The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-07-31

before he condemns the fellow VINO
dug the coal And at breakfast
when he sugars his coffee ne
ought to know that it was refined
by men working in a temperature o.
a hundred and twenty degrees And
the woman with the pretty artificial
flowers on her hat should not be
always unmindful of the little girls
VINO made those flowers, working
among the poisonous dyes.
And, so with a thousand other
things that contribute to our com
forts and our extravaganza.
In our civilization there is work
that involves much Of danger, pri-
walton and hardship At best the
workingman must work and there
are too many who eat the bread that
another has earned. And / want to
say that the bond of union between
the man who works iii the country
and the man who works in town
ought to be strengthened and not be
broken, for the cause Of labor,
whether in the fields or in factories,
is the cause Of humanity. The fac
tories are filled with boys from the
farm and the workingmen in the
cities are bound by ties of blood tC
their fathers and brothers back
home
g s.
In the sweat OF thy face Shalt
thou eat bread until thou returne5t
unto the ground. "
The struggle OF Labor is a ''strug-
gle upward through the night
struggle against those who would
take more than what is fair. only to
waste it in luxurious living, while
the toilers have the bare necessities
of life and often lack even that
s.
DO | write like an anarchist?
Well, sometimes I feel like throw
ing a bomb.
And let me tell you that some
thing is going to happen in this
country if we don't look out. One
of two things Will come, the masses
OF this country are going to be helped
or they are going to be oppressed.
They are going to get the sympathy
of the Government or they are going
to be enslaved by it. | rfean exact
ly what | say.
There is an organization of capt.
talists about which | know, whose
main object is to fight organized
Labor. Its representative was in
Georgia this year. know men to
whom he talked. He is not any
cheap skate, either. He is big
man. He is fighting the bin in Con-
gress that eXempts the Farmers I'm
ion and the Labor Unions, and SINH
lar organizations from the opera
tons of the Antitrust laws.
The organization which that man
represents is trying to kill the mea-
sure now pending so that men who
organize to better their condition
and get better prices for their CROPS
can be prosecuted under the Sher-
man law.
Senator Bacon was the author of
the bill, he and Congressman Bart
lett. 1t was known as the Bacon
Bartlett bill Since Senator Bacon )
death it has been incorporated as
an exemption by Senator Hokt
Smith in the Clayton antitrust bill
now pending in the Senate. Senator
Smith is fighting to keep it in the
bill, and though Bacon is dead the
spirit of mis- bill goes marching on.
=: s. s.
But about that organization that
is fighting the measure. Its plea IS
for the open shop It's purpose is
to crush the unions that have raised
the standard of living of the WORK
ingman and given better showing
to his wife and children.
s. 50 =
Now, conflict goes on forever.
From the days of Adam we have
fought. We fought England. We
fought for four years among our
selves Mexico is at war. All Eu-
rope is now threatened with the
greatest war that the world has ever
known.
And are we going to get ratified