The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-04
Proclamation of Freedom.

We should demand of our public officials that they proceed as they did in the beef trust and give the people protection from this labor trust that expresses the common people more than dozen meat or oil trusts.
 What is cent or two on a gallon oi oil as compared with the hundreds O thousands of decent bread-earners thrown out of work from time to time. and the hundreds of millions of doi- lars in business lost to the people by the withdrawal of capital from indus try.
 REFUSE TO BUILD
 It is common remark nowadays that no one but fool will start a new building or new industry and sub ject himself to the tremendous losses. indignities, and worry from the labo unions.
 The prosposed building operations and new industries that have been abandaned in the past two years amount in dollars and cents, lost to our work people, more than would keep an army in meat and oil for lifetime
 NAhA1NAlot niSll anu lON, you must rise in your might and free yourselves from this worst of all trusts-this startling menace to human liberty. It is before you and its injuries are fel by every man but the few easy-lfving leaders who have by organization of the 15 per cent. of workmen, threatened the complete domination of the S5 per cent. of unorganizad citizens. This fair country has already been injured hundreds of millions of dol lars and it's people subjected to count less scores of indignities by the labor trust
 ACT
 We have conspiracy and trust laws. 1 Write President Roosevelt urging that he direct the proper government of- ficers to do their duty with this most ruinous of all trusts. then don't forget your own duty toward the boycott. the union label and to organize your towns 1 for protection.
 Read this article over again care- 1 fully and Act.
 c. w. Post. | N. B. You ask what motive inspir- es me to pay about $2o0OO.00 to print this proclamation of freedom in the various papers in the United States sure to bring down on me hundreds more of coarse, villifying. abusive let ] ters from labor union thugs and many . kind letters from lawabiding members ! of Unions.
 | The officials of the Labor Commits sioner's office of Michigan say I pay | 4I, l,sr 41.. work. But will not bow to the comic opera kings and potentates of the labor unions or allow them to 'unionize'' | the Postum factories. Therefore they I boycott "Postum, and Grape Nuts I was trained to run my business and they were not; yet they proposed 1 to and their abuse has been sufficient I to interest me in a study of the fearful conditions that confront our country l to-day.
 | The people of the world have given me money enough to spend in thes talks through the papers in trying to make better and safer conditions for the common people, whether the Pos- 1 tum business runs or not. Scorces of letters have come to me from work people and others, some from union men, recounting their sufferings from union domination and urging that their cases be laid before the public.
 It will not answer for us to only sympathize with the poor, the oppress- ed, those who haven't power enough to drive off tryants and resent oppression, we must help them tie the hands o . the oppressors. Americans must act. Some of my forebears in New Eng l land left comfortable homes, took with ! them the old flint locks, slept on tht ground in rain and frost; hungry, foot
 sore and half clothed they grdnlly push
 ed on where the eternal God of Human
 Liberty urged them. The ywove for ma and for you a mantle of freedom, WOW en in a loom where the shuttles were cannon balls and bullets and where
 swords were used to pick out the tang les in the yarn.
 1 These old, sturdy grandads of ours stood by that loom until the mantle was finished, then, stained with their life blood it was handed down to us.
 Shall refuse to bear it on my should- CTS because the wearing costs me few 1 dollars, and are you towards enough to hide yours because some foreign la Dor union anarchist orders you to strip it off?
 I have faith that the blood of TITS still coursing in your veins will jingle and call until you waken. Then Ameri- I cans will Act.
 c. w Post. LAST OF THE SEASON.