The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-04

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fatten off the people, who are moi
! members of the I'm ions, and, from pas
/ experience, life would not be Wort
, living nor could the common man hope
to own and protect his little hme, in
peace. This is no fancy picture bu
the conditions are being pressed ani
! fought for by the labor trust r'ghl
here and now.
There are literally thousands Of
, splendid men. members of unions, who
heartily but silently denounce the acts
! OF the anarchists and trouble breed
: ers in the unions. But what can they
| do? l have seen some of the most
earnest letters from such union mer
/ to newspapers appealing to the pub
lie to hear of their slavery but, when
! asked if they would allow the letters
: pr nted over their names, decline fol
| fear of the certain punishment thai
would be put upon them by the trust
| leaders.
One sample will illustrate. Otto C.
Heggen, CT Des Moines, Ia, natural
lied citizen of Norwegian nativity, ties
I titles in tbs connection:
why do | wish to no longer be q
/ citizens?" he repeated, speaking in
F, slow and labored English, with the
| unmistakable Norwegian accent. BE
/ cause this is no longer free country
An honest man who wants to work
/ and support his family must pay tax
Ito the union. had a good job at the
Bloomfield mine as blacksmith. Then
+, the miners organized their union, and
f, they said | must pay tax to them OF
{, else quit my job.
| II believe in freedom. That is why
+, left the dear old fatherland
thought that here in America l would
have greater rights and that my child
rem would have better chance, but
instead we must take our hard-earned
dollars and pour them into the union.
much, l must quit work, no matter II
l am content with everything. Maybe
/ must fight and get killed"
1t 'behooves every free workman who
! hopes TO, preserve his right to work
and support his family, who hopes to
! hold and save his home and other prop.
erty, every union man who hopes to
escape further tyranny, every mer.
chant who hopes to escape the sud
den boycott, every farmer who hopes
! to postpone the day when with wheat
or other crops overripe and spelling he
is confronted with a strike and his
farm p,cketed, horses, COWS, family
and property threatened, and the
usual labor trust warfare set, up
against him, and it. behooves every
friD cit ho -
the industries in his community NOV
ing and the people dependent upon
them supplied with the necessities of
life, to join with every other citizen
for the protection to the common in
terest.
Let every candidate for Office be
watched, and il, when questioned" by
the labor trust, he agrees to represent
that trust and it's measures in opposi-
ton to the measures of the people, re-
member MIN.
The man who goes into Office pledg-
ed to any man, corporation, organiza-
ton, or trust, is lined up against the
people. The beef trust congressman
or one representing the oil, railroad
or labor trust must work for the trust
that put him there, and whatever ad.
vantage trust gains in the making
or execution of laws must he an adj
vantage gained at the expense Of the
common citizen.
There is no other way for the trusts
to fatten and thrive except upon the
people outside the trust The labor
trust tries to pass laws to prevent
anyone buying labor except from mem,
bers of the labor unions, and at any
price the trust may have power to
name. This trust does not ask con-
gress to pass a law to prevent en-
ployers or common citizens from as
saulting or numbering labor union
members or blowing up their houses.
Such a law is not necessary to the
trust, but 1t does seek with all its
power to force law through Congress
called the Anti Injunction law, to tie
the hands of the courts. so they can
not issue restraining orders or ''in-
functions" which would have the effect
of restraining union men from as
saulting citizens or blowing up houses
or property.
Is it not plain they want to be left
free to do those things?
Think for one moment of the auda-
city and desperate lengths to which
the labor trust leaders will go to ter
rorize and force the public to obey"
What foreign squad of bandits would
dare ask for laws to protect them in
their raids on the people? No man is
safe and no family protected with such
riot anarchy rampant in our midst.
The public man who will sell him.
self to any trust interest and betray
the people richly deserves the certain
defeat he will encounter at the polls
when his sentiments become known.
Demand of your candidate state
ment that he will stand to represent
the whole people and not simply the
few members of any trust or organi-
zation. Just SO sure as public man
bows to the labor trust and agrees to-
do its will, just so sure he deserts the
people and joins the aliens working
to extract extra gain from the public.