The record-union., 1897-02-16
SOVEREIGN'S WARNING.
SECRET SOCIETIES WORKING UP
A REVOLUTION.
Private DalzeIl Wants Foreign
War as a Safety
Valve.


man Of the Knights of Labor, has writ
ten sensational letter to the Indus
trial Advocate" with Private DalzelFs s
exhortation for war with a foreign ma
ton as his text.
He declares secret revolutionary socl-
eties, known as the Iron Brotherhood
and the Industrial Army, are being or
ganiZed in every part Of the country
with their members leagued together to
| resort to civil war as means OF OBJ
tanning remedies for the populace
which they cannot secure by the ballot.
He deprecates Private DalZelPS talk as
being in a line which might tend dan
gerously to fan this sentiment into an
open flame, but asserts that should
revolution come he will not be among
the towards now on the side of the plu-
tocratic classes
His letter is dated at Sulphur Springs,
Ark on February 9TH, and is in part as
follows:
Private Dalzell, in a recent article in
the Washington Post" writes a long
| tale of woe. He mentions our two
| million enforced idlers, our million
tramps, the oVercrowding of our penal
| institutions the increase of landlords
and tenants, the hopeless increase OF
debt, and a long list of either lamenta-
| ble conditions Concluding, he says:
Civilization, as Napoleon said OF
armies, travels on its stomach, and it is
very hungry now for the most. But
where can it be filed? Hence all this
| unrest, all this wild war talk and dis
cussion of silver and gold and tariff by
| Il
or anything to pay customs. Relief
shall not come in that way 1t never
| did 1t will come in the old way, in
war, and not otherwise; either insur-
| rectionary, which God forbid or for
cign, which Heaven hasten, if it shall
quiet these people and give them rest,
| if only the honored rest of the patriots
| grave, fighting for humanity
| Replying directly to the sentences
quoted, Mr.. Sovereign says that what
the people Of the United States need is
an agitation at home that will force
| them to a test against their own social
| and economic disorders. but that ii
should come through insurrectiOn, with
all its revolving horrors, is PROPOSE
ton repuIsive to all the higher impulses
| of humanity.
| Continuing, he says: "InsurrectiOns
| like great conflagratiOns, start with a
| spark and are only quenched with a
! deluge. One reason in favor Of insur-
rection TO idle starving and debt bur
Gened people is more potent in eXcit-
| ing war than q thousand reasons
against insurrection are in preserving
! peace. For that reason Dalzel, at this
| time & 1a pparnI1e Xy-1.i or
Mr.. Sovereign then devotes consid-
cradle space to a history of two secret
revolutionary orders known as the
Iron brotherhood and the Industrial
Army, now being formed in this coun-
! try, and for fear Mr.. Dalzell may not
know what these societies are doing,
he quotes several sentences from the
prelude Of a secret circular now being
distributed by one of the secret soci-
cites, viz:
! Comrades: There comes a time in
the affairs of men and nations when
desperat tion compels the human mind
to pause and bring to its aid that ele-
ment Of reason 50 long discarded. We
| have reached such q crisis in the desti-
nies5 OF this American Republic. One
hundred years of national existence
| has demonstrated that the political
fabric of our Government contains
wiol@n its warp and woOf the ele7
mznts Of it's own destruction, with the
| fact that the ballot has proven a most
| lamentabla failure as a safeguard of
| free institutions.
In the closing of the nineteenth
century we see a class despotism es-
| tabhshing itself upon the ruins of the
republican oligarchy is now in power
and already the hideous phantom of
imperialism Overshadows us, as en-
bodied in the autocratic claims Of the
Federal Court and the acts of unbridled
military despotism characteristic of the
Federal Government Of to-day.
What is TO be done? We have APP
pealed in vain to the ballot. Every
trial of strength in the political arena
has resulted in victory for the unscru-
pulous money power. History proves
that you cannot be freed through the
! ballot"
Continuing. Mr. Sovereign says:
Scarcely a day passes that / do not
| receive one or more appeals to join one
or the other of the revolutionary orders
| being formed in this country, and Of
| fers Of money and arms are frequently
received if 1 viii give my efforts to
the cause Of revolution. Thus far
have persistently declined to give aid
or Encouragement to such movement.
But IL through the writings Of such
men as Dalzell revolution comes, in
| spite of all efforts to prevent it, l will
| not be found among the towards nor
on the side Of the plutocratic classes
In conclusion, Mr. Sovereign fires a
parting shot at Mr.. Dalzell by warn
ing him to desist from recommending
war as a relief to the people. One word,
| he says. in favor of war with a foreign
country would multiply tenfold desire
! for revolution at home