The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 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.)
Gompers ct al. sneer at, spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympa-
thy 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 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 de-
mand new laws to protect them in
such destructive and tyrannous acts
as they may 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" putin.
Now let us reverse the conditions
and have 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
manufacturers all over the United
States not to. buy the labor of that
union. have committees call at stores
and threaten to boycott If the mer-
chants sold anything made to 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. members of the boycotted union
to teach them they must obey the or
ders of organized Capital?"
1t would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things il lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such 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 Gnion men. Sup
pose thereupon- the company should
sheer at the court and in open de-
hance continue the unlawful acts in
persistent. carefully laid out plan
pufposely attended 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
living protected from ruin and happy
IN the knowledge that the peoples
courts sapuld defend them.
How could any OF us receive pro-
lection from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to. and do punish
such men.
The court Is placed in position
where it must do one thing or the
othcr--punish men wlso persist In de-
flying its peace orders or go ont OF
service. let anarchy reign and the
more powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain the
courts as their defenders. whereas
Aieves. forgers. burglars. crooks of
all kinds and violent members OF la
hor unions. hate them and threaten
violence II their members are pun
ished for breaking the law. They
want the courts to let them go free
aud at the same time demand punish
ment for other men Outside de
union" when they break the law.
Notice the above reference
Is to violent" members OF labor
unions. The great majority OF the
"unheard" union men are peaceahle.
upright citizens. The noisy. violent
ones get into ONCE and the leaders of
the great Labor Trust know how to
mass this kind Of men. in labor con-