The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-17
IpENTIFICATIoN.

IDENTIFICATION.
 The public should remember that there are a few labor unions conducted on peaceful lines and in proportion as they are worthy, they have won esteem, for we, as a people. are strongly in sym pathy with amy right act that has for its purpose better conditions for wage workers. But we do not forget that we seek the good of all and not those alone who belong to some organization, whereas even the law abiding unions show undeniable evidences of tyranny and oppression when they are strong enough, while many of the unions har- bor and encourage criminals in their eG- forts to force yoke of slavery upon the American people. As public speaker lately said: The arrogance of the English king that reused the fiery eloquence of Otis, that inspired the inn mortal declaration of Jefferson, that left Warren dying on the slopes of Bunker Hill was not more outrageous than the conditions that a closed shop would force upon the community. These men burst into rebellion when the king did but touch their pockets. Imagine if you can their indignant pro- test had he sought to prohibit or re strict their occupation or determine the conditions under which they should earn their livelihood" and to assault, beat and murder them, blow up their houses and paison their food if they did not submit.
 The public should also remember that good true American citizens can be found in the unions and that they de- precate the criminal acts of their fellow members, but they are often in bad company.
 Salt only hurts sore spots. So, the honest, law-abiding union man is not hurt when the criminals are denounced, but when you hear a union man .shol- ler'' because the facts are made public, he has branded himself as either one of the law breakers or a sympathizer, and therefore with the mind of the law breaker, and likely to become one when opportunity offers. That is one reason employers decline to hire such men.
 A short time ago inquiry came from the union forces to know if MT. Post would keep stilp' if they would call off the boycott on Postum and Grape Nuts.
 This is the reply The labor trust has seen fit to try to ruin our business because we would not join it's criminal conspiracy. We are plain American cit 5izens and differ from the labor union plan in that we do not force people to strike, picket, boycott, assault, blow up property or commit murder.
 We do no pay thugs twenty dollars to break in the ribs of any man who tries to support his family, nor thirty dollars for an eye knocked out.
 We try to show our plain, honest re gard for sturdy and independent work men by paying the highest wages in the state.
 We have steady, unvarying respect for the law abiding peaceful union man and a most earnest desire to see him gain power enough to purge the unions of their criminal practices that have brought down upon them the righteous denunciation of a long-suffering and outraged public. but we will not lawn, truckle, bend the knee, wear the hated collar of white slavery, the union label, nor prostitute our American citizenship under torders''of any labor trust. \ You offer to remove the restriction on our business and with "union'' gold choke the throat and still the voice raised in stern denunciation of the des- potism which tramples beneath an iron shod heel the freedom of our brothers.
 You would gag us with a silver bar and muff1e the appeal to the American people to harken to the cries for bread of the little children whose faithful fathers were beaten to death while striving to earn food for them.
 Your boycott may perhaps succeed in throwing our people out of work and driving us from business, but you can not wrench from us that priceless jewel our fathers fought for and which every true son guards with his life. There fore, speaking for our work people and ourselves, the tnfamous offer is de clined."
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