Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-04-09

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Powderly that the differences should be
arbitrated has not becn carried out,
Gould 5 representatives refusing to con-
fer with strikers who have not returned
to work and that body refusing to be
represented by those who did not strike
Powderly is worn out and sick. and
can attend to no business, and his sub
ordinates are not inclined to compro-
mise.
The only bloodshed since our last
was at Fort Worth, Texas, where a
party of strikers attempted to detain
train. They were fired into by the Off
GERS and several men on both sides were
killed and wounded.
As showing the feeling of the Knights
of Labor and Gould, we copy herewith
two documents-the first an address to
the "workingmen of the world, !" issued
by executive boards Of assemblies Nos.
II, SO and 101, and the second an inter-
view with Gould. Read and take your
choice:
THE ADDRESS.
Friends and Brothers: Hear us, for
we plead for our rightsl Men of equity,
look upon US, for we struggle against
giants of wrongl Mad with the frenzy
of pride and self-adulation, begotten as
it is of the success of outrage and in
fanny, there stands before us giant of
aggregated and incorporated wealth,
every dollar of which is built upon
blood, injustice and outrage. That
giant of incorporate wealth has CEN
tralized its power in and is imperson-
ated by the eager fiends who gloats as
he grinds the life out of his fellow-men
and grimaces and dances as they writhe
upon his instruments Of torture.
., We 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 fiend-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 had smiled in beauty, but his
wake is a 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 gray too soon beneath
the strain of unrequitted constant toll.
Our loved ones at home are hollow
checked and pale with long and weary
waiting for better days to come. Nay,
more than this. the graveyards are
hiding his victims from our longing
eyes.
Brother workmen, this monster fiend
has compelled some of us to toll in cold
and rain for 5 and so cents a day.
Others have been compelled to yield
their time to him for seventeen and
thirty-six hours for the pittanee of nine
hours pay. Others who have dared to
assert their manhood and rebel against
his tyranny are blacklisted and boycoted
all over the land. He has made solemn
compacts with the highest authority in
our order and then has basely refused
to fulfill his pledge. He lives under
and enjoys all the benefits of a repub-
lican form of government and yet advo-
Gates and perpetuates the most debas-
ing form of white slavery. He robs the
ricl. and poor, the high and low with
ruthless hand, and then appeals to cor
rupt 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
blacklisted forever. lie goes to our
grocers and persuades them not to give
us credit because we refuse to be
ground in his mill. He turns upon us
a horde of lawless thugs who shoot
among our wives and children with
deadly intent and then he bowls for
government help when he gets his pay
in coin alike.
Fellow-workmen, Gould must be over
thrown. His giant power must be bro
ken or you and must he slaves forever.
The Knights of Labor alone have dared
to be David to this Goliath. The bat
tie is not for to-day, the battle is not for
tomorrow, but for the trooping genera
tons in the coming ages of the world,
for our children and for our children's
children. IT'S the great question of the
age. Shall we, in the coming ages, be
a nation of freemen or a nation OF
slavesY This question must be decided
now. The chains are already forged
that are to bind us. Shall we wait until
they are rivited upon our limbs2 May
God forbid.
Workmen of the world, marshal your
selves upon the battle-felds. Work
men OF every trade and cline, on to the
frayl Gould and his monopoly must &c
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 wrunp
floods of tears, and from whose heart
he has tortured drops of blood.
Who can look calmly upon his perfidy
. his outrage and his crime? For he la:
sought to excite felony among our ranl
and file. He has bought the perfdy Of
vile men to entrap the unwary that hi
might stain our fair name and gloat
over our misfortunes.
Once for all. worl1men, arouse
Let every hand that tolls be lifted K
heaven and swear by Hum that livetl
foreeer that these Outrages must cease
Let every heart and brow be turned
toward our common foe and let no mar
rrnW WEARY until like Goliath o,,,