The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-04

Some people swell up on emotion
fewed from absolute uutruth.
It's an old trick OF the lenders OF
the Labor Trust to twist facts and
make the sympathetic ones weep
1t the Ice house" Chats part OF the
ale further on.)
Gompers ct al sneer at, spit upon
md defy our courts, seeking sympathy
by falsely telling the people the courts
were trying to deprive them Of FREQ
Ipeech and free press.
Men can 81 nak freely and print
opinions freely IL this country apl no
SQUIRT will object, bGt they canLot be
Moved to print mater as 1art OF
criminal conspiracy TO iniure and
ruin other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
,tarted out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co, drive its hundreds or workmen
Out of work and destroy the value Of
the plant without regard TO the fact
that hard earned money OF men who
worked, had been invested there.
The consplrators were told by the
courts TO stop these vicious trust
methods, (efforts 10 break the firm
that won't come under trust rulcD.
but Instead of stopping they dare"
the courts to punish them aud demand
new laws TO protect them In such de-
ftructive and tyrapnous acts as they
may desire 10 do. The reason
Gomper5 and his band insisted In try
Ing to ruin the Buck Stove Works
was because the stove company insist.
ed on tho right to keep some old en-
ployes at work when de union or
dcrcd them discharged and some of
de gnng" put In.
Now let us reverse the conditions
and have a look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union 10 dismiss certain men
from their union. and, the demand be-
ing refused. should institute a boy
colt against that union. publish
its name In an unfair list" instruct
other manufacturers all over the Unit
ed States not TO buy the labor OF that
union, have committees call at stores
and threaten TO boycott IL the mer-
chants sold anything made by that
union, Picket the factories where
members work and slug them on the
WAY home, blow up their houses and
wreck the works. and even murder a
lev members OF the boycotted union TO
beach thom they must obey the or
ders OF organized Capital"
II would certainly be fair for the
company TO do thcse things II lawful
for the Labor Trust TO do them.
In such a case, under our laws the
boycotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order the
company to cease boycotting and try.
ing TO ruin these union men. Suppose
thereupon the company should sneer
al the court and in open defiance con-
tlnue the unlawful acts In a persist.
ent carefully laid out plan, purpose
Iv intended to ruin the union and force
iIg members into poverty. What howl
would 20 up from the tho union de-
mandine that the courts protect them
and punish their law-breaking oppres.
eors. They they would praise the
the courts and go on earning living
protected from ruin and happy In tho
knowledge that the peoples courts
could defend them.
How could any OF us receive protec-
ton from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to and do punish
such men.
The court is placed In position
where il mUet do one thing or the
other-punieh men who persist In de.
fyino It's peace orders or go out OF
service, let anarchy reign and the
more powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain the courts
ms their defenders, whereas thieves
lorgcrs. burglars, crooks of all kinds
and violent members OF labor unions
tate them and threaten v'o'eNon II
lbeir members are punished for break
nag ,he .nw. Tuey wan. the coGi .. 4,
let them go free and at the same
time demand punishment for Other
men outside de union" when the!
break tho Law. Nouce the
above reference is to violent" mem
bers of labor unions. The great ma
jority OF the "unheard" union mer
are peaceable. upright citizens. The
noisy, violent ones get into office ant
'ne leaders Of the great Labor Trust