r s tate pennSylvania "trfs "wn'-A score of boy. and JZ TlM " Bridgeport schools re & to attend sessions because of ,used ..on of School Board in barring o 'the Bible and reclt- hS ?he Lord's Prayer at opening lngJM The children Instead of '.uendlnB school waited upon John ifi ir the director who has opposed S! iroposltlon of Director Miles and while he cbunseled fcm o abide by the decision of the .Tr tv of the directors, they de X ed that they would only attend hnl when the Bible was restored. ?5nt. Tare back of the children, and the general sentiment Is against K. hoard's action, it Is believed that ?.prc?al meeting will be held to re consider. . UnnrV TrouKTnu Butler Her wedding day set and wests invited, Miss Emma Eyth Is in "Xinia. Her trousseau Is no the weddout Hence MISS .niui i'" hf r" jndM James M. Oalbralth, of the roily Court, asking that the guar dian be compelled to provide money Ttne trousseau. The young worn- n sets lorin in uer yc...."- - f, an heir-at-law to a large sum of tnnnev. DUl inai biio "" , Tl? $74. The guardian, it Is a- Wed. aisaiiiu --- - &e, and j she objects o this In- terference wun net r ..1 lllnrlnff Tnir. Shenandoah. Playing tag with little companions at St. Nicholas law mills, Elizabeth, the 3-year-old iiflii enter 01 jamen dicuhbu, aaugiuer r.M thn 4-vear- 3d .on of Owen Jones, had his two legs broken and was so badly bruis ed 1 about the body that he will die. The children, with four others, were slaying upon a lumber pile when P"'V ' i c v 19 ItirhPi nnd two large piecco, i --- 25 feet long, toppled over on the vlctuns, cruuuiins mo tw ana Fret Underground. Shamokln. Fire was discovered 900 feet underground, at the Cam eron Colliery, operated by the Sus- Pnni rnmnnnv. and as smoke began penetrating the mining chambers, an aiarm wa s"cu ou .n man in the dancer zone escaped to the Burface, after which a volun teer fire force was organized and a fierce battle with flames ensued. Ow ing to the scarcity of water, efforts of the men were greatly nanaicap-ped. f.in Flnirpr. nut WlnS, rtinatni. In t temntlfl K tO Catch. a hot liner while playing second base, for the North End Junior baspballj team against the Keystone dummo in h ,,.,.. . Inn of the city. Stephen Dowrlck, Jr., aged 14 years, had the miaaie nnger ui mo right hand broken off short at the second Joint, dropping at the feet of the boy, who held on to the ball. tagged his man, wno was BiemuiB tn BA.nnd votlrlnir tho atrin and mak ing the score 8 to 7, In favor of the North Enders. Then young uowncK picked me piece oi nnger uu me ground, put It In his pocket and ran home. Sportsmen Choose Officers. Pottstown. At the closing ses sion of the first annual State camp of the United SportBtnen of Penn-, sylvanla at Collegevllle, these offi cers were elected: President, How ard A. Chase, Philadelphia; vice' president, Oscar C. Thompson, Phoe nixvllle; treasurer, J. W.Criswell.Har-. rlsburg; recording secretary, Phil D. Davis, Pottstown; corresponding sec retary, William E. Meehan, FMia delphia. Harry E. Trumbauer, of Royersford, was awarded the stiver trophy cup, breaking 92 out of a hundred targets. Convicted Of Arson. Carlisle. A verdict of guilty was rendered by Cumberland County Jury here against Charles Sheaffer and Harry Martin, charged with burning at different times the large local manufacturing establishments known as the Axle Work and the Carlisle Manufacturing Company's frog shops, which caused the loss of over $200,-000.. Physician Acquitted. Pottsvllle. Prosecuted by the county medical society because he is not registered as a physician by the State Medical Council, although he Is practicing as a physician, a Jury acquitted Dr. C. C. Gallagher, of Coaldale. It was admitted that Gallagher has not passed a State ex amination, although he has a diplo ma from the Atlanta Medical Col lege. He Is a dentist and claimed the right to practice on that score. Killed Herself. Reading. The death of Mrs. An drew McCreath, a society woman of Harrisburg, who had been undergo ing treatment at a sanatorium on South Mountain, near Wernersville, was Investigated by the Coroner's office, when a verdict of suicide by drowning was rendered. Mrs. Mc Creath was in the habit of taking walks through the surrounding woods. Dies Of Lockjaw. Huntingdon. Andrew J. Tyson. a well known contractor of this county, deld of lockjaw, aged 68. A week ago, while working on a house at Barree Station, he fell from the roof and received the injuries which resulted In his death. . A few weeks ago his son. Station Agent Tyson, of Barree, was accidentally killed by falling under the