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T. V. Powderly publlshesthe (ollowing In the Journal of United ïibor in raference to tlie asseriions in a numbet of newspapers that the organlzntton of the knights of labor was 1 re. fclng np: We are I reaklng up as the ploughman breaks up the.soil f r Ik; Bowlng of new iui-d: we aie : rtaklng up old tiaditions; we are breakin-,? up heiedhary rights and planting everywbere the seed of universal riglits; we aie breaklng up the ide;i tliat nioney makes the man and nor the moral worth; w are breaklug up tho idea that leglslation is not foriherlch;we a:e breaking up the idea that the conreas of the United Stalea must be run i.y mllllonalrea fot the 1 eneiit of tlie mtllionalres; we are breáking up the idea that a few men may hold inilliims Of acres of Untllled huids whiK' other men starve for want of one acre; we are lueaking up the practice of putting the labcr of crimináis into com])etition w th honest labor and starving it 10 den tb, ; wb are lreakin{ up tho practico of ImpOitlng ignorance oredofmonarchies and dyn imite ín order to deprecíate intelligent, skilied ia'jor at home; we are breakIng up the practice of employing little ( hildren in facíories, thus Ireeding a race de.ornicd, innorant and proflígate; we are breaklng up the Idea that aman who works with hís ha id lias need neither of educatioii nor of civil relinemcnt; we are breaking up the idea that the accident of sex puts one-haif of the human race beyo:id the pale of coii8titutional riglits; we are Ijreaking up the p actlce of paylng women cnt'-tliird the waes paid men simply beoause she is a womftn; we are breaklng up th i Idea tli : t a man may debaucb an Infant girl and shleld hlma :lf from the penalty Lehind a law he hltnsí li luis made; we are breáking up ignorance, inteinpeiance, crime and oppressíon of whatever character ar.d wherever fi und. Ves. the koights of labor are breáking up, and tln y will conti :ue tiicir pppointéd work of breaklng up untll universal riglits hall prevail:anil while thry may imt hring in the mUlenium t'iey do tlieirpart in the evolution ot' moral forces that are working for the einancipation of tlic race.