Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-12-11
c FER II, 1913
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Printed extracts from. the December number of a so-called
manufacturers magazine, entitled American Industries, - have
been received at this office. One of the articles is entitled
business Mems Associations and accompanying it is a let
ter from the author, George Pope, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers Here is Mr.. Popes letter:
AS is well known, Mr.. Woodrow Wilson, having spent
the greater part Of his life in the classroom, has had no oppor-
tunity of gaining a practical knowledge either of business r of
governmental affairs. Mindful of this fact, the newspapers
have kindly Informed Mr.. Wilson that he should not have for
secretary of state a man who appears with vaudeville performers.
1T is also the duty of the press to inform Mr.. Wilson that
he should not appoint to office members of lawess bands.
With a view to doing our part of this good and needful work
We shall send to Mr.. Wilson a copy of the December issue OF
referring to bands of men who disregard the law.
'This copy VIII be sent to Mr.. Wilson by a special messen-
ger. This messenger will leave u office n the morning OF
December 10th, with the paper containing the marked article,
which he will deliver to Mr.. Wilson,
Then follows the article, a bitter TRADE against labor M
ions, from which a few extracts are reproduced, just to show the
attitude of Mr.. Pope, whose association, through the recent dis
closures in the Muhall senate investigation, received a merited
castigaton at the hands of congress:
ct has occurred to many that perhaps it might be well at
this time to say a word shout business mems associations and
the work they have to do. Members of local boards of trade
give their time and money for the good of their city, while Is
sociations of a broader scope work for the lettering of the ma
ton.
much of the time of the men in these larger ASSOCIATIONS
is given to preventing perncious legislation.
''The most dangerous legislation that these men have had
to combat is what is known as antiinjunctioa bills, which have
been presented to state and national legislatures at the lnstga-
ton OF the trade unionists.
Trade unions take from men the right to bargain Tor
themselves and are therefore lawless organizations, and because
they are lawless the courts, as well as the Nauonal u"aros'
meet with their enmity.
.Trade unions, because they take from men the right to
bargain for themselves, are lawless organizations, and because
they arc lawless. they must go, and when they are gone, long
will remain the memory Of the brazen insolence OF the trade
union officials and the trade union leaders while forever will
remain on the pages of history which they have blackened, the
story of their awful crimes"
Presumably this letter and article have been sent to news
papers all over the country, but with what purpose it Is hard
to conceive, unless it be to show Mr.. Pope's soreness for that
is about all there is to it. But few will agree with him in any
of the propositions he sets forth, especially in the west. Mr..
Pope is a member of several of the most notorious trusts and
combinations in the United States, and arrogates to himself the
right to organize, but denies it to the working class. He, or
course, is a patriot, of the Mark Hanna stripe, all smiles and
benefcence when legislation is enacted for him and his brother
loyalists. but when an unbought and incorruptible congress
meets and performs some acts that make for the good of the
common herd and takes from the sef-styed patriots a little OF
the nnearned increment they have enjoyed in the past, they go
into paroxysms of passions and rail at such men a Wilson,
Bryan, and the leaders, honest leaders, of labor organizations.
The days of such men as Mr. Pope, however, are numbered.
The working people, through a benign providence and a fear
less government at Washington, are coming into their own.
There was considerable interest aroused in Washoe county
over the expected report of the grand jury. 1t was rumored that
some startling revelations were about to be made and several
bomb shells dropped. Well, the report has been made and con-
tains nothing of interest. 'The tamest ever is the general
verdict.
The report that Ole Elliott, of Reno, has financed Huertas
Mexican revolution is denied by Ole. 1t appears that Huerta
wrote Ole for $25 to get some upholstery work done on the throne
and got a second hand rug that used to be in the Golden hotel.
This will keep Huerta's feet warm during the winter.