Show A BAD BREAK I T 1 tse If We believe the wise men in the protracted z 0 > pro-tracted and somewhat inharmonious contention of the Knights of Labor LWhich has just come to an end in Rich i di a l Vti F faithfully and earneslly endeavored en-deavored to accomplish some good There was evidently a disposition on the part of some members of the convention con-vention to avoid doing anything that j would injure the order The Congress ° t was kept in session much longer than was anticipated in order that the ideas of the intelligent members might prevail v pre-vail against those of the ignorant and unwise Many ridiculous propositions had to be killed and the hotheaded i c and reckless must be muzzled The sessions were secret and wisely so for many things that would have brought the Knights into contempt were thus I kept > irom the public and their injurious 4 effect destroyed But after all the care that had been taken to do or say nothing that could hurt the order ° t the convention closed by adopting 1 j a couple ot resolutions which wilTdo i f t k the Knights more harm than anything F else that could have occurred The t resolutions were as follows a it Resohec That this general assembly ap I lc peals for mercy fur the seven men who are i condemned to be executed J t Resolved That while asking for mercy for i the condemned men we are not in sympathy r 1 sym-pathy with the action of the Anarchists be I ° s lle mg that peaceful methods are the surest and best means of securing the necessary t neces-sary reforms These refer to the seven Anarchists I R of Chicago who have been condemned I to die next December These are the l i t g men who deliberately and maliciously planned the overthrow of the city gove rnment of Chicago who for weeks and months devoted themselves to I exciting the passions of the people too rise to-o authority and make war I i upon law and order who wickedly v i planned the murder of the policemen I and the ruthless destruction of property pro-perty and whose hellish scheme was carried into effect 1 F To ask sympathy for such scoundrels is to endorse their course and approve their fiendish deeds The Knights can notaffoid to do this They cannot afford to have it understood that they have anything in common with Anarchists The American community is most emphatically em-phatically pronounced in its opposition to anything savoring of Anarchy i the doctrines of the levelersifind no sympathetic sym-pathetic response in this country The true friends of the workingman t will regret that the Knights saw fit to place themselves in the unenviable t position they have assumed with reference 1 refer-ence to the Chicago Anarchists If ever men deserved to sufier death for their cranes the men responsible for the jEJaymarket tragedy ought not to escape t the rope |