The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-11-21

| 10. Those vino control our public highways sre
reaching out with hand OF steel TO grasp and
control the Government itself, md II il indeed .
battle for the supremacy. II the masses re-
main idle and Indifferent the classes will rule
through the power which comes TO them through
the banking. railway AMI land monopolies. IL
| Is, therefore, n duty which wo should not neg
lect, to select tho sections which have pointed
out and place tnem prominently before our
members for discussion III we doc duty, and
IL the proper steps are taken. we can compel the
campaign OF 1897 To be fou INT out on these lines,
and we can so educate the people on those
issues that they discern for themselves the
difference between the real friend and the sham
when he presents himself for the suffrage OF the
people
He recommends that a special committee OF
three be appointed To take up the matter. He
advoca es concentration OF on rgies ON these
qliestions and further recommends the forma-
ton OF junior assemblies for educating younger
working people. Matters of interest chiefly to
| the order come in for good share OF attention,
and he then favors n change OF the time OF hold
ing tho General Assembly, believing IL comes
too close to the election. He says: 1t might
happen that in tho neat Of PARTICULARLY excit-
ing campaign members would differ as to politi-
cal methods. and ill-fceling be engendered.
should our annual session be held in the midst Of
sush contest or soon after one, 1t could not be
productive OF as much good as one held at a
time when every trace OF the excitement, anger.
and feeling OF the campaign had died away"
he advocates equal pay Tor equal work Tor won,
follows: scarcely had the gavel fallen on the
last act OF the Minneapolis session than traitors
hands were raised 10 destroy what IL hal taken
years of time and patient work TO construct
The majority of the last convention were right (;
they legisated as they saw the necessity for IL !;
they refused TO pass resolutions with which
they were not in sympathy, and at the close OF
the General Assembly meeting was held in
the city of Chicago with the avowed purpose
of disrupting the whole order At that
meeting il was resolved to organize what was
called a Provisional Committee for tie purpose
of purifying the order. Decision No. 2I6, which
il herewith presented for the action of the Gen
eral Assembly. deals with the question Of the
| right OF q member of the Provisional Commit
tee u visit or otherwise NEEDLE with an assem-
bly, of tns order. That decision should be ap-
proved and law passed. at this injecting which
would promptly and forever expel from the order
the member who would engage in such dastardly
work as was inaugurated at the meeting OF the
Chicago PROFESSIONALS. Reforms spring from noble
impulses, but the impulse which furthered the
assembling Of 'Provisionals' was born in hate.
nursed in envy, and grew to its present size in
tho hope that this great order would one day DO
brought beneath the rule OF men who do not
| possess the courage or manhood to properly rule
themselves. No iesitancy and mawkish senti-
| m6nt should sway us at this session. Let us
once and forever put il beyond the power of any
man TO fight this order or its principles and re-
main member II they will tear down,
| let them tear from the outside. and let
| every true honest man in the order take sides,
and either so with those misguided creatures
or stand firm and defend the order from
! their vile attacks. These attacks upon the
| knights OF Labor come from the,persistent OPP
| position which has been shown TO the idea OF al
lowing other organizations to control the Knights
| o. Labor. DO not misunderstan me, for do not
! refar TO trades unions. L once REFERRED To this
| matter Mt meeting of this body, and my re-
! marks were twisted and tortured TO serve the
| purpose of designing knaves who attempted
| 10 play upon the feelings of trade union
| lists. l do not mCan trade unionists
| Their cause aud ours are one in the
| main. The organiza ion of which your
General Master Workman speaks is the
International Workingmen's Association, which
pae sci resolutions three years ago 10 secure the
election o. its trusted AGENTS as general officers
| of the Order Of the knight of the Labor The
proofs are in my possess on. The plans OF these
men met with but little success, and from that
zGtion have secretly and untiringly worked for
| the ruin OF this order. There are members of
that society who members of this, who do
| not favor the schemes of the warning factions
| of the International Workingmen's Association,
| hut they are few and far between, for
| those who known intent only on
| destru ,tion. We had the misfortune TO
elect man who either member
or n sympathizer 20 the General Executive
| Board, and he has at all times shown prefer
ence for the principles OF that organization
An honest man would go with the society which
claimed his ale lance but men who viii deny
Their connection with other societies will not
scruple 20 destroy the Knights of Labor IL the
oppor ounity presents itself; the opportunity
| never presented itself, and they sought To make
Master Workman OF entertaining bitter feel
ing for this element. III 30. you wrong
thore is no bitterness, but there is Il determine
ZION on his part TO DIR We from the order every
element of discord, IL it lies in his power TO
d. So"