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Show G. M. W. FOWDEBtr. The grand master workman of the knights of labor is a wonderful disorganizes dis-organizes Not many men could succeed suc-ceed as well as he did to reduce an order numbering a million members to less than half that number in so short a tinie and without apparent necessity. The trouble with Powderly is, he has too much mouth and too little brains. So long as people peo-ple were watching his mduth only they looked upon him as another Moses who was to lead the workmen out of Egyptian bondage. No eulogy was too fulsome for hiin. At one time it was even debated whether he would accept the democratic nomination for governor of Pennsylvania. The fact that he could be nominated and elected seemed to his ' admirers a foregone conclusion. conclu-sion. Since then Mr. Powderly's brains have come under the crucicle of several public tests and the grey matter was found highly diluted. Nobody more than the knights of labor themselves realize the damage he has done to their organization, and it is as certain as fate that he will never again succeed himself. No rational man will dispute dis-pute tho right of workmen to organize or-ganize and act as a unit, and so far as the aims of the knights of labor are considered, con-sidered, they are most lawful and laudable. laud-able. Under proper leadership the knights would have been a power frfr good to themselves and tho country, while the nincompoop leadership of Powderly has brought nothing but disaster dis-aster and disorganization to them. If ho could only appreciate his incapacity and resign, making room for some able man of whom tho organization has a great many, ho' would render the most and only signal service to the order. |