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CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 
 
 PART VII 
 
 "The American constitution is the 
 most wonderful work ever struck off at 
 a given time by the brain and purpose 
 of man." — GL t dsto ,e. 
 
 "It is the lirst successful attempt in 
 the history of the world to lay the deep 
 and broad foundation of a government 
 for millions of people and an unlimited 
 territory in a single written instrument, 
 ^framed and adopted in one great na- 
 tional effort; but no amount of wisdom 
 in a constitution can produce wise gov- 
 ernment unless there is a suitable re- 
 sponse in the spirit of the people.'' 1 — 
 Ch'fJ. Miller, 
 
 A STONE KINGDOM; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE 
 
 OF 
 
 PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY 
 
 AND 
 
 Progressive Republicanism. 
 
 ONE IN ALL, AND ALL IN ONE. 
 
 The undersigned citizens, of a Repub- 
 lic built for the general Weal if con- 
 trolled by the Good, or the general Woe 
 if controlled by the Evil, and through 
 Faith, hopefully so of another Govern 
 ment, which also calls upon us to up- 
 hold the First, and reject the Last, con- 
 sidering that as freemen now. sover- 
 eign in our proper spheres, we have in- 
 dividually certain inalienable rights re- 
 served within our parties, or sects, 
 though perhaps a minority; and intend- 
 ing as such freemen, while still faithful 
 to our sound principles and their pure 
 exponents, to follow each one his own 
 conscience always: subject, however, in 
 actions to enacted law, and to have that 
 conscience dominated intelligent lv. as 
 
 nearly as we can by our Heavenly Fa- 
 ther, the Divine Spirit in every thing, 
 especial ly our votes about all public 
 problems like prohibition, the currency, 
 free trade, suffrage, taxation, transport- 
 ation the just wages of labor or capital, 
 etc., etc., hereby unite to form a Work- 
 men's League, and talk over the same, 
 which shall be conducted under such 
 officers and by-law^ or rules, as we may 
 elect — not for debate or display, but as 
 Truth seekers, led by that Spirit, to ad- 
 vance His influence in all administra- 
 tions of each commonwealth within the 
 United States, and to enthrone Morality 
 above Mammon in politics, with the 
 grace of Jesus Christ, our Lord ; for 
 God means Light, and God means Love; 
 and God means Liberty for Man, and 
 thus is here, ready to accept a Domin- 
 ion, from generation to generation, 
 when we are to be true subjects. 
 
 2 Many philosophers have framed 
 ideal republics, castles of heaven for 
 earth, such as human genius, with the 
 light of history then shining, mi«;ht 
 dimly conceive; but here is a living or- 
 ganism formed, partly from those 
 ideals, though chiefly from Bible teach- 
 ings, which, after a century of severe 
 trial, proves the presence of God-in- 
 man,i.e., His humanity and our divinity, 
 where Mind kisses Matter for all eterni- 
 ty. Still another bloody revolution, or a 
 sublime reformation confronts our coun- 
 try. Because where Satan now sits, with 
 a wand of Gold corrupt as Hell to rally 
 all the hosts of Night, the Divine Spirit 
 of Liberty demands a ballot - box 
 purged of his presence ; and beyond 
 that, where his brazen importunity to 
 vice, with its boundless, opportunities, 
 has debauched every high official sta- 
 tion, which freedom has allowed or man 
 could have no merit, there too, Liberty 
 demands a loftier flight of patriotism, 
 phoenix-like, above corruptible clouds 
 also, up snowy peaks even to where 
 the White King sits, on H s Throne of 
 Pure Thought, with a dual scep- 
 tre to sway our masses in state as well 
 as church organisms. But no man, or 
 party, or sect alone can effect such a 
 reform. It must be wrought by our 
 voting people, if worthy son* of Deitv, 
 
CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 
 
 who must henceforth wear His name, 
 both in their hearts and foreheads, so 
 as to be clearly read by every public 
 servant at least. For where the mass- 
 es rule, and wield the rod of power 
 supreme for life or death, like clouds 
 raining a mixed river of pearly dews or 
 poisened hail, the current of official 
 virtue or of vice, cannot flow higher or 
 sink lower than its source. Still any 
 one may help the people moor our ship 
 of state out of its slime into pure water, 
 if by chance he tinds a crystal thread 
 for guide. 
 
