The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-19
UNION LABOR
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w. M. PIGGOTT, Editor.
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full enjoyment OF physical nature.
A generous spirit will always pity
week manhood: and it will speak in
commendation and be proud of those
whose consciences move them 10 caro-
for home and its attachments and be
brave In waging warfare against the
men and the means that place both
endearments under the burden and
slavery OF outrageous, unremunei-a-
tive toll
No true unionlst viii place himself
In a position that will make him feel
the qualms or the stings of consci-
ence: and he will not, If he stand by
those who are urging forward indus
trial rights and liberties as against
unconstitutional limitations. the op-
pressions of exacting Employers, the
tyrannic and despotic absolutism of
grasping capitalists and the unsc.upu-
lous politicians who believe the work
ingman is but the tool he can dull or
sharpen at his viii and for his pur-
poses
Men and governments have often
thrown aside conscience to satisfy mad
ambition. The false prophets Of re-
ligion, the scheming politician. the
+ base assassins of virtue, the econo-
clasts that worship money as their
god, and the arrant thieves who steal
labor from and the labor of the hon
est toiler, all have an elastic consci
ence moving a mean ambition to hold
the Toins over their fellow beings
History records the baTbarous main
tenance Of brutal. personal power over
and often the suppression of many a
cause benefiting humanity, and many
NJ toll NJ Tho tNDnfc bT11nnf
and death of those who supported and
defended such noble undertakings. |
But the liberal and humane world |
has, however, looked upon such acts |
as unjustified Indeed, such outrages !
have been and may again be cold /
real, earnest incentives to revolu-
been prevented by the spirit that
pease. Nevertheless, tnat same spirit
will persist in believing any law, edict
or ruler, person or persons, who en-
slave or would enslave the mind or
burden the physical self or do or per
nit violence against 1t or against such
a cause, will neeyr be loved CT esteem
ed as generous and wise.
No~two persons can compel a third
to submit TO absolute dominance. I'M
less their power is itself absolute in
It's duality. This was for a time the
view of the ancients Of what consti-
tuted absolutism. and they enforced it
upon the Romans two hundred years
before and for hundred more after
Rome became Italy's mistress, and yet
hey themselves finally saw it was
1ut a mad, black Auster of ambition
tdtng over conscience and destroying
he liberty of thought, speech and ac-
ion.
Rome fell; other governments have
allen, and others will fall under such
absolute despotism Still, the sad re-
5ret obtains that modern desires vie
With the ancient view Of absolutism,
md there are men whose consciences
'1eld to the lure of Office and power
md turns down the duty they owe
heir fellow beings at large
Organized labor has not escaped this
blight, Like the old Romans. the toll
rs of today are entering in their mem
'randums the names, the thoughts, the
leeds and actions of those who have {
'een of and for and with them. but
ave thrown their consciences as dain-
les TO satisfy dogs inoculated with the
ables OF the rich and rayenous hounds I
Il the crushing, crunching capitalists
nd paltry paltroons of politics. es- I
ecially those who seem to neither re- {
member nor care for Abraham Lin !
oln's immortal admonition. You can
ool all of the people some of the time.
ONE OF the people all of the time, but
ot all of the people all Of the time"
nd 1t is in this same voice that the
reat majority OF organized abor
peaks to such plant acrobats. Labor
as been fooled once: it has trusted
nee; II has been deceived once. but
VIII never be fooled it will never
rust and 1t will never be deceived
gam. and that IS the silence but the :
OF its conscience.
Let every union man consult this
onscience and ask it in plain, blunt !,
erms whether ne should approve or !
lsapprove the injustice that has been
1rown upon him and upon il bv forces
'hlch mcniali2ed his labor and made l
Is HE almost that OF a seryile men. I
icant a
When ne does this, 1t is more than d
robnblehls conscience will say to I
i'm: (
BE thou true TO thy fellowman. /
II he laboreth with thee to live upon '
Ihe fruits Of honest toll, and sweet Fl
VIII be tiny sleep upon the soft Il
And healthy pillow oil a conscience e
unourdened by biting remorse. e