Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-04-04
WHAT WooDMEN MUST DO


holding other views regarding this
rate proposition should feel at liberty
to write an article for n" Republican
setting forth the same. discussion
of the question is in order.
wherever Woodmen gather to-
gether. we hear someone say, Well,
what can we do?' The head officers
have the power and authority. We
made them our rulers besides they
have $1,000, 900 of our uWn money 70
fight us with and arc disposed to use
it. They are sending oily tongue !,
gaily clad gents to every camp. all
over Woodmcn territory TO sugar coat
the pill the management are trying to
make the membership swallow. Th"s"
fellows with their plausible arguments
are pulling the fleece over the optics Ul
the unsuspccting members by their
many figures, their multitndnOns
plans and high sounding phrases
They talk and argue about reserve,
tables until we ordinary. plain, home
grown folks don't know what to do,
hence the oftcn-heard remark. what
can we do?
These men do not have the good
Of the order al heart They only
want to play into tn" hands Of the
management who wish to stack up
a reserve of 300 or 4OO million dollars
for the head officers TO play With, that
they, like ]. r. Morgan, may dominate
the finances Of This country. 80 sprr:
of bcnpvOlcnro or brotherhood controls
their acts. They are paid fat salaries
from our funds to present This matter
OF Increased assessments to t.a mem
bership in such manner that the rank
and file will submit to the injustice
and thereby build up a fund Of wealth
the vastness Of which is beyond the
comprehension Of the average man
A fund that will place in our head
officers hands a power for the manit.
uldtiOu Ol the markets. OF mdnutaC.
turing, stocks Of railroads, stocks and
bonds, that will euabe them to con
troll the price of every commodity we
buy or sell a power TO make a few
financial kings, and thousands and
tens of thousands of paupers These
agents do not care that 100000 mem.
bers, now paying their assessments
with difficulty from their small earn
ings, who simply cannot raise the
greater price shall be squeezed out.
1t is nothing to them that 100000 wild
oWs be left without means of liyeli-
hood, that 100000 orphans whose
hard working fathers have skimped
and sacrificed for ten or fifteen years
to provide for them, should be depriv-
ed OF all they had planned and earned
for them. That those fathers be de-
priVed OF insurance at time in life
when they are unable to get protection
elsewhere. Men! Is this a fraterna]
order? Is this the spirit of brother
A'oou VIC HSdl 81 HuCu ABOUT ana SO
loudly boast of? Are we, a body of
one million, two hundred and fifty
thousand men, to sit idly by and allow
these hirelings, these servants of ours
to ride over us thus and trample under
their feet the greatest principle the
. world ever knew, the principle of
Z II
Z For this very principle Christ came
to earth and endured ALL Are we
going backward in the scale of civil.
. cation? | think | hear an answer
from a million throats, NO!!! Then
let us up and at it. Stand by our
guns. II we can't aim and shoot, sup
ply the ammunition that others may
Let every camp all over our fair land
arouse itself. Learn what is being
done. Understand the situation Keep
in touch with these earnest, honest |
fellows who are determined not to |
submit to this injustice, who will fight |
the Mobile bill to death. Who will
5st0taPSi Jill I1S,dA anu Ills associates TO |
listen to the voice of the people. Sub
scribe for the official organ of the in. !
surgentso that we may be informed,
and can work together In unity there
is strength. One man or one camp
can do nothing, but million men can
unseat a monarch. Don't be quit.
ter. Hold up the hands of those who
are working for our interests, bytl
money and by sympathy. Let them
know that every mothers son in this
camp Is for the insurgents, first, last
and all the time. That we stand by
our contract. We ask its fu1fillment
no more. no less That we don't be-
heye the raise is necessary, That we
cond Tenn the manner and the proceed.
ings q our last head camp That wei
are ready to contribute much for wl,as
1 we believe tx he right and q it,tlfica ~, \