Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-04-10
ARTINSBURG HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 10 1886.
GOULD MUST BE oVERTHRoWN.

ST LOUIS, April G.-The Joint
Executive Board of Assemblies 101,
93, IL, knights of Labor, this after
noon issued the following address
To the workingmen of the world
Friends and brothers: Hear us,
for we plead for our right. Men of
equity, look upon us, for we struggle
against giants OF wrong.
Mad with the frenzy of pride and
self-adulation, beg0tten as it is of
the success OF outrage and infamy,
there stands before us giant of
aggregated and Incorporated wealth,
every dollar of which is built upon
blood, injustice and outrage. That
giant of corporate wealth has CELL
traliZed its power in and is imper-
sonated in the eager fiend who
gloats as he grinds the life out of
his fellow-men and grimaces and
dances as they writhe upon his in
struments OF torture. o, ye work
ingmen of America, who love your
liberty and your native land; We
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 our oIder-over the
ruin of our homes and the blight OF
our lives. Before him the world
has smiled in beauty, but his wake
is graveyard of hopes. cyclones
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 unrequit-
ted constant toll. Onr loved ones at
home are hollow checked and pale
with long and weary waiting for bet
ter days to come. Nay, more than
this, the graveyards are hiding his
victims from our longing eyes.
Brother workmen, this monster
fiend has compelled us to toll in cold
and rain for five and fifty cents a
day. Others have been compelled
to yield their time to him for seven
teen and thirty SIX weary hours for
the pittance of nine hours pay.
Others who have dared to assert
their manhood and rebel against his
tyranny are blacklisted and boycott.
ted all over the land. He has made
solemn compacts with the highest
authority i'll our order and then has
basely refused to fulfill his pledge.
He lives under and enjoys all the
benefits of a republican form of gov
eminent and yet advocates and per-
petuates the most debasing form of
white slavery. He robs the rich
and poor, the high and low, with
ruthless hand, and then appeals to
corrupt 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 damage or be blacklisted forever.
He goes to our groceries and per.
suades them not to give us credit,
because we refuse to be ground in
his human 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
overthrow. His giant power must
be broken or you and | must be
slaves forever. The Knights of La.
Dor alone have dared to be David
to this Goliath. The battle is not
for to-day-the battle is not for to-
morrow-but for the trooping gen.
erations in the coming ages of the
world-for our children and our
children's children. IT'S the great
question of the age. Shall we in
the incoming ages be nation of
freemen or IA nation of slaves? The
question must be decided now. The
chains are already forged that are
to bind u.s. Shall we await until they
are riveted upon our limbs? Nay
God forbid.
Workmen of the World marshal
yourselves upon the battlefield.
Workmen of every trade and cline |!
into the fray! Gould and his mon,
opolies must go down or your child
rem 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
wrung floods of tears and from
whose heart he has tortured drops
of blood. Who can look calmly up
on his perfdy, his outrage and his
crime? For he has sought TO incite
felony among our rank and file. He
has bought the perfidy of vile men
to entrap the unwary that he might
stain our fair name and gloat over
our misfOrtunes. Once for all, fell
low-workmen, arouse! Let every
hand that tolls be lifted to heaven
and swear by Him that liveth for.
ever that these outrages must cease.
Let every heart and brow be turned
toward our common foe. And let
no man grow weary until, like Go.
Hath, our giant is dead at our feet.
EXECUTIVE BOARDS D. A. 101, 90, IL.
FREDERICK, April about two
O'Clock this morning a collision oc-
cured at Point of Rocks. on the