The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-19
barometer of Public Opini0n
Ihc pnhIIc and Inhnr.

Editor World. / am one of the great middle
clasg which has bcen Ground hoty.rn tho mil
uouos OF labor and capital long that | feel
that can contain myself IN silence no longer.
In the first place am an American and a
fathcra came over in the Msyflower. leaving the
land OF their birth for the sake OF religious
freedom ana settling In wonderful America.
Three OF my great grandparents fought for
freedom Of government In the Revolutionary war.
My father fought In the Civil war for the free
dom ana equality OF man. The only reason !
was not with Teddy in the Rough Riders was
that ] couldn't get in, 20 help free the Cubans.
My son was one OF our army OF two million
which fought to save the world from the Huns
ana Is now one Of the American legion
II my fathers and son fought TO found our
country and preserve IL 4 believe | should have
voice In tho running Of It,
The only things my father left me we're "A
to work at a dollar day. but by hard work
and long hours did not stay at that wage long
! have worked In coal and metal mines and
mlls ana offices and at one time was member
OF the Western Federation OF Miners. I have
worked night shift for months at time and
know how the laboring man feels
By scheminR and saving have accumulated
a little property so that in late years things
have come a little easier. Today | am working
on "A salary for n less wage than the average
day laburer receives but " my boss wants ma
70 work Is hours in a pinch I'm there with
him. lie has only small business and some
months makes little more than do. lie and
belong to the same Masonic lodge and soon
| am going TO have the pleasure OF seeing him
ride the goat at the Elks Any time he gets "A
chance to do me a favor he does IT, so work
my best for him
Hs wife and mine are also the best OF friends
We employ hired girl" one who has been
with us for years and is like one OF the family
the "missus" helps her make clothes and she
loves our children almost much do
We have our own COW ana garden and chick
own repair work ana I'd like to see the color
OF the hair, red or otherwise, Of the man who
says | shall not because | do not belong to a
union.
l tell all this to show that am just plain
every day american with home and family
! am both an employer and an employc a
capitalist ana laborer, an American and lover
OF true freedom, one OF the public that has been
damned so long mat at last 1t demands that
capital ana labor both shall respect It first
and foremost.
The unions and public sentiment together
have forced the enactment Of laws that have
put labor IN the best condition the world has
ever seen and curbed big business that It
cannot get away with any rough stuff
Now much prosperity doth make the Work
ingman mad. lie thinks now he should have 1t
all ana no one should have any rights but him
self There should he freedom OF speech for
every radical In the country, but Bishop Quayle
must not only stick 20 the gospel but to the
right text The union shall say what the men
shall be paid and what hours he shall work
but is there a union In the country that will
guarantee the quality and quantity OF union
labor Is the union card a guarantee TO the
employer OF a skful workman in any union
except possibly one and that one Is think the
oldest in the country and one never heard OF
strikngl
Then the union stands for life liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness for you II you belong 10
the union but II not-you can starve and by
force be prevented from working. Sabotage
Is there union In the country that doesn't
practice Il and believes II is right to destroy
property and commit crime to gain their ends? u?
Tho union today kills ambition. What red
hlooded American will tolerate being told how
much work he can do and how far he can 30
II he has the ambition?
Every man OF You would be a capitalist to-
morrow II you could get there without work
but when a man tries to gain II by work you
put The damper on,
The railroad man wants the government that
a. Ntth In
rin for the railroad mans benefit Boys when
we take over the railroads they viii he run for
the benefit OF 100 per cent OF the peoplo ana
Do YOU railroad boys think your two years
work in dscredltns g3yerYnent mHnagsmsn' mar
did your cause any good You simply discred-
itCJ yourselves We wouldn't let you manage a
roller coaster after tho travelling public has
suffered the way Il has the past two years
Don't deny YOU dia Il gov your own men have
admitted il To me personally.
And the Cosi miners thought after the public
had taken the cold cure" it would let them
run the coal mines 10 suit themselves, Just
srnckc ihis i'm your pipes the world owes ne
man a living hut II YOU want TO 1--we then work
and tho harder YOU work the better you'N live
You say you are patriotic, but when the men
who fought Ca protcC; your home and mine from
the Huns across tho pond. whti these men want
10 sec law and order over here YOU bar them
from your unions Your patriotism lacks some
thIng-wc know not what You disclaim radical
tendencies and beg not to be called reds but
Judgment. II the man who wrote the resolu-
uons that came out IN Mondays World has not
red tendencies, then am cNftering with a bad
case OF COLOR blindness.
The only way YOU men will get on, from under
your yoke OF bondage is by hard work and
long hours You have lost the backing Of the
public by yeur cNtravagant demands, your radi-
cal talk and your Inefficient work
we. the public are going TO run this govern
ment for the good OF an the people and not for
the union alone which represent only 10 TO u
per cent of our population.
ship your reds 10 Russia where they belong
give an honest days work for an honest days
wage" cut out the radical talk and by hard
work and sane actions LET'S pull our country
through this soviet storm and give every man
a square deal whether union or non union or
ot the "he damned" public and make our
govorpment government Of the people, by the