Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-02
Don't Weep At
The Ice House.

Some people swell up on "emotion" brewed
from absolute untruth.
Trust to twist facts and make the Sympathetic
ones" weep at the ice house, Chats 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 opinions 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 crust 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 40
they may desire to do. The reason Com
pers 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 ode union ordered them
discharged and some Of ode gang put in.
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 refused, should institute boy
colt against that union. publish its name in an
unfair list, instruct other manufacturers all
over the United States not to buy the labor
Of that union, have committees call at stores
and threaten to boycott. II the merchants sold
anything made by that union. Picket the fac
tories where members work and slug them on
the way home, blow up their houses and wreck
the works. and even murder q few members OF
the boycotted union to teach them they must
obey the orders Of 'organized Capital:''
II would certainly be fair for the company to
do these things il 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
trying to ruin these union men. Suppose there
upon the company should sheer at the court and
IN omen defiance continue the unlawful acts in
persistent carefully laid out plan, purposely In
tended TO ruin the union and force its members
into poyerty. What a howl would go up from
the union demanding that the courts protect
them and punish their law-breaking oppressors'
Then they would praise the courts and 30 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 protection ITO"
law breakers 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
orHER-PUNIsH MEN WHO PERSIST IN DE-
FLYING ITS PEACE ORDERS OR GO OUT OF
SERVICE, LET ANARCHY REIGN AND THE
MORE POWERFUL DESTROY THE WEAKER.
Peaceable 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 II their
members are punished for breaking the law. They
want the courts to let them 60 free and at the
same time demand punishment for other men
Outside de union wien they break the law.
Notice the abo Ye reference is to "vio-
lent" members of labot unions The great ma