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.