The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-05-19
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want Of Discipline in the Order---.t Plan
for the Future Government Of the
knights TO be Submitted to the General
Assembly.
The Chicago Dojiy NcwS publishes
ttc following secret circular, which,
il says, has been received by the
Knights Of Labor Of Chicago, and will
be read in the various assemblies
during the coming week. The circular
is rom Grand Master Workman Pow
derby, and is a very long one. 1t com
plains Of the hundreds Oius"icss letters
Ouur hundred u day) and committees
Min which he is bored by the order,
and states that he must have time to
mature plans for the benefit OF the
Order aud must not be interrupted,
md hat he will not receive letters or
rUi:mittecS, or 20 anywhere from thi>
'imr until the meeting of the General
AssrmhlN, which is ordered for MAY
70, al Cleveland, Ohio. The only par;
ulihc circular OF general interest is a.
follows:
"Ncarlv four thousand assemblies
have pledged themselves to act OH the
TdylCc contained in the circular of the
Sth ultiIn0. feel that it only re
| quirCs the cGming TO the front Of real
men Of u Order 10 set us right
before the world. We have been
losing ground 50 far as public opinion
is concerned for SUinC umc One OF
the causes is that we have allowed
rhiugs to be done under the name Of
The Knights of Labor for which the
organization was in no way rcspon
>ib!c. | ask of onr members TO keep II
Jealous csc om the dolngs of labor men
who never lGbor, and when lllcy charge
anything 10 The Order in your locality
set The seal ofyOur condemnation upUn
It at once by DENYING it.. If a paper
| criticiScs the Knights of Labor or its
officers, do not boy colt it., and if you
have any such boycotts on remove
them.
"a journal not long since made some
uncOmplimcntary allusiOns to the Gen
cral Master Workman of the Knights
| Of Labor, end at the next meeting of
the nca. est assembly IL motion was
cast to boycott the papcr-not thai
alone, but every person who RdVcr-
| tiscd in the columns of the paper. |
wrote to the assembly asking that they
rcimoyc the boycott, and it was donc.
We nuet bear in mind that the Cen
cral Master Workman is only n man,
and is not nbOY" criticism. We de
maud for ourselves the HIiits of free
speech. We cannot consistently deny
it to others. We must tolerate fair,
open criticism. If n reply is ncces.
sary make it in u &entlcmanly, digni,
fled manner. If we are criticised or
abused by a blackguard sheet, treat it
as YOU would the blackguard himself
in silence. That our aims and objects
arc good is no rcasOn why our mem
bcrs should be regarded as being of
superior build or material. We are
no more the salt OF the earth than
millions of unknown tOilcrs who do
the work of the world. i'm our deal
ingS with IabOrcrs and capitalists we
must deal justly and fairly by them if
we would have ii equally done to us we
must in turn do it equally to others.
This is the aim of the Knights of Labor
aud must not be lost sight OF in the
future.
eve have had some trouble from
drinking members and from men who
talk about buying guns and dynamite.
Ii the men who possess money enough
to buy guns alid dynamic YOU'D III
vest it in the purchase of some well
sci, cted work omlabor, they would put
the money TO good use. They will
never need guns or dynamite in this
country. 1t is my opinion that the
man who docs not study the politics OF
the nation and the wsgtG Of the people
would make but little use OF & rife
The man who cannot vote intclligently,
aud who will not watch the man h"
votes for after he IS elected, cannot bo
depended on to use either gun OF
dynamite. II The head and brain OF
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