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Awake from toot draamiog, areuse from your sleeping, Abdtblcik Of tbe cbaiDs that wera forged in tbe past; s Ubtrt; a Ufa Utat la pi iss inanac or;r; off toeoe iniliuillioja It Is Ubtrt; a Ufa Utat la placed io jour keeping, 'TU i o t in that lioitaontae Tae tretsores of nature, bir are, steam and UgbtOlEf, Her mettle aacand rnOHgb trlampapa of genlue on canvasnvas arere bUigbt’- gems are controlled b ; tbe tew; i of genlue on ca a bU coil creed of avarice bides them from view- nan;i a d t;, lOUiera d e ^ lr , In the dark, wretcbed bevels of m Talecbitdcen are buDgr; i or a smUe from tbe ai The d u g of tbe anvil, the plijo: tbe tooniaiit’ The roar of tbe eartbiiaake—tbe luUab; The BlgbiLg of winds 'mo:g the pints mountain, nave all sweDed tbe cboros of grief and of B« fins. Obi m ; brothers,a belter day's dawn- Tbe EnlgbtsBom wllllonn an invincible bandj Their miseion IS justice—we see the gUdmorn- ita light breaks la beaut; o'er sea and o'er The flag of le eom of le and true, i Of free labor a pure light is I bask in the sunlight of ifben;% da;. Bbells oeiA f old o c vmiwbisi When the rapt ear of science i While the gems of the heart and tne soul, 1 their gior;, WUl shine on forever, crom shore unto shore. While beans sball grow br^dter with purer TlU labor's bright mca-nlng sbau break upon —Idournai at Dniiid Labor. yes , IT’S BIGHT TO BOYCOTT. it ever; m IS about tl Boycott the man who retails puns Of antiquarian flavor, td ptnsbed ’Whose salt had lost ita savor. Bojooti and Idli tne English dude. Boycott tbe talking barber, Tne midnightIdnlgbt cats that serenade sathath tbebe Bue t treiused arbor. Boycott tne quadm who Who won t pay bis snbecrlptlon, :poa tbe worlds aouenon, fcott the black incarnau trand CNE BRAVE ACT. SteBmvUie was just a large railroad town in tbe West. Deduct the shops and yards o i tiro Oiand Tianseontinentai and New Orleans and Idaho Railways, with their necessary adjuncts, from Steamville and nothiag remained. Indeed, at the tune of which we are writing very little did remain m a b a a ioeei way—foragreat strike was in progress. The shop doors were closed on cold forges, ailcnt hammers and deserted ben ches : tbe roond-housee were filled with dead locomotives, no freight trains moved in or oat of the yards or depots. AHo. getlier, Steamville, for the time being, ill- dtferved its name. It is not necessary for us to inquire into tbe causes which led up to the strike. Whether real or imaginary, a number of the Grand Pr.inscontinental employes declared they had gnevances which must be adjusted ; so the Dis trict Assembly K. of L. onlered oat all the freight traiomen of the Grand Trans continental Railway, together with seve ral of its tributary lines. This, with all subsequent orders emanatiag from the District Assembly, was signed “John Headford, Master Workman.” General Superintendent Mansel sat alone in his private office, at Steamville, headquaiiters. E is dnties had altered somewhat in tbe last few days. Instead of devoting hiB energies to bringing about the safe and speedy running of trains, he now diyided bis time between telegrjphing tbe president o f tbe road, in Chicago, and interviewing detectives. Ho was worried a good deal. The fact was, he wished to do the right thing by the men, and at the same time, he was not the man, at this critical time, to fail the directors, who trusted him imidicitly. One man—a roan be bad never seen— Superiutendcat Mansel cordially disliked and that was none other than John Head- ford, tbe Master Workman, whose name appeared at tac foot of all the District Assembly documents. It is hardly sur prising, perhaps, that the auperlntendent (who was a good-hearted whole-sonled man ia tbe main) bore no great love to say labor organizations. Tbe Knights of Ijabor, District Assembly 2002, with its Master Workman, he absolutely dis liked. “Lot of damned scoundrelly fire- bogs and train-wreckers, those labor agitators and wire-puliera,” he would say, “ trying to make questionable points lor the workinamen, and a few doliaie lor themselves at the same time. There were all our boys working away and well satisfied with everything until along came these Enigbts of Labor with their mas ter workman, and secretaries, and every other kind o f grand high monkey work. I’d just like to meet this fellow Headford who is so fresh with his general ordeis. Nineteen to one he’s a cowardly sneak, E a r n e d to show bis face in Steamville, judging from the way b e bides himself In his own town all tbe time. If I ever get near enough to him I’ll tell him what I think of him and bis loafing crew, sure as my name is Tom ManseL” At the end of which, or similar remarks, the Gene ral Superintendent woald stretch himself out t o tbe full length of his seventy-three inches. It was 2:15 p , m. when the General Su perintendent sauntered into hisoffice and took his seat with an ur of relief. Once more N o . 