The Portland daily press., 1874-12-24
s0yEREsGHs OF ANDUsT RY,
Formation of n State Considerable
Meeting at City EEnil.

Yesterday a state council of the Order
known as the Sovereigns of Industry.was form
ed in this CITY, convention OF delegates
from the subordinate councils met at Temper
ance Hall under the direction OF President
Earle of the National Council, and elected the
following officers: Solomon Stuart of Deerng,
President; jesse Follett of Auburn, Vice-Presi-
dent: VIM S. Dimmock OF Portland, Secre-
tary; f. A. Bettes of Saccarappa, Treasurer; E.
NJ. Hutchinson of Cape Elizabeth, Lecturer;
Geo. Sweetsir of Biddeford, Steward; VIM. f.
Smith of Biddeford, Assistant Steward; John
w. Sweetsr of Saco, Inner Guard; Jere. B.
French of Saco, Outer Guard.
The Order is formed to present organized re-
sstance to the organized encroachments of the
monopolies and other evils of the existing in
dustrial and commercial system. 1t endeavors
to establish better system of economical ex-
changes, and to promote, on basis OF tequlty
and liberty, cooperative action among the pro-
ducers and consumers of wealth throughout
the earth. 1t wages no war with persons or
classes, but only with wrongs, discords and
hardships, which have existed too long. There
are now fourteen councils in this state, with
membership of about one thousand. The three
councils in this city number five bundled men,
bers.
Last evening Il public meeting was held in
City Hail. The attendance was not large.
The meeting was called to order by Albert Ii.
Waite of this city, who called Solomon Stuart
of Deering to the chair Short addresses were
made by Isaac Libby, j ohm NJ. Todd and Albert
III. Waite of this city. Mr.. Todd believed in
paving as you CO. The national debt ought
never to have been contracted, and tie expenses
of the war should have been paid as soon as
contracted. Had that been done we should not
now be burdened with debt. Mr.. Waite claimed
that the institution looks to the elevation OF
the industrial classes, and that as means to
this end cost of living is necessary. This re-
duction is obtained by cooperation in pur-
chases.
William HI. Earle of Worcester, Mass ,Presi-
dent of the National Council, succeeded Mr..
toorganize. They have leen kept down by
selfish greed, by heavy exactions, by injustice
of various kinds Against grinding monopolies
the ,laboring men must organize. The sur
plus of wealth produced by labor has been
gathered up by the non-producers. The rich
have been growing richer, and the poor poorer.
We ask for no class legislation, we do seek to
set one class against another, we make no war
on capital as such. But we believe that the Ia
boring man who earns dollar should get the
full value of one hundred cents. The Order
knows no distinction of race or creed. We ex-
cude only two classes of men, lawyers and
professional politicians. We do not need those
men, There are 10000 lawyers in the United
States, and they have representative in Con
gress for every two hundred of their number
There are 100000 working men, and they
have a representative for every 10000. The
lawyers and the politicians are the men who
have made the laws that Cypress us.
The speaker then explained the system of CO.
operative purchase by which the members of
the Order are benefited. For example, if the
five hundred members of the order wish a bar
rel of flour each, the five hundred barrels are
bought at the West in one order and several
profits are thus saved. The rotten system of
middle-men is done away with. The speaker
closed with a ercomium upon the social fea-
lures of the Order.