The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-03

and steel trusts in Pennsylvania, in
importing foreigners to take the places
of Americans who could not be con-
trolled like slaves, but it is fact be-
yond contravention that these viola
tions of law have been under Repub-
lican administrations and winked at by
Republican Presidents.
Other illustrations of the friendship
for labor on the part Of the Democracy
exist in the fact that in every Demo-
cratic State will be found laws pro-
tecting 1aborers with mechanics liens,
and in every other way reasonbly de-
manded The States where capital
lords it over and oppresses laboring
men are all Republican States. As1ue
from this every reasonable demand
made by the laboring element has been
granted by the Democracy, and the
Democratic party of Arizona is only
following out the general policy of the
national party in giving the working
men the hand of fellowship and assur-
ing them that their interests will be
we'll cared for when the party is in
power.
The question of which party is the
real friend of union labor was never
more aptly illustrated than by the
fact that the Republican newspapers
have persistently abused the labor
unions and viciously assaulted the
labor leaders. 1t was only short
while ago that the Phoenix Republican
! teemed with abuse of the miners of
Congress who possessed the temerity
to ask for decent pay, and the Los
Angeles Times, the leading Republican
newspaper of this section of the United
States, printed the following diatribe
against the striking coal miners:
John Mitchell's address to the
country, as printed in yesterdays dis
patches, reminds one of the indiviual
on trial who takes his wife and baby
| into court in order to excite sympathy
| in the minds of the men ON the jury.
That there may be abuses in the coal
regions the Times has never denied.
but that it is possible for the opera
tors to unionize the entire field, and
/ thus turn the works over to the labor
leaders and agitators, without inviting
ruin to all concerned, no sensible man
will claim for moment, Were all
the mines worked wholly by union
miners it wouldn't be sixty days before
further demands would be made upon
the owners of the properties, and when
concessions were made there would be
further and still further demands until
utter ruin would result. If this is to
be a free country, every man in it
must have right to labor whether he
belongs to labor union or not. And
he must be absolutely protected in
that right to the last extremity; other
wise there can be neither peace, happi-
ness, prosperity nor liberty under the
flag. 1t is freedom that the mine
owners are standing for, and nothing
else. The demands of the labor bosses
must be resisted to the uttermost or
we are undone. 1t is for the free
American citizen to look the situation
squarely in the face and to give coun-
tenance to the men who are resisteing
the assaults of the tyrants of labor
bossism to the extent of giving up
their lives for the cause of liberty, even
as our forefathers did in the brave
days of old"
In the face of this, and taking cog
nizance of the fact that two of the
Congress anti-union men are Republi-
can nominees in Yavapai county, it
would seem as if Mr.. Morrison was. at
tempting to insult the intelligence of
the Arizona workingmen in asking
their suffrage.
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