The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-06
|SFLAYEO
BY UNCLE JOE
CANNON
WHO SAYS LABoR'S DEMAND ls
uNDEMocRATIc, uNREpuB.
LiCAN, UN.AMERlcAM.
PICTURED AS DICTATOR
IS the Federation Leader BY Speaker
For His Entrance of Labor as 4
Political Factor-Says Plan
is Doomed to Failure.

Liwiston. Maine, Sept. 5.-Speaker
Joseph G Cannon in an address here
ton ght criticised Samuel Gompers.
president Of the American Federation
of Labor for his attempt to bring the
federation into politics
"Gompers." said Cannon. has H.
troduced a new element into American
politics. He does not exercise the
right Of petition, he demands that
congreos enact into the law his will
he does not appeal to yon he come
mands you II you are a member of
the federation, to vote as he would
/ vote
He does not come to argue, he
publishes a decree in the name Of
labor that the public official who ro-
fuses to obey his command shall be
retired from public life
! Cannon declared himself I'm sym
nathy with the federation in IT'S af-
forts TO better conditions of the We RI.
| ing people Il do not. however be-
lieye in it's prescription in politics,
he said 1t Is foreign to our inst
tutions, foreign to government Of
the people. I'm opposed to Gompers'
political methods of blacklistirg men
who vote as their conscience aud
Judgment and welfare Of their conssi
tuents declare
Plan Will Not Succeed.
1T is reported that Gompers has
made an assessment on the members
Of the Federation Of Labor to secrre
money frr NE In this campaign a
member Of the federation may be
Republican in favor of Republican,
nolicies. but he IL assessed to make
campaign against his own interests.
las he secs them, because Gompers Ia
opposed. Such methods in politics
have never succeeded in this country
and thew never will
Il believe this effort TO combine the
vote of organized labor in politics
would fail even il majority of the
Federation of Labor adouted IT, am
certain il will fail a. thu orders ere
only of Gompers and the executive
Of the organization Work.
ingmen both union and non-un'on OF
this country are as Jealous Of thair
sovereignty as arc the farmers or any
other people They will act with the
organization in THINGS wh Oh porta'u -
the purnose of the union and they will
follow Gompers so long as he exer-
'ises functions for which he was
chosen as president of the Federation
If Labor. But thev WI not follow
him in his self assumed function of
lictating how they shall exercise thelr
tight Of citizenship
Tells Of Gompers' Demands.
"Gompers has grievance againS
rour representative as he has agains
President Roosevelt myself and frri
r fifty other men IN public life "
'efused to disregard our oaths nf %
ice and enact legislation which Cor
Icrs demands"
Canno7 then cited ,omeihinc &C
'ers wanted included in the anti
JUNCTION law He said Gomnors
iroved this law and declared II con
uiional but many congressman
ulding Cannon himself believed q
g unconstitutional Cannon revic,
he provisions in GomperS propq
lw and declared.
This means that what Is nrope.
nd property risht under ordinary
'rpretation Of law shall net he 90.
dered property or property righ n
labor dispute. II would be one law
II the men who seek 10 destroy prnD-
-ty in strike and another law for
ose who seek to destroy property
lder all other circumstances
Says Plan is UnAmericsn.
Gompers has blacklisted ns 10.
use congress failed 10 pass that Law
has read us or Of civilization best
eaking for myseif ! had rather
1t public life now and a. rhp age nf
quit forever. true 10 cirilizsfa
have developed true 20 Distribute
powers To legislative. executive aud
Judiciary which are a check upou
b other than rein in public rHics
such sacrifice e. nv oWn self re-
e. and such terrible cost 10 the
ntry. While God gives me life
live ] viii not. By ans act. take
n any citizen. be be rich or poor.
1n man OF nua talon fa-m-r o.
,hanic, shoemaker or papermake~
tor or lawyer any right which Is
IA another J ailI not vote for auv
which viii make fair for one ani
for another, and I believe that
the grace Of God and the intsiH-