The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18
SOVEREIGN WARNS.
The Leader of the Knights of Labor
 Writes a Sensational Letter.
REVOLUTIONARY ORDERS FORMING.
The Members Leagued Together to Resort to Civil War as Means of Securing Remedies for the Populace Unob-
 tainablc by the Ballot.

DENVER, Col, Feb. 15.-J. R. SOver- eign, grand master workman of the Knights of Labor, has written a sensa- tional letter to the Industrial Advo- cate, with Private Dalzell's exhorta- ton for war with foreign nation as his text. He declares secret revolu- tionary societies known as the Iron Brotherhood and the Industrial Army are being organized in every part of the country, with their members leagued together to resort to civil war as means of obtaining remedies for the populace" which they cannot se- cure by the ballot. He deprecates Pri- vate DalzelPs talk as being in line which might tend dangerously to fan this sentiment into an open flame, but asserts that when such revolution comes he will not be among the cow ards nor on the side of the plutocratic classes" His letter is dated at Sulphur Springs, Ark, February 5, and is, in part, as follows:
 Private Dalzell, in a recent article in the Washington Post, writes long tale Of woe. He mentions our 100000 enforced idlers our i,0)O, 0oO tramps the overcrowding of our penal Institutions. the increase of landlords and ten ants, the hopeless increase of debt, and a long dst of other lamentable conditions. Conoiud- lnn. he says:
 civilization, as Napoleon says of armies, travels on it's stomach, and 1t is very hun yry now. for the most part. But where can it oe filled: Hence all this unrest, all this wild war talk and discussion of silver and gold and iarifr by people who have neither gold nor sil- yer nor anything to pay customs. Relief shall not come in that way. It never did at this stage )f society. It will come in the old way, in war. and not otherwise; either insurrectionary which God forbid, or foreign, which Heaven hasten, if it shall quiet this people and give hem rest, if only the honored rest of patriots grave, fighting for humanity"
 Replying directly to the sentence quoted, Mir. 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- 1ers, but that it should come through insurrection, with all its revolting hor- TOTS, is a proposition repulsive to all the higher impulses of humanity. Mir. Sovereign then devotes consider able space to history of two secret revolutionary orders known as the Iron Brotherhood and the Industrial Army, now being formed in this country, and for fear Mir. Dalzell may not know what these societies are doing he quotes for his benefit several sentences from the prelude of a secret circular now being distributed 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 it's aid that element of reason so long discarded We have reached such crisis in the destinies of this American republic. One hundred years of national existence has demonstrate that the political fabric of our government contains within it's warp and wool the clements of its own destruction, with the fact that the ballot has proven most lamentable failure as safe- guard of free institutions. In the closing of the nineteenth century we see class despotism establishing itself upon the ruins of the repub- lic--an oligarchy is in power. and already the hidcous phantom of imperialism overshadows us. as embodied in the autocratic claims of the federal court and the acts of unbridled military Gespotism characteristic of the federal govern ment of to-day What is to be done. We have appealed in vain to the ballot. Every trial of strength in the political arena has resulted in victory for the interruptions money power History proves that you cannot be freed through the ballot.
 Confronting, Mir. 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 offers of money and arms are fre- quently received if will give my efforts to tho cause of revolution Thus far have persist ently declined to give aid or encouragement to such movement. But if. through the writings of such men as Private Dalzcll. revolution comes in spite Of all efforts to prevent it, will not be found among the towards nor on the side of the plutocratc classes
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