Knights Of Labor

If it be true, as some papers are gleefully claiming, that the Knights of Labor are declining as a national organiiation, that ia no reason why our local assembly should not thrive. It is to be hoped that it will do so, and that its membershíp will be large and harmonious. If the laborera for wages in Aam Arbor are wise, they will bury all diffierences if posaible, and make a strong assembly. We do not counsel the growth of the order for the order's sake, nor because all that the order has done can be upheld, but because it has been, and yet can be, a great educational power. In disaeminating correct aotions of political economy and in stimulating workmen to apend their Iwsure in süidy, the Knights of Labor metings have done more than any other thing. Young men working in blacksmith shops, in foundriea, and at the compoaing case, have by such stimulus, become effective thinkers and speakers. The knights of labor, as a great machine for striking, may not have accomplished direct good ; but as an edttcational power it haa been intaluable. mmm