broker-he "cinchesi you. Morally
the pawnbroker is wrong, yet you can
not kill him, blow up his shop. or take
away his usurious gains. Yon can
however, partially even things up by
going to the ballot box, there to pass
laws which will throw the burden of
taxes on such men, and otherwise re-
strict them. Too much space is nee
essary for the elaboration of "how to I
do it,n and for the enumeration of the |
classes who should bear the greater
part of the burden; but thought and
moderate study will explain it. You
must suspicously watch the "agitator"
and the professional politician. One
fattens on strikes, seditions and dis
contents; the other is fishing with all
kinds of bait for your vote. He goes to
you and to your enemy, and makes
promises to both, according to your
liking. The demagogue paints imagin-
ary evils and fanciful happiness, and
always has lot of illusions to make
you think he can remedy the one and
supply the other.
The newspapers of the country are
afraid to tell the truth and give you
honest advice, for as you all know, good
advice is seldom agreeable advice.
When men have long established pre-
possessions of mind which make them
think this way or that way, they resist
strongly any attempt to change them.
That is wrong. Every man should be
open to a change of heart and also of
mind. The American will be found
devoted to good Government and res
pect for the laws of America, and if at
times its opinions do not blend with
yours in minor matters, it is hoped that
you will remember that it is far better
to be told unpleasant truths than it is
to have lot of trucking hypocrisy
handed out to you, which, while it may
be pleasant to read, is undetermined in
its effect.-C9ur d'Alene American.