wheels of a Penn sylvania freight train. Peaclirs Plentiful. Jersey Shore. In this section there is a big crop of peaches this year. This Is all the more surpris ing as It was generally believed that owing to the drought the peach yield would be very short. Peach grow ers agree that the fruit may be a little below par as far as lusclousness Is concerned, but cannot see that the lack of rain has affected their num ber or size. nope nr?nks, Miner Dead. Shenandoah. A rope broker on No. 5 slope at Kohlnoor colliery as a dozen mine workers were on their way up after finishing their work for the day. Two wagons dashed down the slope at a terrific speed, doing great damage and Instantly killing Timothy Ferguson, aged 23 years, and the mule he drove. The twelve men bad a miraculous escape. Auto Carnival. Media. The Automobile Club of Delaware County will hold a 1910 motor car carnival In Media. In Oc tober. The date has not vet been fixed. Arrangements are being made io nave it one of the biggest affairs oi me kind ever held in this section and many cars will be exhibited. Fighting "King Credit." Bangor. All the merchants of Bangor, East Bangon. Penargyl, Nazareth, Slatlngton, Allentown and Easton were represented In a district convention at Penargyl and were addressed by State Organizer Rlt tenhouse at a big meeting there on the subject of "King Credit." The merchants next step Is to do busi ness on a cash basis, they say. Engineers Scalded. Altoona. "The engine was unsafe and should never have been sent out," was the dying statement of Herbert S. Rishel. aired 33 n Ponn- i.vlvanla fireman, who was scalded to death when the crown sheet of his nglne dropped down while he was In front of the Are box, enveloping "in iu Beaming water and steam, which burned him from head to foot. Killed Ily Express. Mount Joy. Henry M. Kreldor, of ..uuicmiuwu, wnne working for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was struck By the Niagara Express, at Lenover. jna instantly killed. He served three years In the regular army, Having been stationed in the Philip- Crushed To Death. -1 York. Lister Philips. 23 ' years old, was crushed to death at New Holland, when six tons of rock fell from the side of a quarry In which he was working. Two other work men had narrow escapes from death. At the time of the accident Phillips with several workmen was drilliing a hole preparatory to a blast. He had no warning of the danger from over head and was unable to escape. Station Burned. Doylestown. Chalfonte station was destroyed by fire of a mysterious origin. It Is believed by the authori ties that thieves started the blaze to cover an traces of their work. The station ha been robbed several times tefore. Falling Coal Kills Miner. Shenandoah. John Sakalosky. aged '40. an experienced contract miner, was Instantly killed by a fall of coal at the William Penn colliery. Rrakfinan Killed. Tamaque. Michael " Madden, aged . - M"uciiniin niiu ncaa ing brakeman. was run down by cars here during the night while on his io report for duty and was in -lauiijr Killed. l)il'L I rmnr.'. I.1.. b.i I a a-..,. 'IlK-lll. Carlisle. Dickinson College open- uue nunarea- and twenty-Bev-enth year here, with the largest freshman class In the history of the -"uiiun. me great Influx of stu oints has compelled the college au- tr.ue t0 open old 8outn College or the accnmninf1nti.in ni . . WA u.BUJ IUIU- comers. Pastor A Census Supervisor. Lewtstown. George Joseph, a clergyman, has been appointed cen sus supervisor or me inirieema Pennylvanlft District, In which his' ministerial work during the paBt iinny yeum una vmeuy uuuu performed. Insane From Cigarettes. Pottvllle. 8moking for some time past from twelve to fifteen packs of cigarettes a day, George Butts, aged 26, went crazy here and w&3 committed to prison, violently Insane. Butts labors unler the hal lucination that he has been followed by scores of women and regiments of soldiers. Railroad Itoorirani Lancaster. The purchasers of the ittsburg, Johnstown, Ebensburg & Eagtern Railroad In Clearfield Coun- ly. Vh Uh una mA .a - i 'ast April, met In this city and re- luo ruuipsDurg ana capital being fixed at $300,000. X " Jj'inuiors consist or John C. Carter. Charles p. Miller, , . . vi iu my una county. Counterfeit $. Itllls. Easton. -Two Italians, who ref us- Ca tA irlvtt thai .nma . 