Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL REALM. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

T. V. Powdebly prints the following in the Journal of'United Labor, issued last Saturday, in reference to the assertions in a number of newspaper that the organization of the Knights of Labor was breaking up: We are breaking up as the plowman breaks up the soil for the sowing of new seed; we are breaking up old traditions ; we are breaking up hereditary rights and planting everywhere the seed of universal rights; we are breaking up the idea that money makes the man, and not moral worth ; we are breaking up the idea that might makes right; we are breaking up ths idea that legislation is alone for tne rich; wo are breaking up the idea that the Congress of the United (states must be run by millionaires for the benefit of millionaires ; we are breaking up the idea thut a few men may hold millions of acres of uniilied land while other men starve for want of one acre; we are breaking up the practice of putting the labor of criminals into competition with honest labor and starving it to death; we are brooking up the practice of importing ignorances bred of monarchy and dynamite iu order to depreciate intelligent, skilled labor at home ; we are breaking up the practice of employing little children in factories, thus breeding a race deformed, ignorant, and profligate; we are breaking up the idea that a man who works with his hands has need neither of education nor of civilizing refinements ; we are breaking up the idea that the accident of sex puts one-half of the human race beyond tne pale of constitutional rights; we are breaking up the practice of paying women one-third the wages paid men, aim ply because they are women ; we are breaking up the idea that a man may debauch nn innocent girl and shield himself from tne penalty behind the law he himself has made; we are breaking up ignorance, intemperance, crime, and oppression, of whatever character and wherever found. Yes, the Knights of Labor are breaking up, and they will continue their appointed work of breaking up until universal rights shall prevail; anl while they may not br ng in tho millennium, they do their part in the evolution of moral forces that arc working for the emancipation of the rac'i