The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-10
ADDRESS TO wORKINGMEN.
The knights of Three Large Dfstrict
y Assemblies Address the Tolers
of the World.

ind address, which, from its tone and
spirit, leads The ENQUIRER to remark
that the tenor of the Jay Could asso-
ciated tress dispatches during the last
few days has been misleading:
To the Workingmen of the World:
Friends and Broth rs-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 and selfadulation begotten as it
is of success, of outrage and infamy.
There stands before US the giant of aggre-
gated and incorporated wealth, every
dollar of which is built u non blood, in
instice and outrage. That giant of cor
rorate wealth has centralized its power
and is impersonated by an eager fend
who gloats as he grinds the life out of
bis fellow men and grimaces and dances
as they writhe upon upon his instru-
ments of torture.
O, ye workingmen Of America who
love your liberty and your native land !;
ye great creators of wealth who stand as
the foundation of all national good, look
upon your brothers to-day. Gould, the
giant fend Gould, the money monarch,
is dancing, as he claims, over the grave
of our order over the ruin of our homes
and the blight of our lives. Before him
the world has smiled in beauty, but his
wake is TIE graveyard of hopes, a cy-
clones path of devastation and death
Our strong arms have grown weary in
building to wer of fstrength, and yet he
bids US build on or die.
Our young lives have grown gray too
soon beneath the strain of our unre
Quilted and constant toll ; our loved ones
at home are hollow-eyed and pale with
this long and weary waiting for the bet
ter days to come nay, more than this,
the gravevards are hiding his victims
from our longing eyes.
Brother workmen, this monster fend
has compelled some of US to toll in the
cold and rain for five and fifty cents a
day. Others have been compelled to
yield their time time to him for seven
teen and thirty-six weary hours for the
pittance of nine hours paw. Others, who
have dared to assert their manhood and
rebel against his tyranny, are blacklisted
and boycotted all over the land.
He has made solemn compacts with
the highest authority in our order and
then basely refused to fulfill his pledge.
He lives under and enjoys all the bene-
fits of republican form of government,
and yet he advocates and perpetuates
the most debasing form of teslavery.
He robs the rich and poor and high and
low with a ruthless hand and then ap'
peals to the corrupt and purchased courts
to help him take oar little homes away.
He breaks our limbs and mains our
bodies and then demands that we shall
release him from every claim for dam
ages or be blacklisted forever. He goes
to our grocers and persuades them not to
give us credit, because we refuse to be
ground in his human mill. He turns
upon us a horde of lawless thugs who
shoot among our wives and children
with deadly intent, and then he howls
for government help, when he gets his
pay in coin alike.
Fellow -workmen, Jay Gould must be
overthrown; his giant power must be
broken, or you and l must be slaves fo--
ever. The Knights of Labor alone have
dared to be David to his Gol' ath.
The battle is not for to-day; the battle
is not for tomorrow ; but for the troop
ing generations in the coming ages of the
world for our children and our chill
dren's children. 1t is the great question
of the age. Shall we in the coming ages
be nation of free men or nation OF
slaves? The question must be decided
now The chains are already forged that
are to bind us. Shall we await until
they are riveted upon our limbs Nay
God forbid.
Workmen of the world, marshall
yourselves upon the battlefield Work
men of every trade and and cline, on to
the fray Gould and his monopolies
must go 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 he is seeking to rob you of!
Think of the wife from whose eyes he
has wrung floods ftears, and from whose
hearts he has tortured drops of blood
Who can look calmly on his perfidy,
his outrage, and his crime? for he has
sought to incite felony among our rank
and file he has bought perfdY of vile
men to entrsp the unwary that he might
stain our fair names and gloaJ over our
misfortunes. Once for all fellow-work-
men, arouse let every hand 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
G Hath, our giant ls dead at our feet.
EXECUTIVE BOARDS D. A. 101, SO, II.
The Law Porlonged.
BERLIN, April 5.-The reichstag has
adopted the treaty between Germany
and Zanzibar. lhe Bundesrath has ap =