The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-04

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." (That's part Of the
tale furthes on.)
Gumpers 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
d criminal conspiracy to iujurc and
ruin other citizens
Gompors 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
,he plant without regard to the fact
that hard earned money Or 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 the trust rule),
but instead Of stopping they dare
tho courts to punish them and demand
new laws to protect them In such
destructive and tyrannous acts M
they may desire to do. The
reason Gompers and his band persist
ed in trying to ruin the Bucks Stove
Works was because The stove com
pany insisted on the right to keep
some old employees at work when
de union ordered them discharged
and some of de gang put in.
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 be-
ing refused, should institute a boy.
colt against that union. publish it's
name in an unfair list instruct 9th
er 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 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
p few members of the boycotted
union TO teach them they must obey
the orders of organized Capital?'
Il would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things II law
ful 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 union men. Sun.
pose thereupon the company should
sneer at the court and In open def''
ence continue the unlawful acts in
persistent, carefully laid out plan.
purposely intended to ruin the union
ard force It's members into poverty
What howl would go up from the
union demanding that the courts pro
icct them and punish their law
breaking opprcssors. Then they
would praise the courts and 20 on
caruiug living protected from ruin
and happy In the knowledge that the
penule's courts could defend them
How rould any Of US receive pro
lection from law.breake-s unless me
courts have power to. and do punish
such mon
The court Is placed In position
where Il must 10 ono thing or the
n.her--punIsh men who persist in de
fylpu IFS peace orders or go out o.
service. let anarchy reign and the
more powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain inc
courts as their defenders. whereas
t.'evcs lorrers. burglars. crooks o.
ali kinds and violent members Of "a
bor unions. bYte them and threateI
vinlence u their membe-s are nun
lshcd for breaking the law. The'
want the courts TO let them go fre'
"rd RI the same time demand pun
isbmeut for other men "ontsidf a.
union when they break the law.
Notice the above reference Is to "vio
lent members Of labor unions TIL
ereat majority Of the ''unheard
,,nion men are peaceable. upright cl'
iyens. The noisy violent ones ge
into office and the Leaders o. tn
Great Labor Trust know how to mas
thIs Nina N men, IN lalet eoDyef