The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-23

Let us sound the whole gamut of heresy and damphoolery while we are at 1t, and maybe it will give us an appetite for some
 The time is not distant when this coun- try has got to choose between the gov- ernnent and organized labor. Is the law Of the land supreme or is the order in lodge of walking delegates supreme? There are some very wise men who think the race question at the South a serious menace to Southern civilization. It IS no more serious than is organized labor at the North, which assumes to say who shall work and who shall not. which has decreed a repeal of the fiat of Almighty God that man shall eat bread in the sweat of his face, so far as it applies to those who do not join one of their orders. Indeed, they go so far as to say that unorganized labor shall not eat bread at all, and that the boycott shall be de- nounced against tradesman who seiis bread to the suffering widows and or phans of laborers organized strikers had murdered for refusing to strike. That was done in Pennsylvania.
 l sec it stated that one Gompers is ex- erting himself to ''organtze' farm labor out in Iowa. It is decreed, in the account have of 1t, that unless the farmer en- ploys organized labor he is to go on the unfair" list. His products are to be boy cotted. Railroads are to be forbidden to transport them. Dealers are to be forbid den to buy or sell them. Labor in shops and mines are to be forbidden to consume them. Just think what a hell we are So- ing to have when that thing comes about If they try that on the South they will get the shotgun. You can bet on that. But they have done even worse than that at the North. and got the encoul- politicians of both parties.
 There are some mighty bad trusts in this country, and the labor trust is the fa 10FNlxy axzyft.
 but the beef trust will permit an attempt at competition. You can put up d slaughter-house if you are so disposed. The beef trust will break you in all proo- ability; but it recognizes your right to do business if yoIHc stand the pace. Not so the labor trust. When organized labor is dissatisfied with the way an individual. or firm, or a corporation is doing its business notice is served on the concern that 1t must mend its methods and do as they say. If that is refused or ignored. organized labor walks out. Then. if the concern employs free labor-for organized not permit that free labor to work. There is the law, administered by a lot of fish ing worms. all candidates for reelection the law is powerless. The mob is su- military. Only Grover Cleveland can deal with such 8 situation as that, and, unfortunately. there IS but one Grover Cleveland.
 All of our political parties are very much opposed to the trusts: but not one of them would lay the weight of its lit- tle toe on this labor trust. But it VIII Is not worth preserving if 1t cannot and does not give its citizens a right to labor with their hands without asking the con- sent of a labor union. would ratser have to ask the consent of a count. or earl, or duke, or prince, than a walking delegate, and l would not give shucKS for government that allowed its Counts and things to forbid a man to work Not onc-half the skilled labor of America IS
 organized" and large per cent of the
 orEanlzed labor Is under duress. Thou sands of union" men are organized" because they have to be, not because they want to be- when one looks over the field and contemplates the insolence and the tyranny of the unions he is simply amazed at the power they exercise They have ordered tens of thousands of laborers to strike who were perfectly satisfied and did not want to strike, bat who had to obey their masters. In tire old South the slavery consisted of this the negro was ordered to work and made to obey. At the new North the slavery consists of this-the laborer is ordered to cease work and has to obey. l do pa lieve the old Southern slavery was the better. It is better to work than to ida
 Nobody objects to organized labor as such. It is the abuse Of the organization that makes the thing odious-its denial to a non-union laborer the right to work and the forcing of individual members to strike when they do not want to strike, and know it Is against their interest tO strike. What can be a more gallinR slav- cry than that? Here is a man with n family to support. He Is getting satis- factory wages. The wolf is away iron, his door. He is putting a few dollars weekly in the savings bank. Say he is A bricklayer. The boss he is working for gets at loggerheads with the walking delegate of the iron workers because some od-carriers unloaded van load of struc- tural steel. The walking delegates rt- minds the contractor that nobody but the iron workers can touch the steel for that