The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-15

the world. through the medium of
courts of justice, and let me say, right
here, that no money will buy q
verdict at the hands of these courts.
This certainly means war, but IL is
war between legitimate capital, honest
enterprise and honest labor on the one
hand. and Legitimate on the other
hand. There will be no mobs in this
supreme hour to silence any mans
opinion, no converts Will be made by
physical force. You have been warned
hat your life is in danger. Pay no at
tention TO such talk. No man
who has the interest OF this country
at heart would harm 3 hair of your
head. But the system which reaches
out on all sides, gathering in millions
OF dollars OF treasure and keeping them
out OF the legitimate channels of COM
merce. must die. | have taken
counsel from the best legal minds of
the United States. We are prepared to
face you before the courts and now
await your action in the matter. This
is no threat. 1 speak for 500 600 organ
lied men. who are ready TO pay out the
last farthing In order that Justice may
prevail. You have it in your power 10
make friends of these men, by acting
the part of a man, by taking this mat
ter into your own hands. VIII you do
so. and end this strike. in the interest
OF humanity and our common coun-
try?
Powderly's letter vas sent to Gould
through w. o. Mcdowell, with instruc-
tons that il Gould Ito whom these
written instructions were also submit
ted) did not submit 10 an honor
able settlement of the difficulty
before 5 o'clock of the day the
letters were delivered, or at that hour
still preserved silence, to allow the let
tiers to be published. At the opening of
this letter of instructions to Mcdowell,
and acknowledges the receipt OF
Powderly's letter, the substance of
which is given above. Gould then pro-
ceeds TO construe Powderly's letter
as an official declaration that the
Knights of Labor had determined TO
pursue HIM personally unless the Mis-
souri, Pacific Company should yield 10
It's demands, in what they called a
strike on that road. In answer
to these personal threats, he would say
tnat he was still free American citizen.
Gould then refers to his lowly beginning
in life, and to his success through
habits of temperance and to his indus
try, and that if, as Powderly says. he is
to be destroyed by the Knights of La
Dor, it Is fortunate that he has retained
his early habits of industry. Gould
then says that he is quite content 10
leave his personal record in the hands
of his neighbors and business associates.
If they have aught to COM
plain of, he will be glad to
submit to any arbitration. Gould
then recounts the facts that when the
strike commenced, he was far away
from the scene of trouble, and quotes
the kilograms from his subordinates,
describing the difficulty and the other
the early part OF the troubles.
The last dispatch quoted is the
one from A. L. Hopkins to Powderly,
earnestly urging THAT the strike
Is unjust to both sides as the road is in
the hands of receivers. This dispatch, !"
says Gould, was never answered. This
correspondence places the continuance
OF the strike on your shoulders. You
sat still and was silent after Mr.. Hop
kins' urgent appeal and allowed the
strike to go on, allowed the company's
property to be forcibly seized and
the citizens of four States and one
only under the condition prescribed by
you. You now declare. in effect, that
SAoN AOA4 EAOFCAAs
and rights, not as other men hold
theirs, but only at the peril of your
letting loose irrevocably after
o'clock your order upon me. II this is
true of this company and of me, it
is true of other men and companies.
If so, you and your order are the law
and an American citizen is such only in
name. Already, for weeks, your order
has IN your attack upon this company,
not hesitated to disable it by violence
from rendering its duty to the public
and from doing work and paying
wages to men at least three times
your own number, who, working as
they were by your side were at least de-
serving of your sympathy. Having
pushed this violence beyond even the
great forbearance of the public and
found in this direction a cause to hest
tate, you now turn upon me
and propose that the wrongs
you have hitherto inflicted on
the public shall now eliminate in
an attack upon an individual. In this,
as have said. the real issue is between
you and the laws of the land. 1t may
be before you are through, those laws
will efficiently advise you that even 1,
as an individual citizen, am not beyond
their care. Very respectfully,
JAY GOULD.