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

II these poor wageworkers will
thus brave fine and slugging to help
out other men who seek to live free
life under our laws and constitution
cannot you, reader, help little?
Will you reach out hand to help
an Independent workman earn food
! for his wife and babies? Or will you
from apathy and carelessness allow
him to be thrown out Of work ana
the helpless suffer until they pros
trate themselves before this stupen-
dous and tyrannical aggregation of
leeches upon honest American labor?
The successor of Henry Ward
Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brook
lyn, says:
Union labor hatred for labor
burns like a flame. eats like nitric
acid. Is malignant beyond all descrip-
ton. But the other day, a woman
representing a certain u1ion visited
many families in Plymouth Church
asking them to boycott certain in
stitution. Alas, this union
woman's hatred for non-union women
burned in her like the fires Of hell"
She was pitilessly, relentlessly and
tirelessly pursuing the non-union
women and men to destroy the mar
ket for goods, to ruin their factory
and to starve them out.
In the French Revolution only 2
per cent of the French people be-
lieved in violence. The SO per cent.
disclaimed violence and yet the SO
per cent allowed the, 2 per cent. to
fill the streets of Paris with fostering
corpses, to clog the Seine with dead
bodies, to shut up every factory in
Paris, until the aboring classes
starved by the score.
The small per cent. element in the
Labor Trust which hates and seeks
to destroy the large per cent. Of indie
pendent Americans sends out letters
declaring free" industries unfair and
tries to boycott their products. II
they could bind every one 1t would
bring suffering upon hundreds Of
thousands, immeasurable ruin upon
the country. and land it absolutely
under control of the men now at
tempting to dictate the daily acts of
our people and extract from each
monthly fee.
There are babies, children, women
and honest, hard-working and skill
full fathers who rely upon the protec-
tion of their fellows, when they seek
to sell their labor where they choose.
when they choose, and for sum they
believe 1t to be worth.
Every citizen having the rights.
privileges and protection Of citizen
has also the responsibility Of citizen.
The Labor Trust leaders may
suavely request" Tor, order those
they can) to buy only union label"
articles, and you can of course obey II
you are under orders.
Depend upon 1t, the creatures of
the Labor Trust will, upon reading
this. visit stores and threaten dire re-
suits unless all the things bear "the
label"
They go so far as to have their
women pretend to buy things, order
yards of silk or cloth torn off and va
rious articles wrapped up and then
discover mo label" and refuse them.
That's been done hundreds of times
and is but one Of the petty acts Of
hatred and tyranny.
Let no one who reads this article
understand that he or she Is asked to
boycott any product whether 1t bears
a union label" or not. One has a
constitutional right to examine the
article and see whether its makers are
Labor Trust contributors and slaves
on are free and independent Ameri-
cans.
have tried to tell you something
about those who are oppressed, Will
fed. hated. and when opportunity Of
fers are attacked because they prefer
to retain their ownindependent Amer
ican manhood. These men are In the
vast majority and include the most
skillful artisans in the known world.
They have wives and babes dependent
on them.
These men arefrequently oppressed
and have no way to make their
wrongs known. They are worthy Of
defense. That's the reason for the
expenditure Of few thousands Of dol
lars to send this message to the
American people. Remember, [
didn't say my "excuse" for sending
It. The cause needs no excuse"
C. W. POST,
Battle Creek. Mich.
N. B.
Some "parlor socialist" who knows
nothing Of the Russian Czarism of the
great Labor Trust will ask right
here: Don't you believe in the right