United labor bulletin., 1909-12-31

and yet preserved up to an advanced age
In matters of nutrition all human
beings normally constituted follow the
promptings of a powerful instinct, and
this instinct does not lead to total absti-
nence; on the other hand it points out
the notable utility of alcoholic stimu-
lants. Professor PHueger argues strong
ly against excesses of all kinds, but, par
aphrasing the old maxim that abuse is
no argument against proper use, he cites
this illustration: 1T is admitted that
sexual excesses wreck the human organ
ism. yet no sane person would on trat
account inhibit marriage
Professor o. Rosenbach regards the
movement as menace to civilization
because Gin Germany il is accompanied
by a wave of asceticism which aims at
the forcible suppression of all those
higher instincts and subtle spiritual In
fiuences to which the arts owe their
present exalted development. 1t is the
beginning of a movement that would end
in a reign of puritanism far more tyran-
nical than that which in the days of
Cromwell ostracized the stage, stigma
tized music. and denounced dancing as a
homage to Satan.
Under the head of pseudo science we
NAV as well quote here what Prof. Orth
of Berlin, the successor of the celebrated
Professor Virchow, said in regard to the
typical text books on temperance physi-
ology: From the standpoint of the
pathological anatomist | must protest
against the manner and form in which
the anatomical results of alcohol are de-
scribed orally, in writing, and pictorially
Wy many total abstainers. Such stom-
achs, livers and kidneys, as they depict
as terrifying examples may occasionally
be found in the body of drunkard, but
not even in all drunkards; on the other
hand, the organs of moderate drinkers
never show such serious arrangements. y
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ABOUT LAWS APPLIED TO LABOR
Observer Claims While Courts Forbid
Strikes and Congress Aims to Null
lify Our Power, Strikes Continue.
| Conditions referred to in last weeks
Labor Press, in the article "Under Domi
nation of One Man." are certainly worth
most thorough consideration by all who
desire to preserve the freedom of the
American workers.
That the Sherman antitrust law car
now be used by our courts to seize the
funds of trades unions and Jail working
men without trial by jury is true. 1t is
likewise true that the Sherman antitrust
law never was intended to apply to or
ganiZations of workingmen struggling tC
secure fair working conditions. But the
United States Supreme court made it sc
apply. 1t usurped powers under that law
not granted it in that law. However
the record of courts in all ages has been
to grasp more and more power unto
| themselves.
That under the Erdman arbitration
law sooner or later a real attempt will
be made by our courts to take away
from railway men the right to strike, is
also apparent. That law was passed for
that purpose The pity of it is that some
of the railroad brotherhoods, or rather
some of their leading officers, helped our
plutocracy to throw these chains around
the railroad men.
The aim of the rulers of any nation
has always been to tie the workers down
| to their work At one time it was slav-
cry. Then serfdom. Later conspiracy
| laws.
During the last half of the nineteenth
century there was a great struggle for
freedom on the part of the middle class
and the workers against the numerically
small upper class
In various forms this battle for human
liberty was waged in Europe. In the
United States it's greatest expression was
| found in the civil war.
In the Scandinavian countries, in Ger
many, France and especially in Great
Britain, the workers in law and prac-
tice are continuing 10 gain rights and
better conditions.
In the United States. however. within
the last 20 years, with the great bulk of
wealth and the political power controlled
by a very small number of industrial
overlords, the workers are steadily los
ing rights in law which were not ques-
toned 20 years ago.
The Debs case is in point. So is the
Erdman arbitration law. So the Dan
bury hatters' case and the recent ver-
dict against Gompers, Mitchell and Nor
rison.
On one hand the workers are told they
cannot strike, some commissioner or
judge, appointed of course by the ruling
power of plutocracy to do plutocracy' IS
bidding, will arbitrate their grievances.
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