St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-07
Southwestern Knights of Labor Pay Their
Compliments to Gould in Vigorous
Language,
Declaring Their Position One of Slavery
and That the Tyrant Must be
0Verthrown.
Hoxfe on the Other Hand Refers to
HIS New Employees as Independ-
ent American Citizens.
The Texas Militia Leave Fort Worth
EARNED Citizens Now Guard.
the Town.
Gould Must Re Overthrown.

ST. LOUIS, April 6.-The joint executive
board of Assemblies 1Ol, 93 and II,
Knights of Labor, this afternoon issued the
following address:
To the Workingmen of the World: Friends
and brothers, hear us, for we plead for our
rights! Men OF equity, look upon US, for we
struggle against giants of wrong! Mad with
the frenzy of pride and self-adulation. be-
gotten as 1t is of the success of outrage and
ln1amy, there stands before us giant Of
aggregated and Incorporated wealth, every
dollar OF which is built upon blood, injustice
anu outrage. That giant of corporate wealth
mas centralized its power in and is imperson-
ated by the eager fend who gloats as he
gr1ndS the life out of his fellow
men and grimaces and dances as they
wr1the upon his Instrument of torture
., ye workingmen of America who love your
liberty and your native land, We great
creators OF wealth who stand as the founda-
lon or all national good, look upon your
brothers to-day. Gould, the giant feud
GouId, the money monarch, is dancing as he
Chains over the grave of our order, over the
rum OF our homes and the blight of our lives
before him the world has smiled in beauty
Dut MS wake is graveyard OF hopes, a cy-
clones path of devastation and death Our
strong arms have grown weary in building
the tower OF strength and yet he bids US build
on or die. Our young lives have grown grey
too soon beneath the strain of unreouitted.
constant toll. Our
LOVED ONES AT HOME
are hollow-chested and pale with long and
weary waiting for better DAYS to come. Nav.
more than this, the graye-yards are hiding his
victims from our longing eyes Brother
Worklnen, this monster tieud has comuelled
some of us to toll in cold and rain for five and
hfty cents day; others have been compelled
TO yield their time to him for seventeen and
thlrty-six weary hours for the pittance of
nine hours pay; others who have dared TO
assert their manhood nd aIoI II,
tyrany are blacklisted and boycotted all
over the land. He has made solemn compacts
with the highest authority in our
order and then has basely refused
TO fulfil his pledges. He lives under
and enjoys all the benefits of q Republican
form of government and yet advocates and
perpetuates the most debasing form of white
slavery. He robs the rich and DOOR, the high
and low, with ruthless hand, and then ap@
peals 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 release him from
every claim for damages or be blacklisteS
forever. He goes to our grocers and per-
suades them not to give US credit because We
refuse to be ground in his human mill Ha
turns upon us horde of lawless thugs, who
shoot among our wives and children with
deadly intent, and then he howls for govern
ment help when he gets his pay in coin alike.
tellow workmen, Gould must be overthroWn.
LIS giant pOMGT
MUST BE BROKEN
or you and 1 must be slaves forever, The
knights Of Labor alone have dared to be q
David to this Goliah. The battle is not for.
to-day, the battle is not for tomorrow but
| for the trooping generations in the coming
| ages OF the world; for our children and our
! children's children. 1t is the great question
| OF the age: Shall we. in the coming ages be
| freemen or nation of slaves? The question
must be decided now. The chains are al
ready forged that are TO bind us. Shall We
| await until they are riveted upon our limbs?
| Nay, God Forbid Workmen of the world,
marshal yourselves upon the battlefield !
Workmen of every trade 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 bhghted 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 of tears, and from
| whose heart he has tortured drops OF blood |!
Who can look calmly his perfdy, his out
| rage and his crime? For he has sought to in
! cite felony among our rank and file. He has
| bought the perfidy of vile men to entrap the
| unwary, that he might stain our fair name
and gloat over our misfortuneS. Once for ALL
fellow workmen, arouse Let every hand
that tolls be lifted to heaven, and swear by
| Him who hveth 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 Goliah, our giant
is dead at our.feet! Executive Boards D. A.,
! I0l, 90 and L.