Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-01-07

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.)
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 en-
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 o.
organized Capital?"
1t would certainly be fair for tbs
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 oul
courts and the courts would ordel
the company to cease boyeotting an6
trying to ruin these union men. Sup
pose thereHpon the company should
sheer at the court and in open defiance
continue the unlawful acts in a per
sistent, carefully laid out plan, puT
posely intended to ruin the unioI
and force its members into povert,
What howl would go up from thu
union demanding that the courts Pre-
tect them and punish their law-break
: ing oppressors. Then they woul'
praise the courts and go on earning
living protected from ruin and happ,
! In the knowledge that the people
courts could defend them.
How could any of us receive proteC
ton from law-breakcrs unless the court
have power to, and do punish sue
men?
: The court is placed in position wher
II must do one thing or the other
punish men who persist n defying 1t
9 peace orders or go out of service, lie
anarchy reign, and the more powerfL
destroy the weaker.
Peaceful citizens sustain the court
! as their defenders, whe. cas- thieves
: forgers, burglars, crooks of all kind
!, and violent members of labor unions
a hate them and threaten violence
their members are punished for breal
r ing the law They want the courts t
let them go free and at the same tim
demand punishment for otner men lou
4 side de union" when they break tn
law. Notice the above refe
ence to violent" members of labC
unions. The great majority Of til
"unheard" union men are peaceabl