Frostburg mining journal., 1888-05-12


lawessness and vice, but the freedom of the
Constitution of the United States which
guarantees to the humblest citizen the right
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Knights have announced their declar.
alton of principles to the world.
Reyie,r.
These principles ought to be well
understood, but are they? If so,
what portion was it of the "Constitu-
ton Of the United States" that de-
MED to those sshpmble citizens
known as The Big 4 the privilege of
going to Annapolis in the exercise of
their right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness ~
The JOURNAL has been somewhat
student Of Constitutions, nation
al and State. 1t has also gone deep
ly into the declaration of principles
of the Knights of Labor, and
while it finds much in common so
far as preIensions go, in practice they
are about us wide apart as the poles.
No constitution in the land can or
would prevent man from becoming
u Knight of Labor, but the Knights OF
Labor, the latest champions Of "free-
dom and liberty" speaking through
the ''historian" of the Piedmont
Herald, the Cumberland sheet, the
latter endorsed by the Reriew, can
and do make outcasts of The Big
for the exercise of an option in6e-
feasible to all. Under the law of the
land no man Can be prescribed for
opinions sake, but under the statutes
of the knights Of Labor it is done as
easy as rolling off q log.
And no Que dare kick against Its
privile ges of ostracism. If he does
he is "a traitor to the Stars and
Stripes" "a nihilist of the most pro-
nounced type" etc.
Say, American people--you whose
heroic ancestry blazed the path of
civilization through the forests, who
overcame the aboriginal hosts and
drove the armies of subjugation back
to the shelter of their native mon
archies-what have you to say to
those who come here from the same
shades to lay down for our faith and
guidance bastard organic law and
make its accertanc ce the test of your
fitness for the "honor of citizenship"
its adoption your escape from the re-
suits Of "language beyond all degree
damnable? How do you like this
dose administered by sons of the gen.
tlemen who essayed to whip your
fathers out OF all notion of Declar-
alton of Independence, out of all
fancy for Il Constitution, out Of all
idea Of IA "republic?"
If you like it, take it but let that
cup pass the JOURNAL.
WAGEwoRKERs are peculiar class in many
respects. Their popularity is beyond COM
prehension in the matter of political prefer.
ence. Sometimes they break away from their
old love of party and elect some of the rep.
resentative men as legislators. Such was the
case when James A. Cunningham was sent
to the Maryland observation-disclosures
Repiem.
If the subscriber will substitute
Knights of Labor for "Wageworkers''
the above paragraph will read smooth
ly and truly. In its present shape
it is calculated to mislead the un.
wary.
The mystery which enshrouds the
last fourth of the statement is-why
the Knights Of Labor did not also
"break away from their old love and
elect" Owen Crump?
Had it been the "wageworkersr
pure and simple who elected Gun.
ningham the same mass of suffrages
wonld have chosen Crump also, as il
did Fuller.
Hence, there must have been some
difference in the knightly brand
some variation invisible to the eye
unused to the mysterious signs
symbols and emblems of the Noble
Order, which very unfairly afflicted
Crump, for his 'interest Was the con
Germ Of ALL"
10 the unlnitiated Crump is al
good man as Cunningham or Fuller
Perhaps better.
At any rate, he can enter the fell
now and beat either.
And then not be elected.
THE questions have been raised
"who is the historian ?" and VIII,
"Dumpsman ?" We know the one
and the other is about as much
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