Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
Most Popular in February.

Some people swell up on emotion
brewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick of the leaders of the
Labor Trust to twist facts and make the
sympathetic ones" weep at the ice
house. (That's part Of the tale further
on)
Gompers ct al. sneer at, spit upon and
defy our courts, seeking sympathy by
falsely telling the people the courts were
trying to deprive them of free speech and
free press.
Men can speak freely and print opin-
ions freely in this country and no court
will object, but they cannot be allowed
to print matter 40 part Of Q criminal con-
spirRoy TO injure and ruin other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates started
out TO ruin the Buck stove Co., drive its
hundreds Of workmen out of work and
destroy the value of the plant without re-
gard to the fact that hard earned money
of men who worked, had been invested
there.
The conspirators were told by the courts
TO stop these vicio is trust" methods
efforts to break the firm that won't
come under trust rule), but instead of
stopping they dare" The courts TO punish
them and demand new laws to protect
them in such destructive and %tyrannous
acts as they desire to do. The
reason Gompers and his band persisted
in trying to ruin the Bucks stove Works
was because the stove company insisted
on the right to keep some old employees
at work when "de union" ordered them
discharged and some of 'de gang" put in.
Now let us reverse the conditions and
have a look.
,-,.. A. lal A.. Nhl
union to dismiss certain men from their
UPTON and, the demand being refused,
should institute a boycott against that
i,riop. publish it's name in an 'unfair
hist" instruct other manufacturers all
oyer the United states not to buy the
Labor of that union. have committees call
at stores and threaten to boycott IL the
merchants sold anything made by that
union. Picket the factories whore mem
bers work and slug them on the way
home. blow UP their houses and wreck
the works, and even murder a few mem.
bers OF the boycotted union to teacf
them they must obey the orders Of "or.
ganized Capital?'
1t would certainly be fair for the com,
pany to do these things IL lawful for the
Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case, under our laws. the
hoycotted union could apply to our courts
and the courts would order the company
TO cease boycotting and trying TO ruiz
these union men, Suppose thereupon the
company should sheer at the courts and
In open defiance continue the unlawful
acts In a persistent, carefully laid out
plan, purposely Intended TO ruin the unior
and force its members into poverty
What a howl would go up from the unior
demanding that the courts protect then
and punish their law-breaking oppressors
Then they would praise the courts ant
go on earning a living protected from ruiz
and happy in the knowledge that thu
peoples courts could defend them.
How could any OF us receive protec
tion from law-breskers unless the court,
nave power to, and do punish such men.
The court IL placed in position whsr,
II must DO one thing or the ~othSr-punisI
men VIII persist In dsfying its peael
orders or so out OF service. let anAroh,
rsign and the more powerful destroy tn
weaker.
Peaeeable citizens sustain the courts a
their defenders, whereas thieves. forgers
burglars, creeks OF all kinds and yiolen
members OF labor u%nioas. hate them an
threaten violence II their members ar
punished for breaking the law The.
want the courts to let them 60 free an
at the same time demand punishment 10
other men outside de union" when the.
. break the law, . . Notice the abov
reference 90 violent" members OF labo
unions, The great majority of the "un
heard union men are peaceable, uprigh
cftizens. The noisy, violent ones get int
ofti"s and the leaders OF the great Labo