The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-04

at this time TO the thousands OF true loyal
citizens Of Pennsylvania. who have been
lawfully pursuing their various vocauons
or professions under great difficulties. and
who with great sacrifice have been abused,
ylllfied, DoycOtted and in many cases al
most ruined because they have had the
manhood to raise their voices against the
Illegal acts and violences OF this illegal
organization and its officers and agents
No step can be taken by US. Mr.. President.
which can possibly result in placing these
good citizens or Pennsylvania at the Iur-
ther mercy of this Illegal organization,
Its officers and members Think OF IL. Mr.
PRESIDENT, physicians have been threat
ened and boycotted because they saw fit 10
minister to the dying child of some poor
worker because he was exercising his God
given right 10 labor for his family and 10
PToviae Tor the wants OF his dying cnnu;;
Members of the clergy nave been treated
likewise FOR performing the offices or the
oead 10 the member OF family OF nom
union worker. The conditions there are
simply indescribable and 1t is hard 10 be-
heve that they can possibly exist TO the
extent that they have anywhere in this
free country.
DANGER TO YOUTH.
'Fourth-Another duty, Mr.. President.
and we regard it as the most supreme:
One sixth of the membership of this illegal
organization is composed OF young men and
boys between the ages of fourteen and
twenty. the future citizens and lawmakers
Of the great State of Pennsylvania. These
young men and boys during the past two
years have had their young. immature
minds poisoned with the most dangerous,
anarchistic. distorted, wicked views and
errors concerning the rights of citizenship
and property that any one can possibly
conceive of; all through the teachings and
practice OF the officers. organizers and
apostles of the United Mine Workers As
N
or this matter can be thought or which by
any possibility can result in further
strengthening and fixing in the minds of
this youthful element in the anthracite
coal fields the belief that the teachings or
this organization and it's officers, with their
acts and doings in support thereof, con-
stitute the ethics and objects of American
citizenship. frequently referred to during
the past weeks in proclamations issued in
behalf OF this illegal organization. The
consequences that may result to the COM
ing generation in the anthracite coal re-
gions as the result of existing conditions
there are fraught with the gravest dangers
to the stability and perpetuity of this
country and its institutions.
Fifth and finally, Mr.. President, as a
plain citizen of these United States, looking
at the whole question broadly and with
reference to its possible effect on our fu-
ture welfare and prosperity 1 think lit my
bounden duty to resist and combat with
every power and faculty. both physical
and mental. the avowed and evident object
and purpose of this United Mine Workers
Association, as exemplfied in the anthra-
cite district OF Pennsylvania to-day, and
as taught and defended by it's officers and
other opponents, of its well-known and
so-called purposes and principles.
Mr.. President, L am no enemy of or
ganized labor, when so organized as to
promote the real interests of the laboring
man and when, in accomplishing this, law
ful and legitimate methods are pursued. L
do, however, oppose the United Mine
Workers Association because many of its
avoWed purposes are absolutely at vari-
ance with the spirit of our laws and insti-
buttons; because its officers and members
are not content to be governed by the same
laws and like administration thereof as
4 other citizens Of this country. AS witness
sylvania, with the Mine Workers Associa-
members, violating every principle of our
government and our laws pertaining to the
rights of persons and property.
THE same condition exists to-day in
Tennessee or Alabama, where the MEM
bers of this organization have but recently
gone on strike. This same condition ex-
listed In Kentucky for about two years,
where this organization was in control and
where its members practiced the same I'M
lawful methods as are being followed in
Pennsylvania to-day. Mr.. President, we
firmly believe that any adjustment of this
matter as has been suggested here to-day
will only result In perpetuating conditions
that are utterly abhorrent to any good
American citizen, and most intolerable
and damaging to the interests which
represent. We cannot, therefore, concur
therein"