The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-07-15
PLUNDERBUND TRICKS
Advocate Peace Oppose Seaman's Bill and Use
Corrupt Press to HOOdwink People

labor from the oppression Of com
fnercial despotism it is necessary to
be alert and always fighting.
One of the most tiresome and bla-
tant defenders of dishonest privilege
in this country is an illustrated week
ly known as Leslie's Weekly. This
contemplate sheet is nothing but the
spokeman for men who have only
been able to save themselves from
imprisonment by the use of tens of
thousands of dollars and the employ
ment of the best legal talent in the
United States, Whenever an attempt
is made to correct glaring business
abuses the editor of this sheet adj
monishes> caution. His leather lungs
and horse voice are raised every time
an investigation seems to be reaching
deep enough to expose any and all Of
those who dictate the words he puts
into black and white. But such pap
ers as Leslie's serve good purpose
unconsciousiy, whenever they oppose
anything vehemently you can be sure
there is something wirtuous about
the thing it is fighting, because the
time has long since elapsed when
such as they have had any prestige
with the initiated. Their whole ap-
peal is to the credulous. / have uues-
toned at least dozen people around
barber shops where Leslie's circu-
lates most freely and have yet to find
a man who could not see through the
policy of its news accounts and edi-
torials.
If it were not for the pictures and
iilustratiins Leslie's would create
about as much smoke as a moulder
of public opinion as bunch of fire.
crackers in front of Warsaw. It's
appeal is to the past, not the present.
awd its transparency is so thinly
veiled that even the unsophisticated
are BEGINNING to tumble to the fact
it is only an advertising effort to up
hold bad economic policies. The Piun-
derbund are fast losing ability to play
the newspaper end of their campaign
successfully. They would do much
better if they were more conserva-
tive in their language concerning
those who advocate reforms of which
they are the enemies.
It is only those who seem to fall
in line with public opinion that in
the end are formidable because when
they oppose a reform many people
are led to believe it is because the
reform is impracticable. but when Les
lies Weekly opposes this only signi-
fes that the PluAdebund is afraid
of the proposed measure because
they know it will be effective.
If was in doubt about the efficacy
of proposed remedy the first thing
would do would be to find how
Leslie's Weekly regarded the mea-
sure and If it was fighting the mea-
sure that would be enough for me to
form an opinion regarding the motive
of the bill and the worth of it as a
measure of reform.
What the Rockefellers consnmated
in Colorado should give the public a
good idea of what thev would do in
everv state in the union if large
standing army was organized and
they succeeded in naming the Presi-
dent and Cabinet of the United
States But they wish to 60 even
further if aliowed the P1underbund
expect to name the nominations OF
both parties. if possible, and then
select the one which suits them best
and change the form of voting in the
mean time If the Rockefellers are
successful at the next election in
elctink their Presidential candidate as
they so often have been in the past
both union and organized labor will
be removed from any representation
on the boards of authoritv. The ap-
pointment OF Walsh as Chairman oil
the Industrial Commission was a
body blow to the Plnnderbund's pur-
pose of keeping labor from gaining
any prestige in high places The how
of the editoSial scavengers of the
. nlutocratic press proves this bui
there is one great satisfaction to bs
! gained bv the Knowledge that without
tool of monopoiistic piracy in The
White House and in the Cabinet piu
tocracy cannot be arrogant. Their,
was never a greater fallacv than ths
| belief current among great man,
people that monopoly had the Gov
I ernment and the people at its mercy
: The Plunderbund exist solely BY suf
: ference and because there is yet I
considerable number Of people mis-
fakenlv welded to the opinion tha
: the Government has to comply Will
the wishes Of the plutocrats in ordei
I 10 keep the big business pirates from
starving the country into submission
Monopoly never shows any spunk ex
cept when the White House is occu
pied with man who fails in lin
with its purpose. It is down on ii
? knees begging and mud-sIinginR be
hind the cover Of plutocrafic publicitl
E bureaus.
! Labor needs TO watch closely 4
the next election to see that It is no
seduced into the support Of some on