New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-16
SOVEREIGN IN ERUPTION.
THE GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN DIS
COVERS A MARES NEST OF
CIVIL WAR.


ORGANIZERS OF SECRET REVOLUTION
AIRY observation-disclosures OF FAN
CIED WRONGS DEMAND
ED IN INFLAMMA
TORY LANGUAGE.
Darvar Feb Ill r. Sovereign, General Master
| Workman OF the knights OF Labor, mas written
sansa,ioraI letter 10 The Industrial Advocate
with Privat, Dalzelrs exhortation Tor war VII"
foreign natl n his text. He declares ina
revolutionary societies known as the Iron Bro'he'-
hood and the Industrial Army, are oeihs OF"
in every part OF the country with theH n'e"''''
lea glied toge her TO resort TO civil war as ne
of obtaining remedies for the populace "'0
they cannot secure by the ballot. Inc Ie''ei
dated at Sulphur Springs Ark, February o. ana Is
In part as follows: -rs
"private Dalzel. in a recent article IN ne
Washington POST writes a long tale or woe iio
mentions our 100000 enforced idlers' QUIZ i''o''
tramps the oyercrowdlng of our penal ins'l'uo''''
the increase OF landlords and tenants the hoPe
increase Of debt and long list of other laneh'0'e
conditions Concluding he says; NlNI''~"'''''' .
Napoleon said OF armies. travels on us ,,'
and I, is very hungry now for the most part hI,
where can It be filed? Hence all TINS uh'eS'' a.
this wild war talk and discussion OF SILVER d"' -
and tariff by people who have neither s''', -
gold nor anything 70 pay customs t'rie4 'N' -
Z
ciety II will come in the old way IN war an" ~
otberwise. either insurrectionary. which GOD ioI-
| bid or foreign, which Heaven hasten Il Il S''
ouiet this people and give them rest II ohls w
/ honored rest OF a PATRIOTS grave HsHl'"S '' H.
mainly. ,.,, &c
"I still entertain hopes OF a peaceful so'u.oh -
our dituculties and will work TO that end. bu1 H.
az Private DaIzeIl says the only remedy - war /
prefer TO have the war at home what moral 10 80
have We to impose war. with an us C'u''''eS' ~"
structIon and desolation, on a Foreign country ~
,ba means of relieving our own distresses the re-
suit of our errors. lie may not know "nd' me
secret revolutionary societies are doing for ms
| baneA, ouote the following from the prelude OF Il
secret circular now being distributed BY one Oh the
secret revolutionary societies above mentioned
/ Comrades: There comes time in the affairs Of
men and nations when desperation compelS the hu-
man mind 70 pause and bring TO us ala thaI ee'he
/ Of reason so long discarded. We have reached
| such a crisis in the destines OF this American te-
| rubI,o Ono hundred years of national existence
has demonstrated that the political fabric OF our
Government contains within its warp and "ooi l'e
elements OF It's own destruction. with the TACT 'h"
the ballot has proved most amentatie failure aS d
/ safeguard OF free institutions
I'm the closing Of the nineteenth century We sec
class aespotism establishing itself upon the RUNS
! ., tho republican oligarchy is now in power anu
| already The hldeous phantom OF imperialism over
shadows us as embodied in the autocrauc c'diina u
the Federal Court and the acts OF unbrided ml'''a
~ dasnotisn characteristic of the Federal Govern
meut of to-day. . ~. , o,roaIod in vain
., rho ballot Every trial Of strength IN the pom.
col arena has resulted in victory tor the =
Ious money power There IL nothing SurpIlana.
10 The ballot is a weapon best welded ny lne
| band Of curni.t and craft. History RECORDS 10
MARION that freed itself by voting. no ~ uo H.
| fr1nk The hour has come FOR men 70 Idly "''u
| ,be mask and look each other In the race; ,-,i
| ~ ,Eellov eformers. would you be free! N3u"
vou see the regime of corporate power dlu 80
desnotism at an end? Would you see tne sndo III ~
stricken forever from the limbs OF nuinfhSE 80 90
hhoid omancina tio,-the rebirth OF the Natloli
uh;cb Jefferson rnvered-that Paine wrote anu
,rargbt 70 establish Do you believe that TINS can
! come through the ballot? No. You 90 hVUt. .L.t,
'uo,,a MOI the reformers spent their lEes tnel
,r,Inas and their energies in the cause OF poIltctt
reforu through the balot-box ana what naS o 49,
the result? Have they not seen IRE cuir'a's fron
,rirrscrinuious always victorious, emei sing IRON
49,, % r,noign master of the spOlla have W.
arv bora that this will be changed In the iiIuie
The mast IS one long protest agalls1 thc D''' "
an instrument of reformation - .,,., an,
" Srarceiv a day passes that do not receive on
80 ,1ore al neals 10 ioiu the other OF the rev
oiutionary orders being formed in this country an
ofSers Of money and arms are frequently reCrEe'
40 ill give my Ell Orts the cause or me reFoiu
L. Tbus far I have persstentIy declined 20 slEt
oid or ENCOURAGEMENT TO such movement buI -
,hroIyb the writings Of such men as PrlFdlc DIl
1oIl revolution comes. in spite OF an efforts ~ Pr
,.ont n will not b, found among the coWards Ao'
on the side Of the plutocrauc GRASSES
Hu.band'. Cnlcined MaGnesin-tour ,nsr
premium medals awarded; more IT. ri. i,
Ia MagnrSia.