The Press., 1886-06-17
MR. POWDRRLY,S LT0UOR VIEWS.

General Master Workman Powderly has no love for the liquor sellers. They are one of the classes prescribed by the con- stitutioni of the Knights of Labor.l In an address made to the general convention of Knights of Labor, Mr.. Powderly said :: "The temperance question is an impor- tant one, and I sometimes think it is the main issue. The large number of appli- cations during the past year to grant dis pensations to allow the initiation of rum sellers was alarming. have persistently Erefused them, and will enjoin my sncces- sor, if he values the future success of the order, to shut the doors with triple bars against the admission of the liquor dealer. His path and that of the honest indnstri- ous workman lie in opposite directions. The rum-seller who seeks admission into labor society does so with the object that he may entIce it's members into his saloon after the meetings close. No queAtion of interest to labor has ever been satisfActo- rily settled over bar in rumhole. No workman ever drank glass of rum who did not rob his family of the price of 1t, and in so doing committed double crime, murder and theft. He murders the intel < lect with which the Maker hath endowed him. He steals from hls family the means of sustenance he has earned for them. Turn to the annals of every dead labor so- ciety, and you will see whole pages blurred and destroyed by the accurssd footprints of rum. Scan the records of meeting at which disturbance took place, and you will hear echoing through the hall the maudlin, fiendish grunt of the drunken brute who disturbed the harmony of the meeting.
 In the whole English language I can find no word that strikes more terror to my soul than the one word Rum It was born in hell ere the fat of 'no redemp- tion' had gone forth. Its life on earth has been one of ruin to the hopes of youth and the peace of old age It has robbed child hood of it's delights It has stolen the laugh from the lips of innocence, the blood from the cheeks of manhood. It has touched the heart of old age like the tip of poisoned arrow. It's sound, as it gurgles from the neck of bottle, echoes through many 8 desolate household as the missing of thousand serpents. You may deem me too radical on this point. Yet I never interfere with the rights of man to drink if he so elects. hold have 8 right to and do shun rum as would an enraged l tiger, neither naeddling with it nor allow ing it to meddle with me. So long as it will keep it's distance I am content to leave alone, but the moment it attempts to
 
 the Knights of Labor, then mv soul rises in arms against it, and can find no words ! too bitter, no Pronunciation too scathing to hurl against it."
 At another time MT. Powderly said To our drinking members extend the hand of kindness. I hate the use to which rum has been put, but it is my duty tor zcreach | down and lift up the man who has fallen 8 victim to the use of liquor. If there is such a man within the sound of the secre- tary' B voice when this is read, ask him l to stand erect on the floor of this assembly, Il raise his hand to heaven, and repeat with me these words
 l "I am Knight of Labor. believe that every man should be free from the curse of slavery, whether tho slavery appears in the fShape 0f monopoly, usury or intemperance The hr1nest link in the chain of oppression is the one forge when drown manhood and 4 reason m drink. No man can rob me of the brain my God has given me, unless am party to the theft. If drink to drown grief I bring grief to wife, child and surrounding friends add not one iota of the sum of humanSh happiness when invite oblivion over \ tho rim of glass. If one moments forR t. fulnessI or inattention to duty while drunk bri gs defeat to the least of labor's plans, 8 life tin1e of attention to duty alone can repair fBS loss, I promise never again to put myself an sn6l1 condition.
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