1 - r. - - - . wore arresi- ea here for pawing counterfeit five dollar bUls on local merchants. The Government Secret Service was notl ned and will send a representative New Industries For Eauton. Easton. At the monthly meeting of the Easton Board of Trade It was anonunced that two new Industries had been secured for this city, one a laxicab manufacturing plant, the other a leather belt industry. Jo seph M. Hackott has donated the land for the two Industries. It was announced also that the committee annolnted for the purpose had 'rais ed $456,000 of the balf million guar antee fund that the board will create to aid in establishing indus tries here. Hoxf He Won Her. "Nettle," cried the enamored young man, "I love you and would go to the world's end for you." "Oh, no,- you wouldn't. James," re torted the sweot girl graduate. "The world, or the earth, as it Is called, is round like a ball; therefore it has no end." "Yes, I know," continue! the e. y. m., "but what 1 meant was that I'd do anything to please you. Ah, dearest, if you knew the aching void" "Now I am surprised, James," In terrupted the s. g. g "Nature ab hors a vacuum, and there Is no such thing as a void; but, admitting that there could be such a thing, how could the void you speak of be void if there was an ache in it?" "Oh, well," rejoined the young man, "at least I've the cash and property amounting to nearly $100, 000, and I want you to be my wife. So, there!" "James," rejoined the fair one (without a moment's hesitation, "since you put it in that light, I haven't the heart to refuse you. Let the wedding bells ring without un necessary delay." AH Imagination. Berk, aged four, insisted on run ning off to play with a little girl his age. His mother told htm that a dog might bite him If he didn't stay at home. He answered he would hit the dog with a stick. "Yes, said his mother, "but you had no stick." Berk replied: "And there wasn't any dog either." The Delineator for October. Dogs, horses, cattle, mice and even fish suffer from cancer. Organized Thought. Today there Is no such thing as organized thought. The thought of the world is a Jumble, a mass of unsystematized montnl effort, with no meaning, no sequence, no em. no deliberate result. It should not be so. It can be changed. Wa have organized thought, and that thcticht can be moral, healthful, cheerful, beautiful, successful. The world should have the benefit of this truth. It Is high time. The United States Is in a position to begin and within a generation or two, yes, In 10 years, some pretty plain indications will R88ure us that by organizing thought we have added to the Joy, peace and prosperity of our country. .Thought is ft definite force. It has been ask ed if there I any way to avail one self of it for one's advantage. We can. The average thought of the peo ple today Is what we may call desul tory, casual, 'Without any special aim and utterly out of hnrmony. Cora Linn Daniels, In September Nautilus , He Knew. Jinks I read an article yesterday which said that in proportion to the size of the body the mosquito has a better developed brain than the av erage man. Blinks More than likely. Even at Its smallest size the mosquito Is almost as big n bore as some men I know. In the list of the imports of this country bananas stand twenty-fourth in point of value. Poor Woman. "I am so sorry for Mrs. Flite," says the lady with the display of coral' rings. "She Is so unhappy since she came home from her sum mer trip. You know she left her husband at home alone all summer." "Ah!" significantly breathes the lady with the two-dollar barrette. "And did he carouse around and do things he shouldn't? These men!" "That's why she Is unhappy." ex plains the other lady. "He behaved himself, and she was so In hopes she might have a chance to get a divorce this fall." Bobby's Philosophy. Bobby's father and mother were dressing to go to the theatre and the youth was greatly distressed because he was not to be Included In the party. "Why can't I go, too?" he whim pered. "For a very good reason." return ed his father sharply, "1 only bought two seats." "Just think," said Bobby, trying to etlfle his tears, "if you hadn't married mother I might have gone along all rlht!" Brooklyn Life. nronkinc; The Sabbntli. MacDougall Yon's an awfu' like sight to see on the Sawbath. Angus! Angus And what awfu' like sight do ye see, MacDougall? MacDougall There's Alrchle an' his lass smiling and hurrying as If it was a weekday, just. Punch. Ala3l;a hnn Onn miles of water ways navigable for steamers, of which about '1. Ton miles nre Includ ed in the Yukon Kivxv nnd Its tributaries. ODDS AND ENDS. fit. Petersburg Is to spend $50, 000,000 on sanitary Improvements. Of the 825 gondolas in Venice, 250 belong to private parties. A 400-pound hnllbut was recently displayed In London. Hurlng the year 1908 the tele phone