Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-07
GOULD DENOUNCED.
STIRRING ADDRESS TO THE WORKING.
MEN OF THE WORLD.
a Long ard Black List Of outrages Re
eounted-A Strong Exhortation to
Resist the "Giant fiend"
[py telegraph TO the pispatch.l

Executive Board Of Assemblies iOl, Us,
IL. Knights OF Labor, this afternoon
issued the following address:
To the Enkingmen Of the World:
Friends and Brothers,-Hear US for
we plead for our right. Men of equity,
look upon us for we struggle agsinstthe
giants Of wrong. Mad with the frenzy
Of pride and self-adulation, begotten as
il is Of the success Of outrage and infs-
my, there stands before US the giant
Of aggregated and incorporated wealth,
every dollar OF which is built upon
blood, injustice, and outrage. That
giant OF corporate wealth has central
lied its power in and is impersonated
in the eager fend who gloats as he
grinds the life out Of bis fellow-men,
and grimaces and dances as they writhe
upon his instruments of torture.
o We workingmen Of America love
your liberty and your native land. fe
great creators Of wealth who stand at
the foundation Of all national good, look
upon your brother to-day. Gould, the
giant fend Gould, the money monarch,
is dancing. as be claims, over the grave
OF our Order, over the ruins Of our
homes. and the blight Of our
lives. Before him the world has
smiled in beauty, but in his wake is the
graveyard Of hopes, the cyclones path
Of devastation and death. Our strong
AIMS have grown weary in building the
tower Of strength, and yet be bids US
build on or die. Our young lives have
grown gray too soon beneath the strain
of unrequited. constant toll. Our loved
ones at home are hollow-cheeked and
pale with long and weary waiting for
better days TO come nay. more than
this, the graveyards are hiding the vic
tins from our longing eyes.
Brother workmen, this monster
fend has compelled Us to toll in the
cold and rain for FIVE and fifty cents a
day. Others have been compelled to
yield their time to him seventeen and
thirty-six weary hours for pittance Of
nine hours pay. Others who have
dared assert their manhood and rebel
against his tyranny are blacklisted and
boycotted all over the land. lie has
made solemn compacts with the highest
authority in our Order, and then has
basely refused to fulfill his pledges.
lie lives under and enjoys all the
benefits Of republican form
Of government and yet advocates
and perpetuates the most debasing
form OF white slavery. He robs the
rich and poor, the 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 re-
lease him from every claim for damage
or be blscklisted forever. He goes to
our grocers and persuades them not TO
give as credit because we refuse TO be
ground in his human mill. lie turns
upon us horde Of lswless Thugs who
shoot among our wives and children
with deadly intent and then he bowls
for Government help when he gets his
pay in coin alike.
Fellow-workiDgmen, Gould must be
overthrow; his giant power must be
broken, or you and must be slaves
forever. The Knights Of Labor alone
hare dared be the David to his Goliah
TIE battle is not for to-day, the battle
is not for tomorrow, but for trooping
generations in the coming ages Of the
wo-ld-for our children and our chill
dren's children. It's the great ques-
ton Of the age, Shall We in coming
ages be nation Of freemen or a nation
Of slaves: The question must be de-
cided now. The chains are already
forged that are to bind US. Shall we
await until they are riyeted upon our
limbs: Nay, God forbid. Workmen
of the world, marshal yourselves
on. the battlefield Workmen Of
every trade and cline. into the fray
Gould and his monopolies must 60
down or your children must be slaves.
Think Of the little olive.plants around
Your hearthstones that will be blighted
by his curse; think Of the little home
be is seeking to rob you Of; think Of
the wife from whose eyes be has wrung
floods Of tears. and from whose heart
be has tortured drops Of blood. Who
can look calmly upon his per6dy, his
outrage, and his crime: for he has
sought TO incite felony among our rank
and file. He has bought the perfdy Of
vile men to entrap the unwary that be
might stain our fair name and gloa;
over our misfortunes.
Once for all, felloW-workmen, arouse
Let every hand that tolls be lifted to
heaven and swear By Him that liyeth
forever that these outrsges 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 81 our feet.
EXECUTIVE BOARDS
District Assemblies l0l, 90, l..
ST. LOUIS, Mo, April G.-After
the departure last night Of Score.
tary Turner, Of the General Execu-
tive Board Of Knights Of Labor, for the
principal strike centres Of the Gould
Southwestern system the remaining
members ofthe committee announced the
unanimous determination Of the Board
TO continue the present strike until an
arrangement has been entered into
with Hoxie restoring all Of the
strikers to their former positions,
with the exception only Of those
who participated in acts of violence
and destruction Of property since the
strike began. This is a decided sd-
vance from the position they held Sat
urday before the conference with Hoxie.
They were then willing TO assent to the
agreement which would restore the
strikers to those positions which were
not then occupied by new men, but
Hoxie's refusal to accept the agreement
deprived them, they say. Of the last
hope Of reconciliation under present
circumstances.
The railway officials claim that the
continuance Of their regular business,
which, they say, has now been fully re-
newed, depends not in the least upon
the actions Of any labor organization,
and that the freight blockade has been