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This My Life i - I ^ strive to keep me 1n the sun, 1 pick no quarrel v ith ihe years, ^ Km with the fates—not even the one tn That holds ihe shears. few I take occasion by the hand; ^ 1 m not too nice ’twixt weed and f florae r; I 1 do not e»ay to understand; | I take mine hour. ^ The time is short at best. I push light onward wniie I may; I open to the w inds my breast. And walk the way. A kind h^art greets me here and there; I hide from it my doubts at d fears, k I irudge. and say the path is fair Along the years. I —John Vance Cheney in Independent. I I r (Copyright. 1S04. by Daily Story Pub. Co t “My dears.” said Mrs. Clark, looking tip from a letter she had been read ing. “Mollie Mitford is coming to pay its a visit. She will be here next week.'’ “But, Mamma," said Jane, with elon gated visage, “Uncle Thomas will Le ' here then." “There’s no danger.' replied Mrs. i Clark, placidly, “Mollie is crushed. Site's not designing." Jane shrugged her plump shoulders and Lydia turned up her pretty nose. ' but Mrs. Clark heeded not these man ifestations of disagreement and went on with her breakfast. It was Mrs. Clark’s plain duty in life to prevent designing women forcibly marrying her brother-in-law. “He is | not fitted for the matrimonial state,’ j she would say to friends and when ; Captain Bascom spent his time at her snug cottage, as he always did be- ; tween voyages, lie was carefully guarded against feminine attack. A rampart of sister-in-law and nieces sheltered him from even a glance from some spinster and while he honored : the cottage with his presence it was ! “ware hawks” to all unmarried la dies. They never crossed the thresh old of the Clark residence. Captain Bascom liked his sister-'r law and his nieces and enjoyed h visits though he was bored at tin: over the presence of ancient matrons who were occasionally invited to tea. He sometimes asked, plaintively, if there were no well favored young women in Pugsford, but as he never received a satisfactory answer he doubtless imagined that well favored young women were not indigenous to Pugsford and that thoce whom he occasionally saw on the street were . strangers. captain uascom had two thousand . pounds invested in consols. Of a ' verity this sum would com 2 to the two Miss Clarks on the captain's death, provided—but then. Mrs. Clark was resolved there should he no “provid ed” if she could help it. Hence mar- ! riageable and well favored spinsters I were rigidly excluded from the Clark ! invitation list duriug the captain's stay. With Miss Mitford it was different. She was not by any means bad look- I ing nor unattractive, but she was crushed. Years before she had been engaged to he married and on the wedding day the groom had disap peared as if the earth had swallowed him. It was entirely proper that Miss | Mitford should be crushed, and crush ed she was. Young girls viewed her with intense interest as having a halo of romance around her head and spin sters while averring that it served her right for putting any sort of trust in man admitted she was most becoming ly crushed in her manner. It was an odd coincidence that Miss Mitford and Captain Bascom should come down from London in the same carriage and become acquainted on the j journey, but. Mrs. Clark gave little ! weight to this happening. She did. i however, note a change in Miss Mit fords manner. There was a faint gleam of hopefulness about her which puzzled Mrs. Clark. Miss Mitford had long ago forsworn man. r~ l it was ! scarcely possible that she had become I interested in someone. That some- I thing had happened. Mrs. Clark felt ! sure, and she resolved to watch close- ' ly for developments. The captain was as of yore. He shook the house with his roars of laughter and joked with his nieces. He drank with gusto the j howl of punch which Mrs. Clark, with | prayers for forgiveness, mixed with her own hands. Mrs. Clark went to bed relieved. Evidently Miss Mit ford’s change of manner did not re sult from anything the captain had said to her in the railway carriage. In the morning the development r ■ > I . , ' *1 ’Ur*®* I “There’s no danger,” replied Mrs. Clark, placidly, “Mcllie’s crushed.” came. Mrs. Clark beheld Captain Bas eom and Miss Mitford talking ear nestly in the parlor and Miss Mitford ■was wiping tears from her eyes. A conference was held. Again were Jane’s plump shoulders shrugged and again Lydia’s pretty not* upturned. The Sat was pronounced Miss Mit ford was to go. In the evening Jane came breathlessly upstairs. She was passing the parlor and had overheard the captain say to Miss Mitford, “Say yes, my dear.” That was all. but it was enough aud Mrs. Clark felt that the whole edifice she had so carefully built about those two thousand pounds was toppling to the ground. Miss Mitford left early the next morning. What Mrs. Clark said to her man knoweth not. but a woman can get rid of a woman when she so desires in a way that is not chroni cled. Mrs. Clark saw her go and drew a breath of relief. But the house Mrs. Clark had build ed about those