The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-28
GoMPERs MoNoMAN1A.

Samuel GOmperS succeeded at the
anti-expansion meeting in New York
In making distinguished ninny Of
himself, when he declared that it was
not improbable that the Filipinos would
become a part of the standing army
of the United States, and be called
upon to shoot down American wage
earners This indicates either a mono
mania and low grade of intelligence
affecting Mr.. Gompers' skull-box, or
the most Grass demagogy on record.
Fact is. it is taste of both.
Armies in this free land are not raised
or maintained to shoot down wage
earners. Armies are wage earners
themselves. They are raised to be a.
force behind the law ordered by the
the nation, the punishment of crime
and the maintenance of the rights of
free men. The army is to defend US
against foreign foes and domestic enc
mics; to repress insurrection and repel
invasion. 1t appears of late. however.
to be popular among a class of speak
ers who work most with their mouths
to rail at the law and the executive
power behind it and the officers and
legions of peace as enemies of the
workingman, when the fact is the con-
verse of that.
The law and the force behind it stand
for tho r,rot aotio,, of avay-v citizap re-
CARELESS of his condition in life. The
assumption of the Gompers' stripe of
individual is that workingn1en must not
be interfered with when they become
lawless and defy the Government, Of
which they are units. In other words.
If the wage Garner wishes to raise his
hand against the laws of his own max
ing; against the rights of his neighbor,
and the established government of his
land, or to work claimed reform
with weapons and force, he must not
be interfered with; therefore, the army
is an enemy of the workingman since
it is a power for the preservation of
peace, the maintenance of national
honor and dignity, and the repulsion Of
enemies of the Republic.
Mr.. Gompers does not speak for the
workingman- The wage earners have
not commissioned him to declare that
disorder shall be given free rein when
ever they offend against the law. The
American workingman and wage earn
ers generally are foundation pillars in
our order of government. They are
not the lawless class the Gompers in
dividual pictures them, waiting only
the opportunity to slay and burn. On
the contrary, they are in the main the
provident, peaceful and law-abiding
classes of our population, and not to
be COMPOUNDED with the turbulent, law
defying and trouble brewing malcon-
tents who are forever posing as the
wage earners' champions.
Wage earners. with either head or
hand, should pray to be delivered from
such friends as Gompers, whose mission
appears to be to threaten strife and
make the relations between wage earn
ers and wage payers those of distrust.
unrest and constant threat Of violence.
The declaration Of the Gompers' preach
er, that Filipinos might-Gompers says
it is mot improbable'-be imported to
America as soldiers to shoot down
American wage earners, sounds
like the rawlings of mono
maniac. It Is an utterance in
tended to appeal to fear and timidity.
to embitter people against one another.
and excite race and class prejudices.
1t Is safe to say that such men as
Bishop Potter. A. S. Hewitt Frederick
Coudert and Bourke Cochran blushed
scarlet when they heard of or read Of
Gompers' insanity, since they were con-
nected by appearance or Endorsement
with the anti-expansion meeting.