The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

season, thousands OF COCKS OK hay.
standing in marvellous contigulty. dot
The lower lands, which have been har-
vested last on account Of moisture.
Within \ radius of six miles from the |
Town, fully forty hay presses are at
work during the busy season, while in |
proper several firms bale
hay throughout the year. Of the Ago, 600
acres of land in Mobiles county. about
&c, 900 is under cultivation, divided in.
to the production of wheat, corn. bar
Icy. oats and flax. But very large
percentage of the remainder is admir-
able for pasturage aud highly produc-
tive OF excellent hay. The people are
alive to the value of 4 product which
they could not prevent if they would,
and year by year are adding to their
means by shipments to the North and
East.
ARE THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR A RE.
LIGIONS BODY9
A citizen Of Wabash, Indiana. sends
the following to the Religio-Philosoph-
ical Journal:
The publication of the .clrcumstan-
ces which surrounded the expulsion Of
Arthur G.. Everett, the publisher of Il
labor journal, from the Wabash, Ind.
lodge of Knights of Labor, on account
of his aggressive atheism and his pro-
tests against the use Of the Bible in
the lodge-room. has elected consider
able sympathy for him among the most
prominent members of the Secular
Union. the principal infidel 0rganiza-
tion of the United States. He has re-
ceived hundreds of letters from them
in which they urge him to remain firm
in the position he has taken, and offer
to assist him in getting justice from
the State Assembly of Knights, and in
various other ways. Grand Master
Workman Powderly, to whom Mr.. Ev
erett wrote several times for All adjust
ment of his difficulties, has at last re-
piled: III the case stands as you have
reported it then 4 wrong has been done.
| will cause an investigation to be
made. You will hear from me later
on" But the knights have not yet re-
moved the boycott, and Mr.. Everett is
completely OstraciZed. He says: l
had just got my paper, The Labor Ad
vocate, so that it was paving me some
thing when this action Of the knights
flattened me ont completely. Then
they tried to bribe me by the offer to
buy me a new press if would join the
Methodist church and cease printing
infidel articles in connection with lab
or intelligence. l refused the bribe,
and they followed it up with persecu-
tion and threats. Bricks were thrown
at me as sat upon the porch Of my
residence. knights of Labor threaten
ed to tar and feather me. and said they
would dump my type into the street.
They made it so hot for me that
moved to Vernon, Ind. They follow.
ed me there with the boycott. They
wrote to the prosecuting attorney there
that they not only proposed to ruin my
business but to drive me out of the
State. I then returned to Wabash. but
I am still so much in dread that l do
not dare to go on the streets after dark.
am still unable to procure any en-
plOyment in this city, everybody being
afraid the Knights would boycott them
if they gave me work.
Mr.. Everett is said to Oe most ex
ce1lent man. morally. and this persecu-
tiOn to which he has been subject car
ries the mind back to the old Puritan
days. when freedom of conscience was
not tolerated. and "heretics' were
whipped or banisned.
The question again arises whether or
not there is any thing on earth that is
just and tolerant. Is the trail of the
serpent over it all? Is the Shiny hard
of the priest and of persecution upon
every order and every throat? We d"
not agree at all with Mr.. Everett. We
are intensely the other way. We be-
lieve in living, conscious, personal
Deity. more devoutly than probably any
of these prosecuting knights, bnt we
are with Mr.. Everett hand and heart
in this matter. If the knights are
prosecuting him, why should not others
persecute them? Why should they ap-
peal to the world for justice, and fair
play, and hearing, and the sympathy
of mankind, when they themselves are
brutal and cruel in prosecuting fel.
low man? Especially why should they
in their ignorance of God and the fu-
ture, presume to persecute a fellow.
man for opinion's g sake, when they are
appealing to the public for aid and sym.
pathy against wrongs which are not
half as great as they themselves are in.
fictiDg upon a fellow creature? II
they can persecute and boycott a man
for his opinions when they demand the
right to enjoy their own unmolested
if they can club and persecute the Chi
naman for seeking work the same as
they do themselves. how can they ask
fair play and justice at the hands OF
the public?
Our sympathies are strongly with the
Knights of Labor and all kindred or.
ganizations, but if they are religious
body and religious persecution is al
lowed under the polity of the order, the
sooner they disband the better, the
sooner the public turns on them and
supp1esses them the better for the
county and the cause of the working
man.
| BURNED TO DEATH
The Fulda Republican gives the fol-
lowing facts relating to the horrible
death of Miss Hancock. This time il
was not gasoline nor kerosene but sim.
pie, common lard. When such horrors
can occur right in ones own kitchen
there is no safety anywhere:
Last week we gave short account
of the terrible fate of Miss Bertha Han
cock, but as it was not correct IN many
Of the details, we give 1t corrected thi:
week:
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