Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-16

eacn otner on every issue that arises, |
and do it intelligently, is demagogue.
No matter how intelligent the people |
may be, they must meet to determine,
not what one man wants, but what is
best for all men. When they meet
many cherished theories must give way
to practical ideals, and when these are
enacted into law and intrusted to the
hancs of one man for enforcement,
every hand should be stretched forth to
aid that one man to carry out the will Of
al! men, rather than 10 have, as
! have said, so many hands stretched
forth to stay the work that your prede-
cessors assigned to me. Men have been
placed in office with me with whom l
would not for moment associate in a
private business enterprise with any
hope OF success; yet for the sake of the
good which might follow, silence and
forbearapce under such circumstances
have been observed by me. Fancy the
condition which the United Colonies
would have found themselves in had the
first ten years of the Government of the
United States been delegated to such
men as describe and the interests of
the three million Of that day were 10
greater than those which were placed in
the keeping of the General Executive
Board Of the Knights of Labor.
| PENDING QUESTIONS.
| After remarking the influence of the
Order on public opinion, he takes up the
pending questions saying: 1.-THE most
important questions that can up before
this body for consideration are tho2e of
finance, land aud transportation. These
great questions are up before the people
for discussion and solution. They must
be settled by the people, for it is not in
the interest OF politicians to do so. Those
who control our public highways are
reaching out with their hand of steel to
grasp and control the government itself.
and it is indeed battle for supremacy.
If the masses remain idle and indiffer-
ent, classes will rule through the power
which comes to them through the bank
ing, railway and land monopolies. 1t is
therefore the duty which we should not
neglect, to select the relations which
have been pointed out and place them
prominently before our members for dis.
Icussion."
He recommended that special com
mittee OF three be appointed to take up
the matter. He advocates a concentra.
tion of energies on these questions, and
further recommends the formation Of
Junior assemblies for educating the
younger working people. A matter Of
interest, chiefly to the Order, came ir
for good share of attention, namely
that OF changing the time for holding the
General Assembly, Mr.. Powderly be-
lieving that it comes too close to the cleo
ton: He says: It might happen that ir
the heat of particularly exciting cam
pain members would differ as to politica
methods, and i'll feeling would be engen
dereG. Should our annual session b.
held in the midst OF such contest, o.
soon after one, it could not be as produc
tive of good as ons held at time wher
every trace of the excitement, anger ant
feeling of the campaign had died away.
He advocates equal pay for equal worl
for women.
THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE ROASTED.
} The Provisional Committee is referre,
! to as follows: Scarcely had the gave
/ fallen on the last act of the Minneapoli
session, than traitors hands were raise,
to destroy what it had taken years Q
time and patient work to construct. Th
, majority OF the last Convention wer
! right; they legislated as they saw
! necessity for it; they refused to pas
Resolutions with which they were not il
! sympathy, and at the close of the Gen
erai Assembly a meeting was held in tn,
: City of Chicago, with the avowed pur
pose of disrupting the whole Order. A
) that meeting it was resolved to organize
Committee" for the purpose o
No. 276, which is herewith presented for
the action of the General Assembly
deals with the question of the right of 8
member of the provisional Committee
to visit or otherwise meddle with an
Assembly OF this Order. That decision
should be approved and law passed al
this meeting which would promptly and
forever expel from the Order a member
who would engage in such dastardly
work as was inaugurated at the meeting
of the Chicago Provisional Committee. y
Reforms spring from the noblest i'm
pulse, but the impulse which furthered
the assembling of the Professionals, -
was born in hate, nursed in envy, and
grew to its present stature in the hope
that this great Order would one day be
brought beneath the rule of men who do
not possess the courage or manhood to
properly rule themselves. No humani-
tartan and mawkish sentiments should
sway US at this session.
FIRE THE KICKERs OUT.
Let US once and forever put it beyond
the power of any man to fight this Order
or it's principles and remain a member.
If they will tear itdown, let them tear
from the outside, and let every true,
honest man in the Order take sides. and
either go with these misguided creatures,
or stand firm and defend the Order from
their vile attacks. These attacks upon
the Knights of Labor come from the per.
sistent opposition which has been shown
to the idea of allowing other organiza.
tions to control the knights of Labor.
Do not misunderstood me, for 1 do not
refer to trade unions. l once referred to
this matter at meeting of this
body, and my remarks were twisted
and tortured to serve the purpose
Of designing knaves who attempted to
play upon the feelings of the Trade
Unionists. do not mean Trade Union
lists. Their cause and ours are one in the
main. One organization, which your
General Master Workman speaks of, is
the International Workipgmen's Asso-
citation, which passed resolutions three
years ago to secure the election of it's
trusted agents as general officers of the
Knights of Labor. The proofs are in my
nosaaaaion Tho p1aus of thaco mon M a.