14, the fast express, carrying the mails for tbe far West, had been started oat of SteamriHe without any mishap. So far the strikers bad in terfered with none but freight traffic; but there was no telling when the more reckless of their number might take upon themselves to impede the progress o f pas senger trains. Therefore the officers always felt better as each sacceeding train carrying passeagers departed in safety from Steamville, where the striker were mote numerous than any other point along the line. The superintendent had juA lighted his cigar wben a man entered bis offloe, closing and locking tbe door behind him. He was a detective in the employ of the of the railroad company. “ Number 13 has just left, Mr. Mansel. Where is her first stop f” “She will stop for water at Prairie Flower, fifty-five miles west o f here. “That train will be wrecked at Run ning Creek, which is, i undersand, ten miles this ade of Praine Flower. I have just learned that a gang of went down on a hand-car this morning with tools to loosen all the bolts and fas tenings of the trestle over tbe creek. I’m afraid it*e too late to prevent a fearful aeddent.” ,‘But Ihere is a telegraph station two miles this side of the creek,” said tbe superintendent. “I will send a message and have tbe operator flag Number 14. There is plenty of time, she ia not due to pass that telegraph cabin until 3:25. It ia now just 2:25. “It 18 too late Mr. Mansel,” said the detective. “The arrangement was made to cut the wire immediately after the de parture of Number 14 from Steamville. But have your operator tty what he can The operator was instructed to call all tbe offices betweon Steamyllle and Fnu- ne Flower. In a few moments he re ported that he could obtain no response. “Good Godl” exclaimed the excited superintendent, “ there is only one chance to rove that train, but I’U take IL,’ Rushing down ro the yard he found the engine which bad brought in Number 14 from the eaA, It was tbe only loco motive which had steam up, and the fire man was already commencing to rake out her fires. “Hold on!” shouted tbe superintendent to the fireman, “fire up for God’s sake. D o as I tell you—it’s life or death—and I'll pay you five hundred dollars in cash o-n'ght.” To the excited supeiintendent every plenty ol ooalaboard. 3 the engine on to the me d gathered official of !h-r ivery stick of property will, bnt tor God’s moment seemed an hour. In six minutes they had on a full head of steam, and aboard. Mr. Mansel backed to the main track. But a crowd of angry strikers had gal around, and seeing tbe chief offlei the road with his baud on tbe throttle, began to think some scheme was afoot to get ahead o f them. Few, if any of tbdr number knew of the wrecking scheme: but. having allowed the passenger train irooeed unmolested, they would per- DO extras to move. “Great heavens, boys!’’ shouted the frantic superintendent, “ wc musl rove life. Number 14 will be wrecked i f we cannot overtake her. Bum tbe round house and smash e in the yard, if you sake let me go on.” B u t tbe men would not listen. They thought it was a ruse to get a locomotive outside the town limits and move some freight cars from the west yard ten miles They dragged Mansel and tbe fireman from tbe cab, while a number of them took possession of the locomotive and prepared to take her back to tbe round- bouse. It was useless for the superin tendent to protest and struggle, he bad to give in. But, as h e tbonght upon the terrible loss o f life which must shortly occur, he saw a quiet and unassuming man step from the crowd and board the locomotive. As he did BO every other man climbed down, not one of the crowd interfering, As this man started the engine he ci to Mansel; “Don’t you worry about the wreck until you hear from me.” One hour passed—two hours—three hours. About sundown Number 14 came back into Steamville. She was un injured. All tbe passengers and all tbe trainmen were safe. But upon tbe floor of the baggage-car, covered with a couple of overcoats, lay the dead body of the man who had saved tbe train. H e had g o t away from Steamville all right, but in passing through tbe west yard a dozen difierent pistols had been emptied into tbe cab of the locomotive, forced to slow somewhat to go by the many switches in safety. Ih e ie was no time to stop and explain to the men. Forty miles must be made in as many minutes, so the engineer, bleeding from a half score o f bullet holes, kept