The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-15
POWDERLY TO GOULD.
A Singing Epistle to the
Railroad King
From THE K. OF L. LEADER,
I, which He Challenges the MonoI o
list to a Fair Fight in
the Courts.
Gould and PowdsrIy.

Gould and POwdsrly.
ygg YORK, April IA voluminous
e,-respondence mas passed between
c,uld ana Powderly, consisting of one
liter from Powderly, dated Scranton,
pima, April 18th, and a reply from
Gould. OF this date. Following is the
distance Of the POwderly letter:
r1y Gould. Esq, President of the Missouri
Pacife Railroad:
Dear Sfr-The events of the past
lorty-eight hours must have demon :
grated TO you the absolute necessity OF
ringing this terrible struggle in the
,,utn vest to a speedy termination. Y on
nave the power, authority and means
; bring the strike to an end. have
done everything in my power to end the
srrike. The gentlemen associated with
me have done the same. Everything
consistent with honor and manhood
has been done in the interest of peace.
yofaults or notions of pride or dignity
have swayed US with our dealings with
Won or the gentlemen associated with
PoEderly then refers 70 the celebrated
conference with Gould on Sunday,
March 18th, and reviews the already
pubTshed features OF that conference
an together, with his (Powderly's) con-
struction upon Gould's language and
the telegram sent by him to Hoxie, TO
his own order, directing the strik-
ers TO return to work, and
the misunderstanding and compli-
cations which ensued. In this
connection, POwderly declares that
Gould's after statement, that the
letter sent Powderly on the day of the
conference, enclosing the dispatch to
HOxie, had been prepared several days,
was not correct, inasmuch as Gould
had changed il in one particular after
the matter had been talked over. Pow
derlv reviews the other features of that
conference and also the one of March
Goth. and then SAYS: 4 did not hear
either you or Mr.. Hopkins say that the
present troubles along your road
should not be arbitrated with the men
vhO were not at work, It was my firm
conviction, when left you that night
that YOU meant to have the entire
affair submitted to arbitration at the
first possible moment. That belief
is shared in by Mcdowell,
who was present during the entire in .
terview. When You sent the telegram
to Hoxie, you sent 1t as president OF the
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
You sent it as the chief sends a message
70 an inferior officer, and 1t meant as
much to a sensible man as the most i'm
perative order could possibly mean.
when /, as chief officer of the Knights
Of Labor. send a message such as that q,
his understood to be my wishes, and
those wishes are respected by the SUI
ordinate officers TO whom they are sent.
Its not his place to put a different con-
struction on them and give them his
own Interpretation. His duty Is
to obey the spirit of the instruc-
lions The man in power need not
be an autocrat in order to have
his wishes respected. That was the
idea that | entertained when l left your
house that night" After devoting some
space 10 defining the relation of the
District Assembly to the General As
sembly, etc, Powdehy says: When,
on MOnGa, March 10Th, you sent me q
letter marked personal, you, at the
same time, told a newspaper CORE
SpOndent that you had done so. What
your motive was in marking your letter
personal and at the same time inform
ing representatives of the press that you
had done so, do not know, nor do l
question your motive. l felt II to be my
duty to let the public see the letter,
which contained nothing OF a
personal nature whatever, but there
are people who might be I'M
charitable enough TO say that
your intention was to give the impress
sion that there was something between
you and me which would not bear the
light OF public scrutiny. 1 have moth
ing 10 conceal. You can settle this
strike. Its longer continuance rests
with YOU, and you alone. Every act
Of violence, every drop of blood
that NAV be shed from this
time forth must be laid at your door.
The Knights of Labor were no: founded
to promote or shield wrong-doing, and
today the order of Knights of Labor
stands between your property and ruin.
You have said that the order Of
Knights of Labor was q conspiracy, a
secret menace, etc. l am will
ing, as chief officer. etc, to
lay everything connected with our
order bare to the world, il you
will, on the other hand, lay to the pub
lie the means and methods whereby you
have piled up the wealth which you con-
tol, and allow the tribunal OF public
opinion to say which is conspiracy. Do
4Nu aCCGDk Tue CA4aAACh6NA AO0 AoNC
astructed your legal adviser to proceed
sgainst every man connected with the
Knights of Labor for damages
Sstained since the strike began.
Two weeks ago 1 said: do not do
eisn To-day l say, begin at once, lay
Claims for damages in every court
within whose jurisdiction a knight
EXISTS. Proceed at once and in every
State Where you can recover dam
ages, do so, if the law will sustain you
nit. Let the majesty of the law be
indicated. 1t is Just and right
mat it should be so. We are willing TO
force you before the law, and we win
night you with no other weapons. II
yOa have at all times obeyed the law in
your dealings, in the methods by which
you have acquired your immense for
tune then it is time that the
many offenses with which you
are charged should be refuted.
iou have remained silent under many
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