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The Knights Of Labor

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Day
19
Month
March
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mnch has been said, many queriea propouuded aa to the objects, principies, and the intentions of this order, which is racreasing in members and ivfluence faster than any other organization ever betore inatituted in this couitry ïhe flrat assombly was intituted some eleven years ago in Philai.lri" = vv working tailors, and waa merely a loc al organization for mutual benefit and improvement. Some few years since the order was reorganized for the purpose of uniting all the labor tnterests of the country including farmers, mechanics, merchante, laborera, and artisians of all kinds, with the object of making industrial moral worth, and not wealth the standard of individual and national greatness. Since the organization and within the past two years its assemblies have increaaed froni a few score to over 5,400 and embrace an aggregate over one million men and women, and is increasing now faster than ever before. Every inteligent man knows that labor oreates all wealth, and tuis order claims in the language of President Lincoln, "that labor not wealth should receive the highest protection of law." We all know that labor has not been so protected, and that capitalists. corporations, ind monopolies have in the past and do now rule congress, courte, and legeslatures, and that the profits of labor are flowing in a thousand streams, il over the country, into the coffr= the wealthy, thus making tüe enormously rich yet richer, and the poor yet poorer. The K. of L. is not a political organization, yet it inculcates the policy of eleot w w mm aiAi nue aavocates of laDor, no matter to what political party they mt.y belong. They also seek to secure to labor the emolumenta and pronta of labor instead of, as now, permitting those profits to be absorbed by mon producers, speculators and monopolies, in respect they occupy the same platform as do the Grangers and Farmers Alliances. Agrioulture being the dominant business of the country they demand that congress créate a department shall be a niember of the president' cabinet. Congress is now acting in their behalf, and auccess ia sure in the no distant future, and thus the agricultural interests of the country will be in a position that nill beneiit every farmer in our land. Article 22, of their platform of principies is plain and distinct in favor of settling all dilficultie between capital and labor by arbitration, and Grand Vlaster Workman Powderly ia very emphatic in denouncing strikes as injurioua both to the employer and employed. James W. Husted, speaker of the New' York assembly, longa to become a United States senator. Warner Miller ia bad enough, a mere nonentity, whose utterances, although he representa the great state of New York, meeta with no respect from his fellow senators; but this man Uusted is more than a nonentity. His record is such that in a year when his party elected their state ticket he was overwhelmingly defeaded. He is known aa a mere jobber and a petty politician without ear marks of a statesman. Why he should be considered, when hia party bas auch men as Morton, His cock, Conkling or Whiilaw Keid, paases comprehension. He ia not worthv to be mentioned in the same breath. - Record. Newly appointed postal clerks find a very oold ahoulder turned to them by the gang in charge of a car to which they are assigned. They manage to make it so peraiatently vexatious and annoying that any man of spirit feels like leaving at once. It it the bonst of one crew, that they have thua far, "run off" every new man appointed from Michigan. They give no explanations, teil the clerk uothing, leaye liim to find out as best he can everything that is an exjeption to the regular order of the run, and withhold any poiuts that may be of value to the new beginner. The time bas come to put a stop to this nonsense, and the postmaster general should take .steps to see that the practice is broken up and clerks in charge of crews, promptly hustled out of the service when guilty of sueh work. There are a good m;iny efficiënt, competent clerks, who wilhngly aid a new appointee, and thofte mon can eaai.v I be found by a little mvestigation. The I mail service is in no danger now, of being weakened by the discharge of a few of these overconfident, and overbearing clerks. We ars glad to know that several detectives have latei y been assigued to crews aa clerka, and are thoroughly apot ting all those who are tryini; to prevent new clerks from maatering the business . It will be a picnic one of these days, to see some of the captains and even división superintendent, walk the plank. There's been fooling enougti in this biminess and we are „lad to know that it ia to be broken up. - Adrián Press. William D. Howells thinks Boston the most delightful "residence-city" in Ameri ca and will not move to New York, as rumored. Sam Jones Pays he has more respect for a man who drinks whiaky than for a man who drinks beer. Mr. Jones is from the gentle South. Long John Wentworth, of Chicago, has passed his seventy-firet year and is goodhumored now over the prospect of living many more. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes declares that Nw York invented the idea tbat Boston streets were made by building houses along the cow-paths. The Macon Telegraph liopes that Mr. Edison will invent a method whereby the baby's midnight shrieks will be carried off on a wire to frighten away the cata ou the roof.

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