Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-15
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. A FREE BORN AMERICAN Makes Reply To Master
 Workman PoWderIy. BURNING WORDS BY JAY GOULD. The Knights Alone Can End
 The Strike. HURD IS REFUSED HIS SEAT. | A Fierce Tornado Sweeps
 Through Minnesota.
HURD IS REFUSED HIS SEAT.
JAY GOULD TO POWDERLY,

JAY GOULD TO POWDERLX. l The Master Workman Appeals to | Gould and Receives Reply fin
 Which the Latter Asserts Eis Rights
 as Free American Citizen.
 NEW YORK, April 14.-Jay Gould to-day l received letter from General Master Work
 man Powderly in which the latter calls on Gould to put end to the great strike,
 claiming that he and the executive board of l the Knights of Labor have done all in their | power Co this end and that he alone can now put end to it. In answer Mr. Gould 1 says:
 1 Your letter to me embraces two subjects l one relating to me personally and the other l to the relation of the Knights of Labor to
 railroad company of which I am the presi
 dent and, in some degree, the representative l of it's public and private duties. II shall refer to the first sub 1 ject very briefly. The circumstances above | given under which your letter was delivered, l as well as its tenor and spirit, place the pur- l pose in writing it beyond any fair doubt. It would seem to be an official declaration of | the Knights of Labor having determined to pursue me personally unless the Missouri | Pacific company should yield to it's demands l | In answer to these personal threats, l I beg to say that I am yet l a free American citizen. I am past forty | nine years of age and was born in Roxbury, | Delaware county, in this State. l began life 1 in lowly way and by temperance, industry and attention to my own business have been I successful, perhaps beyond the
 measure of my deserts. If, as you say, I am now to be destroyed l by the Knights of Labor unless I will sink my manhood, so be it. Fortunately I have | retained my early habits of industry. My friends, neighbors and business associates | know me we'll, and I am quite content to leave my personal record in their hands. If any of them have aught to complain of, I will be only too glad or any of them, wish to appoint the Knights
 of Labor or yon as their attorney, such ap pointment is quite agreeable to me, but until such an election is made it will naturally occur to you that
 any interference on your part in my personal affairs to say the least is quite gratuitous.
 Since was nineteen years of age have been
 in the habit of employing in my various en- terprises large numbers of persons, probably at times as high as fifty thousand, dstrib- uting often three or four million dollars per month to different payrolls. It these years the difficulty with the Knights of Labor should be my first. Their attempt to connect me personally with the late strike on the southwestern roads or any responsibility therefor is equally gratuitous as you we'll know. It is true I the presi dent of the Missouri Pacific, but when this strike occurred I was far away on the ocean and beyond the reach of telegrams. I went away relying on your promise made to me last August that there should be no strike on that road, and that if any difficulties should arise you. fn yUifh Mr. Hopkins, the vice president of the company, who was present and cognizant of this ar rangement with you, in my absence sent you promptly when the present strike broke out the following telegrams:
 Here follow the telegrams, previously published, that passed between Hopkins and Powderly.
 This correspondence places the continuance of the strike on your shoulders You sat still and were silent after MT. Hopkins urgent appeal and allowed the strike to go on allowed the company's property to be forcibly seized, and the citizens of four States and one territory to be deprived of their rightful railway fa- cilities. Thus forced the beard of directors prior to my return placed the matter in MT. 1 Hoxie's hands by a formal resolution and | that disposition of it has never been changed. l Hence it was that when MT. Turner, secre- tary of your order, wrote to me on l the subject I fully advised him l in my letter of March 27 that l the matter had been placed by the board in | the hands of MT. Hoxie and that must re- | fer you to him as it's continuing representa-. | tive. At the same slime I reminded you that l a standing advertisement of this company 1 was at that moment inviting it's former | employees to return to their accustomed | posts, and that regardless of their being or | not being members of your order, and re- gardless also of the individual participation in the strike which your order had recently 1 inaugurated. When, in spite of all this, you desired to see me personally, l cordially met you and having put myself in communlce- ton with MT. Hoxie arranged with him for you the following, which was widely pub .lished by you at the time:
 NEW YORK, March 30, 1886. Martin Irons, St. Louis:
 Have been in conference all day with the result that Vice President Hoxie agrees to the following:
 Willing to meet committee of our en- ployes without discrimination who are &C., tually at work in the service of the company at the time such committee is appointed l to adjudicate with them any grievances they have. Have your executive committee order men to return to work and also select spe- 1 cial committee from the employees of the Missouri Pacific to wait on MT. Hoxie to ad- just any difference. Do this as quickly as ! possible. Board will leave for St. Louis to- morrow.
 (SigneD FRED'K TURNER,
 Secretary
 Ever since then MT. Hoxie has stood ready to receive any and all persons in the actual employ of this company as a commit tee or otherwise and confer upon or arbitrate any matter of difference complaint either 1 between the company and themselves, or be- tween the company and it's employees, and anybody else. No such committee or individual employs has, so far as known te me, ever made any such appllca- tion. In that connection 1t will be remembered that they left, not because of any complaint whatever of the company's treatment of themselves, but only because of the company's refusal to comply with their demand that the company refuse to do what the law requires in the way of of business with another company with which some of your order had quarrel In the meantime this company has of necessity gone on to extend to such of those persons who re- gently and without even alleged proyocation left it's service as saw fit to return. These employees have been very many roIs sns sPs iI .lrssd1 thi' nssry aaE iif not quite as full as it's shops and equip ment crippled by acts of violence attend ant upon recent action of your order, can employ. MT. Hoxis advises me that every such person applying to be received back has been employed unless to have taken part in recent acts of violence. This company still stands ready to make good in the fullest sense its agreements as expressly set forth.
 In the face of all this you notify me that unless by o'clock I personally consent to something precisely what do not see-then personal consequences of a sort vaguely expressed but not hard to understand, will at the hands of your order be visited upon me. Let me again remind you that it is an American citizen whom you and your order thus propose to de- stroy The contest is not between your