ahead, ding alongmg tbel track fet i called t at a terrible speed. Less than a mile from the rocking trestle he signaled No. 14 and brought the train to a standstill. He just had blood and breath enough left to tell the conductor about the LAWlfERS AND THE K. OF L. . bar- To THE E ditor : —A “Retired Lawyer” takes it Very much to heart that hie pro fession is excluded from the K. o f L ., •nd, while w h it he states about Lincoln, Johnson,etc., is all true, itdoee not prove either that wo need lawyers as members, or that it would be policy to admit tbenx. To do so would be to violate tbe fuu- damentai principles of the Order, aud be virtually a coofeasion in advance of the failure o l our effort for a more just and barmonious relaliou between employer we shall have little use for the latter. One fact—a very significant one—which your lawyer correspondents ignore alto gether, is that the present condition of affairs is due directly to the pernicious influence o f the “ law”—to the iniqaitoos special legislation which has been foisted upon tbe people, by the paid altorneys of individusl and corporate plnudeters. Why, sir, I venture to say that uine- teuths of all the legishttion of the last twenty-five years has been special class legislation against tbe people. Look at your own State of New \ ork, with its circumlocutory system of legal procedure —that could not more effective if it had been specially concocted by a gang of shysters, to defeat the ends o f justice. deluging of our common country in war, blood and death. The Knights of Labor necessarily an tagonize ail monopolies, no matter whether manifested in special corporate privileges or of great aggregations of teal aud personal property, the carrion of which is the feed oi tbe lawyer. Hence, in this greatest and grandest evolution of hamanity, it is Mready becoming ap parent that the “Left” side will be con stituted of wealth and aristocracy, led on by the legal Robespierres aud Calhouns o f auarchy:—while ftie side of the “Right,” the party of liberty, equality and fraternity, will have for its orators and leaders the Feter Coopers, Horace Greeleys, Francis Wrights and Abbey Kelleys, aud the aspiring working men and women of theclvU iz^ world will be ils constituents. C. O. P oole . YET ANOTHSB. lawyers, while incoDostent and logically t a society, the main tendency of effort is to break down the barriers by which class distinctions are mamtained and to bring all mankind more nearly to tbelevel o f universal human brotherhood, should start ont by making a class dis crimination of the most marked and vivid kind. Of course there are lawyers and lawyers, and some o f the most noble men are to be found in that profession, as are also some of the most unprincipled, aud the same maybe said o f any trade or calling. This is not a matter of class. Men who act dishonestly as lawyers would act dishunestiy in any walk in life. It is not legal learning that leads to wrong-doing, but the imbeient dishon- esty;of men. The trne policy would be to exclnde bad men of all callings, rather than to taboo auy particular calling. Tbe idle, the vicious and negligent in all ................. ....... negligent lu all c a l^ g s should be carefnBy excluded from a society whose noble purpose it is to elevate the dignity o f labor. But, as a . .ling to and from court U court, from one end of the State to the other, under the guidince of tbe great “codifier, ’ playing shuttle-cock and battle dore with tbe rights and poperty of nn- fortnnate investors—subsidizing not only the “best legal talent” o f the State, bnt actually enlisting tbe Bench in their in- femous crusade against law, order and justice. And but for the devilish iageuulty of corrupt end designiog lawyers (shysters) neither the Goidds nor the Vauderbllts would have ever been possible in this country. Tbe K . of L. wants no special pleading. We don’t require the services o f attorneys to make “ (he worse appear the better cause.” What we do want is not law but justice-and justice we can get only by our own organized efforts. The corse of all governments it that it governs too much, aud this is especially tbe case where legislation is in the hands o f paid attorneys as it is so largely in this couu- Whenever we requite the services of the legal ptofesaiou, we can always com mand the best so long as such men as ■ - ;e»,«=d,,..d .M ,K . 