Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-04
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# no service to the cause it represents.
How shall we make it free? Working
men can set the labor press free by
giving it that generous support its mcr-
its eHtitlc it to and according to the
service it renders or can render to those
requiring that service. AS public opin-
ion is the great tribunal and arbitra-
tion board before which labor's case
must BE intclligeatly presented for ad-
iudication. then the labor editor should
be enabled to present that ease like an
American freeman and not like Il labor
Starpeling and eowardly sneak afraid
to speak the truth lest he give olfcnse
to the wealthy and .'innuential' rascals
On the other side of the question.
As public opinion is our court of last
resort and public sentiment the only
verdict to be confidently relied on at
all times the labor paper of the future
must reach the public ear and while
some dailes are doing as much for us
in this direction as we can reasonably
expect we can do much through the
weekly labor paper that will crystalliZe
public thought and rivet its attention
Oh the most glaring injustice and abuses
to the end that these may be abolished
or reformed in an open. peaceable and
constitutional manner and thus defeat
the best laid plans of Parry and Parry
ism
The labor paper of the future must
reach every home and be read by
every member of the family. 1t must
reach the hand and be read by all
the sweat of their faces, if they are to
escape the yoke being prepared for
them and the legal and illegal chains
and manaclcS being forged for them
by their skilful would be masters and
oppresSorS.
There are many labor papers ekin9
out an existence in one way or an
other, all doing the best they can. but
none of them doing all that it is
capable of doing for the workers, be-
cause they are circumscribcd and linn
tied by the lack of advertising patron
age and therefore are the slaves of
necessity
The labor newspaper of the futuye.
we reiterate, must be free. and over
100000 organized workers can make
it free The money paid into the
treasury of the unions as dues has
been good investment and has given
grand and great returns to- humanity
and the nation for the expenditure.
Let us increase the dues and treasures
and subsidiZe the labor paper of the
future as the enemy does the capital
iStic press which works for their s'f"
cial and particular interest at all times.
We should learn much from this fact.
but do We:
The monthly trade Journal is very
we'll in its WAY. but it is not lahc"
press, and at best cannot supply what
is wanted in the labor paper of the flu
t1lre. and Il virile, aggressive labor
press we must have. cost what it may.
if we are to be saved from the snarcs
and fettcrS which are being prepared
for us. The WorkingN}an must con
tribute to the support Of the labor
paper of the future as promptly and
TPli8ittlS1A It's ne HON Goes 10 Tie tilip'll
He must be made to feel that it is the
same duty and service demanded Of
him, and that the investment will
yield magnificent returns. We will not
permit the WOrkingman to tell us that
he cannot afford to support the labor
paper. We tell him plainly and most
eniphatically that he deceves himself
but he does not deceive us. Let him
add the miserable pittance for its sup
port to his other expenses. and let him
look over the entire list of these eX-
penses and see how much he has need
lessly and uselessly expended that will
brin. him no returns. or those he
would have been much better and hap
pier without.
To the workingman of the future the
labor paper Of the future must be in
cl,lded in his legitimate expenses, like
his coal bill his meat bill. clothing ac-
count or other necessity, for the labor
paper of the future is and must be
felt to be and considered first neces-
sty. FRANK \. KENNEDY.
Editor Western I.aborer.