Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-04-07
X. OF L.
A Manifesto to All Work
ingmen.
A DEFENSE OF THE CAUSE
Gould Arraigned and Painted in
HideOus Colors---He is Called
the Common Foe.

fspeefalto me Herald bv the Associated Press. |
ST.. LOUIS, April 6.-rhe joint exec
tive board Of assemblies l0l, 90, II,
Knights OF Labor, this afternoon, issued
the following addiess:
To the Workingmen OF the World:
FRIENps AND BRoTHEks:-Hear US
for we plead for our rights. Men Of
equity. look upon us, for we struggle
against the giants of wrong, mad with
the frenzy Of pride, Of self-adulation,
begotten as it is Of the success OF out
rage and infamy. There stands before
us giant Of aggregated and incorpor-
ated wealth, every dollar Of which is
built upon blood, injustice and outrage.
That giant of Incorporated wealth has
centralized its power and is imperson-
ated by an eager fiend who gloais as he
qrinds the life out OF his fellow men
and grimaces and dances as they wriths
upon his instruments Of torture. Ol
ye workingmen of America who love
your liberty and your Lative landl He
great creators of wealth who stand
as the foundation of all national good,
look upon your brothers to-day Gould
giant fiend Gould, money monarch
is dancing. as he claims, over the graves
OF our Order; over the ruin Of our
homes and blight of our lives. Before
him the world has smiled in beauty, but
in his wake is a graveyard of hopes,
cyclones path of devastation and death.
Our strong arms have grown weary in
building tower of strength, and yet he
bids us build on or die. Our young
lives have grown gray too soon beneath
the stream Of unrequited, constant toll.
Our loved ones at home are hollow
cheek ed and pale with long and weary
waiting for better days to come. Nay,
more than this, the graveyards are hid
ing his victims from our longing
eyes. Brother workmen, this mon
ster fiend has compelled some
OF us TO toll in the cold and rain for
| five and fifty cents day. Others have
been compelled to yield their time to
him for II and 80 weary hours for a
pittance OF 8 hours pay. Others who
have dared to assert their manhood and
rebel against his tyranny are black-listed
and boycotted all over the land. He
has made solemn compact with the
highest authority in our order and then
basely refused to fulfill his pledge. He
lives under and enjoys all the benefits Of
republican form of government, and
yet ivocates and .perpetuates the most
debasing form of white slavery. He
robs rich and poor, high and low, with
ruthless hand, and then appeals to
corrupt and purchased courts to help
him take our little homes away. He
breaks our limbs and mains our bodies,
and then demands that we shall release
him from every claim for damages or be
black listed forever. He goes to our
erocers and persuades them not to give
us credit because we refused to be
ground in his human mill. He
turns upon us horde OF lawless thugs,
who shoot among our wives and chill
dren with deadly intent and then he
howls for government help, when he
gets his pay in coin alike. Fellow work
menl Gould must be overthrown; his
giant power must be broken, or you and
| must be slaves for ever. The Knights
of Labor alone have dared be David to
this Goliah. The battle snot for to-day.
the battle is not for tomorrow, but for
trooping generations in coming ages OF
the world, for our children, and our
children's children. The great ques-
tion of the age shall be whether in the
coming ages we shall be nation of free
men or nation of slavesy The ques-
ton must be decided now. The chains
are already forged that are to bind us.
Shall we await until they are riveted
upon our limbsg Say, God forbid /!
| Workmen of the world, marshal
yourselves upon the battle fieldl
| Workmen OF every trade and
cline, on to the fray Gould
and his monopolies must go down or our
children must be slaves. Think Of little
olive plants around your hearth stones
that will be blighted by his curse.
Think of the little homes he is seeking
to rob You Of. Think of the wife from
whose eyes he has wrung foods of tears.
and from whose hearts he has tortured
drops of blood. Who canl look calmly upon
his perfdy, his outrage, and his crime'
for he has sought to incite felony among
our rank and file. He has bought the
perfidy of vile men to entrap the unwary
that he might stain our fair name and
gloat over our misfortunes. Once for
all, fellow workmen, aroused Let every
Fhand that tolls be lifted to heaven and
swear by Him that liveth forever, that
these outrages must cease. Let every
heart and brow be turned toward our
common foe and let no man grow weary
until, like Goliah, our giant is dead at
our feet.
| fSigned.
Executive BOARDS. l0l. l3. II.