Evening journal., 1907-01-24
Thursday, January "a, 1907.
IT'S OPPOSITION WILL HELP.

VAT T. CAN conceive. of no stronger indication
w tha. the Peopea League is likely to
serve so,~y good and Useful purpose in this COM
muniy and State than the persistent and unfair
editorial opposition Of Every Evening to tie
movement We can recall not single instance
where the people ever made a step IN the drec
ticn Of self-governmeut and seli-eontrol that has
been favored by the capitalistc and special inter
ests organ at Fifth and Shipley. Unable as it is
10 base its opposition to these movements upon
any sound and logical argument, it resorts very
frequently to statements totally devoid of truth
An instance of its tendency in that direction and
the weakness of its opposition in this particular
case is that il charges the organizers of the Poo
pies League with bad faith, claiming they are
creating fictitious organization and are usirg
names of prominent citizens without their know
edge and consent for the purpose Of adding to its
prestige. Repeatedly it has asserted that the
Peoples League has used, without his authority,
the name of Bishop Coleman, when, as matter
OF fact at no meeting ever held by the Peoples
League or in the selection of its officers, has
Bishop Coleman's name ever been used in any
manner shape or form. He is not an officer of
the League nor has he been asked to serve in
that capacity We feel confident, however, that
when he IS so requested as we trust he will be,
and understands the objects and purposes OF the
League and the many honorable and public
spirited citizens connected with it, that he will NOT
only too readily assent to it, and in any manner
he can will undertake to further the objects of
the organization. The misuse of Bishop Cole
mans name in connection with the constant mis-
representation OF the League by Every Evening
must be displeasing to him.
The Peoples League movement is one along the
line of arousing the citizenship of this State to
realization Of their rights, privileges and power
all of which have in recent years been shamefully
abused if not taken from them entirely.
Knowing. as the community does. how bitterly
Every Evening opposes any effort made by the
plain people to rule and govern themselves and
its readiness always to designate such move
ments as anarchistic and as a rule of the mob, it
is not surprising that it should turn its harmless
guns upon the Peoples League just as it did
against the Initiative and Referendum. It's atti-
tude in regard to both the Peoples and Initiative
and Referendum Leagues is in keeping with its
savage and bitter fight it has been and is waging
against organized labor 1t believes that labor
should be the slave OF capital and the employe at
the mercy Of the employer; that the soft-handed,
carefully-dressed and boutonered head of a man
uiacturing organization should be entitled to
draw an annual salary of 100000 from the pro-
fits earned by the hard grinding toll OF its work
men who slave their lives away for $40 week,
and on that IRE compelled to support a large fam
lily.
A newspaper holding such views may satisfy a
small class Of special interests whose cause it is
always ready to champion. But surely it can
have no influence with the great masses of peo-
pie, those who dependent upon their daily
wage and which class comprises at least nin,-
tenths of our population. The opposition coming
from such source, we do not believe it can ~
any way retard the meritorous movement of the
Peoples League.
REPuDIATED. HE SHOIII.D RETIRE