San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-20

than confined to the narrow limits of
sectarianism."
| 1t is very evident that the Denver
union is not the only union that need
seats in church. We believe in the
broadness of Rev. Myron w. Reed, and
do not believe in marrow limits of Sec
tarianism," but If there is anything
narrower, more damnedly selfish,
more uncharitable, hypocritical, brutal
cruel, ignorant and pharisical, as in
terpreted by the teachings and exem-
plified by the trades-unionism, then
modern society has not yet discovered
the abomination. 1t is, as interpreted
] by brutal deeds under it's sanction,
founded on the principles that indus
trious, intelligent workers, who have
saved enough to start in business and
are willing to risk their savings in
| employing others are unworthy and
unfit to conduct their own affairs, and
cannot be trusted to deal justly with
their fellowmen or to make and carry
out honorable contracts with their
workmen; that workmen have not
right, in this free country, to make
contracts for themselves, and IL they
do not see fit to join a union, to sur
render their liberties and bind them
selves to be dictated to by lot of. paid
officers and walking delegates living
out of assessments from their wages,
they are to be slandered, starved, as
saulted, or murdered at the dictation
of secret committees, by hired roughs
and assassins.
Myron w. Reed is sentimentalist,
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sands of other ministers of the gospel
of the present time who espouse the
cause of the poor on all occasions, or
else they are not ministers of the Cos
pei. The fact is that the managers
| of unions and labor leaders, whose Ia
Dor is to work and destroy honest toll
ers, wheedle ministers and churches
and parties through appeals to their
sympathies, merely to vilify and be-
tray them. Unionism as practiced is
organized treason; acting through I'M
lawful, forcibly enforced strikes and
| boycotts, through private assassina-
tions, mobs, scurrilous attacks and
open assaults to defy constituted gov
eminent, to menace and control re-
CARELESS of law or order or its legal
representatives.
In Chicago, after causing forty-seven
murderous assaults on innocent work.
men in violation of law these model
lovers of mankind have taken to past
ing posters of futile boycotts over the
doors of a church and over a private
residence instead of going to church as
| in Denver and confessing their sins.
| This they follow by an attempted boy
colt against firm quietly attending
to it's own business, and raise the cry
of "scab labor against men who
choose to belong to another fraternity
than that Of Typographical union,
though in every sense skilled and COM
petent workmen, peaceful, Industrious
and law-abiding.
That kind of unionism is violation
of private rights, constant menace
to personal liberty, fosterer of inn
piety, distrust, discomfort, irreligion,
infidelity and crime, an invader of the
sanctity of the church and the home.
1t is the more dangerous in that 1t
carries on its work in the sacred names
of honest labor, benevolence and hui
mainly. 1t seeks to defeat the ends
of justice by intimidation. 1t is the
instrument of the debauched, cf the
indolent and depraved, to secure posi-
tions and support without useful toll,
and, again, of the greedy to extOrt pay
without loyal, adequate or equal SER
vice. 1t is a discourager of enterprise
and industry, a clog to improvement
and advancement by placing the intel
ligent, progressive, careful, loyal, in
the same scale of wages as the igno-
rant, slothful, Sinking, disloyal and
inefficient 1t is a corrupter of public
Office by placing subserviency to union
ideas and dictation above honesty or
fitness for public position. 1t is the in
strument of demagogues and the en-
SLAYER Of place-seeking politicians. 1t
seeks to dictate to the press and the
president. and is a growing menace TO
the existence OF the republic or OF free
institutions. 1t is not this kind Of