Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
FRANK P. WALSH TALKS
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ing you to toll too long, or whethe
you should have less than a livini
wage or to be protected against tn,
evil of arbitrary discharge. No hu
man being ought to have that power
When ii is exercised, it can never b.
exercised on behalf OF the whole
body polite, so that the way out is
through the way of education.
A Private Press Is Corrupt Press
want to say another thing t.
you, and that is that / believe as
firmly as | do that | stand upon this
platform that a private press is a
corrupt press. l don't mean that
there are not honest and earnest
men at the head of the great news
papers OF this country, but | do say
that a man that owns newspaper
always has some private financial
interests to be conserved; If he has
nothing else, he has his own, whici
depend upon the advertisers who
him his living; and it he de
for a cause to which his adj
is are antagonistic he knows
under the present system his
lit sing patronage will be with
@n and he will be deprived OF
livelihood. So that education il
na solution of industrial ills, and
the only education that is worth while
giving the people the drama of
ry-day life just as it is in indus
xplaining-giving the news of
the people live, etc, and | can
to you that all of Gods children
r,+ rNIn in,
circle where there is happiness
contentment, and even luxury
IA n you establish freepress in the
nited States of America. Gap
plause.)
The White Light of Publicity.
Why, my friends, we have a little
comm mission with small appropria-
tion that examines and points out
the condition of the lumber camps
in the coast states of the northwest
which without any legislation OF
anything else, Immediately exalts the
nd ton of these lumber camps
commission pointed out the de-
Nl2 conditions in the Pullmal
rs, showing where the employees
)arated that industry are not
ing enough to live on, and i'm
mldiatcly, without any law, but I'M
crt b. Lincoln, son OF the great
emancipation head Of the corporation
that has enslaved more negroes than
his father freed CIaughter) declared,
by stroke of his pen, that the men
should get their wages raised.
When we pointed out that the
hours of labor were in the most prof
table industry in the world-the
Standard Oil Company-ou action
was followed without force of law,
but simply by the white light with
an eight-hour day--at least that was
their declaration. When the awful
conditions We're pointed out in the
state of Colorado, when the awful
crimes that were being perpetrated
against the people of the state were
made known, the prison doors flew
open and John Lawson walked out
applause mot when we pointed it
out, but when it was pointed out to
the world. Within the last two
weeks the supreme court of Colorado
denounced the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company and drove it's tools from of,
flee. (Applause.) l might state that
we have just closed on of the most
remarkable cases in which | had the
privilege of bearing a humble part
the suit of two labor leaders for dam,
ages against coal operator for a
story that he bribed them with $21,-
600. It was hard to get publicity for
it. We tried that case for five long
weeks and by the white light of pub
Lefty and by inherent right, they
walkd from that court room vindi-
Gated men, and the labor movement
of this country we'll knows that in
the great southwest the coal indu-
try is based upon bribery, and crime
md perjury and violation of the law
Yan cannot find that in any newspa-
r in this country, but in paper op.
4 by the people such things
be published as they ought to
'l5shed, being as they are OF
= VITAL news interest.
What do we want to know? We
t want to read of men fighting
rh other, to preserve the traditions
some serofulous and decadent
royal family; we don't care to hear
about General This and General
That, manning somebody else on
the battlefield-we want to know
how the people live-what is their
everyday life, and in general to prof
1t as far as possible by the lessons of
history and make the people that
follow us benefit by our efforts to
advance the well-being of humanity
The Labor Press.
The only possible hope of this
country today is its labor press. The
Committee on Industrial Relations is
sues bulletins upon all the important
subjects to which it gives attention
and these bulletins are sure of pub
LEGATION in the labor press
hope that the labor press in this
country is thea forerunner of a free
daily press that will publish all the
news; that will have the best news
service that any papers have in the
United States of America, and when
they are established through the
power of the people-they will be
supported not only by workers in
crafts. but by large business men,
tenant farmers, landowners that are
not exploiters, etc, etc.-they will
have sufficient advertising patronage