Show A MORAL ON LABOR the blustering quarrel between powderly the ruling spirit of the knights of libor and gompers whose place of honor and emolument Is president of the american federation of labor is characteristic and historically noteworthy from the time the toiler began to fight bis his battles with organization 11 bis his worst enemy has his been the miker maker of a profession out cf organic organizing in i 9 there is always a class ut of men tag king at the heels of dir discontent content to feed upon it just as the buzzard follows the starving caravan to pick the victims bones when they shall have become so famished as to ba incapable of distinguishing a buzzard fr from am a celestial visitant come to relieve them from their buffering sufferings with the personal history of sir compere we are not familiar but with bis his expressions at cooper union on saturday before arthe us lurther r acquaintance is not necessary lie ile there found oc oe casion to charge the off officers leers of the knights of labor with being cheap and servile labor agents and declaring that powderly Pow deily bad had called him a cur car etc be wanted to k know now why powderly hail not allowed the speaker to 1 et at him gompers then and there challenges this rival organizer to meet him on or off tha the platform in anyway any way that charla tain and incubus might elect whatever powderly may be and bis his history we are very sure Is not a as 8 white bite as a mid winter snow w Gorn gompers vers arraignment la Is very much less a proof of 0 Pow derlys bad character than that gompers himself ia is not the this proper mn man to represent the labo laborers caule the warfare of the laborer is not noon upon physical phy sicil force but bat intelligence Intelli gance of the highest grade turned to a tyrannical and corrupt purpose and when the laborers set up against that a tham champion pion whose chief quality is his inclination cli to make a public exhibition of his bravado and fisticuff propensities 0 they will reap humiliation for their pains every time whatever else gompers maybe may be be he Is la conspicuously a it bully and of all men such are the list at that will ever be able to lead the laborer oat ont offis of his they are poison to any cause where intelligence is a controlling quality powderly may also be one of these lie ile has shown strong indications of it in bis his of fitial fiLial but be he has better late taste in the tims and manner of exhibiting bis his pugnacious inclinations the stupidity of the public quarrel I 1 which these two leaders are engaging in ought to bo be apparent appi rent to every laborer who uses used bis his brains at all if labor organizations hair have e a legitimate purposes it 1 Is that of protection against f the tire tyranny of 0 the clasa class upon whom the laborer depends for bat but the t h a m ment they acquire any real a strength for the c Z of thi this end ad the tile patty petty te to lit lar official preference nce springs up within their ranks and the wo ciponi they bad had intended for 09 enemy ore are turned a dinst th ehms me ivea all their fighting strength atre Is in settling alim deprive thir cimeo fall po froni within and influence from rom without and after all Is done they are worse offia off io many respects tha thai they were la in beginning until the laborer gets wisdom to discriminate professional and men whole loyo love for the cause is greater than their personal ambitions ambi tiona to be leaders and salary drawers dr averi he maht as well make himself ai as contented ai as possible under the heel of hi his employer empl oyLer pr |