The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-16

Obtaining Remedies for the Popuiac
which They Cannot Secure by the Bal
lot-Private Dalzelrs Elaboration TO
War with Foreign Nation Taken rs
Text by the Master Workman.
Denver, Feb. 16.-J. r. Sovereign
grand master workman of the knights
Of Labor, has written sensational let
ter to The Industrial Advocate. with
Private Dalzell's eXhortation for wal
with a foreign nation as his text.
He declares secret revolutionary So
cieties, known as the Iron Brother
hood" and Industrial Army" are be-
ing organized in every part Of the coun-
try. with their members leagued to-
gether to resort to civil war as a means
of obtaining remedies for the populace,
which they cannot secure by the ballot.
He deprecates Private Dalzell's talk as
being in line which might tend dan
gerously to fan this sentiment into an
open flame, but asserts that should rev.
oution come, he will not be among the
towards now on the side of the pluto
cratic classes"
His letter is dated at Sulphur Springs,
Ark. on Feb. 5, and is in part as fol-
lows: Private Dalzell, in recent art
icle in the Washington Post, writes a
long tale of woe.
Enforced Id eness and Tramps.
"He mentions our2, 600 900 enforced i'd
lers, our 100000 tramps, the over
crowding of our penal institutions, the
increase of landlords and tenants, the
% 40, nd list
of other lamentable conditions. Con-
Guiding he says:
Civilization. as Napoleon said of
armies, travels on it's stomach, and ii is
very strange now for the most part.
But where can 1t be filed? Hence all
this unrest, all this wild war talk and
discussion of silver and gold and tariff
by people who gave neither silver nor
gold nor anything TO pay customs. Re
liefs cannot come in that way. 1t never
did at this stage Of society. 1t will
come i'm 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 them rest, if only the honored rest
of patriots grave. fighting for hu-
manity'"
Replying directly TO the sentence
quoted, Mr.. Sovereign goes on to say
that what the people of the United States
need is an agitation at home that will
force them to a test against their own
social and economic disorders, but that
it should come through insurrection,
with all its revolving horrors, is a prop
ostion repulsive to all the higher i'm
pulses of humanity. Continuing, he
says:
Start with Spark.
instructions, like great confagra-
tions, start with a spark and are
quenched only with a deluge One rea-
son in favor of insurrection to idle
starving and debt-burdened people is
more potent in exciting war than a
thousand reasons against insurrec-
lions are in preserving the peace. For
that reason Dalzell, at this time, is q
dangerous writer"
Mr.. Sovereign then devoted consider
able space to a history of two secret
revolutionary orders known as the Iron
Brotherhood and Industrial Army now
being formed in this country, and for
fear that Mr.. Dalzell may not know
what these societies are doing, he
quotes several sentences from the pre-
lude of secret circular now being dis
tributed by one of the secret societies.
viz:
Comrades: There comes a time in
the affairs Of men and nations when
desperation compels the human mind
to pause and bring to its aid that rea-
son so long discarded. We have
reached such a crisis in the destinies
Of this American republic In the clos
ing of the nineteenth century we see
class despotism establishing itself
upon the ruins Of the republic.
victory for Money Owner.
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 INSCRIPTIONS
money owner. This proves that you
cannot be freed through the ballot"
Continuing, Mr.. Sovereign says:
Scarcely a day passes that I 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 frequently re-
ceived IL I will give my efforts to the
cause of revolution. Thus far / have
persistently declined to give aid or en-.
enlargement to such movement. But
IT, through the writings of such mer
as Private Dalzell. revolution comes
in spite of all my efforts to prevent 1t
I will not be found among the towards
nor on the side Of the plutocratit
classes"
In conclusion Mr.. Sovereign fires q
parting shot at Mr.. Dalzell by warning
him to desist from recommending wal
as a relief to the people. One word
he says, in favor of war with foreign
country would multiply tenfold desir'
for revolution at home.
Arrested for Embezzlement.