Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-30

so. Those who control our public highways arc
reaching out with hand Of steel to grasp and
control the Government itself. and It Is indeed .
main idle and Indifferent the classes will rule
through the power which comes to them through
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lect, to select the sections which have pointed
out and place them prominently before our
members for discussion. II We doour duty, and
campaign of 1897 to be fought out on these lines,
and we can so educate the people on these
issues that they can discern for themselves the
difference between the real friend and the sham
when he presents hims If for the suffrage of the
people.
He recommends that a special committee of
three be appointed to take up the matter. He
advocates concentration of on rgies on these
ton of Junior assemblies for educating younger
working people. Matters Of interest chiefly to
the order come in for good snare Of attention,
and he then favors change OF the time of hold
too close to the election He says: at might
ing would deT as to
cal methods. and ill-feeling be engendered.
Should our annual session be held in the midst of
productive of as much good as one held at q
time when every trace OF the excitement, anger,
and an feeling Of the campaign had died away
en-. The provisional committee 10 referred to as
follows: Scarcely had the gayel fallen on the
years of time and patient work to construct.
The majority Of the last convention were right;
they legisated as they saw the necessity for it,;
they refused to pass resolutions with which
they were not in sympathy, and at the close of
the city Of Chicago with the avowed purpose
Of disrupting the whole order At that
meeting it was resolved to organize what was
of purifying the order Decision No. ZIG, which
is herewith presented for the action Of the Gem
right Of a member of the Provisional Commit
tee to visit or otherwise NEEDLE with an assem-
bly, of this order. That decision should be APP
proved and q law passed at this meeting which
would promptly and forever expel from the order
the member who would engage in such dastardly
CHICAGO Retorms sprng Eu
impulses, but the impulse which furthered the
assembling Of 'Provisionals' was born in hate,
the hope that this great order would one day be
brought beneath the rule OF men who do not
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once and forever put it beyond the power Of any
main a member. II they viii tear down,
let them tear from the outside. and let
every true honest man in the order take sides.
| and either go with those misguided creatures
or stand firm and defend the order from
their vile attacks. These attacks upon tho
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
OF Labor. Do not misunderstood me, for donot
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matter at q meeting Of this body, and my 70
marks were twisted and tortured to serve the
purpose Of designing knaves who attempted
to play upon the feelings Of trade union
Their cause and ours are one in the
General Master Workman speaks is the
International Workingmen's Association, which
passed resolutions three years ago to secure the
election of its trusted agents as general officers
of the Order of the knight Of the Labor: The
proofs are in my possession. The plans Of these
men met with but little success, and from that
time to the present the members OF that organi-
cation have secretly and untiringly worked for
| the ruin of this order. There are members of
| that society who are members Of this, who do
not favor the schemes of the warning factions
of the International Workingmen's Association,
but they are few and far between, for
those who are known are intent only on
destruction. We had the misfortune to
elect man who was either a member
or sympathizer to 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 allegiance, but men who will deny
their connection with other societies will not
scruple to destroy the Knights Of Labor II the
opportunity presents itself; the opportunity
never presented ITSELF and they sought to make
it, and failed. You may accuse your General
Master Workman of entertaining bitter feel
ing for this element If so. you are wrong |;
there is no bitterness, but there is o determine
zion on his part to DIR We from the order every
element Of discord If it lies in his power to
do So"