The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-15

Boston, April 14.-The American board has made public reports from the Rev. M. Stimson and Miss Jennie Baldwin concerning the arrest recently announced of native missionaries in the Caroline islands by the captain of a German war ship.
 These reports are that those in cus- tody number four and that they were taken by the German war ship Cormorsn. They were taken by German trader e-~-S~~~-e-%-~-S-&-~-e-~~ all essential features, a mob-power, knowing no master except it's own will and Is continually condemning or defying the constitutional authorities. The stronger it grows the greater a menace 1t becomes to the continuance of free gov ernment, in which all the people have a voice. It Is, in fact, a despotism springing into being in the midst of liber- ty-loving people.
 Tn setting itself up as a power inde- pendent of the power of the state it does not regard itself as bound to observe the fourteenth amendment of the con stitution of the United States, which de- clares that no state shall attempt to abridge the privileges or right of life, liberty and property of any citizen.
 Has Destroyed Property. Tt has not hesitated to resort to vio- lence and the destruction of property to compel the acceptance of its demands. It's history is stained with blood and ruin. Many man whose only fault was that he stood upon his rights has been made to suffer outrage, and even death, and many an employer has been brought face to face with financial ruin. These wrongs cry unto heaven. and yet an unaroused public sentiment too often permits them to go unheeded and unpunished
 'It now demands of the public and or congress the privilege to violate the laws forbidding violence and property destruc- ton that 1t may continue to maintain its power through terrorism.
 Tt extends It's tactics of coercion and intimidation over all classes, dictating to the press and to the politicians. and strangling independence of thought and American manhood.
 Tt denies to those outside its ranks the individual right to dispose of their labor as they see fit-a right that Is one of the most sacred and fundamental of American liberty
 'It holds a bludgeon over the head of the employer, laying down the terms upon which he shall be permitted to do business It says to him that he must deal direct with the union that while he shall pay the men who work in his fac tory, they shall be beholden more to the union than to him for their positions that he cannot employ or discharge men without the endorsement and consent of the union; and that he must pay them the wage fixed by the union, without regard to their individual worth or the economic ability of the employer to pay.
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 Tt drives unwilling men into the ranks by its policy of intimidation. Thousands of its members are such today not because they sympathze with it's purposes, but because they feel the consequences of not yielding to it's tyranny. These men are, as class, the more thrifty and capable of its members. They are men who se- cretly rebel against the system which places them upon the level with the in- competent and idle, and would gladly have free conditions established that might prove their superior worth, and thus gain advancement in life. But they dare not openly express their views for they feel that their employment and peace depend upon their submissive &C., quiescence to the principles of the union.
 While 1t seeks to compel men already employed in the trades to enlist under its banner, 1t at the same time seeks to prevent outsiders from entering .--e trades.
 Organized labor is an organization of manual labor, trained and untrained, of men who do as they are told and who de- pend upon the brains of others for guid- ance. That wide field of labor in which mental capacity is a greater or less re- qu.site on the part of the workers Is not represented by it, and cannot be for the obvious impossibility of organizing brains.
 Muscle Rather Than Brains. "Composed as it is of men of muscle, rather than the men of intelligence, and commanded by leaders who are at heart disciples of revolution, 1t is not strange that organized labor stands for principles that are in direct conflict with the natural laws of economies. It's first great prin- ciple is that an arbitrary division of the production would be better than the di- vision regulated by natural law. provided. however that 1t can dictate what this division shall be. It says to capital and to mental and unorganized labor:
 We shall take this proposition of the products of human industry and you may have the balance. If you do not agree to this arrangement you are unfair" you are enemies of the ''poor working man." you are "oppr essors;" and if you do not peacefully submit to our terms we will compel you to do so by force
 Legitimate spoiIs.
 '"The fixing of arbitrary wage scales by force would result in no benefit to any class of labor if all classes adopted the idea. Suppose that clerks, bookkeepers. lawyers, doctors, managers, business men, in fact all workers outside of pure man. ual labor. should organize and should say that they must have such and such wages or so much profit, or they would go home and stay there. It is within the range of possibility that their demands might be acceded to. Increased wages and profits would thus be accorded to every one. according to the theory of organ ized labor. and poverty would be un-