The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

1t won't cost you penny to reach
out helping hand to a great army Of
honest, Woodworking and deserving
men and women.
Just your moral support will insure
work, living, and comforts which are
now either partly or wholly denied
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 It's face, doesn't
it?
It really is demand" that you boy
colt the products made by over so per
cent Of our American workingmen and
women who decline to pay fees to, and
obey the dictates of the union leaders.
z It demands that you ask the mer-
chant for articles with the union la
bel, thus to impress him with its
Importance.
1t seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are
sometimes most insolent, with "hol-s
Ter than thou impudence.
1t demands that you take away the
living of this so 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
mem would kill them.
So they dynamited about a 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 woulo
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 DULLES on
her way home from school where she
had gone to try and please Daddy by
learning to read?
1 The little bruised face and body
would first need tender care while you
ponder the inscription writ deep in
/ your heart. by that Master and Guide
i to all human compassion, "Inasmuch
as We have done 1t unto one of the
4 least of these my brethren We have
done it unto me-" Then perhaps you
4 would drop to your knees and pray AL
mighty God for strength in your right
arm to strike one manly and powerful
blow for baby's sake, even If you wen'
to death for it.
Helpless children were brought
home, with faces black or bleeding
from tle blows and kicks of these
fiends, teaching Independent Ameri
cans that they must stop work wher
told and pay fees to the leaders Of ia
Dor" Thousands of men, women ane
children have been treated thus.
From somewhere, oh Father of III
all we try to believe that You lool
with plying eyes upon these bruta
blows, cuts and scars on the many HUI
man bodies made in your likeness ant
image.
They are beautifully and wonderful
lly made, each The dwelling place OF
Divine Soul.
Is it Your wish that they be crush
ed by iron shod heels, cut by knives
or torn asunder by bullets and dyna
mite?
May we venture to think that a lonl
: suffering patience is extended in thu
hope that the men and women 0
America may Someday wake 10 Tea'
ization of the awful cruelties perpe
:. ltrated by this spirit of oppression AM
that they will some time learn the les
son that the sacred gift of humal
freedom and liberty was given b.
God and must be defended even t
3 death itself.
Our forefathers were used by tn
Infinite God to establish our freedom
in 1916, and our fathers gave freel
Of their blood and treasure to estaf
lish the freedom of the black No'
again 1t seems we are called upon t
protect our brothers and ourselve
from that old time spirit of tyrann
. (which comes up from time to tim
. to force people to obey tyrannou
. rules and bend the knee of the slave
In Wellston, Ohio, thirty American
sought employment in factory. me
were seeking to earn food for thei
: families. They were bombarded D
rocks and pounded with clubs in tn
hands of union men.
One of the injured, John Brannihal