Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-16

man. The sentry fired and woke up an
other man in ambush. The miscreants
both escaped. Two rails were removed
from the Cairo Short Line road near Belle
vile by unknown parties last night.
RETURNING TO WORK.
ST. LOUIS, April 15th.-A special from
Atchison, Kansas, states that the strike at
that point is virtually over. Out of 112
men who stopped work there by order of
the Knights of Labor, rs have returned to
work, as they say for good.
RELIEF OF SUFFERING KNIGHTS.
PHILADELPHIA, April 15th-Secretary
Turner to-day sent the following telegram
TO Mr.. Powderly: Brother Dunbar offers
10 per cent of the gross receipts of each
production of his play, "a Laboring
Man." for the benefit of our suffering
brothers in the Southwest Shall l ac-
cept?'' Mr.. Powderly replied as follows 4:
Will accept brother Dunbar's proposition.
Funds should be sent to YOU
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE POURING IN.
ST. LOUIS, April 15th.-A letter from
Grand Master Workman Powderly to Sec
rotary Turner is said by the Executive
Committee to be the result of unanimous
request upon him by the Assemblies of the
Order to place the strike upon broad
basis. The support of the entire organiza-
ton will be secured by formal circular.
Since the arrival of the General Committee
contributions, now running up to thou
sands OF dollars, have been received every
day by the members. For the last week
the contributions have averaged over 81, 600
day. Ali this money has been sent out
to be distributed among the strikers at
every point on the system where it is
needed, and it has been sufficient to meet
all the demands so far without calling upon
the reserve fund of the Order, or ordering
an assessment. But Powderly's directions
for the call for contributions met with the
approval of the Board, because it will prove
to the public that the strike has theindorse-
ment o. the Order in general.
GoULD's REPLY TO PowDERLY
New YORK, April 15th-Powderly's let
ter was sent 10 Gould through w. o. Nc
Dowell, with instructions that if Gould, to
whom these written instructions were also
submitted, did not consent 10 an honorable
settlement of the difficulty before o'clock
of the day on which the letters were de-
livered. or at that hour still preserved 81
lence, TO allow the letters to be published.
At the opening of his reply to Powderly,
Gould quotes his letter of instructions to
Mcdowell, and acknowledges the receipt of
Powderly's letter, the substance of which is
given above, Gould then proceeds to con-
sIrue Powderly's letter as an official decla-
ration that the knights of Labor had de-
termined to pursue him personally, unless
the Missouri Pacific Company should Weld
to their demands in what they called a
strike on hat roacs Im answer to these
personal threat he would saw that
he was still a free American citizen.
Gould then refers to his lowly beginning in
life and to his success through habits of
temperance and industry, and says that if,
as Powd erly says, he is to be DESTROYED by
the Knights OF Labor, it is fortunate he
has retained his early habits of industry
Gould then says he is quite content to
leave his personal record in the hands of
his neighbors and business associates. If
they have aught to complain of he will be
glad to submit to any arbitration. Gould
then recounts the fact that when the strike
commenced he was far away from the
scene of trouble, and quotes kilograms
from his subordnates describing the
difficulty and other messages hereto
fore published during the early part
OF the troubles. The last dispatch
quoted is one from A. L. Hopkins to
Powder y, earnestly urging that the strike
IS unjust to both sides, as the road is in the
hands OF receivers. This dispatch" says
Gould, you never answered. This cor
respondence places the continuance of this
| strike on your shoulders. You sat still and
were silent after Mr.. Hopkins urgent ap-
peal, and allowed the strike to go on al
lowed the conpany's property to be fore
IDLY seized and the citizens of four States
| and Territories to be deprived of their
rightful railway facilities. Thus forced. the
Board of Directors, till my return, placed
the matter in Mr.. Hoxie's hands. by formal
order, and that position of it has never
been changed" Gould then entered into a
long review of the features of the difficulty
already published and republished, main
tanning that the company's offer to take
back the strikers who had not destroyed
property, had been strictly lived up to, and
that the company will stand ready to live
up to its agreement in that regard. In CON
clusion Gould says:
less by O'Clock | personally consent to do
Something precisely what do not see-then
personal consequences, of a sort vaguely ex-
pressed, but not hard to understand will at the
hands of your Order, be visited upon me. Lei
me again remind you that it is an American
citizen that you and your Order propose to de
stroy The contest is not between your Order
and me- but between your Order and the laws
OF the land. Your Order has already defed
those laws by preventing, by violence, this com
pany from operating its roads. You hold, then
under the conditions prescribed by law, but
only under the conditions prescribed by you.
You declare in effect that hold my individual
property and rights, not as other men
hold theirs, but only at the peril of your
letting loose irrevocably after 5 o'clock
| your Order upon me. If this is true of this
company and me, it is true of other men
and companies. If so you and your Order are
the law, and are American citizens only in
name. Already, for weeks, your Order has in
your attack upon this company, not hesitated
TO disable it by violence from rendering its duty
to the public and from doing work and paying
wages to men of, at least. three times your own
number, who, working as they were by your
| side, were at least deserving of your sympathy
Having thus pushed this violence beyond the
great forbearance of the public, and found in
this direction cause to hesitate, you turn upon
me and propose that the wrongs you have
hitherto inflicted on the public shall now cul-
inmate in an attack upon an individual In
this have said, the real issue is between you
and the laws of the land. 1t may be that before
you are through those laws will effectually ad-
wise you that even /, as an individual citizen
am not beyond their care. Very respectfully,
JAY GOULD.
PROCLAMATION BY PowDERLY.
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