Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
sILyrR AnsIvrasARY y THE (. o. I
An Address hy SOVEREIGN On the Growth
Of tine osasr.

SILVER ANhiNkhSsrf " fHe N.Y. -
An Address b. SOVEREIGN on the Growth
Of tire osaer.
Philadelphia. Pa. Nov. 24.--The
Knights OF Labor win be Twenty-Five
years old at eight O'Clock tomorrow
evening. II was ON the 15th Of Hoyem-
her, issa. and which happened 70 be the
day appointed by President Grant for
the national Thanksgiving. that seven
garment cutters met at the humble
home OF Uriah S. Stephens. member
OF that craft and by formal resolution
brought into existence what was al
one time the greatest labor organiza-
ton that the new world has even seen.
All Of the seven have gone TO their
last reward. but their memories are
stfli revereneed by those who now com
pose the organization. Some time since
the general executive board called upon
all the local and district assemblies to
appropriately observe the day. But
when it was discovered that the Anni-
veraary this year fell upon Sabbath.
the original order was recalled and
the order was requested TO hold Its cell
ebrations either today or Monday as
might be most convenient In an adj
dress from Grand Master Sovereign
and the executive board and which win
be read at every meeting throughout
the length and breadth Of the land,
the chiefs OF the organization say:
when the civil war was over and
men OF the New World. America. be-
gan to settle back into the peaceful oc-
equations OF wealth-pr0ducing. they
found that a new class of people had
been brought into existence In the Unit
ell States, a class of wealfh-owners
composed largely Of men who had staid
at home during the four years OF inter
nal strife and grown rich on govern
ment contracts and government neces-
sity. Abraham Lincoln reorBanixed the
| danger of the republic from the class
equally as quick as Salmon +. Chase or
| Thadeus Stevens. IL was a class of
wealth seareters and wealth accumula-
| tors.
Soon also the workers OF the coun-
4 try began to realize the existence OF
this class. and also the dangers TO their
liberties and prosperity that lurked In
/ Its birth and growth. Out of this
/ realization grew the spirit that made
| the 25th of November 1869. an epoch
making day In the history CT civiliza.
| ton. On that day. nearly 25 years age
now. was born a new hope to the repub-
lie: a new hope to the working people
OF the world. For on that day Uriai
| Stephens and his confreres organized
| the greatest educational instrument
ever given TO the common people--ths
Knights of Labor.
we need to rehearse the tremen
| dous work OF that great organization
From its humble origin with the small
| number OF seven men, IL grew TO mil
lions Of members and untold infiuenc,
for the good to the workers OF the world
IL blaxed pathway in the woods OF ig
norance and taught the lesson of edu
cation and organization TO the laborers
as well as TO the millionaires. II hai
aroused public thought, qulckened tn
public conscience and defended the pub
lie interest when the apathetic interior
ence benumbed the world and wa
leading us on 10 the barren rocks o
class rule and aristocracy.
For 25 years the Knights OF Labo
as an organization has fought the bat
ties of the lowly and taught them {
think and assert their independence
at is today % years since the FIRST or
gnnized local assembly saw the ligh
OF day. Though there may have bee
mistakes both by leaders and rank an
file since then. yet the Father of tn
God and the brotherhood OF man hav
been the handspring of all its act
for n quarter OF century. and haiti
cry OF The Interest OF One the Con
Germ OF AL has penetrated every moo
and corner OF the civilized world. teach
ing that broad Christianity which wi
eventually dominate civilization an
develop in man, the most perfect bein
possible In natural life.
''Ail hail the twenty-flfth anniversar
0f the knights Of Labor, the creates
labor organization on earth"