Show CORPORA CORPOR AID DRINKING some months back when the burlington railroad began cutting ail it force because of the financial depres sion orders N were ere issued to lay off th the drinking men regardless of the length of time they had been in the employ of the company in an announcement regarding degardin the subject A mr george geore W loomis lomis assistant manager of the burlington burington said A man cannot be drunk tonight and show up tomorrow ready to give his employer his best work there was a time lime when employers did not cire care a hat their men did when off duty but that time has passed we know we ne cannot get the best work out of a man who drinks and ve know that a drinking man een though he never drinks when or duty is not at safe as a man who ho neer drinks at all it is not a matter of temperance with the burlington it is a matter of bunij ness pure and simple we have a nery ery strict rule against drinking both when na hen on dut duta and when off duty these certainly are serious invasions of pe personal ronal liberty ac according cordin g to the analytic mind of the german american league when studying the constitution of the united states under a beer focus what is american liberty oming t to toa when a man cannot have the right to smash up freight cars cremate passenger coaches and their contents reduce locomotives to scrap iron and do lanous other things of like character which pertain to the german american idea of freedom 9 it looks as if these newly arrived steerage passage saviors 0 of the constitution had just reached america in time to preserve this country from eternal and it is a great pity that the burlington railroad cannot see things in the proper light it would seem also that the american express company has also joined in the movement to crush the liberties of this land of the free and home of the brave the superintendent of the western division with headquarters in omaha has lately been announcing some of the freedom destroying ying fiendish restrictions which are imposed upon employees of that company he says we find that almont every defa defalcation ca has its beginning in drinking if we find a man drinking off duty he is warned the second time he e is discharged if we ae find him drinking on duty he be is discharged the drinking even olf off duty often leads to rambling gambling and other b bad ad habits and the next thing there is a defalcation our men must not drick even when wh en off duty it seems to us that to use the language of the michigan Alic higan arbeiter At beiter bund at saginaw mich I 1 th atthe prohibition wave has reached I 1 a high state when such things done as to forbid men from even c en when off duty if this is the final breakdown break down of the last remnant 0 of freedom we would like hive have some indignant gi grinan aman tell us N what hat it is ex |