The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-05
UNION MOB RULE DENOUNCED.
THE REV. ID. II. BABBITT GIVES A
WARNING FROM THE PULPIT.
Says the Right Of Man to Work when and
where He Pleases Cannot he Taken
Away-Cries Shame on Unions Who
War on Their Fellow WOrkmen.


'Mobs and Riots a Danger to Labor"
was the subject OF the sermon preached
by the Rev. Dean Richmond Babbitt in the
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, McDon-
ough street and Tompkins avenue, Brook
Ign, last night. He said that st. Paul on
his visit to the city OF Ephesus became
enveloped in a thundercloud Of mob,
"that most dangerous OF social monsters,
with thousand hands but no head. that
wrecks and ruins, that devastates and
destroys, that mains and kills, Is pitiless
and unfeeling" Continuing. he said:
st. Paul had nterfered with the profits Of
the workmen, and they were up in arms
against him. He was cheapening their labor.
was Win theT 81 Paul Mas
right. law abiding. had authority to speak
and act as he did. or was within tine limits OF
how to get at him; seize, hurt. MAIN, Kill
him, for was he not interfering with their
t,Eadel Why. 20 beyond that quest 1estio onS
they even In their lawful exercise. when they
interfere with the trade, AFFECT or diminish
the profits? Down with the man. OF what
wise. right. true, prudent. careful. II he only
inteTferes with our profits. - .h Kind
impulse leading linz that Ephesus mob and that
is the same that is leading the labor mop
of to-day. We stand on the Threshold OF
this city was hanging its head in shame on
account of the conviction OF one OF IT'S prom
inent leaders Of heinous crime and ms tenn
porary incarceration in Sing Sing Prison.
Twelve months have passed and have labor
real interests been advanced In any degree!
II has been year Of labor riots mo5s iyhch-
When laborers meet In their unions the one
absorbing topic seems to be how TO get as
much as they can for az little work as they
NAV give. When EMPLOYERS put In tno
category as enemies simply from ne iaGt
that they are employers. now can LABOR 10
1t is not my purpose TO 60 into the local
question Of right or wrong between the
workingmsn. nor to take sides with the CAPT,
talists or against them on any OF the grest
questions that are stirring the workingmen
/ wish to address myself simply TO- the
matter Of the right OF msp to o0ntrast ior
molested by unions or other persons. FOR
labor to take the view OF selfishly urging us
ow1 pros by riot Or mob or ysienes o. any of
knd 70 S SsS% in s as
sympathized with it's Just and laudable aims
in obtaining fair hours and fair wages: BUY ny
criticism for violence, riot. mobs and blood
shed. manning. oppression and, vindictlve
bitterness not only against emphloye as Pit PIT
well being OF the State and nation: Att.
~ is necessary for some one to cay TINS:
1 M " tss @ AZ
not critcise labor. candidates Of party WI
nov ipsr votes trades Ps9Spe ,h fear m ,ns
speak the word Of sober counsel. OF fearless
criticism, OF just arragnment II not the
clergy There IL hardly State in the nation
to-day that is not in condition more or
less Of industrial warfare. Colorado has
been as much the scene Of violence and ais-
order If It were in state OF armed rebellion;
with marching and countermarching or
troops with the writ OF habeas corpus sus-
pended. and the courts the violent objects
OF contending parties, and fifteen murders
at one time. Chicago had its riot after rioti
murder after murder. mob after mob. until
the laboring men and their friends have made
it shameful in lawlessness.
The right OF a man to work, Tor when !he
work KIM man himself contends and which
is one Of the inalienable rights which unions
cannot take away, has been the object OF
continual assault, OF contetnptt OF dsrision
union Is regarded seemingly as criminal
to be branded with the vile name OF scab.
to be bruised. mangled. hunted. with the
boycott held over the grocer. the butcher
his employer. For that non-unior man
simply Exercising, the primal right to work
such things. Shame on unions that viii
thus war on fellow workmen IN the name OF
labor. Shame on a public that VIII stand
idly by and see these original God given
rights OF workngmen trampled under foot
shame on the faSile dagper politicians sRd
will witness the degradation OF American
citizenship by the mobbing OF workinginen
because they simply cannot or Will not De
dragooned Into wearing unions badge.
and vet never lift the little finger Of authority
TO enforce the law which IL the security OF