Show gAD BAD B POLICY TO the thO unprejudiced observer it will willio io seem that the Chicago labor organization that expelled from its Alderman Daniel Herlihy because Herlihy Introduced in the coun council co un unell ell cil a resolution requesting the Illinois legislature to enact a statute to make It U possible to inflict the death penalty upon those convicted of attacking wo women women men nen Herlihy is or was a member of the steam engineers union The Tho reso resolution lution n of t expulsion was adopted at a meeting of the union held last week It Is set forth that tl t the working peo people pie themselves except In rare in instances instances stances stanc s are the only victims of capital punishment and while we deplore the outrages S upon women and children which were given as an excuse for the introduction of said resolution in the city council still we insist that Insane asylums asyl and hospitals are the proper and andi places for the creatures who commit them any other position will be a reflection on the In Innate innate innate nate virtue of ot the human race The resolution concludes with a section I in which the union does now purge itself of ot any Y and all responsibility for said resolution reso by expelling g Daniel Danie Herlihy from membership in inthis Inthis inthis this g The Th Th council co o it may be remembered passed tIle Herlihy resolution unanimously and nd the matter will be laid be before tore fore the legislature at the earliest pos possible possible possible sible opportunity There is nothing I unusual about inflicting the I II ena on the human beasts who I and children Several I states states have h ve laws to this effect and the he i in ther I question has been agitated states where such offenses have been bee n committed That Herlihy was entirely conscientious that he was actuated I solely by a desire desir de to puta stop top to o at attacks tacks on women rD and i children hildren has hiLs never seriously B questioned d v vIt o oIt It Is the height of absurdity abs bs for the union l to expel him on j that account a cou t By its ts action ct the union all but says that It contains among its membership men who have committed oD who would wo l l commit this crime And Ami while we weare a are on the subject we wish to deny the thet statement that working peo people people pie themselves are the only victims of ot capital V punishment The average workingman is a sober industrious Indu in citizen who wh ip rio Io more dreams dreans of breaking the th law of the land Ian than han any other citizen whatever what ver his position in life Ufe To say that working people are the only ones on except in i rare instances that are hang hanged d is to make an Insinuation that working people p everywhere should bitterly resent If It the steam engineers union of Chicago believe in cap capital capital capital ital punishment it might have said so and there th re wo 1 have been little or no criticism of its but when a union expels a member for standing up for what he believes a lobe to be right in a matter mat matter matter ter that has not the r remotest connection connection connection tion with union labor orIts rights It Itis itIs itis is time to abolish that union |