The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-04

7 Citizens Associations lawyers proceed
/ against and punish them under the eN-
! isting laws and let public sentiment pc
/ 50 pronounced and outspoken as 70 Aofcs
/ the criminals to have a decent regard
for the rights Of citizens OF all classes
and conditions
Don't hesitate to openly denounce a
noisy abusive and unlawful Union
man and help lock him up if necessary
to preserve the peace
FEAR NO BOYCOTTS
Drop all your fears Of the threats OK
these bandits Their boycOtts fali nat
or help the firm boycotted. II Shey tiy
to boycott, advertise the fact ana the
decent people will double your business
It is a notorious fact that 1t generaly
means defeat of a political candnoats lS
! have him Endorsed" as Lrlelu o.
the labor unions for the big 80 Per cent
of good Americans hate their tyranny
and put it on the shelf when they nave
| a chance.
BETTER CONDITIONS
It is hopeful sign to see the Unions
slowly changing for better ana tIley I1 80
continue to improve and become more nv
abiding if they expect an Indignant puo s
to permit them to exist one grea1 e u
! itors Of their labor papers, who perslsteIlss-
" missuate facts and mislead thelI Is-u-
ers, by highly coloreq reports ano cots
ments that i1hame the minds OF people,
led too often by their prejudice instead Oh
But slowly the Union man is coming TO
1 understand that If he becomes law
breaker IN response 70 tne ahaL ~ IS
( gestions of his labor paper ne mus t,P eg
/ fhe penalty of crime against his fellows
] When the ANARCHISTS, soclallsts ano Slls5-
inals are either driven OUT OF suppl ess Ssss
the unions will perhaps then pattern aIgeF
! the honored brotherhood Of Locomotive
] Engineers, and win respect Tor thelE mem
/ bers. by honesty, uprlghtness and good
i citizenship, then the Union man viii be
/ known as a capable, thrifty and hign
grade workman (the old Trade Union
/ ldea) and the scrubs and pretenders viii
not be allowed to Haunt Union cara as
I evidence OF their right to abuse and nal
treat ali the balance of mankind The IN
/ ions, as now made uD need an immense
I amount of house cleaning and the public
/ has been forced by their ugliness TO de-
nand it, Every right thinking Union man
knows this and is earnest in his desire to
have the criminals expunged, for the
4 peaceabIe members are denounced by the
public for their association with the
If these high grade men would with
1 draw from the mismanaged bands Of out
laws and set up union where good work
manship was the test and then OFFER their
! first class labor at even higher prices than
/ common, with their contract made legal
Iy responsible, and If it became known
| that wnen a buyer of labor didn't care TO
| purchase, this union would peaceably offer
its labor elsewhere, but not go bullying
/ about like a lot of bandits and lawbreal-
/ eTs, they would then command the adIfll-
ration and respect of the entire communt-
/ ty, for people like TO see orkmen pros
minds of the public that the Locomotive
I Engineers have won fGF themselves Dy
just this plan of procedure.
/ Many and many high grade man is an
unwilling associate. and member of the
1 anarchy-tainted unions, and he seeks free
dom somehow, somewhere.
It is no insult to tell a man he is in a
place that stinks. he may know and de
plore it, but if he defends the sinking
place he Insults himself
CRIMINAL BRAND
So when you hear a Union man de-
nounce those who point out the crimes Of
the Unions and seek to purify them, you
may know to certainty that he is of the
anarchist, criminal type and squirms when
the sunlight OF publicity IS turned upon
him Among this class will be found the
majority Of labor paper editors.
4 We should demand of our public officials
that they proceed as they did in the beef
trust and give the people protection from
TINS labor trust that Expresses the com
mon people more than q dozen meat or
1 oil trusts.
! What is a cent or two on a gallon of oil
I as compared with the hundreds OF thOus-
| ands Of decent bread earners thrown out
Of work from time to time and the hun
dreds of millions of dollars in business
loss to the people by the withdrawal Of
capital from industry.
REFUSE TO BUILD
1t is a COMMON remark nowadays that
ing new industry and subject him
self to the tremendous losses indignities
and worry from the labor unions.
The proposed building operations and
new industries that have been abandoned
and cents, lost to our work people, more
than would keep an army in meat and oil
Citizens, high and low, you must rise
in your might and free yourselves from
menace to human liberty. It is before YOU
and its injuries are felt by every man but
organization of the IS per cent of work
men, threatened the complete domination
OF the s. per cent of unorganized citizens.
ms Ialr country mas already been in
1ured hundreds of millions of dollars and
its people subjected to countless scores
of indignities by the labor trust.
We have conspiracy and trust laws.
Write President Roosevelt urging that he
do their duty with this most ruinous of ali
trusts. then don't forget your own duty
towards the boycott, the union label and
to organize your own towns for protec-
: Read this article over again carefully
and Act. c. w. POST.
ACT
n. B. You ask what motive inspires me
. to pay about 100000 to print this proc
lamation of freedom in the various pa
pers in the United States sure to bring
down on me hundreds more Of coarse, VIII
llfylng, abusive letters from labor union
thugs and many kind letters from law
abiding members of Unions.
The officials of the Labor Commission
er OFFICE OF Michigan say pay the high
est wages IN the state for like work. But
: I will not bow to the comic opera kings
and potentates. of the labor unions or al
low them TO union1ze the Postum fac
/ and Crap e-Nuts.''
1 was trained to run my business and
tney were not Yet they propose to and
NleiI ABUSE mas been sufficient to interest
me in a study of the fearful conditions
that confrcF-t our country TODAY
The people of the world have given me
enough money to spend in these talks
5 ~ Oue!il tit l'dI'ers IN trying to make bet
teI anu SAFER CONDITIONS for the common
or not.
l scores OF letters have come to me from
WORK people ana others, some from union
men, Iecounting their sufferings from
union uotninatlon and urging that their
~ yin not not answer for US to only sym