The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-04


This labor trust is one of the most
serious menaces to our country and
its people, for its leaders, seeking
greater and greater control of the
masses, are pushing towards a posi-
ton where they hope to be able to
name the members of state legislatures
and congress and, carried far enough,
it can easily be seen they would ex-
pect to elect trust members from pres
ident of the United States on down
through all the offices. Such control
would mean that the trust members
fatten off the people, who are not
m eInbers. of the Understand, from past
experience, life would not be worth
living nor could the common man
hope to own and protect his little
home, in peace. This is no fancy pic
ture but the conditions are being
pressed and fought for by the labor
trust right here and now
There are literally thousands OF
splendid men, members of unionss
who heartily but silently denounce the
acts of the anarchists and trouble
breeders in the unions. But what can
they do2 I have seen some of the
most earnest letters from such union
men to newspapers appealing to the
public to hear of their slavery but
when asked If they would allow the
letters printed over their names, de-
cline for fear of the certain punish
ment that would es~put upon them
by the trust leaders,
One sample viii Illustrate. Otto C.
Heggen, of Dess Moines, Iowa, a nat
uralized citizen of Norwegian nativity,
testif1es in this connection:
Why do wish to no longer be a citi-
zen he repeated, speaking in slow and
labored English, with the unnaistaiS
able Norwegian accent. Because this
man who wants TO work and suDport his
LAlIils must pay tax to the union. I had
2 2, g9od ]oo at the Bloomfield mine as a
1,ael then the miners organized
their union, and they said must nav ak
to them or else quit my Job.
believe in freedom That is why 1
left the dear old fatherland I thought
that here in America 1 would have sreafer
rights and that my children and my chill
dre1s children would have a better
chance, but Instead we must take our
nard-earned dollars and pour them into
do so much must n . Is, -
j II am content with everything. Mavbe
must fight and get killed
It behooves. every free workman
VINO hopes to preserve his right to
work and support his family who
hopes to hold and save his home and
other property, every Union man who
hopes to escape further TYRANNY. every
merchant who hopes to escape tn
sudden boycott every farmer who
/ hopes to postpone the day when with
wheat or other crops overripe and
! spelling he is confronted with strike
and his farm pieketed, horses, cows,
family and property threatened and
the usual labor trust warfare set up
against MIN. and it behOOVes every
patriotic citizen, who hopes to keep
the industries in his community NOV
ing and the people dependent upon
them supplied with the necessities of
| life. to Join with every other citizen
for protection. to the common interest.
Let every candidate for ONCE be
watched, and If, when questioned by
the labor trust he agrees to represent
| that trust and its nea sures in opposi-
ton to the measures of the people,
remember him
The man who goes into ONCE
pledged to any man. corporation, or
ganization. or trust, is lined up against
the people. The beef trust congress-
man OF one representing the oil. rail-
road or labor trust must work for the
trust that has put him there, and
whatever advantage a trust gains in
the making or execution Of laws
must. be an advantage gained at the
expense Of the common citizen.
There is no other way for the trusts
to fatten and thrive except upon the
| people outside the trust. The labor
/ trust tries to pass laws to prevent
anyone buying labor except from
members of the labor unions, and at
/ any price the trust may have power to
name. This trust does not ask con-
gress to pass a law to prevent en-
ployers or common citizens from as
saulting or numbering labor union
members or blowing up their houses.
Such a law is not necessary to the
/ trust, but it does seek with all its pow
er to force a law through congress,
too le4 l. -
| the hands of the courts, 50 they can
not issue restraining orders or Gin
1 functions which would have the eff
feet of restraining" union men from
assaulting citizens or blowing up
houses or property
Is 1t not plain they want to be left
free to do those things?
Think for one moment of the au-
dacity and desperate lengths to which
! the labor trust leaders will 20 to ter
Torize and force the public to "obey. "
| What foreign squad of bandits would
| dare ask for laws to protect them in
| their raids on the people No man is
safe and no family protected with
such riot and anarchy rampant in our
midst
The public man who will sell him
self TO any trust interest and betray
the people richly deserves the certain
| defeat he viii encounter at the polls
when his sentiments become known.
Demand of your candidate a state
ment that he will stand to represent
| the whole people and not simply the
few members of any trust or organiza-
ton Just SO sure as q public man
bows to the labor trust and agrees to
I do its will, just so sure he deserts the
/ people and joins the aliens working to
/ extract extra gain from the public. He
must be looked at for exactly what he
/ is and the people must elect their own
t candidates and not trust candidates II
they care to preserve sacred their free
/ dom and peace
The whole people want things done
and are the great majority. The labor