The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-04-11

| Creek, Mich.
The story? The work people, mer.
chants, lawyers, doctors and other citi
zens became aroused and indignant at
the efforts of the labor unions through
out the country to destroy the bust
ness of one of our largest Industries
the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd, and at the
open threats in the official union pa
pers that the entire power of the Ma
tional and State Federations of Labor
was being brought to bear to punish"
the industries of Battle Creek. and
particularly the Postum Co.
This sprung from the refusal of G..
W. Post to obey the orders" of the
unions to take the Postum advertising
away from various papers that refused
to purchase labor of the labor trust
the unions.
Mr.. Post was ordered to join the
unions in their conspiracy to ruin"
and put out of business" these pub
lishers who had worked faithfully for
him for years and helped build up his
business. They had done no wrong,
but had found it inconvenient and
against their best judgment to buy
labor of the labor trust. 1t seems a
rule of the unions to conspire to ruin
anyone who does not purchase from
them upon their own terms.
An inkmaker or papermaker who
failed to sell ink or paper would have
the same reason to order Post to help
ruin these publishers So the ped
dler in the street might stone you if
you refused to buy his apples; the
cabman to run over you If you refused
to ride with him; the grocer order the
manufacturer to discharge certain
people because they did not patronize
him, and so on to the ridiculous and
villainous limit of all this boycott
nonsense, in trying to force people to
buy what they do not want.
II man has labor to sell let him
sell 1t at the best price he can get just
as he would sell wheat, but he has no
right to even intimate that he will OBJ
struct the business, or attempt its ruin
because the owner will not purchase
of him.
The unions have become so tyran-
nous and arrogant with their despot-
ism that common citizen who has
some time to spare and innocently
thinks he has right to put a little
paint on his own house finds he must
have that paint taken off and put on
again by ''the union" or all sorts of
dire things happen to him, his en-
ployer is ordered to discharge him, his
grocer is boycotted if he furnishes
him supplies, his family followed and
nsulted and his life made more mis-
cradle than that of black slave be-
'ore the war If he drives a nail to
'epair the house or barn the carpen-
.ers' union" hounds him. He takes a ]
pipe wrench to stop leaking pipe |
ind prevent damage to his property |
ind the plumbers union" does things |
o him. He cannot put little mortar
% a loose brick on his chimney or |
he bricklayers', plasterers' or bod |
carriers union" is up in arms, and If |
lie carelessly eats loaf of bread that |
las no union label on it the bakers
union" proceeds to make life miser.
lble for him.
So the white slave is tied hand and
DOT, unable to lift hand to better
himself or do the needful things, with
tut first obtaining permission from
ome naughty, ignorant and abusive
yrant of some labor union.
1t would all seem rather like a comic
'pera If 1t did not rob people of their
reedom; that kind Of work will not
'e permitted long In America.
Some smooth managers have built /
Ip the labor trust in the last few |
ears, to bring themselves money and /
'ower and by managing workmen, |
AVE succeeded in making 1t possible
or them to lay down the law In some
titles and force workmen and citizens
o obey" implicitly. stripping them
light and left of their liberties.
They have used boycotting, picket.
ng, assaults, dynamiting of property
nd murder to enforce their orders and
ule the people. They have gone far
nough to order the President to re-
nove certain citizens from office be-
ause the unions" weren't pleased.
That means they propose to make
he law of the unions replace the law
( this government and the union lead
RS dominate even the chief Execu-
I've.
This is government of and for the
eople and no organization or trnst
hall displace it. But the unions try
every now and then, led by desper-
to men as shown In their defiance of
aw and support of lawbreakers.
The union" record of assaults
ripping of men and even women and
hildren, destruction of property and
murder of American citizens during
he past two years is perhaps ten
lines the volume of crime and abuse
erpetrated by slave owners during
NY two years previous to the civil
var. We are In horrible period of
sthargy, which permits us to stand
dly by while our American citizens
re abused, crippled and murdered IN
ozens and hundreds by an organiza.
ION or trust. having for its purpose.