The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-04
To Mongrels, Tyrants,
Slaves and Freemen

trust perhaps numbers two million
with great part of that number I'm
willing, and the remaining IS million
of the common people have something
to say when their interests are atstake.
Now notice how the labor leaders
try to force the union men to be aliens
and oppose the citizens whenever a
question of public interest arises.
A town starts to build a court house
and give work to its citizens who spend
their money there but are not members
of the labor trust; Immediately the
trust demands all the work and that it
be taken away from the antitrust citi-
zens. A riot breaks out and the labor
trust seeks to destroy the court houSe
and force the people to go into their
pockets and pay the losses The peace
officers of the people, in their pay,
seek to preserve the peace and save the
property; Immediately the unions
protest" and exert every means in
their power to prevent the officers
from protecting the people and their
property.
This same policy crops out in every
effort of the community to protect
itself and the common people from the
oppression of the labor trust. The
leaders oppose the police, oppose the
militia, the courts, laws, manual train
ing schools. education of apprentices
anu CNCAy OlACL at 0i LAORC lAtdI
benefits the people but curbs the law
less license and stays the oppressive
hand of that trust.
This and preceding newspaper an
nOuncements from my pen regarding
the labor trust and suggesting rem
edies are paid for from the proceeds
Of the business Of making Postum
Food Coffee and Grape-Nuts.
The labor trust (not our own work.
has CnTd11cfad a nd
sistent war of boycott and impudent
tyranny in an expressed determine
ton to ruin that business, because we
declined to withdraw our advertising
from papers when ordered to by the
labor trust in their efforts to "break
up such papers. We refused to join
these conspiracies and steadfastly
maintained our right to be free Amer
leans citizens, and not slaves. But hell
hath no fury like that of the labor
trust when its orders are not obeyed,
and the depth of trickery, boycott,
lying. and all the black pools of
+ labor union vengeance have been
searched for means to ruin US, which
might have been effective but for the
magnificent rally to our support by the
great American public, whose mem
| bers will not. when they know it, toll
crate such trust oppression and prefer
to actively rehuke It by buying our
products. These malicious acts of the
labor trust reused US to the danger
Gus condition in which the people are
placed by the labor unions, and we
took up the campaign for freedom 1t
has been public work in the inter-
ests Of humanity, trying to rouse the
| people to act for their own protection.
The Postum Co. owns space in near
" every prominent paper in America
and has a right to use that space for
| its public announcements, Of which
this is one.
Such papers naturally must publish
paid-for advertisements under con-
tract, no matter how the labor trust
may object to having the facts made
public.
This article you are now reading
has been sent to practically every
prominent paper in America with offer
to pay our regular rates for its inser-
ton It has not been sent to the
yellow" journals for they are open
enemies of the citizens of any com
munity who will not bow to the labor
trust. and we cannot bring ourselves
| to pay money to support anarchy and
murder breeders.
A few papers to whom 1t has been
offered Will refuse to run It.
They fear the labor trust.
They publish free, day by day, ar
ticles hattering to that trust
They wilfully "kilI any news detri-
mental to the trust, smother the items
| the boots of the labor leaders no mat
ter how dirty they are or how much
! the publisher iuWardly hates himself
for his prostitution.
Such papers are the most poisonous
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