The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-05
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Subscribers for the Appeal to Reay
son IN Canada have had their service q
abruptly stopped BY the postofn fnceS Sde-
,partment. The money paid In advance
for the paper is lost and not SO much
as the shadow Of reason is given
them. Information to hand from
Girard, Kansas, where the paper is
published shows that the secretary OF 3
the postmaster general at Ottawa did b
notify the postal authorities at Wash
ington that the paper would not be-
received for transmission through the
Canadian mails, ION account Of the s
scurrilous and seditiouss character OF
articles appearing in copy OF that s.
publication which has been brought
to the attention Of the department. .
ST he Appeal has been exposing the
methods Of the Mine Owners Asso-
citation Of the Western states to break
up the Western Federal ton of Miners.
In order to accomplish their object in y
"a manner at once thorough and final
they have charged the officers Of that
body with the assassination OF Frank
Steunenberg who was responsible for
the Bull Pen atrocities Sof Idaho while
she was governor OF that state. Even
it these men were guilty OF an that
their accusersi charge the circumstance
es: Of their arrestSWas q deprivation OF
the legal rights which even the most
no f,1oiy
circunnstanc were carefully and de-
hberately created ysstheir accusers in B
order that they might be deprived OF
those rights.
Labor men In the United States and
Canada are unanimous in regarding
the tragedy now being enacted In Ida s.
ho as q repetition Of the Haymarket
tragedy In Chicago 20 years ago.
In the latter incident while a mass
meeting was being held In the open
air in the streets OF Chicago a bomb
was exploded in.sa crowd, killing and
manning several people. For this
crime four of the speakers at the meet
ing were hanged in row on the gal
lows. There is scarcely man living
today who does not believe these men
to beSSas Innocent Of the crime for
which they :wehe executed as the writ
er Of these lines is Of the assassination
OF Frank Steunenberg The feeling OF
WI tn W hieh pEeA1:
ent edings IN Idaho has hlleG the
minds Of labor men throughout this
continent has led some Of them to use
very strong language. Foremost
among them is Eugene " Debs, whom
plutocracy has never yet peen able to
muzzle OF buy. ss
On receiving notice from Washing
ton of the action of the Canadian
postmaster-general, Mr.. Wayland, the
publisher of the Appeal to reason.
wired to Ottawa for further infornla-
ton. 1t was given in a letter dated
April II, which read as follows: "a
copy of Appeal to Reason, dated
March 10, 1906, was submitted to the
depart and upon examination it
was found to contain among other mat
ter, an article entitled Arouse Ye.
Slaves signed by Eugene " Debs, )
which the department considers of such
nature as to debar the paper from
the use of Canadian malls" And there
you are.
Who called the attention of the do.
partment at Ottawa to the character
of the articles. in the, Appeal? No
friend of the Western Miners you may =
be sure. Make your own conjectures.
The slaves Debs wished to arouse were s
American workingmen. Not Canad-
ians, although they were sleeping the
soundest of any we know: How then
could his article impair the loyalty or
corrupt the morals of, Canadians? We
think we can see the cat Nothing
the Washington authorities desire SO
much as to be able to oppress the Ap-
peal in the United States so that the
Mine Owners Association In the Vest
ern states may carry out their fiend-
ish designs In the dark. What would
suit them better than to be able to 4
point to Canada as a precedent for q
suppressing q paper too scurrilous and
seditious to be permitted to circulate
through the mailsnn British territory rs
Scurrility is the. Ausing Of low, vile,
indecent, offensive language + Eugene
V. Debs Is not a man unknown. He
Is the leader Of a great political party
"a party that will shortly be greater
and polled about half million votes
for the presidential chair in the last &
election. Do the millions Of workers
in the United States and Canada be-
lieve, that Debs Is. capable OF using
language, low. vile. indecent Do
casion Is sufficiently grave to warrant
the strong statements in thes article
which has proved so offensive to- our
postoffice autocrat. What Is to DO I.
done? @.s 3. .8s