was adopted on 2,357 miles of railroad. The condition of the Cologne Cathedral Is again causing serious apprehension. Miss Hilda Martlndale has been made senior Inspector of factories for Ireland. The Importation of precious stones into India amounts to about $4,!M0, 000 annually. Evidence has been found that tobacco was cultivated 111 German gardens as early as 1570. People with an Income of $1,000 to $3,000 a year live In far more convenient houses In America than in England. The St John's River In Florida Is the only navigable river in the country that (lows In a generally northerly direction Into an ocean. Had Her Measure. Henderson Doesn't your wife find the telephone In your house a great convenience? HenpeeU Yes. But she doesn't like It half as much as she thought she would. You see. when she's us ing it, she has to listen half the time. Artificial silk manufactured by a new patent process Is one of the new shipments from England to America, and nppnrently a growing one. Why Living Is High. One reason why living Is high 1 because we are In an era of rising prices, world wide and apparently progressive to yet greater heights. Scholars attribute thla to increased gold production, multiplied demands of prosperity and a reckless spirit that does not count the cost of any Indulgence that one can afford. Another reason why the cost of living Is high Is because we live high. The rigid economics and sys tematic self-denials of former days are not now practiced; are not. In deed, necessary, even to those who amass wealth from most modest be ginnings. On the other hand, lav ish expenditure is the rule, and the budget of tho average family dis closes many forms of outlay that wore unknown or tabooed a genera tion ago. In the main this Is well enough. It Is all the accompaniment of pro press and better standards of living In spite of our increased outlays men get richer and get rich more quickly than they could possibly do 40 years ago. So the high cost of living is not reducing us to poverty or depriving us of our comfort - Not In Iliii Line. "How do I look this evening? queried the woman who was fishing for a compliment. "Don't ask me." replied the mere man, who was nothing If not practi cal. "Consult an oculist." Chicago News. Iown Bhlps approximately 100, 000.000 pounds of butter outside Its borders every year, the surplus prod uct over and above the home con st! mption. Pass thi& Breaks nr Neck. Carlisle. Mrs. Martin Wolf, of Holly Springs, this county, while standing- on a. box niki.. (rapes at her horns. fli tn ground and broke her neck, dying After Firebugs. York Eight cows and five horses. together with crops, were destroyed in a Are at Loganavllle. The blaze was of incendiary origin and started In the barn of William Lehman, a few miles from the sceae of the firs a week ago, when the stables of Wil liam Wolf were destroyed. That fire, bugs are at work In this section ol tba county Is the belief of farmers, who are watching with guns for a visit of the Incendiaries. The loss sustained by Mr. Lehman Is about $(,000. It won't cost you a penny to reach out a helping hand to a great army of honest, hard-working and deserving men and women. Just your moral support will Insure work, a living, and comforts which are now either partly or wholly de nied them. How so? Come on, let's have a look You've often been Importuned and many have been commanded by ad vertisement or otherwise to "refuse to buy anything unless it bears the union label." Looks harmless on Us face, doesn't It? It really Is a "demand" that you boycott the products made by over 80 per cent, of our American working men and women, who decline to pay fees to, and obey the dictates of the union leaders. It demands that you ask the mer chant for articles with the "union label," thus to Impress him with its Importance. It seeks to tell you what to buy and what to refuse. The demands are sometimes most insolent, with a "holler than thou" impudence. It demands that you take away tho living of this 80 per cent, of American workingmen and women. Is that clear? Why should a small body of work men ask you to help starve the larger body? There must be some reason for the "union label" scheme. Run over in your mind and remem ber how they carry on their work. During a discussion about working or striking in the coal regions, about 25,000 men preferred to work, they had wives and babies to feed. The union men said openly In their con vention that If the employers didn't discharge these men they (the uulon men) would kill them. So they dynamited about a dozen homes, maimed and crippled women