The Knights Of Lobor

" The laborer is worthy of his hire," and he proposos to have it. That is right. The knights of labor are not a gang of nihilista or dynamiters, but a thoroughly organized body of men, who know their righte, kuow their own value, kuow also wliat rights capital has, and who propose, by arbitration and reason, to bave mattersbetween employer and employee so adjusted as to be just to both. The people generally have refused to see that Gould and other railroad magnates were not only gripping the country with au iron hand and secretly and surely forging chaina that bind moro Becurely than absolute monarchy, under ihe moRt tyranuioal robber king,could posaibl.v do and that not only were their employees defruuded of their just wages, but peo pie robbed byfreightand passenger tarifFs that were paralyizing the entire industry and commerce of the United States. More than that, the railroads elect and own, witli a very exceptions, every lawmaking assembly, f rom congress down to city coucils. With the law-makini; power, the transportafcion power and the power of immense wealth, they have, through the legislation ot the past 20 years, become the owmrs of the Üunited States. At last they have met a foe that knows how to light. The knights of labor see these tilinga that the people have heretofore refused to see, and they have ealled a halt, and all sensible people, who undestand the situation, say amen . It is a fight between might and right, the peopie against monopoly. The knights of labor in their recent great strike have become the peoples champions. They have been peaceable, lawabidinir and moderate, and ïf they fail to win then God help this country, for then the railroads indeed own us, It looks as if the monopolists, frightened at the tempest they had raised, would come to the terms demaded, and whioh demanda are only reasonable and just. It is a pity the business of the country should suffer ou the account of strikes, but it is now or never, and the blame should be placed where it belongs, on the legislntion of the past twenty years, and not on the hard-working men who must live by their work or die the slave3 to monopoly in a land where they