The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-18

gard TO labor, the situation today
demands unions. wish, noN
brethren, to state what regard
as a warning, because 10 this worli
of ours there ore many extremes.
Now let us notie the philosophy
Of danger for a moment. For y n
stance, before the organization OF
labor, YOU are aware Of the fact
that the laboring man in much oi
the Land was oppressed.
Let US remember this: All human
history shows that people Who
have been oppressed are very apt
to become OppTessers when they
get 10 power. The Puritans who
fed from England 10 escape per-
secutiOn on account Of their reli-
gioD, came to Massachusetts, and
began to hang Bsplisis and TO burn
witches. They we're OPP ressed IN
England and when they came into
power ia the new world, they were
oppressors. Such has been the
case very often, such has been
human tendency. Now, gentlemen
you are 10 a position today 10
make unreasonable demands, II
by misguided judgment you are
lead into that. Now comes my
text: Therefore, whatsoever ye
would that men should do unto
you, do ye even so to them.p II
labor has been oppressed, that is
no reason why you should become
oppress0rs, remember that. Study
that passage, beloved, commits IL
to memory, burn it upon your
brain, until II will stay there, and
when trouble comes up between
you and your employer, apply it,
therefore, whatsoever ye wOuld
that men should do unto you, do
We even so unto them. Brethren
it will save you the loss Of much
shot air, - IL will save you the loss
of much time, it wall save you
much hot blood---therefoFe, twhat-
soever.v always remember that.
Now then, if by misguided judg-
ment and miscalculatiOn as TO the
iocome Of your employer, you
should demand hours too short or
salary to high your employer be-
comes oppressed, doesn't hef
Certainly he does. Remember he
is only laborer, in another way,
ana he becomes oppressed. Well,
what can be do TO be saved? Posi-
bly, nothing, at the time, but this
oppression, the employer will keep
on grinding nnder the oppression
for a time, and he will do just
what the employed have done,
that is, he Will arise and free him
self But says one, would it be
possible for him to do thisl Why,
certainly. Look at the Independ-
ent Telephone company. That
concern started out to be indeppud
ent. Independent Of what? The
Bell Telephone company in partic-
ular and the Bell company kept on
depressing harder and harder, un-
iii after while the Independent
Telephone company became almost
as great an octopus as the Bell.
There might spring into exlstance
a kind Of non-union organization,
there is danger, don't you see.
And this non n-uniOn business would
fully organize against the union
organization. In order to stay
good aud be strong, always choose
wise and Cody leadership, and
YOU can thus depend upon doing
well. You know, let doing well
enough alone, is a very good rule,
All remember Aesop's fable OF
the dog that had fine piece OF
meat for his dinner---plenty for his
dinner but he was going along
over a bridge, when be saw his
shadow in the running stream be-
meath. You know the water mag
nifies things. Well, this piece OF
meat IN the water looked great
deal larger than the one in his
mouth, 80 he said, 81 cannot afford
to do without so large piece OF
meat for my dinner, so | will just
lump in and take il away from the
dog in the water" so jumped to
grab the piece of meat and in doing
so. his piece was washed away, so
he had none for his diuner. The
dog whose meat he had tried to
get was only his shadow. L have
done that in trading-so have you.
Dropped a good thing seeking a
better thing and came out at the
little end OF the horn (tO get down
to American English) so be care
ful along these lines.
You understand that in this mat
ter of combinations against com
binations, the demands have to be
perfectly legitimate, have be right,
if they are not right, they will sui
fer defeat. Be careful as to the
demands always, and the result
will be that you will always have
good salary and good hours.
Gentlemen. l do not believe, look
ing into your eyes, this afternoon
that YOU will want anything bat
what is right. / say, if you ever
fail into that mistake, it will be
80 oisonided Judgment. All