The Washington times., 1906-07-04
To Mongrels, Tyrants,
Slaves and Freemen

l dropped in to inquire how the
slaves in your community are get
ting on these days, and what is be-
ing done to support the children OF
the citizens murdered by the members
of the labor trust.
These fatheTless children number
into several thousand now, and the
trust adds quite a few each year. you
know. Don't let's talk about it, %
someone says.
Lately there has been a decrease in
violence owing to public opinion but
the assaults and murders may be eX-
pected again when new strikes are
inaugurated.
OF course, it's easy 10 be a coward
and shut the eyes, turn a deaf ear,
/ and preserve a discreet silence" so
you won't get the lash and bludgeon
/ of the trust on your own back or in
yite its influence" TO ruin your busl-
ness or political chances.
Those are the threats the labor un-
/ ions hold over the people, you know.
But if you could be in the little barely
furnished home of the workingman
who left the wife and babies In the
morning T. try and earn a little TO
/ feed them. and see the despair Of the
stricken wife and the pleading chill
dren when the bruised and bleeding
/ body of the father was brought in at
night, the fruit of the entertainment
committee" of the labor trust, per-
/ haps your inherent humanity might
awake and give you fair look at the
appalling slavery all about us-slav-
cry of American free born whites
Within a moderately short time
upwards OF twenty thousand of these
have been brutally beaten, generally
until unconscious, sometimes acid
poured down the throat, eyes gOuged
out, fingers cut off Ito prevent further
work., bodies thrown into the water
thrust into red hot furnaces, pushed
OF buildings, and others placed, while
unconscious. on railway tracks for
complete finish of the job" Shoot
ing and clubbing of these poor vic
TINS is so common that frequently no
mention is made in the papers, for
the readers are so used 10 such items
that they cease to have news value
Is this indictment true? Don't ask the
writer for authority. but simply turn
TO the daily record for the facts.
It seems that the struggle Of our
still living fellOwmen seeking to earn
bread for their little ones, in the face
of the danger TO life and limb from
the labor trust, eXcites a sort of luke
warm sympathy among the better
classes, but l am led TO inquire how
the American people can steel their
hearts against the mute appeals or
the little children Of these murdered
fathers, and the widows left TO bat
tie alone for their support. Why God
permits such things, and how severe
will be the punishment for our apathy
He alone knows.
Some readers Of this, living in lux
ury. only know or the misery Of
their fellow human beings by an oc-
casional cry that escapes, and they
never have a close look at the dam
nable steel manacles cruelty locked on
the hands Of the common man and
his wife and children. But you can
not and must not refuse 20 help with
moral support, at least. your fellows
now struggling for relief from the
strangling grip Of this rapidly grown
creature, the tyrannOus labor trust.
Examine IL carefully. head, body, legs
and feet. In localities where it mas
full sway and complete control, the
wOrkmen must join the trust and pay
fees each month TO support the rulers
or they are not allowed 20 work and
support their families. That starts
the slavery. Then perhaps a fine OF
so TO 800 is put upon the slave, for
some past independence. or present
infractiOn of trust rules He Is or
dered to quit work at command. To
quit trading at his grocery, meat shop,
or other store where he has credit.
In many cases the grocer or butcher
is ordered" not TO supply food to GER /
tain citizens. Other citizens are "or-
dered" not 10 buy the favorite hat,
shoes, OF clothes. because they do not
bear the trust trademark, the "un- .
ion label"
You mustn't read your newspaper /
for ii prints some truths not exactly /.
favorable to the labor trust
You are ordered not 10 have your /.
horse shOd at your blacksmith's for /.
he uses nails made in an independent /
shop.
You mustn't ride OF the street cars /
for the labor trust expects to break /
the windows and tip them over.
You are instructed not to have your /
printing done in any Independent /
shop.
Your public officers are threatened /
If thew award public printing 10 the /
lowest bidder If he happens 10 be un-
sympathy with the unions"
Some newspapers are so complete
" tied up by their union printers,
and pressmen, that they
lare not print facts and news not in
sympathy with the unions"
The common man who works to
support his family and refuses to
slave for the labor leaders is liable
o be beaten unconscious and have his
title home and family dynamited.
The public officer who endeavoTs
o maintain peace and support the
avs is threatened, and where the
rust is strong enough the citizen
s not allowed to paint his house,