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

each city, town and hamlet to form Citizens Association for mutual protec- tion; band together and by public sentiment and act protect your citizens in their freedom to work when and for whom they please, and the freedom of merchants to sell to whomsoever de- sires to buy, despite any union orders. TRAITORS
 If any merchant is coward enough to refuse to help defend his city and her people, preferring to 1ickspittle for the tyrannous Unions, : don't boycott him, just let the public know it and he will quickly find that S5t per cent. of the people are not "Union'' and his cowardice and traitorous attitude to- ward his townspeople will bring its own reward. Then have your Citizens Association agree to support and pro tect your industries in continuous aetiv- ity particularly when the "Unions'' try to to shut them down and thus seek to ruin the town.
 Some. yes many. towns have suf- fered untold loss from being "unioniz- ed'' and in such it is easy for the citi- zens to form their associations for protection, for they have seen the ne- cessity. Let other towns that have not yet been through the fire take warning and act in time for no epidemic of dis ease can do the financial harm to town that is sure to come from '.dis- eased unionism' well started with the certain following of strikes. disorder, assaults. destruction of property and loss of business.
 UNION MEN JOIN
 Let the peaceable Union men join with the other citizens so that they cannot be tyrannized by. their leaders or the anarchists and socialists.
 There are many Unions so unlawful and ugly that even the national labor organizations deplore their existence and sometimes withdraw their char ters, but this great movement by citi- zens to protect themselves does not ne- cessarily mean the destruction of all Unions
 MUST BE CURBED
 It is absolutely demanded by public policy that they be strongly curbed and held to strict observance of the law When they boycott, intimidate or con spire in restraint of trade let the Citizen Associations lawyers proceed against and punish them under the ex- istlng laws and let public sentiment be so pronounced and outspoken as to force 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 .sUnion'' man and help lock him up if necessary to preserve the peace.
 FEAR NO BoYCoTTs
 Drop all your fears of the threats of
 these bandits. Their boycots fall flat or help the firm boycotted. If they try to boycott, advertise the fact and the de- cent people will double your business. It is a notorious fact that it generally means defeat of a political candidate to have him sindorsedo as a friend'' of the labor unions for the big S5 per cent of good Americans hate their tyranny and put it on the shelf when they have a chance.
 BETTER CONDITIONS
 It is a hopeful sign to see the s.TJn- ions slowly changing for better and they must continue to improve and be- come more law-abiding if they expect an indignant public to permit them to exist. One great de. terrent is the violent character of the editors of their labor papers, who per- sistently misstate facts and mislead their readers, by highly colored re-. ports and comments, that infiame the minds of people, led too often by their prejudice instead of cool reason.
 But slowly the Union man is coming to understand that if he becomes a law -breaker in response to the anar- chistic suggestions of his labor paper he must pay the penalty of crime against his fellows. When the anar- chists, socialists and criminals are either driven out or suppressed, the unions will perhaps then pattern after the honored Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers, and win respect for. their members, by honesty, uprightness and good citizenship, then the Union man will be known as a capable, tIlrif- ty and high grade workman (the old Trade Union idea) and the scrubs and .pretenders will not be allowed to Haunt a Union Card as evidence of their right to abuse and maltreat all
 the balance of mankind The Un- ions as now made up need an inn mense amount of house cleaning and the public has been forced by their |ugliness to demand it. Every right thinking Union man knows this and is earnest in his desire to have the. criminals expunged, for the peaceable members are denounced by the public. for their association with the others.
 If these high grade men would with draw from the mismanaged bands of outlaws and set up a union where good workmanship was the test, and then offer their first class labor at even higher prices than common, with their contracts made legally responsible, and if it became known that when buyer of labor didn't care to purchase, this union would peaceably offer it's labor elsewhere, but not go bullying about like a lot of bandits and lawbreakers, they would then command the admira- tion and respect of the entire commun- |ity, for people like to see workmen prosperous. Observe the high position in the minds of the public that the Locomotive Engineers have won for themselves by just thls plan of pro- cedure. #4g: