Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-14
the G OF LABOR.
Who they Are and What they want-A
Letter from One of Them.
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To THE EpIroR OF Tue SUN-Sr: To
effect the organization Of the producers OF
wealth has taken the untiriDg efforts OF q
band of sgilstore-men who have been as
true and unselfsh as ever the disciples OF
9 faith were. -,
Thsy are men of brains and ideas. In
the shops, the mines, and under the cor
porations they might have been the fore
men and trusted employees had they &C
ceuted the present industrial systsm. In
The other walks Of life they might have
been the prominent citizens" had they
bent the pregnant hinges OF neck and g
70 the power of BssL
But Martin Foran, Of Ohio, stayed before
bis furnace FIRE, and as he wrought he
thought Of q better condition for his fellows
as well as himself. To day he is IN Con
grsss SIS g representative OF organized
labor.
The s~gitstor has not had hHo TO inform
The general public about his aims and
method. He has had to earn his "
bread in the past OF this movement in mos
cases, and a. an educator he has had to De
a student. Wheneyer he did try to inform
the pabic through the press his articles
we're consigned to the waste baeket. 30
he redoubled his efforts among his fellows,
md out all that he earned above his exis-
tepcs iato the work Of propaganda, n he
has succeeded 10 establishing q labor press
in the United States that has more inHu-
snce than is dreamed OF outside OF the CIR;
lie. These men receive their reward
through the fruition Of their lsbors, and
hey viii not die unsuug nor unWept.
EDUCATION.
Uriah Stevens knew that to get at inte''
lirent results intelligent methods must De
used. -.
Every local assembly is a school of pollti-
cal economy, and it must educate its mem
ners in the real questions o! the day, IL
not only teaches them their rights, ou,
their duties and obligations as members OF
society.
Henry George is the St. George Of our
faith. and the vsporings Of Prot Sumner
and the economic attorney Of the New
Fnglsnd manufacturers, Edward Akin
son can no more prevail against his mas
ter mind than the nists can against the
,un.
To make industrial and moral worth
mot wealthy the true standard OF lndlvld-
aal and national greatness" Is the hrst
thing that is taught. One of tie fundsmen-
al tenets of the orisr is, Advance no
nan. trust no one with power zho has not
demonstrated with the sacrifice OF self that
ne loves his principles better tran ne does
The Knights Of Labor sZa essentially an
educational society, and the methods which
tbev teach are those of peace and resson
Tbsv want q better industrial system-one
that will make honesty not q policy, DIT 8
rule of life. :,
Only Cannon, of the firm OF Quirk
Cannon L Snap, is not present 10 teac9
his~ sophistries, neither ara the banker sno
incubator, there to prate about their vest
ID Wropgs, which they call rights. We
reach not as Steve EIkins pnts it. lass
sel6shness and more charity" bus less SELL
i.hness and more justice.
THE MEMBERSHIP
il not confined to the wsgeworter 1t EN-
b-scss outside the prescribed classes, winch
have many individual members VEom we
Eonld trust, all men who are STRIVING toi
hatter conditions. The farmers compose
Isrys per cent. of our membership, II
he immediate future will be a majority
The grange, the farmers alliance. ana th'
Agricultural wheels of the South are ou'
divisions of the great industrial army ioa'
mas orgsnizd for self, protection. Wher
law Gould says that the Knights must dis
~oryspize and that public sentiment Is II
favor of the law. 1t seems that whom tn
yods would destroy they frat make MAD
Public sentiment ia awake on the suoJec
of law especially the kind of Law thst to-
crates such violstors Of all law rs ia.
| 0onld. The Knights are too strong outsio'
n its members who work in shops and 10
generations to be seriously affected D.
msn like Mccormick, Whitley and Gould
MANY of the members are so high II
nnhlio life to-day that they dare not max
heir membership known, for such me-
could defeat them So they did Ihurms
and Rosecrsns.
UgAr THEY WANT AND DEMAND.
Thav want . chance to organize an
sdncsts themselves To be free to expires
her views and cast their ballots as beeom
Thsv demand that men shall not be On
charved because they are Knights OF unlo
@sn. that men who have capital and col
,-oi The means of livelihood recognize t9i
- rossession entails obligations and d
,;ss. that the methods of Whiteley, rres
Sspt Of Champion Works, OF Sprlng1el,
.Obio. cease. In the tau OF 81 he paoneI
.aiS that if his men did not vote the X
onSScsn ticket he would discharge ther
, md If The w~orkipgmen Of the State did n
do likewise he would close his shops I
present he openly proclaius tnsf ne W
: not allow knight in his chops.
: The Knights have discovered q peacet
Nv 10 fight the devils FIRE. They oppo
. he black list with q boycott. True. 1t nj
-Ss ussa iH . wrong manner ont II seer
70 - be ast their eaiy psscsfpl means OF stopp'l
oppression.
POLITICAL ACTION.
!. While the Knights know thst many
tha reforms that they wish to BRING soe