The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-01-27

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 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 az 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 look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
their union, and, the demand being re
fused, should institute 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 ant
threaten TO boycott IL 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 tn,
works, and even murder few mem
bers of the boycotted union to teacl
them they must obey the orders o
organized Capital?" -
1t would certainly be fair for tn,
company to do these things II Lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case, under our laws tn,
boycotted union could apply to ou
courts and the courts would orde
the company to cease boycotting an,
trying to ruin these union men. sur
pose thereupon the company shoul,
sneer at the court and in open defianc
continue the unlawful acts in a pei
sistent, carefully laid out plan, pun
posely intended to ruin the uniol
and force its members into povert
What "A howl would go up from tn
union demanding that the courts pre-
tect them and punish their law.breah
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 prote,
| tion from law-breakers 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 In defyins u
peace orders or go out Of service, le
anarchy reign, and the more powerfl
destroy the weaker.
Peaceful citizens sustain the court
as their defenders. whereas thieves
forgers, burglars. crooks of all kind
and violent members of labor unions
hate them and threaten violence
their members are punished for breal
ing the law. They want the courts I
let them &C free and at the same tim
demand punishment for other men lou
side de union" when they break tn
law. Notice the above refe
ence TO violent" members Of labc
unions. The great majority of th
"uuheard" union men are peaceabl