The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-02
THE LABOR MOVEMENT.
A. w. Wright of Toronto Address
the Knights Upon It's Moral Aspect

A. w. Wright OF Toronto Addresses
the Knights Upon Its Moral Aspect.
A. w. Wright of Toronto, Canada, q
member of the general executive board of
the Knights Of Labor, deserved a much
larger audience than that which listened TO
his lecture on "The Moral Aspect of the
Labor Movement at Catholic Library hall
yesterday afternoon, as it was a scholarly
effort, and one which was listened to with
quiet earnestness by about fifty of the more
intelligent members of the order.
Tie knights who were present regarded
the1ecture one of the most practical and in
structive ever delivered before them, and
they exacted from MIR. Wright the promise
that he would return to Savannah next fall
and deliver one or more lectures. The COM
mittee accounts for the slim attendance on
the ground that Mr.. Wright's visit was I'M
expected and could not therefore be adver-
tised until yesterday morning, and taken in
connection with the fact that the induce
ments offered the working people at this
season of the year to spend Sunday at the
resorts the attendance was as large as could
have been expected.
The lecturer is a man fully six feet tall
and well built. He was dressed in the con-
ventional black, wore side whiskers, and
there was decided English accent in his
speech.
Master Workman L. G. Downs of District
Assembly 139, K. of L., presided, and the
lecturer was introduced by James F. Lane.
MIR. Wright handled his subject in a
logical manner, and the lecture was of a
character which would have interested all
classes and conditions of society, and its
practical suggestions could be followed with
profit. bis reasoning was persuasive, and
OF character to convince, and there was
no ground for offense to those who hold
views at variance with those he elaborated
on the labor problem.
The lecturer claimed that the order of the
knights of Labor was founded on the prin-
ciples or christianity, and has come to stay :
that the mission of the order is not to be
accomplished in a day, and that although
the order has labored under many disad-
vantages its success has been marvellous.
and it has accomplished more for
the good OF humanity in the shape of legis-
lation than all other orders combined. ard
is in better shape to-day for work than
ever before. While some have dropped out.
those who are in the ranks now are there
for great principle. and they are being
instructed in the principles of right and
wrong.
Taking up the subject of great combina
tions which tend to the unjust accummula-
ton of wealth and the impoverishment of
the masses, the lecturer held that poverty
40 "a Oui CO CAatoSob-lu6ulAl, moral ana plV-
steal, and the mission of the Knights Of
Labor is to relieve all classes. He argued
that the government should control the
railroads and the telegraph. Trusts, he said.
are good thing in one respect. They
cheaper the price of commodities in which
they deal, and opened the eyes of the people
to the advantages of cooperation, and will
eventually lead them to believe that it win
be better for the government to control
them and let the whole people share the
benefits which now go to make milhonaires
of the few.
Organization" said the speaker. sis
everything. If a man is tradesman. LET
him join his trade union, and then. If he
wish. let him join the Knights of Labor.
Ii ne have no trade, let him join the Knights
OF Labor, but If he be not Knight of
Labor from principle he should not ioin the
order at all, for he would do more harm
than good ip the order.p
Mr.. Wright, who is on an official tour of
tne solth in connection with the general
executive board of the order. came here
from Birmingham. He will leave TODAY
I I charleston, s. c., where he will lecture
from Charleston he will go to Richmond
va, and after concluding his labors there
VIII return to the north.