Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — “One Common Slough of Despondency for the Purpose of Experiment” [ARTICLE]

“One Common Slough of Despondency for the Purpose of Experiment”

By W. G. LEE

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has no part or sympathy in any of the plans that pretend the hope of the world is only to be found in its destruction. The organization is 100 per cent American. It does hot subscribe to any theory that proposes to throw everybody into one common slough of despondency for the purpose of experimenting in the hope that out of this general mental and physical misery aj) may come that will .bring about a general better condition of affairs for a majority of the people. We stand for no such doctrine of destruction and ruin; we believe in the government, and stand as 100 per cent Americans ready to defend our principles and our faith. As proof of the brotherhood’s loyalty and Americanism 16,000 members of the organization took their places willingly in the ranks, and almost two hundred are “sleeping in France.” The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has neither part nor purpose in any scheme that proposes to destroy this government or take from any citizen either privilege or property that properly belongs to him; we have no sympathy with any plan that finds its basic purpose in the destruction of government or the organized forms of law and order; we do not subscribe to any propaganda that proposes a policy of destruction to find in a common basis of misery its expected hopes for reconstruction.