two thousand pounds rested on the sand. That evening ! Captain Bascom announced that he j was going to London the next morn- j ing. “When he goes. I'll go. too.” said j Mrs. Clark; there was fi.glit in Mrs. j Clark. Captain Kascom took the 9 a. m. j Was wiping tears from her eyes. train for London. Mrs. Clark took the 10 a. in. train, and on her arrival in London was driven directly to the docks, where lay the captain's steam- i er. “You’ve just missed ’im.” said the j mate. i:i answer to her enquiry for the j captain. “ 'E’s took a cab and gone habout a half hour ago.” He, however, remembered the ad dress given by the captain to the cab | driver, and Mrs. Clark re-entered her j cab. “He’s taken lodging in Southwark. ! my dears,” she said, with set face. “He wants to he near that designing baggage. I’ll break up her game.” It was an unpretentious house in Southwark at which the cab stopped. ar.d Mrs. Clark, finding the captain was within, entered. “ ’E’s hupstairs,” said the girl who opened the door. "You can walk hup.” mainly there was a woman s voice coming from the room which was designated as containing the captain, and Mrs. Clark shuddered and glanced at her daughters. It was too late, for the captain himself opened the door and beckoned them in. Miss Mitford knelt by a bed and a thin, emaciated man held her hand. “That's her lover.” whispered the captain to Mrs. Clark, “the fellow who cut and run the day he was to marry her. It seems there was some money missing in a banking house where he was a clerk and they sus pected him. His uncle, a proud old stick, made the loss good and told him to leave England. He went to Africa, up the Haut Congo, and saw nothing 1 but, niggers and malaria for ten years. . Well, after he'd gone they found the robber but they never found the lover. He was among the niggers. He was brought down to London to die and I look him on my steamer so he could get a breath of God's air. He told me the whole story and when I met Miss Mitford in the railway carriage I iemembered the name and I found out she was the woman. I managed to get her to come to see him and it’s all right. His uncle’s dead and left him his money so they can get mar ried when he gets well.” Mrs. Clark walked over to Mis^ Mi* ford. “Dearest Mollie.” she said, “we will t'M.e him out to Pugsford. He’ll get well quickly in that fresh air.” “She’s a sweet woman.” said Mrs. Clark as she and her daughters left '1 e house. “There’s nothing design ing about Mollie.” %__ Taught Oyama to Shoot. Twenty-five years ago Horace Fletcher taught Marquis Oyama how to shoot. Fletcher had published a 1 pamphlet on how to shoot with a rifle and copies of It reached Japan. The ( author was in that country shortly afterward and was sent for by Mar quis Oyama. then minister of war. Fletcher gave him lessons. He says | that whea Oyama first hit a moving j object—a teacup thrown into the air— i he “capered about and screamed in his delight like an oxciisd schoolboy.” » , HIS STEAK WAS READY. Sarcasm of the Wife Not Wasted on the Delinquent Husband. Sarcasm loses nothing 1/ awaiting the psychological moment for its ua terance. Also it oftentimes is most fraught with the sharpness of a two edged sword when it is contained in a simple statement of fact. A husband given to periodical looks upon the cocktail when it contains a cherry, his glance at such times dwell ing thereon for two or three success sive days without interruption, arose one morning recently with a hcnd out of all proportion to his hat measure, and a throat that felt like a limekiln. No explanation was needed when lie told his wife he was going out for a moment to get rid of the olive green taste in his mouth; he would be back right away. All she said was: “Bring a steak home with you for breakfast.” He went to a cocktail dispensary and got his brace. As ho was going out he met a friend, who told him he would feel better if he had another. He did feel better, so much better that he was prevailed on further to improve the state of his physical and mental being by a third diving after a cherry. He did not see his home for two days. Again, one morning he awoke with iron hands pressing into his head ami Ins tongue cleaving to the roof of liis mouth. His wife heard him stirring and went to the door. “Your steak is ready,” she said. GRAPES FRESH ALL WINTER. French Device Preserves Them for the Palate of the Epicure. A clever French process by which vine growers in France are able to market fresh outdoor grapes all i through the winter is thus described, i Bunches of the finest grapes when ripe in autumn are cut in such a way that to each hunch a piece of the vine five or six inches long remains at tached. From this piece the stems of the hunch hang, an arrangement vital ly necessary to the success of the op eration. A large number of w ide-morWi bot- j ties, filled with water, is ranged in a ; cellar and in the open end of each is i inserted the pieces of l ine stem, the j hunches of grapes hanging outside. j The grapes do not touch the water, 1 but are thus supplied with moisture 1 through