The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02

In his first letter on the Miller case he said;
 There is no objection to the employees oi tne government printing office consti- tutlng themselves into union, if they so desire but no rules or resolution of mat body can be permitted to override 1 the laws of the United States which 1t is my sworn duty to enforce"
 PreSident RooSeVelt's 8 speeches and nnes- sages, if they show anything unmistaka- piy, assert him as believer in the right or the individual initiative. His idea ap- pears luminously to be that every man mas, naS olvine right to work and that his individual initiative Is supreme and is the pest element of the manhood right that belongs to him. It does not in anything deny the right of wisdom of organization by labor.
 Speaking last year to the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers at Chattanooga, President Roosevelt said:
 I believe emphatically in organized labor, l feel that We must always keep before our minds the fact that there ia nothing sacred in the name itself. The worth of an organization depends upon It's being handled with skill, courage and wisdom, spirit of fair dealing as be- tween s!vn n man and wise self-restraint.
 N ou teach the benefits of organization" ne added, and you also teach the indis- pensable need of keeping absolutely unim- paired the faculty of the individual ini- native. the faculty by which each man
 
 perfection by exercising the special quaIi- ties with which he himself is endowed. Any man who enters with the purpose or letting the Brotherhood carry him IS not worth much. A great deal can he accomplished by each working for all and all for each, but we must not forget that the first requisite in accomplishing that Is for each man to work for others by working @ for himself by developing his
 In his last message to Congress the President said:
 Each must refrain from arbitrary or yrannous interference with the rights of others Oganized capital and organized labor alike should remember that in thp long run the interest of each must he brought into harmony with the interest or the general public and the conduct of each must conform to the fundamental rule of obedience to the law of individnai freedom and justice and fair dealing to all. Each should remember that in ad dition to power it must strive after the realization of healthy, lofty generous ideals Every employer, every waga9 earner must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with his prom erty or his labor as long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others
 This Is good old-time Democratic doctrine handed down from Thomas Jef Ierson or whom the President once wrote as being constitutionally unable to tell the truth. 'e'1
 
 The Miller case, which may be invest- gated by Congress, will afford an excci- lent opportunity to uncover how ,tnion- Ism mas Imposed upon the Government or rather how the Government has nnr' Hhtted itself to be imposed upon at The expense of the people. Unionsm has been Dosslng the Government Printing Office LOT years rom top to bottom. It is ac- knoWledged to be the largest printing es- tablishment in the world Facts can Le brought out that will show that if is hv Tar the most expensive in the world. cost ing piece for piece of work from 5O to 200 per cent. more than the same work cone oy prlvate concerns; Officers in oth- CT departments of the Government have incidentally learned of the excessive cost or producing Government publicati tions at the Governments expense. For instance Director General Merriam. of the Census desiring to have the records of the census bound in certain way. submitted esti- mates to New York publishing house When he was informed that the work had to be done at the Government Printinv Office he showed the sample of the New York house as a standard. When the work of the Government Printing Office was completed it's inferiority was moi merely manifest but 1t was disclosed that the Government work cost I5O per cent, York house. k
 This is but specimen of the rule-and ruin policy of the union in the Govern ment Printing, Office. It has chung to tie old handtype setting and refused to i'm ana printing offices throughout the coun- try have all after a struggle with the unions adopted the linotype machines while the greatest printing establishment or the most progressive Government in the world is compelled to hapg on to long