Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-09
IKoNToN. Mo ian. 20. 1885

| A meeting held at this place on the
! Goth, between the F. A. and K. of L..
was well represented by delegates from
both organizations. The following is
the Presidents address to the meeting:
| BROTHER LABORERS-The laboring
masses cannot be too much in earnest
in their organized and united efforts
now being made for the betterment OF
their condition, but great care should
be taken not to allow fanaticism to take
the place of honest, earnest enthusiasm.
The greatest need Just now among
farmers, especially, is a thorough awak-
ening to the Importance of action upon
their part, and not only action, but
united action, and a firmly fixed pur-
| pose to pull together and continue to
pull until every wrong of which we
complain is righted.
Spasmodic or fanatical outbursts usu-
] ally generate great deal of bad blood
only to soon die and leave the partici-
pants in a much worse condition than
| when they started. Every effort made
which ends in partial failure only tends
to destroy the not over abundant
amount OF confidence we now possess
in the firmness, constancy and ability
of laborers to stick to anything long
enough to insure success. We some
times tear that thousands of good ard
true men, studying not the imaginary
but the actual wrongs which honest
industry is suffering to-day, suffer
their feelings to be so aroused that ere
they are aware of it spirit of revenge
or desire to pull down rather than
build up comes over them. The true
spirit that should pervade every Amer
lean heart should be to build up, should
be to cultivate spirit of good will and
kindly feeling to all. We should en-
deavor to keep the oft demonstrated
fact permanently before our own minds
and the minds of all others, that the
prosperity of the laborer and farmer
means the prosperity of the nation,
anu again that our success does not de-
pend upon the overthrow or downfall
OF others, but upon our own constancy,
hrmness and devotion to our own
cause. There are few men on earth
but who ere liable to conceive that
their condition is worse than those
around them. To magnify our felt
wrongs or to remain inactive and COM
plain will do no good, but to move to-
gether with f1xedness of purpose and
firm determination to cooperate to-
gether intelligently and tenaciously
will bring success.
we wait again, il possible, to inn
press every member of our orders that
we have it in our power to again open
the broad avenues of prosperity to our
people; to brush from our sky the dark
aud gloomy forebodings which are to-
day towering over US; to satisfy these
terrible feelings of dissa tisfac ton and
unrest that. are now prevailing the
hearts Of vast thousands of laboring
men who feel that something is wrong,
but do not know where to look for it.
Let the people rise up, as they have
the power to do, and bride, check and |
forever crush out of our country the |
present tendency of our moneyed men |
to concentrate wealth for the purpose |
OF not exactly robbjng the lsboring
masses, hut which inevitably results in |
that, and we will forever wipe from our
country the stains of anarohism, social
ism, communism and all these social
wrongs. j. 1T. NJ, Sec'y.