and children and brutally assaulted scores of these Independent workers. The big boys of the union men were taught to pound the school children of the Independent men. How would you like to have your little girl short ly grown from the toddling baby who used to sit on your lap and love "Dad dy" pounded by some big bullies on her way home from the school where she had gone to try and please Daddy by learning to read? The little bruised face and body would first need tender care while you ponder the Inscription writ deep in your heart, by that Master and Guide to all human compassion, "Inasmuch as ye have done It unto one of the least of these My brethren ye have done It unto Me." Then perhaps you would drop to your knees and pray Almighty God for strength In your right arm to strike one manly and powerful blow for baby's sake, even if you went to death for it Helpless children were brought home, with faces black or bleeding from the blows and kicks of these fiends, teaching Independent Ameri cans that they must stop work when told and pay fees to the leaders of "labor." Thousands of men, women and children have been treated thus. From somewhere, Ob, Father of us all, we try to believe that You look with pitying eyes upon these brutal blows, cuts and scars on the many human bodies made in your likeness and image. They are beautifully and wonder fully made, each the dwelling place of a Divine Soul. Is it Your wish that they be crushed by iron shod heels, cut by knives or torn asunder by bullets and dyna mite? . May we venture to think that a long suffering patience Is extended In the hope that the men and women of America may some day wake to a realization of the awful cruelties per petrated by this spirit of oppression and that they will some time learn the lesson that the "sacred gift of hu man freedom and liberty" was given by God and must be defended evea to death itself. Our forefathers were used by tba Infinite God to establish our freedom in 1778, and our fathers gave freely of their blood and treasure to estab lish the freedom of th black. Now again It seems we are called upon to protect our brothers and ourselves from that old tlma inlrlt of ttrnnnv I which comes up from time to timo to I force people to obey tyrannous rules and bend the knee of tba Slav. In Wellston, Ohio, thirty Amer icans sought employment In a factory. They were seeking to earn food for their families. They were bombarded by rocks and pounded with clubs In the hands of union men. One of the injured, John Brannl ban, was taken to the city hospital with a broken Jaw, crushed skull and oiher cuts and bruises. He was the fatEer of two children, nnd was thought to be dying, rerhapa he did. I don't know, but I sometimes wonder what the children said to Mother when "Papy" didn't come home, and how they and the' little woman got any food, and how they could place their wrongs before their own Amer ican fellows. Mayhap sometime some kind per son will equip a home where the or phans and widows of the victims of the Labor TruBt may be cared for and fed. It would take a big home. It has been said there were 31 Americans, many of them fathers, killed In one strike, (the teamsters In Chicago) nnd over 6000 maimed, many for life. That's only one "lesson" of these bullies. There are literally thousands of cases wherein your fellow Amer ican has been assaulted, maimed or killed by these men. The same work Is going on day by day. Suppose you make a practice of picking out each day from the papers, accounts of bru tality to American workingmen who prefer to work free from the impu dence and tyranny of self constituted leaders (?) than to be always subject to their beck and call, pay them fees and be told by them when and where to work, and for whom. You will discover the same general conditions underlying all these dally attacks. In every case the worklngman pre fers to be free. He has that right. He then tries to go to work. He and his family sorely need the money tor food or he wouldn't run the risk of his life. Many such a man has wiped the tears away and quieted the fears of a loving wife, left with a kiss on her Hps, set bis manly Jaw and walked Into a shower of stones and bullets to win food for the loved mother and babies. A good many have been brought home on stretchers with blood oozing from nose and ears, some cold, while some gradually recover, and carry for life the grim marks of the "union label." They are your fellows, my friends, and yet you supinely read the ac counts and say "too bad." Have you grown so calloused that you care nothing for the sufferings of