The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-07-04


Demand of your candidates that they
represent, as Bishop McCsbe saws.
the 100 per cent of the people and not
the 10 per cent. made up from some or
ganization. The people can elect the
free man sure if they let the facts be
known.
Next, don't fail to go individually or
in body to demand Of the newspaper
that wants your patronage, that it
print as much matter in the interests of
the free citizens as it does Of the s'pro-
ceedings" and favorable comment on
the labor trust. Then ask the advertis-
ers in the papers afraid to publish this
article why they support sheet of THAI
character
Do these things and you viii discover
you have the power to preserve your
own personal liberty, the feedom Of
your townsmen and the continued pros-
perity of your community. But you
must act.
Real genuine slavery is here with
its grip on our people, We see the Same
fear In denouncing It as existed among
the people in the days of Negro slAv-
cry The cowardice Of politicians and
press, fearing to stand upon the Cod
given principles of human liberty, fear
ing for votes and patronage. But
they have temporized and compromised
too long and history repeats + itself.
Whenever in the affairs of a nation one
class enslaves another, fear always be-
gets cowardice Then there is attempt
to compromise with the wrong, ana
that sin of compromise is such crime
against the eternal principle Of human
liberty that it brings increased tyTan-
N.Y. oppression and misery by the
spread Of that slavery 1t was SO be-
fore the civil war-it is SO now. Every
day sees new victims. American
citizens marooned, impressed and sub
jected to the slavery Of the labor trust
These victims frequently struggle to
free themselves. If they fight herd
enough they may succeed but many
cannot. Will you stand idly by and see
this wrong go on? Please read this arti-
Gle over again and carefully get the
facts clearly in your mind and then as
you value your native land, the free
dom Of your person and children, ACT.
Demand of your newspaper that it
stand for the common people and de-
rland Of your candidate for public Of
flee that he represent the interests Of
the masses, the great unorganized ma
jority with their needs and rights, and
not the selfish interestsof any organiza-
ton made up Of the few to prey off the
many
Extend to men the right to organize
with capital or labor or both for pr8S-
lection and betterment. But when acts
of tyranny, oppression and slavery are
committed and the slightest attempt
made to rob you or your fellows of the
right to work, the right to buy and sell
or to exercise your freedom and liberty
in any manner given under our con-
stitution, yield not one fraction of it.
Make your battle then and there A
day of contest with the black spirit
of tyranny right on the start is better
than months or years of slavery, with
the certainty of determination or a.
long and bitter war with that spirit
fattened and strengthened by theSioot
of long feeding.
1t 1t most serious matter where
even one American brother has been
robbed of his liberty and freedom, what
then shall we do when confronted with
the abuse and OPPRESSION of thousands
of our own people. 1t is time for some
of you to search out your too long hid
den flag and, In contemplation, send
your minds back to the time when the
old sires marched and toiled until tyrant
bullets cut the arteries and stripes Of
red washed across the white banner,
then in field of blue were set the
stars, with as high a purpose as the
magnificent machinery Of the planets,
set by that same God in the roy
al purple of his heaven. Those old
grandfathers were sent out by the inn
pulses of the Infinite Father to win
back the lost crown Of human liberty.
the best gift to his children
With it came to us a noble flag to be
ever held as a symbol and reminder Of
that crown so dearly won back after
having been lost by apathy, cowardice
and compromise with the eternal prirl-
ciples.
That old flag bears a message to us
from our grandfathers and stronger
still from the Infinite Father who In
spired them. In solemn tones it Sde-
mands that we stand together now ana
always whenever one single American
son be threatened with the loss OF his
b1ood-brought inheritance, his personal
liberty.
We may shirk, offer excuse hesitate,
pander, and prevarieate, but the eter-
nal God Of Justice who moulded that
crown of liberty will exact a point Of
punishment of each and every point Of
cowardly shrinking from the prompt
land Incorporating defense of the
heritage.
Slavery is rampant in our midst,
and pleading voices vibrate about the
closed ears and hidden heads of Mon
grels, Tyrants, Slaves and Freemen
and Will not be still. Those spirit voices
of dead fathers and the cries of their
helpless children blend with the mes
sage woven through the old banner
of our sires, and call, and call, and call
God help the helpless when Americans
become blunted and Supplied with in
difference.
C. w. POST
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