The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-11
THE MOHAWKS.
J. R. Sovereign Talks About
the Big Organization.
Former Labor Leader Says Its
Essentially Political.
ALL LABOR UNIONS
VIII Be United Under It's Ban
ner, He Declares.
Most Powerful Order Of the
Kind In the World.
ALL LABOR UNIONS

Kansas City. July 11.-There was car
ried by the press dispatches last week
the story of the convention Of the Mo-
hawks held at Buffalo, and the tnfor-
nation was added that the order
claimed 600 vigwarns with an aver
age mem bership OF 100 each. Some great
men were at the convention. though lit
tie space was devoted to its affairs IN
the news columns J. R. Sovereign, the
man who turned down Terrence v
P0wderIy and swung the Knights Of La
Dor when that order was its strongest,
was in Kansas City yesterday, fresh
from the convention He was asked II
it were really true that the MohaWl1s
has the membership represented by It's
secretary
I'VE have declared Sovereign en-
phaticaIly- We have that mem bersh4p
and the day IS coming when the admin
istratiOn viii make the MOhaWks the
most powerful organization OF its kind
the world ever saw.
Politician
THE very essence OF the order is poll
ties
Then you viii make labor and poll
tics mix was suggested by listener,
for there was a little crowd of people
around the Old labor leader.
Yes as never before, we attempted
it. Let me tell you The MOhaWks IS
formed to knit together all labor orders
Heretofore we have tried TO get one
order 10 hold all of US, but those new
orders always tried to build up on the
remains OF the oder ones = ne MO
hawks does not do this It's member
ship is arranged 50 that all orders re-
tain their Individuality"
And VIII the others join your
There Is no you nor we about
the AIohawks. The Mohawks belong to
everybody am relating no secrets
when I say that the heads of all labor
orders in the United States have the
matter under consideration and the or
der VIII come like PaIIas- full grown at
birth and equipped for the duty of life.
we are forced 70 II, CONTINUED Slr-
SOvereig On The prospect OF SSSS.S $50 Chi
nese admitted 10 citizenship at one stroke
OF Ins pen IS EorDiddInss- = sLll1l1lL1= Z army
the Iab0rtug man backed by the fair
minded men in Washington. have opposed
q SlaIdlElg army ~ Ills 91lALlS 5@tel
If not for that purpose, lends itself 10
of 10000 men. the army clique viii ne big
enough and strong enough by its patron
which We are now addicted
Here Mr. Sovereign was rem 5nded that
that now in progress, new territory had
been acquired He was asked II the COM
the cost Like 4 knife he shur Up his
what DO We, as working men, get out
Sovereign fairly boiled as ne discussed
We get nothing out Of all this new ter
rttory the country is taking in he went
t5a news F70-r7 tie mort vTast do not know
here It is bad enough with 2, coo
strength: goodness knows what it viii be
when four times as strong I was at the
mines when General Merriam ntiZZied
men great, strong men. white, Americans.
the Drawn of the world. and treated them
man would cur I have in my bag
a copy Of his cOwardIy proclamation for
bidding mine owners to employ men who
belonged to the miners union Think Of
that His defense is that ne did NOT for
bid men joining the union What need
had he to when he used this other leg
like the coward that he IS.
II have another proclamation Of his
where he forbade any man going to work
in the mines until he signed renuncia-
ton of the union He OUT. Who
would not2 That IS a taste of miitarisn
and promise Of more to come a stand
ing army Of 10000. indeed" reflected the
indignant man
Mr. Sovereign IS now working IN the
copper mines of Montana and owns some
very good prospects, but his life IS we'd
ded TO the labor field His happiast re-
1ectIon now is the assurance the Travel
ing Men rs association gave the Mona w6s
Clar with It's 10000 men On the road it
would preach night and day against the
trusts and work hand in glove with the
Mona " ks whose WigWarns are TO be
the common stamping grounds for the
men with the dinner buckets. and who
have no recourse but to vote against the
trusts and administration that would
thrash abOrlgineS excuse for rails
ing a standing army TO repeat the treat
of HTa-r Jar