Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-30


The judge asked me what right had
to come among the miners of West
Virginia and disturb them. answer
ed him that was citizen of the Unit
ed States and as such that l had a
right to go anywhere in the country
that I pleased. That Judge was con-
nered and he asked me nothing more.
But in the closing argument of the
prosecuting attorney the most danger
GUS statement was made. 1t meant
more than he, or anyone else but my
self, probably, realized
Points Out Danger.
He said in his argument to the
court: Owing to the fact that this is
the most dangerous woman in the
United States today, and owing to the
| fact that she can go among the min
ers and commence a disturbance at
any time, if she will consent to leave
| the state of West Virginia and stay
away, | would suggest that the court
should have mercy on her Leave the
state never to return Mind you what
that meant. Think of public official
making a statement of that kind.
Now that is the point to which I
want to call your attention. 1t meant
more than the bare statement. Not
long ago judge lecturing in Lansing,
Michigan, said that he believed the
United States ought to keep the Phil
ippine islands because the government
| might, before long, need an island in
| the Pacific where criminals might be
put. He said that the penal institu-
lions of the country might get too
crowded and that an island would then
be needed. Congress will take up this
matter and pass such law if we do
not watch. Nothing was said by that
Judge to me about violating the law.
But don't violate the Injunction The
constitution was never referred to, but
4 was not to violate the one-man IN
strument, the Injunction.
Gloomy Prediction.
]. Cant you see what we are coming
| to? Only a few people now are being
affected by this injunction, but the
time is surely approaching when it will
take all the people of the whole coun--
try and affect them ALL Watch all the
events and you will see where we are
drifting. Jefferson said that the dan
ger 10 the country would not come
from the legislative halls but from a
criminal among the eight of us, and all
only one who had said a word, was al
right about that?
: The strike in West Virginia would
, have been over in two weeks if it had
not been for the injunction. Those
!, same boys who We're my colleagues got
eli VIZ nd inc fu Inu nf
, on the witness stand and didn't get to
speak word. | was the only one who
had held any meetings there. and the
! only one who had talked at the trial
and | was allowed to go free. Do you
not see the inconsistency and the dan,
| ger in practice like that?
Doesn't Like Church Work.
The judge said that there was plen
, ty of church work for me to do and
:, / felt like telling him that there were
/ plenty of hypocrites to do it. | have
, much respect for churches. but hav,
no sympathy for them when the,
teach the doctrines of capital and tn,
i, crucifiXion of children long hours ant
= the robbery of honest labor. Whel
: ministers denounce child labor shake
, hands with them. but not when the,
. are parasites. Churches were estab-
lished to bring the world onward ant
civilize the people. and there is one
! church that has done more to civiliZ,
2 mankind and to carry out the doctrine
of the Galilean and establish HEAVIER
; on earth than almost any of thu
churches. To that church | belong
!, 1t is the union
e The Unions Work.
a THE union has brought men of al
J Municipalities and color together ant
: has nodded the people for that grande
!, day which is coming. 1t has laugh
u them that all are brothers, regardless
u of color, creed or breeding. 1t ha
. done more to enlghter mankind thai
= has any church that ever existed
9 Why do l talk this way? Because
;. have had broad experience. Not bu
:, what know noble churches and nobl
= preachers, but the majority of then
), are parasites, and bow to capital
y "At Mount Hope, West Virginia
: minister questioned miner who ha,
:. been a good Christian and Sunda,
y school worker, but who had quit com
. ing to church so much, and asked hin
q why he had stopped. The miner re
!. piled that he was organizing unions
!; but the minister said that it was use
y less for an uneducated miner to try t.
teach his brother toilers anything
He said that if he had been colleg
graduate he might have been able t
'el do something, but that as common
). and uneducated miner he was unabl
1t to help them. | had gone the week be
mi fore to the home of that same mine
g and found that they had had nothin
If to eat for two days till the miners III
N ion gave them $3.50 with which to bu
e food. The preacher, however had re
ID ceived, for half year, twenty
ID hours of preaching, more than $500.
NJ Better Time Coming.
= These doctrines are preached t
:. the miners now, but we are marchin
r. r. onward to the day when the ministe
~ will have to get out and dig coal an
- build railroad tracks or do somethin
~ else. He can't get us to go to churc
"a on Sunday and sing All for Jesus, a
>. for Jesus, all for Jesus and then dur
- ing the other six days of the wee
~ sing All for the operator all for til