The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-15
FOMENTING CIVIL STRIFE.
Iron brotherhood and Industrial
Army work secretly To Wreck
the Nation.

CHICAGO. Feb. IA special TO the
Times Herald from Denver says:
j. r. Sovereign. grand master workman
Of the knights Of Labor. has written a
sensational letter TO the Industrial Advo-
cate with Private Dalzeifs exhortation
for war with foreign nation as his text.
He declares secret revolutionary societies,
known as the Iron Brotherhood and the
Industrial Army. are being organized in
every part OF the country. with their
members lea sgued together 70 resort 10
civil war as a means OF obtaining 'rem-
edles for the populaee," which they can
not secure by the ballot. He deprecates
Private Daizslfs talk as being on a line
which might tend dangerously TO fan this
sentiment into an open flame, but asserts
that should revolution come. he viii not
be among the towards now on the side
OF the plu;ocratic classes
His letter Is dated At Sulphur Springs.
Ark. or February 5. and IS In part as fol-
lows:
Private Dal-en ia a recent article in
the Washington Post, writes = long tale
OF woe lie mentions our 2.lsA.Ho enforced
idlers. our J. 10000 tranps. the overcrowd-
ing Of our penal institutions, the increase
of landlords and tenants. the hopeless igl-
crease OF debt. and a Tong list of otber
lameutabie conditions. Concluding. he
says:
armies. travels on ~ stomach. and n is
very hungry now for the most. But
where can IL be fiie6? Hence all this un-
rest this wild war talk and discussion
OF silver and gold and tariff by people
who have ueither silver nor gold. nor
anything to pay customs on. Relief shsll
not come IN that way. u never did y
viii come in the old way. ia war and not
otherwise: either insurrectiouaTy. when
God forbid, or foreign. which heaven has
ten. IL Il shall eulet these people ana
give them rest. II only the honored rest
Of a
narity.
Replying directly 70 the sentences quot
ed. Sovereign says thar what the people
of the United states need is an agitation
at home that win force them TO test
against thgr own social and economic
disorders bat that Il should come through
fnsurrectfon. with all its revolving horrors,
Is a proposition rspulsive 70 All the higher
impulses Of humanity. Continuing. he
says:
sFusurrections. ike great confaEratlons,
start with a spark and are only quenehet
wira a deluge. One reason IN favor of
trsslrrect bon to fdie. starving and debt
buraened people IS more potent IN sxcit-
ing war than a thousand reasons ag&lnst
insurrectian are in preserving peace. For
mat reason DAizeai, a. this Ifnss - a
dangerous writer.
soverslrn then dsvotes considerable
SPACE 70 a history Of the TWO secret rev.
o!utionary orders known as the iron
brotherhood and the Industrial Army.
now being formed IN this country. and for
fear DaigeI may not know what these
societies are doing. he quotes several s>r-
feuces from the prelude q secret cir
eslar which Is being distributed ~ one
~ re secret societies Continuing. Mr..
Sovereign says
scarcely a day passes fnst ] do not
receive one or more appeals 70 JOIN ore
or ne other of the rsvOiufionsry orders
ssfrx formed IN tbis country. ard ofTers
% money and arms are fre1usntly Teceiv-
e4 n I viii give M Efforts % shs cause
~ revolution. Thus far have persist
s-,.{,. declined 20 zsye aft or sucoura ze-
r~ar. -. asch movement Bur - through
ne writings % such usen As Dsizeii. rev
o1s4tfoa cones IN spite q al efforts 70
prevent IT, VIII nof os found among the
e9waras nor On the side q me aluiocrAfie
Fnassea'