the vine stem, which is ini- ! mersed in water. By this process choice varieties of table grapes are j kept in perfect condition for the whole j winter. The temperature of the cellar is uni- [ form and moderately low and care is j taken daily to supply the bottles with 1 the water lust by evaporation. Fruit thus carefully tended is somewhat costly, but there are many patrons who willingly pay $2 a bunch for the delicacy of fresh grapes in midwinter. Revival of the Album. The photograph album is about to be restored to popular favor. For (he past ten years it has been relegated to the garret, while people have hung the pictures of relatives and friends ! in airy bits of wire known as the pho- ; tograph holder, interjected into stray \ corners of bureaus or dressing tables | and generally maltreated them and al- ! lowed them to be subjected to the dust 1 and grime of the daily atmosphere. The now general use of the camera j has helped to restore the ence passe picture album to its former dignified position on the parlor table. The new photograph albums are dif ferent from those of the days of long ago. They are far more artistic and easy to handle. Sometimes they are made of fine leather, sometimes of soft kid, but at all events they are not ' so likely to jar upon artistic sensiblli- ! ties as did the velvet and plush af fairs which were once the pride and adornment of the parlor tables of al* well-regulated households. Raconteur. When Uncle Jabez makes a Joke, it's mighty hard to tell ’Jos what a feller ought to do. ’Cause if you laugh ’lore he gets through It riles him up a spell. An’ then a dieadful silence comes; it's minutes till it’s broke. Paw holds his breath Skeered half to death. When uncle makes a joke. When ordinary people tell us riddles, there is fun. But when folks happen to be rich It's hard to tell which thing is which That's proper to be done. An’ paw. he says, if Jabez overlooks us we’ll be broke. We must laugh tight And be polite When uncle makes a joke. An’ so. in order not to take a chance, however small. Paw nas collected the whole lot' An' told ’em over till we’ve got To know ’em one an’ all. An’ now- we laugh exactly when a certain word is spoke. Maw needn’t nudge. Paw needn't budge, When uncle tells a joke. — Washington Star. Low Prices in Philadelphia. An interesting and amusing instance of business acumen on the part of a German butcher in Philadelphia is fur nished by a gentleman in that city. "One day,” says this gentleman, “I inquired of the butcher the price of sausage.” “ ‘Sausage iss sixteen cents a pound,’ replied he, after a moment’s hesitation; ‘but to-day I haven’t no sausage already.’ “Whereupon I asked why. If he had not the goods he should quote a prieo thereon.” “ ‘Der question iss easy to answer,’ replied he, without a suspicion of a smile. ‘If I had some of dose sausage don der brice would be dwendy cents, yes. But I haf no sausage, no; so I j makes der brice low. It gifes me a reduekshun und it costs me uod dings.’ ” Not Actuated by Generosity. A precocious youngster of 5 years, living on the Park Slope, has a little sister, with whom he is compelled to divide his gifts, very much to his dis like. The little girl generally comes out at the small end of the horn, and therefore, when, one day recently, ho was noticed eating the smaller of two applies that had been given to him, it excited the comment of his mother. “How did you hapepn to give Elsie the big apple and keep the little cue for ycurself? Mamma is glad to see ’ her little boy growing generous.” “There was a worm in the big one,” nonrhalanUy -eplied Johnny.—Brook !yn Eagle. Fond of Fresh Air. All the Danish beauties get out and skate and enjoy the air. They think nothing at all of being out in the open for hours and hours at a time. It is their existence. It is a severe cask/- ot illness which keeps them in the i.ouse at all. “No matter how carefully you train your boys.” remarked Uncle Allen Sparks, "when they grow up to be men they’re likely to go into politics, just thy same."—Chicago Tribune. What Passengers Leave. I.ast year forgetful passengers left in trains on the London & Northwest ern railway 417 hats, caps and bon nets, <’>17 umbrellas, nine sunshades and 191 walking sticks, besides heaps of rugs and bags. Roast Swan. Roast swan was a holiday dish in England last year with those who could afford it. A fifteen pound bird cost about $lo. The flavor of the flesh is said to be a blend of goose and hare. Unwitting Distinction. A Scotch minister was in need of funds; and thus conveyed his inten tions to his congregation: “Weel, friends the kirk is urgently in need of siller, and, as we have failed to get money honestly, we will have to see what a bazaar will do for us.”—Lon don Tit-Bits. Berlin has ten homes for poor girls where the charge for lodging and light is $1.50 to $2.50 a month, and for board and lodging $10 a month. For the Amateur Nurse. When administering medicine, if the bottle is not marked, it is safest to use a glass measure. A tablespoonful is equal to half an ounce; and a tea spoonful of one drachm, or the eighth part of an ounce. When a man wears his piety as an i ornament you can depend on its be ing „aste. If vinegar would preserve morals some men are sour enough to save the world. Wanted One Unsophisticated. That man must have been a wag who. when advertising in a matri monial paper for “a nice young girl, of affectionate disposition, willing to make a good-looking bachelor happy,” added the words, “Previous experience not necessary.”—London Answers. In some of the London schools the boys as well as the girls take lessons in cooking, in view of the possible usefulness of such knowledge to sol diers, sailors or colonists. Nervy Robbers* A band of robbers » succeeded in stealing a quantity of valuable gold quartz from a mine at Bendigo, New South Wales, though they had to climb 7,OOP feet of ladders to accom plish the theft. . $100 on a Full House. A full house greeted Dr. GrifP.n Sun day morning at the M. E. church at the quarterly meeting service. One hundred dollars was raised to meet unpaid bills.—Richfield (N. Y.) Mer cury. Inspect Dog Meat. In the last report concerning the number of animals examined by the official meat inspectors in Germany, 762 dogs are included. Whether this means that dogs are eaten in that country Is not explained. In Tunbridge Wells, England, a man read in his Bible the passage: “And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off," and at once went into his yard, took a cleaver and chopped his right hand off. Notice. The Hlckstown Debating society an nounces as its subject for next Friday night, “Which is the hardest, to mak** a small boy go to bed at night, or to make him get up in the morning?’’— Cleveland Leader. Benefit cf Warm Baths. Warm baths are the most effectual means of keeping the skin clean and healthy. The temperature should bo 92 to 9S degrees Fahrenheit. i»void prolonged immersion and rub the skin well. Result of Boycott. The only place in the United States that guarantees freedom from strikes, lockouts and labor warfare is Battle Creek, Mich. The Btory? The work people, mer chants, lawyers, doctors and other citi rens became aroused and indignant at the efforts of the labor unions through out the country to destroy the busi ness of one of our largest industries— the Postum Cereal Co., Lt’d. and at the open threats in the official union pa pers that the entire power of the Na tional and State Federations of Labor was being brought to bear to “punish’’ the Industries of Battle Creek, and particularly the Postum Co. This sprung from the refusal of C. W. Post to obey the “orders” of the unions to take the Postum advertising away from various papers that refused to purchase labor of the labor trust— the unions. Mr. Post was ordered to join the Anions in their conspiracy to "ruin” and "put out of business” these pub lishers who had worked faithfully for him for years and helped build up his business. They bad done no wrong, but had found it inconvenient and against their best judgment to buy labor of the labor trust. It seems a rule of the unions to conspire to ruin anyone who does not purchase from them upon their own terms. An inkmaker or papermaker who failed to sell ink or paper would have the same reason to order Post to help ruin these publishers. So the ped dler in the street might stone you* if you refused to buy liis apples; • the cabman to run over you if you refused to ride with him; the grocer order the manufacturer to discharge certain people because they did not patronize him, and so on to the ridiculous and villainous limit of all this boycott nonsense, in trying to force people to buy what they do not want. If a man has labor to sell let him col! it at the best price be can get just as he would sell wheat, but he has no right to even intimate that he will ob struct the business, or attempt its ruin because the owner will not purchase . e x. i__ V 1 14 1 Ul. The unions have become so tyran nous and arrogant with their despot ism that a common citizen who has some time to spare and innocently thinks he has a right to put a little paint on his own house finds he must have that paint taken off and put on again by “the union” or all sorts of dire things happen to him, his em ployer is ordered to discharge him. his grocer is boycotted if he furnishes him supplies, his family followed and insulted and his life made more mis erable than that of a black slave be fore the war. If he drives a nail to repair the house or barn the carpen ters’ “union” hounds him. He takes a pipe wrench to stop a leaking pipe and prevent damage to his property and the plumbers’ “union” does things to him. He cannot put a little mortar to a loose brick on his chimney or the bricklayers’, plasterers’ or hod carriers’ “union” is up in arms, and if he carelessly eats a loaf of bread that has no “union” label on it the baiters’ ’’union” proceeds to make life miser able for him. So the white slave Is tied hand and foot, unable to lift a hand to better himself or do the needful things, with out first obtaining permission from « t . • i._.1 -L._:_ tyrant of some labor union. It would all eeem rather like a comic opera if it did not rob people of their freedom; that kind of work will uot be permitted long in America. Some smooth managers have built up the labor trust in the last few years, to bring themselves money and power and by managing workmen, have succeeded in making it possible for them to lay down the law in some cities and force workmen and citizens to “obey” implicitly, stripping them right and left of their liberties. They have used boycotting, picket ing, assaults, dynamiting of property and murder to enforce their orders and rule the people. They have gone far enough to order the President to re move certain citizens from office be cause the “unions” weren’t pleased. That means they propose to make the law of the unions replace the law of this government and the union lead ers dominate even the chief Execu tive. This is a government of and for the people an'* no organization or trust ehall disp.. ?e it. But the unions try it every now and then, led by desper ate men as shown in their defiance of law and support of lawbreakers. The “uniou” record of assaults, crippling of men and even women and children, destruction of property and murder of American citizens curing the past two years is perhaps ten times the volume of crime and abuse perpetrated by slave owners during any two years previous to the civil war. We are in a horrible period of lethargy, which permits us to stand Idly by while our American citizens are abused, crippled and murdered in dozens and hundreds by an organiza tion or trust, having for its purpose. thrusting what it has to sell (labor) upon us whether or no. Suppose an American in a foreign city should be chased by a mob, caught and beaten unconscious, then bis : mouth pried open and carbolic acid 1 poured down his throat, then his ribs ; kicked in and his face well stamped with iron nailed shoes, murdered be* ; cause he tried to earn bread for bis [ children. By the Eternal, sir, a fleet j of American men of war would assem j ble there, clear for action and blow ; something off the face of the earth, if reparation were not made for the blood of one of our citizens. And what answer do we make to the appeals of the hundreds of widows and orphans of those Americans mur dered by labor unions? How do we | try to protect the thousands of intelli gent citizens who, with reason, prefer not to join any labor union and be subject to the tyranny of the heavily paid rulers of the labor trusts? Upon a firm refusal by Mr. Post to join this criminal conspiracy a gen eral boycott was ordered on Grape Nuts and Postum all over the eoun ! try, which set the good red blood of our ancestors in motion, bringing forth the reply that has now passed into history: “We refuse to join any conspiracy of organized labor to ruin publishers, nor will we discharge any of our trusted employes upon the orders of any labor union. If they can make their boycott effective and sink our ship, we will go down with the captain on the bridge and in com : mand.” j. ms set me writers in iauw papcia crazy and they redoubled their abuse. i Finally one of their official organs came out with a large double column in denunciation of Battle Creek, call ing it “a running sore on the face of Michigan,” because it would not be come “organized” and pay in dues to their labor leaders. The usual coarse, villainous epithets common to labor union writers wtre indulged in. The result was to weld public sen timent in Battle Creek for protection. A citizens’ association was started, and mass meetings held. Good citi zens who happened to be members of local unions, in some cases quit the unions entirely for there is small need of them there. The working people of Battle Creek are of the highest order of American mechanics. The majority are not union members, for practically all of the manufacturers have for years de clined to employ union men because of disturbances about eleven years ago, and the union men now in the city are among the best citizens. No city in the state of Michigan pays as high average wages as Battle Creek, no city of its size is as pros perous, and no city has so large a pro j portion of the best grade of mechanics who own their own homes. Sc the work people massed together with the other citizens of the organi zation of the Citizens’ Ass’n with the following preamble and constitution: Whereas, From 1891 to 1894 the strikes Instigated by labor unions in Battle Creek resulted in the destruc tion of property and loss of large sums of money in wages that would have been expended here; and. Whereas, These acts caused serious damage to the city and in a market way delayed its progress at that time; and, _ ai ___1 on i xi_ wnereas. oimo iuc iuv citizens have been enabled, by public sentiment, to prevent the recurrence of strikes and labor union disturb ances which have been prevalent else where; and, Whereas, The employers of this city have steadfastly refused to place the management of their business under the control of labor unions, but have maintained the highest standard of wages paid under like conditions any where in the United States, and here by unanimously declared their intent to continue such policy; and the em ployes of this city, a large percentage of whom own homes and have fami lies reared and educated under condi tions of peace and the well-earned prosperity of steady employment, have steadfastly maintained their right as free American citizens to work with out the dictation and tyranny of labor union leaders, the bitter experience of the past offering sufficient reason for a determined stand for freedom; and, i Whereas. The attitude of the citi- I zens on this subject has been the i means of preserving peaceful condi- i tions and continuous prosperity, in j marked contrast to the conditions ex- i isting in other cities suffering from the dictation of trades unionism; it is j therefore Resolved, That the continuance of j peace and prosperity in Battle Creek j can be maintained, and the destructive work of outside interference avoided j under the combined effort and action of ail our people, by the formation of j a Citizens’ Association, CONSTITUTION. Article 1.—Name. Article 2.-—Objects. First—To insure, to far as possible, j i: I- ' J a permanent condition of peace, pros perity and steady employment to the people of Battle Creek. Second—To energetically assist in maintaining law and order at all times and under all conditions. Third—To protect its members In their rights to manage their property and to dispose of their labor In a legal, lawful manner without restraint or in terference. Fourth—To insure and permanently maintain fair, just treatment, one with another, in all the relations of life. Fifth—To preserve the existing right of any capable person to obtain employment and sell his labor, without being obliged to join any particular church, secret society, labor union or any other organization, and to support all such persons in their efforts to re sist compulsory methods on the part of any organized body whatsoever. Sixth—To promote among employ ers a spirit of fairness, friendship and desire for the best interests of their employes, and to promote among work men the spirit of industry, thrift, faith fulness to their employers and good citizenship. Seventh—To so amalgamate the public sentiment of all of the best citizens of Battle Creek, that a guar antee can be given to the world of a continuance of peaceful conditions, and that under such guarantee and protection manufacturers and capital ists can be induced to locate their busi ness enterprises in Battle Creek. Then follows articles relating to membership, officers, duties, etc., etc., etc. This constitution has been signed by the great majority of representa tive citizens, including our workpeo ple. a number or manufacturers rrom other cities, where they have been suffering ail sorts of indignities, in convenience and losses from the gen eral hell of labor union strikes, pick eting, assaults and other interfer ence, proposed to move, providing they could be guaranteed protection. The subject grew in importance un til it has reached a place where abso lute protection can be guaranteed by the citizens of Battle Creek on the following broad and evenly balanced terms which guarantees to the work man and to the manufacturer fair ness, justice, steady work and regular ity of output. The newcoming manufacturer agrees to maintain the standard rate of wage paid elsewhere for like serv ice, under similar conditions, the rate to be determined from time to time from well authenticated reports from competing cities. The tabulated wage reports issued by the Government Department of Commerce and Labor can also be used to show the standard rate, and it is expected later on that this government bureau will furnish weekly reports of the labor market from different centers, so that the workman whe* he is ready to sell his labor and the employer when he Is ready to buy, may each have reliable information as to the market or ruling price. l ne newcommg manuiaciurer aiso agrees to maintain the sanitary and hygienic conditions provided for by the state laws and to refrain from any lockouts to reduce wages below the standard, reserving to himself the right to discharge any employe for cause. The Citizens’ Association on its part agrees to furnish, in such numbers as it is possible to obtain, fir3t-class workmen wTho will contract to sell their labor at the standard price for such period as may be fixed upon, agreeing not to strike, picket, assault other workmen, destroy property, or do any of the criminal acts common to labor unionism. Each workman re serving to himself the right to quit work for cause, and the Citizens’ As sociation further pledges its mem bers to use its associated power to enforce the contracts between em ployer and employe, and to act en masse to uphold the law at all times. The new industries locating in Bat tle Creek will not start under any sort of labor union domination whatso ever. but will make individual con tracts with each employe, those con tracts being fair and equitable and guaranteed on both sides. Thus from the abuses of labor unions and their insane efforts to ruin everyone who does not “obey” has i evolved this plan which replaces the old conditions of injustice, lockouts, j strikes, violence, loss of money and ; property, and general industrial war- j fare, and inaugurates an era of perfect j balance and fairness between em ployer and employe, a steady eontinu- I ance of industry and consequent pros perity. The entire community pledged by public sentiment and private act to I restore to each man his ancient right to "peace, freedom and the pursuit o* happiness.” Other cities will be driven to protect their workpeople, merchants and citi zens as well as their industries from the blight of strikes, violence and the losses brought on by labor unionism i run amuck, by adopting the "Battle Creek plan,” but this city offers in dustrial peace now, with cheap coal and good water, first-class railroad facilities and the best grade of fair, capable and peaceable mechanic* known. Details given upon inquiry of the “Secy, of the Citizens’ Assn.” Identification. The public should remember that there are a few labor unions conduct' d on peaceful lines and In proportion as they are worthy, they have won es teem, for we, as a people, are strongly in sympathy with any right act that has for its purpose better conditions for wage workers. But we do not for get that we seek the good of all and not those alone who belong to some organization, whereas even the law abiding unions show undeniable evi dences of tyranny and oppression w’ben they are strong enough, while many cf the unions harbor and encourage criminals in their efforts to force a yoke of slavery upon the American people. As a public speaker lately said: “The arrogance of the English King that roused the fiery eloquence of Otis, that Inspired the immortal declaration of Jefferson, that left War ren dying on the slopes of Bunker Hill, was not more outrageous than the conditions that a closed shop would force upon the community. These men burst into rebellion ‘when the king did but touch their pockets.’ Imagine if you can their indignant pro test had he sought to prohibit or restrict their occupation or determino the conditions under which they should earn their livelihood," and to assault, beat and murder them, blow up their houses and poison their food if they did not submit. The public should also remember that good, true American citizens can be found in the unions and that they deprecate the criminal acts of their fellow members, but they are often in bad company. Salt only hurts sore spots. So, the honest, law-abiding union man is not hurt when the criminals are de nounced, but when you hear a union man "holler" because the facts are made public, he has branded himself as either one of the lawbreakers or a sympathizer, and therefore with the mind of the lawbreaker, and likely to become one when opportunity offers. That is one reason employers decline to hire such men. A short time ago inquiry came from the union forces to know if Mr. Post would “keep still” if they would call off the boycott on Posturn and Grape Nuts. This is the reply: “The labor trust has seen fit to try to ruin our business because we would not join its criminal conspiracy. We are plain American citizens and differ from the labor union plan in that we do not force people to strike, picket, boycott, as sault, blow up property or commit murder. We do not pay thugs $20 to break in the ribs of any man who tries to sup port his family nor $30 for an eye knocked out. We try to show our plain, honest regard for sturdy and independent workmen by paying the highest wages in the state. We have a steady, unvarying re spect for the law-abiding, peaceable union man and a most earnest desire to see him gain power enough to purge the unions of their criminal practices, that have brought down upon them'the righteous denunciation of a long-suffering and outraged public, but we will not fawn, truckle, bend the knee, wear the hated collar of white slavery, the union label, nor prostitute our American citizenship under ‘•or ders” of any labor trust. You offer to remove the restriction on our business and with “union” gold choke the throat and still the voice raised in stern denunciation of the despotism which tramples beneath an iron-shot heel the freedom of our broth ers. You would gag us with a silver bar and muffle the appeal to the American people to harken to the cries for bread of the little children whose faithful fathers were beaten to death while striving to earn food for them. Your boycott may perhaps succeed in throwing our people out of work and driving us from business, but you cannot wrench from us that prieelesj jewel our fathers fought for and which every true son guards with his lifc. Therefore, speaking for our work* people and ourselves, the infamous oner is declined.” POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Note by Publisher. The Postum Company have a yearlr £°r„ 8pac* in this paper which they have a right to use for announcements of facts and wind. Pie.. Such doe, not carry with It an/ editorial opinion.
