Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-09
ASKED SECURITY; IS NOW IN DEEP
 DISGRACE
John Smith Had to Be Shown. Before He Would Sign Bonds for Appearance of Union Tickets for Trial

Because he was selfish as not to rush S1, and sign his name to few bonds to insure the presence of eer- tain persons in court, at the time of their. trials for offenses alleged to have been committed, it looks very much as if John Smith, ostensibly the eX-officio meal ticket for the To- cal branch of the Western Federation of miners, has been found wanting and relegated to- the long uncut by Ed. Crough, critic laureate for the organi- zation in the Warren district. The only possible chance that seems to
 be left for smith to regain his former good standing is to make out q lit
 claim deed for all he possesses ana
 rush madly to the union headquarters,
 where, if he seems real meek and
 humble, he may find someone who
 will accept the issssS2&!ss2Gt, and he
 may again assume his place in the category of human beings.
 John Smith amounts to nothing;
 he wouldn't go on bonds until we guar
 anteed him that he did not stand to
 lose anything" is the touching trib-
 ute paid to this loyal supporter of
 the organization by the embryo Hor- ace Greeley who grinds out the
 dope" in this district for the official
 organ of the Federation. Truly Smith
 must have forgotten those grand doc trines handed out by the Socialistic
 spielers, the principal. one of which
 seems to be. whats yours is mine,
 and what's mine is my own" when he was so derelict in his duty as to
 think of asking for security from that noble crowd of patriots who came into the district, put in their time telling how many days they had worked at some distant time and ended by talk ing their dupes out of Nigh priced jobs | and making them hit the grit with ! best wishes for a good journey, while l they themselves stayed here at so much per diem and hung around the l streets telling people how to run their
 business.
 | In the words of the immortal poet 1 it looks very much as if Brother John | had been "stung." and it seems that
 the correspondent for the Miners i Magazine who sees foTty-seyen stopes
 cave in every morning before break | fast. because he won't hold them up,
 and 1000 men quit work each after noon at his nod. is the one who hung | the long streamer on the back of the 1 erring brother.
 1 As regards the relative merits of the
 case it looks very much as if the 1 censured one deserved all he got. Even | though his home had been the stop ping place for all the spielers of the never work organization when they were in the city, and even though he had been worked to hard-boiled fin | ish, was it the place of deYout fol l lower of that band of patriots who
 have caused untold suffering and want because of their opposition to peace 1 ful conditions. to even hesitate about giving over all he had, when the ex- cellent, august and honorable commit | tee told him to sign his name to doc | uments which might cost him a heavy loss? Truly the day has come when
 the "noblest Romans of them all' are 1 liable to lead astray.
 Not sufficient castigation was it for the prodigal one to be knocked and roasted on the streets as a "stingy old miser," and given pet names of | like character, but he needs must be published in the big Fourth of July i edition of the official organ of the
 Federation aS "a>Sounting to nothing" |" i Such is the dictum of the dispenser
 of the only really guaranteed. simon 1 pure and unadulterated dope" on the 1 situation in the Warren district and 1 it looks very much as if nothing will satisfy Smiths grateful guests until they see him destitute of the worldly goods he has, and standing around the corners with pipe-dreaming about
 stopes cavin in, mines being closed
 down. and other small items of like character.