1 , 1 . h „ . . I iSiOD, If wisdom, moderation snd the E. ol L. why it is mori it profession, for those who seek to exercise power free from the moral restrainis by which its exercise shonld always be limited, to rise into prominence. Thns we have the Dono- nuesand tbe Benedicts of the bench. There is adeep-seated and well-founded reason for the popular prejudice age lawyers, and it lies in the fact that most revolting atrocities constantly pass unrebuked under tbe noses of the pro fession, Take for example the last fla grant untiagc, the conviction of Most, This WHS a blow at the most sacred rights other, inside or out- | earthly use for any otbe: side of their organization. F hila d e l p h u , Jane9. J. J. J ohns . iberiy. And yet h thehe proteets.roteets. Jud) which tended t p istricted and _________ of his power, did tha' I more to anarchy and ANOiiiBS LBTTEB ON THBacBJxCT. j tlemeut ol government To THE E ditor :—“AEetlredLawyer” j Most ever i cites dangerour precedents for the , Under the pressure o f a great and Knights of Labor. The lawyers he r e- ' groundless scare pervading the whole - ’ and Danton—did oommunity, augmented by all sorts of --luleut newspaper articles, with the de press of the country joiiiir- \ hmlly work, the larayette—not I ^hol® press of the country joiiiiug in the 'jers—are the men and patriots who 1 dog,” it was the solemn the third estate—i. e., the common \ “ *7 sp*^“^idprivilege of Jndge General Superintendent Mansel was I tbe body of ttie dead the first to baggage car. meeting with John Headford, Master • Workman (for it was none oth«). He tio n i ^ Laf had saiUhe wonid tell this John riea.l- Genera! Washington hiafi ford what he thought of him the first ^ “ ‘‘rk you, “ Mr. Retired time he saw him. But it was useless ' Lalayi lifted tenderly from the Washington. Soon after its destruction, -And this was the first! 1789, Lafayettee. then special mes- er to General Washington with a , )lu- I eenteuci guage ol Uhumber General Waahingtoi of tbe objects ofthe revel ifayett* also expressed ception. Judge I iperinteE fear of success—• I corruptioni Lawyer!”—on j lustmc.ive to collate j-etta said ' lifwnPrynn, a zealous nytbe's language in pssein > oloeely resembles ihe lai hear, the superintendent would say (for I wicked man < isel does not think it unmanly ' Plsn» atid he is the Duke ' . ............ indeed, p Tom Mansel to acknowlet shake hands? Yon are abrave man.” will deetroy luis I ____ _ ________ , o f Orleans. He idee a m istak e )- “ Wi!l von ' possess talent to carry ? Yonare abrave man.” ! i ^ ™ C e i ^ e ^ ; L ^ t h ? “ ^ d \ ‘pmn'!^: iminent learned lawyer, wrote a folio again: “A Bcootge for ritag h t t o t b e S good deal to do with bringing about a recoDcilistiun between the railroad pan; and its employes. Travelers over the Grand Transconti- : nental Railway may now see, at the ; abounds in murketa< . city and town has yonng n I for abilities, partieularily i '*. ardentrdent inn character,aracter, ”fh\ a i ch eloquent, ambitdo of distinction, bnt poor. These are tl instruments which the Duke will cot called He was .............. ;oug h i _____ ____ C u m b e r in 1632, and Chief Justice Richardson, who ha^ even then, but an an indifferent .reputation for honesty and .tion for honesty iracity, gave this sentence : “Mr. Frynn, I do declare you to be a Bchiammaker in tbe church, a sedition Bower in the commonwealth, a wolf in sheep’s clothing lu a word, omnium malorum nequissimus. 1 shall fine him nents which the Duke will com- 1 T10,000, which is more than ht is worth, by money; snd they will do his 1 J®* ^ban he deserveth. I will not , „.„...ng.” ! 6«t him at liberty, no more than a eastern end of the iron bridge over Bun- j it resulted as predicted by Lafayette. ’ plsgued man or a mad dog, who, though ning Creek, a tall marble shaft, erected i This Duke—tbe richest u au in France— ; be cannot bite, yet will he foam. He is by the passengers on Number 44 and the * Violent Jacobin, urged on | ^^m being asocUblc soul that he .h . 1 base 18 chiseled this inscnphon: •• - c. i-. i ... j t.- .. JOHN HEIDPOKD, uiSTsa woauaar, i . of l . —Independent M ^ A ll parties wishing information In regard to oiganizmg Assemblies of the K. ol L. w ill address Organization Com mittee, Box 467, West Troy, N. Y. Ily . bloodlt carnage, dynasty. No, sir; in this great organization of ; somethin the woriting people the practicing lawyer ) overcomt is not wanted. In truth, he has no in-1 i “ J profession when I see such ducements to be there. He well knows onirages pa sed by without rebuke. In there are no big fees lying round to be J the hands of a judge, capable o f such nt- ' terances, there can be no safety for any That the profession has not succes&ftil i ss those monsters that are no longer .. ___ . ireienting I h?e among men not to see light,”- . ing ia the Napoleonic i Tr,, 561; 2 Hallam, 28. ' We hsye a right to expect our judges - something difllcrent from this, and I am ime with a deep sense of Uumilia- . he has no in- “ J profession when I see picked np. It will soon)oon bee generallyent understood ireesioni to be got b g of the opp nd enacted by well-paid ' ficeti around our legislatiye lawyir embered, too, that the - 1 kiu that mni ........ .... rid o f comes from bad and too much law, I perhaps, for the present, a sufficient justi- wbich is drafted and enacted by well-paid ! fication for the E , of L. in excluding citizen. That the profession has not taken this and similar matters in hand is, la s e s . Let us hope for better things. noble, earnest, serious, steadfast men in ihere ever was a i.. the front and sho’. ____ and discretion, it is cow, si need their best serrices. En. W. C hambbblain . WORKINGMEN’S VOTES. There arc T2,000,000 wage-workers in the United States who are directly inter ested in tbe success o f the Knights of Labor. The principles enunciated by Ihis great and rapidly growing order are broad enongh to include all men end women who depend on physical toil to lire. Wc ought to include the farmer as bis interest, as a rule, makes a natural enemy to caste and monopoly. The p e a t fight now on the boards is the ‘lights o f man” ts . the andaoity of mon opoly. How to hold monopoly and fraud in check is the question which agitates great bodies of the men the wocid over, and especially io this country where their heavy treads have aroused mind and muscle to its peril No history relates the awful strides in corporate wealth such as have flourished in America in the last twenty years. England with her en tailed estates coming down through cen- torles cannot produce a Vanderbilt thoi^h her laws have granted special pnvileges and a fostering hand from gen eration to generation. Onethousand mll- lionaries make their headquarters in New York, and the noveily is that scarcely any legitimate commercial bnsineas in past annals has been extensive enough to pro duce them. How such vast accumulations have been collected aud the means em ployed to obtain such colossal fortunes in a few brief years is now the sabject of inquiry and debate. When we fully understand the nndercurrent process of amassing these fabulous prices we may more readily discover why labor is de pressed ; why a million o f men beg for work; why hundreds of thousands of women sew for from 30 to 60 cenis psr day; why pauper labor is solicited to onr diores and who b y ; why tariff laws exist to protect the manufacturer; why free trade in labor is encouraged by capi talists and legislatures; why railroad wrecking and pooling are lawful prac tices; why watering stock is permitted, and why tbe United States Senate is a i “millionaire club,” we may then interpret the causes of tbe present unrest among j wage-workers and thns be better pre- ' pared to solve the labor problem. We : mast study the course of those things be I fore we can properly and promptly pre- ; scribe a remedy for the ills of which we I oomplaiu. The workingman has the ballot without restriction for manyyears, but he has thrown, it away on some worthless scapegoat for a trifle in boodle or gin, while monopoly had a well defined aim and purpose to serve in controlling and owning tbe legislators Monopoly had its eyes open to the msin chance, while the laborer kept time to the mar shal music aud held aloft the baucers of patty and political “bnmmers” who preached tariff and the bloody shirt while the very fabric of the government was being wrecked by thieves and monopo lists whose sole object was plunder. Thus we see what the voter has accom plished with the ballot. He let politt, cians makehisplatformsaudblindly voted for an empty platitude which now plays a dirge tune. We have seen tbe work ingman marching in solid phalanx, through mud and rain, hurrahing for some political shyster who gave them taffy on tbe hustings for their rote, and when elected went to Washington on a free rmlroad paro became the supple tool of some railroad, bank or other monop oly. For twentjyeaMwehavewitnevsed this in sorrow and in shame. We felt assured that the time would come when the worker would see his folly and feel the dismal pressure of the slavery which now throttles him. He has no one to blame for this bnt himself. Around every election poll stand men—working men too— who solicit from candidate’s friends, hired for a paltry sum, to buy their votes. Is it any wonder that mon opoly flourishes and that labor stands on the brink o f ruin ? We think not, Knights o f Labor, look around you, in vestigate, study, learn nhat is causing this decline, end formulate your own political platforms and support no man or men who will not earnestly subscribe to and carry them on. Tbe sooner you lettle on some such plan, the soonui' we viU be out of tbe woods.
