New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-16
SOVEREIGN AGAIN IN ERUPTION.

Sooner or later the carelessneSs Of private
Dalzell Is liable to make trouble for this Ma
ton. if. indeed it does not cause wars TO break
ont all over the globe devastating large areas
with the havoc and carnage of rapdfring. red
hot vocabularies. The carelessness of a recent
utterance of his in a Washington newspaper has
touched off that deep-chested and large-headed
thinker John r. Sovereign, the General Master
Workman who conducts the intellectual proc
esses of the knights Of Labor while the knights
are laboring with their mouths or collecting
grievances through their walking delegates
What the utterance was. or what 1t was ABOUT
we have not the remOtest idea, nor does Sover-
eicn give us any nking, except as 1t may be
gathered from a brief quotation in his trucu-
lent comment thereon in a Denver, Col. labor
organ Therein he says that the private
seems to overlook the fact that in the recent
election one million voters in this country lost
"faith in the ballot" Seems is Of course.
satirical and rhetorical. What Labors Great
Thinker means is that he actually has over
looked it, and no doubt done it ION purpose 1t
is because Of this loss Of faith In the ballot
Sovereign saws that 1.-THE Iron brotherhood and
| 1.-THE Industrial Army. both secret revolutionary
societies. are now being organized in every
| mart OF the country" What connection, il any,
| these terror-inspring organizations have with
the National Bureau of Volunteer Speakers,
| which was advertised a couple of months ago
rs about to food the country with eloquence I'M
der the auspices Of William J. Bryan and SEN
| otor Jones of Arkansas. we are not informed,
| but from the earmarks furnished by the extracts
which Sovereign makes from their proclama-
tons we Judge that they are its auxiliaries.
One of these secret circulars, according to
Sovereign, opens in the following high strain:
comrades. There comes time in the affairs or
..men and nations when desperation compels the
human mind to pause. and brings to its aid that
element of reason so long discarded. We have
| Preached sucG crisis in the destinies OF TINS
| "Amercan Republic 1t may he said. of course,
that there is a crisis on pretty much all the time
with some people who make fairly comfort
able living by standing it off and drawing pay
| for the service from the simple minded persons
who labor under the delusion that crisis is
something loaded that will hurt If it falls on
them. and not something merely blown up, with
nothing in il but wind or gas These revolu-
tiOnary persons who make themselves formi-
dable by calling each other comrades" and
| telling each other in printed circulars how des-
perate they are, go on to say that they nave
"appealed in vain to the ballot" for every trial
of strength "has resulted in victory for the
INSCRIPTIONS money power What Is TO be
done" they ask. As the circular does not def
nitely answer the question: we presume that
enlightenment on that point is reserved for those
who pay entrance fees and dues to be initiated
and find out all about It, The circular goes SC
far as to say that history records no nation
that freed itself by voting from which it may
he inferred that the comrades propose to raise
what in polite circles is called "Hades' in some
other way Then. in a hOarse whisper the cir
| cular saws: NO: let us he frank. The hour has
| come for men TO lay aside the mask and look
leach other in the face. Fellow reformer. would
"yOu be free:''
Even then no ntimatiOn is given as 10 wha
will follow after they have laid aside the masi
and looked each other in the face. or what thu
"feow-reformer' is TO be called upon to do i
he answers that he would be free NOthlnt
worse. we hope. than to contribute to the sup
port of walking delegates and the cost OF PRINT
ing proclamations. 1t will be more or less
demonstration Of desperation II they do actual!
look each other In the face. but so long as the!
don't look anybody else in the face-and The
comrades" who illuminate these proclamation
seldom do--the ballot and free institutions arr
safe, and there will be no need Of calling on
the troops. The real danger is pointed out il
what Sovereign says he may be driven by "Pri
yate" Dalzells carelessness and ndscretiOn t.
do himself Scarcely day passes" he says
that do not read one or more appeals to 5oir