Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-12-06

a0n and the San Francisco Examiner
persistently contended that the labor
and trust questions we the para
mount issues Of the campaign. s.%
So Mr.. Hearst is pledged by his own
utterances and acts, both personally
and as a publisher, to the support Of
the labor movement. As q member of
congress he may have opportunities to
further prove his friendship. In en-
deayoring to secure the Endorsement of
his principles by his party he is likely
to find the shedding rather hard, and
until the Democratic party makes an
nouncement through, its platform and
the character Of it's candidates that 1t
unqualifedly stands for all that MIR.
Hearst has proposed with regard to la
Dor and throws overheard the leaders
who in the past have shown them
selves the enemies of labor, especially
union labor, the party need not look for
the united support of the workingmen.
Should the advice of Mr.. Hearst be
followed and the Democratic party be-
come the protested party Of labor there
would still be no amalgamation of the
Democracy and the organized labor
movement. The policy Of the trades
union movement in this country has
been, is and probably always will be
opposed to the introduction Of partisan
politics into the uniops. Only by hold.
ing consistently to their nonpartisan
attitude can the unions maintain the
peace and harmony which are prime
essentials to their success.
But this does not mean that there is
no possibility Of political party win.
ming the support Of the trade unionist
as an Individual There is no class of
citizens less bound to party than the
trades unionists. There have been many
proofs Of this Of late. The election of
Republican workingman as mayor of
San Francisco and the election Of labor
Democrats in Connecticut are cases in
point. The increase in the Socialist
vote at the recent election also indi-
Gates that workhxmen are coming to
look upon the ballot as q means to i'm.
prove their condition or to record their
disapproval Of unfnendly policies and
candidates. So it appears that Mr..
Hearst has chosen an oppoftune time
to declare for union OF genuine
workingmen and genuine democracy"
Genuine" Is the word. Labor will
not ally itself, with the spurious article.
It must be remembered that all the
friends Of labor are not in the Demo-
cratic party, nor are AL In the Demo-
cratic party the friends of labor. Mr..
Hearst realizes the first half of this
truth; he must not forget the second
half.
The subsidized EDITORS and high sala.
ried preachers, driven from their for
mer untenable position Of wholesale
opposition to labor unions, are now
trying to lash the unions over the nom
union mems shoulders '"The right to
labor is sacred right, and Union men
have no right to attempt to compel non
union men to Join the union,'' say the
new champions Of scabbery as they
deluge their sermons and editorials
with sympathetic tears. President Eliot
Of Harvard college (no poor man need
apply goes the editors and preachers
one better. he says, 1.-THE modern scab
is good type Of American hero.' Sam
Gompers answered this gentleman
when he said at New Orleans, '"Then
Benedict Arnold was a patriot and Ju-
das 1scaEiot q saint ~ r. -
The late Henry Ward Beecher In a
lecture delivered in 1873 said, "A dollar
q day and bread and water are sufi-
Gent for any j, workineman." Mr..
Beecher was pastor Of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn. The Rev. DR.. New
ell Dwight Hills now occupies the
place formerly held By Mr.. Beecher in
Plymouth church. Mr.. Hillis - net 20
severe upon Labor az was his famous
predecessor, but he uses his position to
create prejudice against unisn labor.
In, his misguided zeal fer the cause Of
the scab he would create the inpres-
sion that union labeT loOks its doors
against nenunton men and then, with 4
club in hand, takes up IT. station at the
entrance to factory and mine and re-
fuses admittanes - ~ ave thsas who
carry uniea aearda- Tbs faa6 axe that
the unions s4sr evsey il1pesAt to
the n0nuli0n 1oD to booomo n6mbers
and that the speat grswth e hbar
unions during IL bast I've q three
years has - - - ~ apeaa1 con
sideEatteas stsassby IT, $780, - 49,