The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-02-25
WARNEDBYSOVEREIGN
Says Private Dalzell's Re.
marks Will Lead to War.
SECRET REVOLUTIONARY BANDS
Are Being Organized In Every Part
Of the Country to Resort to
Revolution.


Chicago, Feb. ia Times special
from Denver says:
J. R. Sovereign, grand master work
man Of the Knights of Labor, has writ
ten sensational letter to the Indus
trial Advocate, with Private Dalzell's
exhortation for war with foreign ma
ton as his text. He declares that Sc
cret revolutionary societies, known as
the Iron Brotherhood and the Indus
trial Army are being organized in every
part Of the country, with their MEM
bers leagued together to resort to war
as a means of obtaining remedies for
the populace" which they cannot Sc
cure by the ballot. He deprecates
Private Dalzell's talk as being in
line which might tend dangerously to
fan this sentiment into open fame. He
asserts that should revolution come,
he will not be among the towards nor
on the side of the plutocratic classea
His letter is dated at Sulphur Springs,
Ark, February 5, and is in part as fol-
lows:
"Private Dalzell, in recent article
in the Washington Post, writes a long
tale of woe. He mentions our 2,OOO,-
900 enforced idlers, our many tramps,
the overcrowding of our penal institu-
tions, the increase Of landlords and
tenants, the hopeless increase of debt,
and long list of other lamentable con-
ditions. Concluding, he says: Civil
ization, as Napoleon said of armies,
travels on it's stomach, and it is very
hungry, for the most But where can
it be filled? Hence all this unrest, all
this wild war talk and discussion of
silver and gold and tariff by people
who have neither silver nor gold, nor
anything to pay customs. Relief shall
not come in that way. It never did.
1t will come in the old way-in war,
and not otherwise; either insurrection-
airy, which God forbid, or foreign,
which heaven hasten, if it shall quiet
these people and give them rest, if only
the honored rest of the patriotic grave,
fighting for humanity
Replying directly to sentences quot
ed, Mr.. Sovereign says 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 disorders, but that it should
come through instruction, with all it's
revolving horrors, is proposition re-
pulsive to all the higher impulses of
humanity. Continuing, he says:
instructions, like great confagra-
tions, start from spark, and are
quenched with detuge. One reason
in favor of insurrection to idle, starry
ing and debt burdened people is more
potent in exciting war than thousand
reasons against instruction are in pre-
serving peace. For that reason, Dali
zell at this time is dangerous writer"
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 country, and
for fear Mr.. Dalzell may not know
what these societies are doing, he
quotes several sentences from the pre-
lude of a secret circular now being dis
tributed by one of the secret societies,
viz:
Comrades: 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 discarded. We have
reached such crisis in the destinies of
this American republic. One hundred
years of national existence has demon
strated that the fabric policy of our
government contains within its warp
and wool the elements of its own de-
struction, with the fact that the ballot
has proven q most lamentable failure
as safeguard of free institutions. In
the closing Of the nineteenth century
we see class despotism establishing
itself upon the ruins of the republic.
An oligarchy is now in power, and al
ready the hideous phantom of imperi-
alism overshadows us, as embodied in
the plutocratic claims of the federal
court and acts of unbridled military
despotism, characteristic of the federal
government OF today.
"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 proevs
that you cannot be freed through the
ballot.
Continuing Mr.. Sovereign says:
Scarcely day passes that do not
receive one or more appeals to join ono
or the other Of the revolutionary orders
being formed in this country, and
offers Of money and arms are frequent
" received if will give my efforts to
the cause of revolution. Thus far I
have persistently declined to give aid
or encouragement to such movement.
But if, through the writings of such
men az Dalzell, revolution comes, in
spite Of all efforts to prevent it, I will
not be found among the towards. nor
on the side Of the plutocratic massesL /"
In conclusion, Sovereign fires part
ing shot at Dalzen, by warning him to
desist from recommending war as re-.
lief to the people. One word. he says,
in favor Of war with . foreign country,
would multiply tenfold desire for
revolution at home.
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