The herald., 1897-02-15
LABOR LEADER SOVEREIGN
Deplores Private Dalzell's Ex.
h0rtation for War
NOT AMONG THE cOWARDs
But National Prosperity Will Not Come
Through lnsnrrection
~ q Relief for Political and
Social Unrest
Associated Press Special wire

Associated Press Special Wire
CHICAGO. Feb. 14.-A special to the
Times-Herald from Denver, Col, says:
j. r. Sovereign, grand master workman
of the Knights of Labor, has written a
sensational letter to the Industrial Ad-
tion for war with a foreign nation as his
text.
He declares secret revolutionary soci-
cites, known as the Iron brotherhood
and the Industrial army, are being or
ganized in every part of the country,
with their members leagueG together to
resort to civil war as a means of obtain
ing remedies for the populace," which
they cannot secure by the ballot. He
deprecates Private Dalzell's talk as be-
ing in line which might tend danger
ously to fan this sentiment into an open
flame, but asserts that should revolu-
ton come he will not be among the
towards now on the side of the pluto
Gratis"
His letter is dated at Sulphur Springs,
Ark, on February 5th, 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 en-
forced idlers, our 100000 tramps the
overcrowding of our penal institutions,
the increase of landlords and tenants.
the hopeless increase of debt and a long
list of other lamentable conditions.
Concluding, he says: Civilization, as
4 Sc tro
stomach, and it is very hungry now, for
the most part But where can 1t 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
nav bills. Relief will not come in that
way. 1t never did. 1t will come in the
old way, in war, and not otherwise'
either insurrectionary, which God for-
bid, or foreign, which heaven hasten
if it shall quiet these people and give
them rest If only the honored rest of the
patriots grave fighting for human
ity"
Replying directly to the sentence quot
ed. Mr. Sovereign says that what the
people of the United States want is an
citation at home that will force them TO
a test against their own social and eco
nomic disorders, but that 1t shouid come
through insurrection, with all It's re-
voting horrors, is proposition repuls-
i've to all the higher impulses OF human
ity .
Continuing he said: Instructions
like great conflagrations, start with a
spark and are only quenched Win
| deluge One reason in favor OF insur
| rection to an idle. starving ana oepe-
hurdened people is more potent IN ex-
citing war than a thousand reasons
against insurrection and in 1aVor OF
preserving peace. For that reason. Dai
zell at this time is dangerous writer.
Mr.. Sovereign then devotes consid-
erable space to a history of two secret
revolutionary orders known as the Iron
brotherhood and the Industrial army,
now being formed in this country, ano
for fear Mr. Dalzell may not know what
these societies are doing, he quotes sew
eral sentences from the prelude of Sc
cret circular now being df>Sibuted by
one of the secret societies, viz:
Comrades: There comes a time In
the affairs of men and nations when des-
peratlon compels the human mind to
pause and bring to it's aid that element
of reason so long discarded. We have
reached such a crisis in the destinies OF
this American republic. One hundred
years Of national existence has demon
strated that the political fabric of oul
government contains within its war;
and woof the elements of its own de-
struction, with the fact that the ballot
has proven q most lamentable failure
as a safeguard of free institutions.
I'm the closing of the nineteenth cen
tury we see a class despotism establish
ing itself upon the ruins of the republic
an oligarchy is now in power and :
hideous phantom imperialism over
shadows us, as embodied in the auto
cratic claims of the federal courts an(
the acts of unbridled military depotssn
| characteristic of the federal governmeH
of to-day
What is to be done? We have ap
| pealed in vain to the ballot. Every tria
of strength in the political arena has re
suited in victory for the unscrupulou
money power. History proves that yo,
cannot be freed through the ballot
Continuing, Mr. Sovereign says
Scarcely a. day passes that l do not re
| ceive one or more appeals to join one OF
| the other of the revolutionary orders be
| ing formed in this country and offers o
money and arms are frequently re
ceived if / will give my efforts to tn
cause Of revolution. Thus far hav
persistently declined to give aid or en-
couragement to such movements. Blu
| If through the writings OF such men a
| Dalzell revolution comes in spite of al
| efforts to prevent it, will not be foun
among the towards nor on the side o
! the plutocratic classes"
| In conclusion Mr.. Sovereign fires
| parting shot at Mr.. DalZell by warnin
| him to- desist from recommending wa
| as a relief to the people. One word, h
| says, in favor of war with foreig
country would multiply ten-fold desir
| for revolution at home.