Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12


union. l asked what he had under
his hat and told him to spit it out.
as this was free country. said,
II will tell you where stand on the
union question. Surprising you were
for me and wanted to quit.
There isn't law written by God or
man that would compel you to work
for me against your will. II there
were it would be slavery. Now sup
pose you were working for me at SIS
per week and Saturday night you
would say, Edwards, / want short
er hours and more wages" re-
ply, John, I am paying you all I
can afford to. You quit and in one
hour there are dozen applicants
just as good as you are, and willing
to work for the pay you have been
getting. l hire one Of them, Mon
day morning you come with your
bunch, call him scab, beat him up
and knock the front out of the store.
l have witnessed just such capers as
that in Chicago, St. Louis and Tomb
stone, Arizona. That is the part of
the unions I am against. None
other"
Lam a servant for the public. We
are all servants. Let us all be obed-
lent to good teaching. II we are not
satisfied with our hire, go elsewhere.
A servant must be obedient to his
master; not master obedient to his
servant. 1t is written, MAN and
money will rule The rich will get
richer and the poor will get poorer,
and the poor ye shall always have
with you"
A union is just as honorable as a
church or any other order so long as
it does not trample upon the rights
of others, for Gods law says one man
shall not trample another under his
feet. When man compels me to
hire him and fixes the wage and hour
scale and I must submit to it he is
tramping me under his feet. Such a
course will wind up in a war in less
than twenty years and money and
man will win out. II it doesn't the
bible is joke.
Just few words in regard to the
liquor question. One man said to
me, 1.-THE liquor question is all over
except the shouting" If that be
true, then the bible is wrong. Let
us see what it says in regard to this
question. From the beginning there
has been liars, drunkards and so on.
Christ says, II came not to destroy.
! came to fulfill. All power, both
heaven and earth, are given to me.
Hear We me. Not one little shall be
removed. He that addeth to shall
addeth to his misery, he that
taketh away shall be taken away
from his glory"
1t says for the priests not to appear
before their congregations in a stu
por, and the elders and deacons not
to be given to too much wine, and to
take little wine for the stomach's
sake.
Do you suppose that God ever in
tended for part of his children to
suffer the temptation of booze fight
ing and the others not. Would that
be a just God? If SO, it would be
like Dutch Ike. He had two sons
and one was good and the other bad.
When they opened the fathers will
one had the inside of the house and
the other the outside.
Thank God we are all in the same
house and under the same will. For
it says to be aware of false prophets.
They shall have their following and
build up great cities, but they shall
be cut down as by mighty whirl-
wind.
Now II some one can show me in
Gods law where liquor shall be done
away with and master be Obedient
to his servant, and politics and the
labor question to be taught from the,
pulpit, would be pleased to learn
in what part of the bible he will
take his text from. The bible is
everything or it is nothing. Christ
says, IRE are either for or against
me-"
Respectfully,
Z. Edwards.
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