The Prescott daily news., 1910-01-14

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. Chats part of the tale further on.)
 Gompers ct dl sheer 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 as part of a criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin other citizens.
 Gompers and his trust associates started out to ruin the Bucks Stove Co.,, drive its hundreds of 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 conspirators were told by the courts to stop these vicious 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 de- structive and tyrannical acts as they may desire to do. The reason Gompers and his band persisted in try ing to ruin the Bucks Stove Works was because the stove company insist ed on the right to keep some old em- ployees at work when de union" or dered them discharged and some of de gang" put on.
 Now let us reverse the conditions and have a look.
 Suppose the company had ordered the union to dismiss certain men from their union, and, the demand being re- fused, should institute a boycott against that union, publish its name in an unfair list" instruct other man. ufacturers all over the United States not to buy the labor of that union, have committees call at stores and threaten to boycott if the merchants 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 few mem bers of the boycotted union to teach them they must obey the orders of ''organized Capital?"
 It would certainly be fair for the company to do these things if 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 tryinT to ruin these union men. Sup pose thereupon the company should sheer at the court and in open defiance continue the unlawful acts in per sistent, carefully laid out plan, pur- posely intended to ruin the union and force its members into poverty What a howl would go up from the union demanding that the courts pro- tect them and punish their law-break- ing oppressors. Then they would praise the courts and go on earning a living protected from ruin and happy in the knowledge that the peoples courts could defend them.
 How could any of us receive protec- ton from law-breakcrs unless the courts have power to, and do punish such men?
 The court is placed in position where 1t must do one thing or the other punish men who persist in defying its peace orders or go out of service, let anarchy reign, and the more powerful destroy the weaker.
 Peaceful citizens sustain the courts as their defenders. whereas thieves, forgers, burglars, crooks of all kinds and violent members of labor unions, hate them and threaten violence If their members are punished for break ing the law. They want the courts to let them go free and at the same time demand punishment for other men out side de union" when they break the law. Notice the above refer ence to violent" members of labor unions. The great majority of the "unheard" union men are peaceable.