Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-04-09
IN -APPEAL.

IN APPEAL. -2
The Knights of Labor to Their Fellow
. ST. LOUIS, April 6-The joint executive
board of assemblies 101, 90 and II, Knights
of Labor, this afternoon issued the follow
ing address:
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 frensy of pride and
self adulation-begotten, as it is of the sue
cess of outrage and infamy-there stands
before US giant, aggregated, incorporated
and wealthy, every dollar of which wealth
was built upon blood, injustice and out
rage. That giant of corporate wealth has
centralized its power in, and is impersonat
ed by, the eager fiend who gloats as he
grinds the life of his fellow men and grim
aces and dances as they writhe upon his
instruments of torture. . ..--
Oh, ye working men 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 today! Gould, the giant
fiend; Gould, the money monarch, is dane
ing, as he claims, on 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 in his wake is a
grave yard Of hopes, a cyclone path of de-
vastation and death. Our strong arms
have grown weary in building his tower
Of strength, and yet he bids us build on or
die Our young lives have grown gray too
soon beneath the strain of unrequited, con-
slant toll; our loved ones at home are hol-
low checked and pale with long and weary
waiting for better days to come; nay, more
than this, the grave yards are hiding his
victims from our longing eyes.
Brother wOrkmen, this monster has COM
PEELED some of us to toll in cold and rain
for 55 cents per day; others have been COM
PEELED to yield their time to him for seven
teen and thirty-six hours for the pittance
of nine hours pay; others, who have dared
to assert their manhood and rebel against
his tyranny. are black listed and boycotted
all over the land. He has made solemn
compacts with the highest authority in our
order and then basely refuses to fulfill his
pledges; he lives under and enjoys all the
benefits of republican form of govern
ment, and yet advocates and perpetuates
the mostdebasing form of white slavery;
he robs the rich and poor, the high and low
with reckless hand, and then appeals to
corrupt and purchased courts to help him
to take our little homes away; he breaks
our limbs and mains our bodies, and then
demands that we shall release him from
every claim, or be black listed 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 horde of lawless thugs, who shoot
among our wives and children with deadly
intent, and then he howls for governmen
help when he gets his pay in coin alike.
Fellowworkmen, Gould must beoverthrown:
his giant power must be broken, or you
and must be slaves forever. knights of
Labor alone have dared to be a David to
this Goliath. The battle is not for today
the battle is not for tomorrow-but for the
trooping generations in coming ages of the
world, for our children and our children's
children. The great question of the age is:
Shall we, in coming ages, be nation of
free men or nation of slaves? This
question must be decided now. The chains
are already forged that are to bind us; shall
we wait until they are riveted upon our
limbs Nay, God forbid. Workmen of the
world, marshal yourselves upon the battle
field; 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 hearthstone that will be
blighted by his curse; think of the
little home tina the 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 upon
his perfdy, his outrages and
his crime? For he has sought to incite fel-
ony among our rank and file. He has
brought 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 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 Co.
Hath, our giant is dead at our feet.
Quite q Blow.
EAST SAGINAW, April 6.-The wind has
been blowing hurricane from the north
east during the past twenty-four hours. A
passenger train on the Port Huron g.
Northwestern railroad was blown from
the track seven miles east, three coaches
being lifted from the track and hurled in
to ditch. Eleven people were injured.