Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-22

" won't cost you penny to reach
out helping hand TO great army Of
honest, hard-wo-king and deserving
men and women.
Just your moral support will insure
work, living. and comforts which
are now either partly or wholly de-
! MED them.
How so?
Come On, let's have look.
You've often been importuned and
many have been commanded by ad-
vertisement or otherwise to "refuse
to buy anything unless it bears the
union label"
Looks harmless on its face, doesn't
It?
It really Is demand" that you
boycott the products made by over 80
per cent. of our American working
men and women, who decline to pay
fees to, and obey the dictates Of the
union leaders.
1t demands that you ask the mer-
chant for articles with the "union
LABEL" thus to impress him with its
importance.
1t seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are
sometimes most tnsolent, with u
-holier than thou" impudence.
1t demands that you take away the
living of this 80 per cent. of American
workingmen and women.
Is that clear?
Why should small body Of work
men ask you to help starve the larger
body?
There must be some reason for the
union label" scheme.
Run over in your mind and remem-
Der how they carry on their work.
During discussion about working
or striking in the coal regions, about
$4,000 men preferred to work. they
had wives and babies to feed. The
union men said openly in their con-
! vention that If the employers didn' t
discharge these men they (the union
men) would kill them.
So they dynamited about dozen
homes. manned and crippled women
and children and brutally assaulted
scores Of these independent workers.
The big boys of the union men were
| taught to pound the school children
Of the independent men. How would
you like to have your little girl short
ly grown from the toddling baby who
used to sit on your lap and love Dad
dy" pounded by some big bullies or,
her way home from the school where
| she had gone to try and please Daddy
by learning to read?
The little bruised face and BODY
would first need tender care while you
| ponder the inscription writ deep III
your heart, by that Master and Guid:
to all human compassion. Inasmucli
as ye have done it unto one of th:
least of these My brethren ye hav!
done 1t unto Me-" Then perhaps you
would drop to your knees and pra1
Almighty God for strength In your
right arm to strike one manly and
powerful blow for baby's sake. even II
you went to death for It
Helpless children were brought
home, with faces black or bleedini!
from the blows and kicks OF thesE
flends, teaching independent Amer.
cans that they must stop work whe1
told and pay fees to the leaders Of
labor" Thousands of men. wome1
and children have been treated thus.
From somewhere, Oh, Father of us
all, we try to believe that You oos
with plying eyes upon these bruts,
blows. cuts and scars on the many
| human bodies made in your likeness
and image.
They are beautifully and wonder
fully made, each the dwelling place
of Divine Soul.
Is 1t Your wish that they be crushed
by iron shod heels, cut by knives ol
torn asunder by bullets and dyns.
mite?
May we venture to think that {
long suffering patience is extended ir
the hope that the men and women o
America may some day wake to 6
realization OF the awful cruelties per-
petrated by this spirit OF oppression
and that they will some time learr
the lesson that the sacred gift of hui
man freedom and liberty" was giver
by God and must be defended even Il
death ITSELF
Our forefathers were used by ths
Infinite God to establish our freedom
in 1776, and our fathers gave freel!
of their blood and treasure to estab
lish the freedom Of the black. Nov
again it seems we are called upon tx
protect our brothers and ourselves
from that old time spirit of tyranE.
which cones up from time to time *
force people to obey tyrannous rules
and bend the knee of the slave.