these men who need food and these helpless ones who rely on the life and strength of husband and father? Let us hope that soon you may be moved by a JuBt God to tlce In your might and by voice and pen, by vote and right arm you will do a man's part In protecting yourselvos and your brothers from this onslaught on American citizens. This cruel war fare Is carried on not always to raise wages, but to establish union con trol, kick out the Independent men and establish the "label." Unfortunately the "Labor move ment" which started many years ago honestly enough, has fallen under control of a lot of tyrannical, vicious "men of violent tendencies." There are too many to attempt to name. You can recall them. They Include men who have planned the murders of miners, teamsters, press men an 5 carpenters, shoemakers and independent workmen of all kinds. Many of thorn have escaped hanging by an outraged public only bocauBe Juries became terror stricken and dared not convict them. Some have been punished slightly and some, Including the principal offi cers of this nefarious crew are now under sentence to imprisonment but have appealed their cases. Right here some apologist rises to protest against "speaking thus of laboring men." Bless your dear heart, it isn't tho honest and real workman who does these thlugs. It Is the excitable ones and the toughs and thugs who don't work except with their mouths, but have secured control of too many unions. I don't even at tempt to specify tho criminal acts these persons have assisted or winked at in their plan for destroying fret workingmen and forcing men to stay In "the union" and banco under their control. Tho newspaper for the past 7 years contain almost dally accounts of th criminal, lawloss and tyranal Q Al .010! cal acts against American citizens and haven't told half the tale. Right here it becomes necessary to say for the ten thousandth time that there are scores of honest, law-abiding union men who deplore and are in no way responsible for the long Infamous rec ord of the "Labor Trust" under Its present management, but they don't seem to stop it. The men who manage, who pull the strings and guide the policy have made the record and it stands, as made by them. Examine, If you please, the record of a string of members of the Amer ican Federation of Labor and you will view a list of crimes against Amer icans, stupendous beyond belief. They defy the laws, sneer nt the courts, Incite mobs and are avowed enemies of the peaceable citizens of all classes. This band wields an iron bar over their subjects and drives them to Idleness whenever they want to call a strike or exact extra pocket money for themselves. Men don't want to be thrown out of work and lose their livelihood, but what can they do when the slugging and murdering committee stands al ways ready to "do them" If they try to work. The poor women and helpless chil dren suffer and no one dares present their case to the public. They must suffer In silence for they have no way to right their wrongs, while the notoriety-seeking leaders carry out their work. These men cannot thus force op pression on the weak and Innocent or use them to bring newspaper notlco to themselves and money to their pock ets unless they can "hold them In line." Therefore, with the craft of the fox and venom of the serpent they devise the "union label" and tell tho public to buy only articles carrying that label. Smooth scheme Isn't it? They extract a fee from every union man, and In order to get these monthly fees, they must hold the workers In "tho union" and force manufacturers to kick out all Inde pendent men. j Can anyone devise a more com plete and tyrannical trust? If allowed full sway, no Independ ent man could keep working In a free1 factory, for the goods wouldn't sell, no matter how perfectlythey be made. Then, when the factory has been forced to close and tho employes get hungry enough from lack of wages the workers must supplicate the union leaders to be "allowed" to pay their fines (for not becoming mem bers before) and pay their monthly fees to the purse-fat managers of the Labor Trust. Thereupon (under or ders) before the factory be allowed to start they must force the owners of the business to put on the "union label" or strike, picket tlje works, and turn themselves into sluggers and criminals towards the independent workers who might still refuse to bend the knee and bow the bead. In the meantime babies and moth ers go hungry and shoeless, but who cares. The scheming leaders are trained to talk of the "uplifting of la bor" and shed tears when they speak of