The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-02-05

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.
1.-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 tine right to keep
some old employees at work when de
union ordered them discharged and
some Of de gang" put in.
Z. Now let US reverse the conditions
4hd 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 |
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
70 teach them they must obey the or
1ers of "organized Capital?"
1t would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things if lawful
or the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case, under our laws the
,oycotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order the
company to cease boycotting and try
ng to ruin these union men. Sup
,ose thereupOn the company should
neer at the court and in open de-
lance continue the unlawful acts in
persistent, carefully laid out plan,
intended to ruin the union
nd force its members into poverty.
What howl would go up from the
nion demanding that the courts pro-
ect them and punish their law-break-
ng oppressors. Then they would
raise the courts and go on earning
wing protected from ruin and happy
q the knowledge that the peoples
ourts could defend them.
How could any of us receive pro-
ection from law-breakers unless the {
ourts have power to, and do punish {
UGH men.
The court is placed in position '
here it must do one thing or the
ther-punish men who persist in de- I
Ting its peace orders or go out of t
ervice. let anarchy reign and the {
lore powerful destroy the weaker. '
Peaceable citizens sustain the I
ourts as their defenders, whereas +
lieves. forgers. burglars, crooks of a
Il kinds and violent members of la t
Dr. unions, hate them and threaten 4
iolence II their members are pun Y
he'd for breaking the law. They g
ant the courts to let them go free z
I'D at the same time demand punish n
ent for other men Outside de d
MON" when they break the law. s
Notice the above reference
to violent" members of labor Fl
mons. The great majority of the s
lnheard" union men are peaceable, V
bright citizens. The noisy, violent VI
les get into Office and the leaders of a
e great Labor Trust know how to a
ass this kind Of men, in labor cen t