Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-26
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. WAR TO THE BITTER END. The Knights Reply To Jay
 Gould. 4 GREAT TEST 0F STRENGTH. SWitchmen Out At East St.
 Louis. THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. Secretary Manning A Very
 Sick Man.
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.

| THE HOUR OF COMPROMISE PAST. Gould or the Knights of Labor Must l Surrender-The Knights Send Out Their Pronunciamento-A Quiet Day l With no Incident Hut the Strike of Switcbmen at East St. Louis. ! ST. LOUIS, March Ex-Governor Marma- I duke, of Missouri, has issued proclamation | which calls upon the Missouri Pacific rail- | road company and upon its officers and agents and it's employees of every trade, each | in theiT several capacities, to assist in resum- Ing traffic of all kinds in the usual way. It | warns all, employees not, against interpos- | ing any obstacle to said resumption; and fur | ther calls upon all good citizens to assist in
 carrying out the purposes of the proclama- | tion. The proclamation further extends the whole power of the State so far as it may be I lawfully yielded by it's chief executive off, cers to sustain said company, and it's ser- ! wants in said resumption. A crowd even | larger than that of yesterday gathered in the yards here this morning, which 150 police | men kept back. No demonstrations of any kind occurred during the entire morning. At $40 a freight train was ready and pulled out of the yards, not an attempt being made to stop it. Then the majority walked west ward to Ewing avenue. Everybody seemed good humored At 8 p. m. as predicted every switchman in the yards of the various railroads running in here struck. A number of whistles from every engine in the city was the signal. The bridge switches are deserted and the automatic switch stand which re- quires an expert cannot bs handled easily. The day closed rather quicety. The only incident in the afternoon was the strike in East St. Louis. The engineer who took out yesterdays freight train returned tonight and was unmercifu1ly whipped by some per son who after doing the work escaped in the darkness.
 The executive board of district assemblies 101, F and 93, Knights of Labor have is- sued the following address in reply to the ut terances of Jay Gould published this morn ing:
 To the Knights of Labor and Trades Assem- plies throughout the United States: Brothers-The irrepressible conflict, the i long threatened war of labor against capital is upon us. The aIch-monopolist of the world, Jay Gould, has thrown the challenge
 in our teeth and bidden us to come on to the
 conflict. There can be compromise in
 this case He says 'there is no room for
 compromise. I am bound to fight this ques-
 tion to the bitter end for the very reason that
 the strikers have confessed that they have no
 grievances against our company" So says MT. Gould. We have wearied the press and worn
 the types of the world in stating grievances
 and demanding opportunity to present them
 to MT. Gould and his ieutenants. We have
 offered the highest channels that represent
 us in the nation to meet him upon any field.
 We have sought, we have plead, we have de-
 handed that we be heard. To all this MT.
 l,1 <E, |
 no questionthat were his cause just and he
 the inj ured innocence which he poses
 he would see our representative
 and hear our complaints. The
 very cowardice which appeals to court born
 and raised ill luxury and cannot in the
 nature of things sympathize with poor mau,
 and to which were he poor man he would
 not appeal, condemns him. That cowardice
 shuns field on which s'thrice armed is he
 who hath his battle just," and on which field
 he dares not meet, condemns him.
 And now before the world we
 challenge him to hear our complaint,
 for he says we have none. Before the
 world we impeach his veracity when he says
 we have not presented them. Before the
 world let the trial go on. Distorted techni- calities may obtain in the courts which he
 controls and through the golden spectacles
 he places upon them they may see best the rights of wealth. But to that grander, high CT court, that court whose verdict is final as it is righteous, to that we appeal and this is our case.
 After spurning our pleas for many months, after imperiously ignoring every petition
 presented, after violating sacred compacts
 and their intervening federal authority to
 shield his perGdy, after crushing the life and
 hope out of poor men by holding them to
 hard labor at ffty-6Ve cents a day until ev- cry yestige of manhood rose in revolt,
 then he turns to the golden spectacled
 lnrrol nITOFlS aud all n IIo4 4o1le
 it no doubt with tones of pathos ard flowing
 tears. He poses as suffering victim, bleed
 ing at every pore from the assaults of the
 hideous monster labor. He poses, he pleads,
 he weeps, and To! the legal mind bows it's
 sympathetic head and renders it's verdict on
 ex parte testimony. Fortified by such won
 derful logic Gould arises behind his i'm
 promptu moot court and threat
 ems to sue every Knight of
 Labor in the land. o Shame,
 where is thy. blusha The arch fiend of
 oppression, the bloated vampire of the body
 polite threatens openly to enter the sacred circle of cur homes to satiate his greed. He seeks to overawe and terrorize the weak and beget treason in our ranks. Knights of La bor, hear us! MT. Gould is allowed to make such threats as these to intim1date us and our friends when one of us to threaten thus some sapient court would order our arrest and condemn us for contempt MT. Gould and his wise counsel well know that both the decision and the threat are mere
 buncombe and such silly emanations are an insult to the intelligence of our schoolboys
 and challenge to the courage of our grand mothers.
 Fellow workmen, we have against us in
 this conflict first, the incorporation; second, the terrorized merchants who dare not claim their souls against said corporations; third, the scabs. If to any of these three you be- long now is the time Cowsrds to the rear; l,,4 l, &, 41a &1a great enemy is before us. But we clad in an armor of eternal right. L t us not fail only when we must. Let die only when the victory is assured for the generations behind us. The ages are looking down upon the object lessons of to- day.
 Truth crushed to earth will rise again The eternal years of God are hers. While error wounded writhes in pain And dies amid her worshippers." TSirDa5l