The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
MENACE TO PEACE.
Secret Societies Being Formed in
the United States to Bring
About Revolution.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign Writes Z
Warming Letter to Private Dalzell.

Denver, Feb. 15.-J. r. Sovereign,
grand master workman of the Knights
Of Labor, has written a sensational
letter to the Industrial Advocate, with
Private Dalzell's exhortation for war
with foreign nation as his text.
He declares secret revolutionary So
cieties, known as the Iron Brother
hood and the Industrial Army, are be-
ing organized in every part of the
country, with their members leagued
together to resort to civil war as a
means Of obtaining remedies for the
populace, which they can not secure
by the ballot. He deprecates Private
Dalzelrs talk as being In line which
might tend dangerously TO fan this
sentiment into an open flame, but as
serts that should revolution come he
will not be "among the towards now
on the side of the plutOcra tic classes"
His letter Is dated at Sulphur
Springs, Ark, on Feb. 5, and is in part
as follows:
Private Dalzell, In recent article
in the Washington Post. writes long
tale Of woe. He mentions over 2.OOO,-
600 enforced idlers, our 100000
tramps, the overcrowding of our penal
institutions, the increase of landlords
and the tenents, the hopeless increase
Of debt, and long list Of other la
mentable conditions"
Replying directly to the sentence
quoted. Mr.. Sovereign goes on to say
that what the people of the United
States need Is an agitation at home
that will force them to test against
their own social and economic disor-
ders, but that it should come through
insurroction, with all its revolving
horrors, is proposition repulSive to
all the higher impulses of humanity.
Continuing, he said:
Instructions, like great conflagra-
tions, start with spark and are
quenched only with deluge. One
reason in favor Of insurrectiOn to idle,
starving and debt burdened people is
more potent in exciting war than
thousand reasons against insurrection
are IN preserving peace. For that rea-
son, Dalzelll at this time is danger
Gus writer.
Mr. Sovereign then devotes consid-
cradle space to a history OF two secret
revolutionary orders known as the
Iron Brotherhood and Industrial
Army, now being formed in this cOun-
try, and for fear Mr.. DaIzell may not
know what these societies are doing
he quotes several sentences from So
cret circular now being distr buted by
one Of the secret societies, viz:
'Conrades: There comes time in
the affairs Of men and nations when
desperation compels the human mind
to pause and bring to its aid that ele-
ment of reason so long discarded. We
have reached such crisis in the des-
TIMES Of this American republic in
the closing Of the nineteenth century
we see a class of despotism establish.
ing itself upon the ruins of the re-
public.
"What is to be done? We have ap.
pealed in vain TO the ballot. Every
trial Of strength in the political arena
has resulted in victory for the un-
scruDulous money power. History
proves that you cannot be freed
through the ballot"
Continuing Mr.. Sovereign says:
"Scarcely day passes that l do not
receive one or more appeals to join one
or the other of the revolutionary Or
ders being formt in this country, and
offers Of money and arms are fire.
quently received if | will give my ef-
forts to the cause of revolution.
Thus far l have persistently declined
to give ala or ENCOURAGEMENT TO Sucn
movement. But if, through the writ
ings of such men as Private Dalzell
revolution comes, in spite of all eff
forts to prevent it. / will not be
found among the towards, nor on the
side of the plutocratic Classes"
In conclusion Mr.. Soyo reign fired a
parting shot at Mr.. DaiZell by warn
ing him to desist from recommending
war as relief to the people. One
word, he says, in favor of war with
foreign country, would multiply ten
fold desire for revolution at nome.