the "brotherhood of man," mean ing the brotherhood of the "Skinny Maddens," "Sheas," "Gompors," et al., always excluding the medium or high-grade Independent workers. Perhaps you have noticed lately that the makers of the finest bats, shoes and other articles have stopped putting on the union label. Natural ly the Labor Trust managers have or dered their dupes to strike, lie Idle, scrap, fight, slug and destroy proper ty to force the makers to again put on "the label." But for some reason the buying publlo has been aroused to the Insults and oppression behind it, and in thousands of cases have re fused to buy any article carrying, what some one named the "tag of ser vitude and oppression." Th bound and gagged union slave Is fined from $5.00 to $25.00 It be buys any article not bearing the "union label." Nevertheless, be, time and again, risks the penalty and buy "free" good simply in order to help th fellow worklngman who 1 brav enough to work where h please wltbout asking permission on bended knees from th bulldoilng leader who Mek by every known method ot oppression and bat to goTru uiiu. If these poor wageworkers will thus brave fine and slugging to help out other men who seek to live a free life under our laws and constitution cannot you, reader, help a little? Will you reach out a hand to help an Independent workman earn food for his wife and babies? Or will you from apathy and carelessness allow him to be thrown out of work ana the helpless suffer until they pros trate themselves before this stupen dous and tyrannical aggregation of leeches upon honest American labor? The successor of Henry Ward Boecher In Plymouth Church, Brook lyn, says: "Union labor hatred for labor burns like n flame, eats like nitric acid. Is malignant beyond all descrip tion. But the other day, a woman representing a certain union visited many families In Plymouth Church asking them to boycott a certain In stitution. Alas, this union woman's hatred for non-union women burned in her like the fires ot hell." She was pitilessly, relentlessly and tirelessly pursuing the non-union women and men to destroy the mar ket for goods, to ruin their factory and to starve them out. In tho French Revolution only 2 per cent of the French people be lieved In violence. Tho OS per cent, disclaimed violence nnd yet the OS per cent, allowed tho 2 per cent, to fill the streets of Paris with festering corpses, to clog the Seine with dead bodies, to shut up every factory In Paris, until the laboring classes starved by the score. The small per cent, clement In the Labor Trust which hates and Eecka to destroy the large per cent, of Inde pendent Americans sends out letters declaring "free" industries unfair and tries to boycott their products. If they could bind every one It would bring suffering upon hundreds of thousands. Immeasurable ruin upon the country, and land It absolutely under control of the men now at tempting to dictate tho dally acts of our people and extract from each a monthly feo. There are babies, children, women and honest, hard-working and skill ful fathers who rely upon tho protec tion of their fellows, when they seek to sell their labor where they choose, when they choose, and for a sum they believe It to be worth. Every citizen having the rights, privileges nnd protection of a citizen has also tho responsibility of a citizen. The Labor Trust loaders may suavely "request" (or order those they can) to buy only "union label" articles, and you can of course obey tf you are under orders. Depend upon It, the creatures of the Labor Trust will, upon rending this, visit stores nnd threaten dire re sults unless all the things bear "the label." They go so far as to have their women pretend to buy things, order yards of silk or cloth torn off and va rious articles wrapped up and then discover "no label," and refuso them. That's been done hundreds of times and Is but one of the petty acts of hatred and tyranny. Let no one who reads this article understand that he or she Is asked to boycott any product whether it bear a uiiiuu muci ur uuu Line nas a constitutional right to examine the article and see whether its makers are Labor TruBt contributors and slaves or are free and Independent Ameri cans. I have tried to tell you something aooui inose wno are oppressed, vili fied, hated, and when opportunity of fers are attacked because they prefer to retain their own independent Amer lean manhood. These men are In the vast majority and include the most skillful artisans In the known world. They have wives and babes dependent on them. These men are frequently oppressed and have no