Evening journal., 1909-09-16
Pass the Word
AlOng

Il won't cost you a penny to reach out
a helping hand TO n great army Of hon
est, hard-workIng and deserving men and
women.
Just your moral support viii insure
work, a living. and comforts which are
now either partly or wholly denied them.
How sog
D Come on. let's have a look
You've often been importuned and
D many have been commanded by adver-
tlsoment and otherwise TO refuse TO buy
r anything unless il bears tho union label %
Looks harmless on the face, does nt it7I
e II really Is "demand" that you boy
colt the products made by over so per
cent OF our American workingmen and
I women who decline to pay fees to. and
obey the dictates Of the union leaders.
@ Il demands that you ask the merchant
for articles with the "union label" thus
I TO impress him with its Importance.
Il seeks to tell you what TO buy and
s what to refuse. The demands are some-
times most insolent, with a ''holer than
thou" impudence.
e Il demands that you take away the
y workingmen and women.
Is that clear?
Il why should a small body Of workmen
ask you to help starve the larger body7
Is There must be some reason for the
''union label" scheme.
Run over in your mind and remember
n how they carry on their work.
During a discussion about working or
g striking In the coal regions. about 5000
s. men preferred to work, they had wives
IT and babies to feed. The union men said
n openly IN their convention that II th'
y, employers didn't discharge these men
sc they (the union mem would kill them.
ST. so they dynamited about dozen home
II; maimed and crippled women and child
n rem, and brutally assaulted scores 9
". these independent workers
r. The big boys OF the union men wer
Cd taught to pound the school children o
the independent men. How would yol
Id like to have your little girl shortly grow
'l5 from the toddling baby who used TO 81
10 on your lap and love Daddy pounded
Sc by some big bullies on her way homo
ne from the school where she had gone &c
be try and please Daddy by learning TO read
s. The little bruised face and body would
~ first need tender care while you ponder
IS the inscription writ deep in your heart by
that Master and Guide 20 all human COM
a passion. "Inasmuch as ye have done Il
OF unto one OF the least of these my breth-
h, rem ye. have done IL unto me-" Then per-
& haps you would drop to your knees and
~ pray Almighty God for strength in your
I'd right arm to strike one manly and pow
n erful blow for baby's s9ke. even If you
ch went to death Tor Il.
- HELPLESS children were brought HON,
~
e. blows and kicks Of these nends. teaching
he Independent Americans that they mus
he stop work when told and pay fees to th'
RS leaders Of 'labor" Thousands Of men
ey women and children have been treated
a. thus.
o. From somewhere, Oh. Father Of US all
as we try TO believe that You look with pit,
er ing eyes upon these brutal blows, cut
IN and scars on the many human bodie
made in your likeness and image.
ISL They are beautifully and wonderful,
IS made each the dwelling place Of Divin
m Soul.
ed Is il Your wish that they be crushed b
ei- iron shod heels cut by knives or tor
is asunder by bullets and dynamte7
De- May we venture TO think that a Ion
ny suffering patience is extended in the hop
that the men and women Of America ma
someday wake TO a realization Of IN
nut awful cruelties perpetrated by this spir
Of oppression and that they viii som
IT. time learn the lesson that the "sacre
gift OF human freedom and liberty" wa
we given by God and must be defended eve
to death itself.
lat Our forefathers were used by the ini
mite God TO establish our freedom in III
and our fathers gave freely OF their bloc
and treasure TO establish the freedom
m the black. Now again Il seems that v
me are called upon TO protect our brother
rry and ourselves from that old time spir
es Of tyranny which comes up from time
M time 90 force people to obey tyranno'
ere rules and bend the knee OF the slave
rs. In Wellston. Ohio. thirty American
ner sought employment in a factory. The
&C. were seeking 70 earn food for their fan
ere lies They were bombarded by rocl
and pounded with clubs in the han'
ui OF union men.
ase one Of the injured. John Brannha
de- was taken to the city hospital with
n,n broken jaw. crushed skull and other Gu
Az and bruises. He was the father of tv
oW children. and was thought 10 be dyin
'he Perhaps he did. ] don't know, but
es' sometimes wonder what the children sa
ep- to Mother when 'Papy'' didn't com
ue' home. and how they and the little womi
isn got any food. and how they could pla
am their wrongs before their own Americ'
fellows
Mayhap sometime some kind pers
isis will equip home where the orphans al
go widows OF the victims OF the Labor Tru
her may be cared FOR and fed
itv. 1t would take big home. 1t has be-
i'll said there we're 81 Americans many
TO them fathers, killed in one STRIKE q
ain teamsters in Chicago and over e'
ella maimed, many for life. That's only o
is ''lesson" OF these bulies. There are ]
be orally thousands Of cases wherein 70
fellow American has been assaulte
MANNED or killed by these men, The sai
our work is going on day by day. Suppo
nan you make a practice Of picking out ca