Evening star., 1897-02-17
What the Grand Master of the
Knights of Labor Says.
PREFERS DOMESTIC TO FOREIGN War
Mr.. Martin of the Executive Board
lndorses the Views.
HE TALKS AT LENGTH

The current number of the journal of the
knights of Labor, the official organ of that
organization, and which is published at
the X. of l.. headquarters in this city. con-
tains an address to the members of the or
der throughout the United States from
Grand Master Workman Sovereign.
Mr.. sovereign, who is at his home in
Sulphur Springs. Ark, takes for his text a
letter recently published from Private Dali
zell. In which a foreign war was recon-
mended a relief from the business de-
preston which now exists in this country
and goes on to say:
Private DaIzell seems to overlook the
TACT that as the result of the recent cleo
ton l,HnM0 voters in this country lost
faith in the ballot, that the Iron Brother
hood and the Industrial Army. both secret
reFoiutlonary societies, are now being rap
iCly organized in every part of the coun-
try.
Prefers n Domestic War.
still entertain hopes of a peaceful solu-
ton of our difficulties. and will work to
that end. But if, as Private Dalzell says
the only remedy is in war, / prefer to have
the war at home. What moral right have
we to impose war with all its cruelties. de-
struction and desolation. on foreign coun-
try as means of relieving our own dis
tresses, the result of our own errors? Fur
thermore, to provoke a foreign country to
war would not prove a permanent remedy
fer domestic wrongs. 1t would initiate the
volume OF government securities and i'm
pose increased burdens the creditor
classes. 1t might also result in adding our
country to the conquests of some mon
archlal or despotic power and make us
slaves to tyranny and oppression thou
ssrd times worse than We now suffer
private DalZells proposition is danger
Gus to the peace of this country, for no
one posted in the history of wars between
nations Will accept Ii as a remedy for in
dustrial depression. 1t is both foolish and
dangerous. If he succeeds in convincing
the people that the only remedy lies i'm
war, he will ncite them to insurrection and
revolution, for every student of economics
IN this country is clamoring for a readjust-
ment of conditions at home, which can
never come through war with foreign
lowers,
IF L were convinced that our only rem
edy lies in war / would urge every work.
ing man to get gun and get ii quickly
and prepare to fight foreign institutions
and customs now operating in this coun-
try. In fact, ii would not necessarily indi-
cate war or revolution If every working
man in this country had a gun and knew
how 10 use II. for every legal robber in
America today is a moral coward and
would submit to a wholesome readjustment
rather than run the risk of losing all in a
general insurrection. John r. Mclean
made forcible suggestion 10 the million
aire classes when he said he preferred to
pay an income tax now than to lose all a
few years hence.
What We need is an agitation at home
that will force the people to a test against
our own social and economic disorders.
But that it should come through insurrec-
ton, with all its revolving horrors. is a
proposition repulsive to all the higher inn
pulses of humanity.