way to mak their wrongs known. They are worthy of defense. That's the reason for th expenditure of a few thousand of dol lars to send , this message to th American people. Remember, I didn't say my "excuse" for sending It Th cans need no "excuse." C. W. POST, Battl Creek, Mich. N. B. Bom "parlor socialist" who know nothing ot th Russian Czar lam ot th great Labor Trust will ask right br: "Don't you bellev la th right of certain workmen to 'organize?' " Oh, yes, brother, when real workmen manage wisely and peacefullly, but I would challenge the right of even a church organization when Its affair had been seized by a motley crew of' heartless, vicious men who stopped industrles. Incited mobs to attack citi zens and destroy property In order to establish their control of communi ties and affairs, and subject every one to their orders and exact the fees. When you see work of this kind being done call on or write the prosecuting officers of your district nnd demand procedure under the Sherman anti trust law, nnd prosecution for con spiracy and restraint of trade. We have the law, but the politicians nnd many of our officers even while draw, lng pay from the people are afraid to enforce it in protection of our citi zens, and now tho big Labor Trust Is moving heaven and earth to repeal the law so their nefarious work may ue more sarely carried on. But You. Why don't you strike out and demand defense for your fel lows? Put your prosecuting officers to tho test nnd Insist that they do their sworn duty, and protest to your Con gressmen nud legislators niialnst th repeal of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. its repeal Is being pushed bv th La bor Trust nnd some blc canltnl trn.t. in order to give each more power to oppress. Do your duty and protest. In this great American Republic every one must be Jealous of the right of Individual liberty and always and ever resent the attempts made to gain power for personal aggrandizement. uniy the poor fool allows his lib-' erty to be wrested from him. home one asks "how about your own workmen?" 1 didn't Intend to speak of mv own nffalrs, but so long as the question Is almost sure to be asked I don't mind telling you. The Postum workers are about a thousand strong, men and women. nnd don't belong to labor unions. The Labor Trust has, time without num bers, sent "organizers" with money to give "smokers," etc.. and had their "orators" declaim the "brotherhood of man" business, and cry Bnlty tears describing the fearful conditions ot the 'slaves of capital" nnd all that. But the "confidence game" never worked, for the decent and high grade Postum workers receive 10 per cent, over the regular wngo scale. They are the highest paid, richest nnd oest grade of working people In the State of Michigan nnd 1 believe In the Lnitcd btates. They mostly own their own homes, nnd good ones. Their wages come 52 weeks In a year and are never stopped on the order of some paid agent of the Labor Trust, They have savings accounts In the banks, houses of their own and steady work at high wages. They like their dally oeetinmlnn in the works (come and ask them) and are not slaves, and yet the Labor Trust leaders have done their best to ruin the sale of their products and rorce tnem into Idleness and poverty. It would cost the workingmen of Battle Creek (our people and about 3000 others) from $1000.00 to $2000.00 a month In fees to send out to the leaders of the Labor Trust, if they would allow themselves to be come "organized" and Join the Trust Not for them, they keep the money, school the children and live "free." That's some comfort for white people. Once In a while oue of the little books "The Road to WellvlUe," we put In the pkgs. of Postum, Crape Nuts and Post Toastles, is sent back to us with a sticker pasted across It saying "Returned because It don't bear the union label." Then we Join hands and sing a hymn of prulso for the discovering by some one that our souls are not seared with the guilt of being con spirators to help bind the chains of slavery upon fellow Americans by placing added power In the hands ot th largest, most oppressive and harmful trust theworld has ever seen. When you seek to buy something look for th "union label" and speak your sentiment. That's an opportu nity to reach out a helping hand to th countless men and women In aO kind of Industry who brav bricks, stone and bullet, to maintain their American manhood and freedom by making th finest goods la America and which do not bear th seed of in dustriaj slavery, tbc "Uuiu Iwbel.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers