A LOGICAL RESULT—A FEARFUL SOWING.
By Editor
RULESHIP even in a trade union fosters imperialism. Imperialism fosters disregard of the rights of others. Disregard of the rights of others leads to injustice and cruelty. This is one of the sad things which have been developed among labor unions. Many of them have been organized with the one thought of promoting good fellowship, elevating the working man, and making him more efficient in his work. But many others have been organized, not for the purpose of making manhood, but to get the most possible money for the least possible work; and the thing exalted has been the union, not the man. Every one in opposition to this, or in seeming opposition, has been counted an enemy. This awful spirit is manifest in the following from the above noted article in McClure's Magazine for September, by Mr. Baker:— I asked Milton Booth, secretary of the Coal Teamsters' Union of Chicago, if there were any non-union workmen in the industry which he represents. "No," he replied, "unless they are in the hospitals." After this introduction we are not surprised to read in the same article that employee combined with employer in forcing up the price of coal, the chief sufferers of which were the poor: That men were not allowed to control their own premises, and warm them partly with some other kind of fuel; That men would no longer, even at high prices, deliver coal in bags but dump it on the sidewalks, and that even then a man must not carry it in himself, but must hire another kind of union man to do it; That milk delivery was made but once a day, contrary to entreaties of parents of little ones and warnings of physicians, and as a consequence the death-rate among infants increased forty per cent, and convulsions, and acute intestinal diseases increased ninety per cent, but this did not affect the heartless union; That a teamster was stopped by a stranger who demanded to know if the teamster was a union man, and, upon a reply in the negative, the teamster was struck a blow in the face, fracturing his jaw, while his unprovoked assailant escaped; That a commission merchant who attempted to haul in his own conveyance his own perishable freight, was struck in the jaw and killed by a union teamster. The very spirit crushes out all humanity from the heart. Men may be bitterly opposed in politics and yet be good neighbors. The non-union man, conscientiously non-union, has nothing against his brethren in the union; but the spirit of unionism generally arouses a deadly hatred against all who may not be in sympathy with the thing, tho they may be friendly to the men. Such a spirit is born of Satan and bodes ill for the whole world. We are sorry for the men who cherish it. While it may work damage to their opponents, it will work far greater evil to themselves, their families, and all who imbibe it. "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Some day those who cherish such hatred will meet with the overpowering glory of God; how then will they stand?