The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-09-23
Pass the Word
AlOn3

1t won't cost you a penny to reach
out helping hand to a great army of
honest, hard-working and deserving
men and women.
Just your moral support will insure
work, q 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?
1t 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 yon ask the mer-
chant for articles with the union
LABEL" thus to impress him with its
fEporta nee.
II seeks 10 tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are
sometimes most insolent, with u
-holicr than thou" impudence.
1t demands that you take away tho
living OF this so per cent. OF American
workingmen and women.
Is that clear?
Why should a 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 1.-THE union
men) would kill them.
so they dynamited about a dozen
homes. manned and crippled women
and children and brutally assaulted
scores or the e Independent workers.
Inc big DO. OF the union men were
taught TO pound the school children
or 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 "T,ad-
oy pounded by some big bulIies on
ner way home from the school where
she mad gone to try and please Daddy
by learning to read?
Inc little bruised face and bodv
would first need tender care while Won
ponder the inscription writ deem I'm
your heart. by that Master and Guide
10 all human compassion, -Inasmucb
as ye have done II unto one Of tho
least OF these My brethren We have
done II unto Me-" Then PERHAPS Won
would drop to your knees and pray
Almighty God for strength In your
right arm to strike one manly and
powerful blow for baby's sake. even ~
you went to death for 1t.
Helpless children were broupbt
home. with faces black or bIeediny
from the blows and kicks of these
hends. teaching independent Ameri-
cans that they must stop work when
told and pay fees TO the leaders Of
labor" Thousands OF men, women
and children have been treated thus
from somewhere. Oh, Father of us
all. we try to believe that You Iook
with plying eyes upon these brutal
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 IL your wish that they be crushed
by iron shod heels, cut by knives or
torn asunder by bullets and dyna-
mite?
May we venture to think that a
long suffering patience Is extended in
the hope that the men and women of
America may some day wake to a
realization OF the awful crueIties per-
petrated by this spirit OF oppression
and that they will some time learn
the lesson that the sacred gift of bu-
man freedom and liberty" was given
by God and must be defended even TO
death itself
Our forefathers were used by. the
Infinite God to establish our freedom
In ITS. and our fathers gave freely
OF their blood and treasure to estab-
ltsh the freedom OF the black. Now
again IL seems we are called upon to
protect our brothers and ourselves
from that old time spirit of tyranny
which comes up from time 70 time 10
ferce people to obey tyrannous rules
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