Its unprincipled and selfish leaders have collected
together a great part of the violent, vicious and
weak-minded of the country, who cannot be said
to have any definite ideals or morals and used them
in such manner as to become an intolerable nuisance
and oppression to the industrious and self-respecting
law-abiding part of nearly every community, espe-
cially of the cities, a nuisance and oppression that
should at once be checked by the firmness and sanity
of those who love law and order.
No man who has the spirit of independence and
freedom in him; no man who may not be classed
with the vicious and weak-minded, could have the
infinite presumption of the walking delegate to order
another man to stop work on a job he had engaged
to complete, because he did not belong to the union.
When we consider that the unions exist solely for the
benefit of the masters whose salaries are never
stopped, it is not surprising that they never have
ideals worth striving for by all classes of the com-
munity. They have put forward as an ideal and
demanded that their ideal shall become a reality.