 3 Heaven is wherever pure society 
 exists. It is no spot, but a state 
 locatable in every world and in every 
 bosom where Truth reigns. As to us it 
 is a mere matter of training, in an at- 
 mosphere of clean mentality, under 
 tuition of God's other Self, the Holy 
 Ghost, ever brooding over man, and 
 now in many Sons and Daughters of all 
 nations, who compose the growing Bride. 
 Hence, after twelve or more members of 
 a club, in any township or ward, to 
 
 be called the Bee Hive No , County 
 
 of , State of , shall have 
 
 enrolled, a meeting will be held to 
 elect a President, Secretary and Treas- 
 urer from its number, but no one shall 
 vote or speak in its proceedings without 
 first enrolling as a member. If money 
 is collected or used to advance honora- 
 bly our cause, the Treasurer whose 
 books must be open to view bv all mem- 
 bers, after giving and taking receipts 
 for the same, shall make a full report 
 at every meeting of each, expenditure, 
 and what for ana to whom paid. The 
 public shall be welcome at all meetings; 
 as we shall have no secrets here except 
 such as may "be found in the Bibles, and 
 constitutions or laws of our country, 
 the first being meant for the Soul of t he 
 last to guide us to a reign of good will, 
 charity, temperance, economy and 
 puritv in ('very administration, city, 
 county, state and federal, through the 
 medium of our best type of men offered 
 not by themselves, or their suggestion 
 and desire for self exaltation, self en- 
 richment and self glorification, but as 
 called forth by public wants, the public 
 interests and the public glory: the 
 
 Fruits of an honest life grown on the 
 Vine of Truth, and not creeds, being 
 what we wish to elect by fair voting to 
 all branches of authority 
 
 4 We can do well with one-tenth of our 
 talking talent; but the vacuum must be 
 tilled with nine-tenths more of moral 
 worth A man, who cannot tell a busi- 
 ness body what he knows in ten min- 
 utes, will tell it worse in ten hours. 
 We mean business Our capitols have 
 turned into conclaves to rob the people. 
 We are forced to use the square and 
 trowel to erect new ones, whose height, 
 length and breadth shall be equal. 
 The sky must be shaken, and present 
 stars fall, even as a fig tree casts its 
 tigs when swept by a cyclone; giving 
 us a new atmosphere above from thun- 
 derings below — among the people— out 
 of the public heart —a new heaven to 
 be built on a new earth. Wherefore any 
 citizen, whether in a visible church or 
 not, of either sex, or any party, may 
 join this League, but no one shall ever 
 be taxed or allowed to pay a cent of its 
 expenses, if any there be, except he or 
 she wills to do so freely Yet we want 
 no temple here, as a warm heart is the 
 brightest throne of Deity— richer far 
 than gold or rubies; and every cottage 
 may be a shrine The earth quakes for 
 Progress as an egg is shaken by its grow- 
 ing chick; but through the wreck of 
 empires and shock of systems, our love 
 of Truth and of the true can bind us 
 to the Soul of Light, as one with every 
 other orb that shall survive to roll in 
 splendor round that Sun Our design 
 is to make such societies a pleasant 
 Lodge for the peaceful camping of all 
 parties, both religious and political, 
 that now are or hereafter may be. and 
 to help each accomplish the good it 
 seeks by sifting out the evil, and by 
 building up educationally, pure thrones 
 of public opinion, out of a divinely 
 regenerated people, with our Mississip- 
 pi valley for center of power as it is of 
 population, and territory— like the Jor- 
 don of an Israel restored. 
 
 5 We dare not asoire toeradicate every 
 tiaoe of wrong from all our bodies 
 politic in a day or perhaps a century, 
 still less from ourselves as human 
 
CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 
 
 beings, but we do hope collective!} 7 , 
 by a union of honest brains, to fetter 
 soon and dethrone forever that beastly 
 Spirit of Self-worship, dominant by the 
 popular will through legislation over 
 our incorporated lives hitherto — a 
 Dragon of gluttonous Plutocracy, with 
 many heads and horns materialized 
 under various forms of crushing Mon- 
 opolies — and to confine that Spirit in 
 small minorities to a bottomless Pit by 
 the same will of our freemen marshalled 
 under the Holy Spirit of brotherly love, 
 or in other words, Omnipotent Benevo- 
 lence in human laws active through 
 pure hearts with clear heads and clean 
 hands casting snow-white ballots, to 
 protect the Masses against the conspir- 
 acy of Classes, whether in transporta- 
 tion, news, manufactures, finance, com- 
 merce or other rings. Under our Gov- 
 ernmental forms, to wall up the lake of 
 Hell Fire, so that the weak may live 
 beside the strong now, we must open 
 the flood gates of Heavenly Fire, by 
 filling every political fabric with Spirit 
 Life, Life in good men, i. e., represent- 
 atively. Claiming the right to live by 
 work when fairly done, as often 
 on farms from sun to sun, we 
 court such a rule of Love, by the peo- 
 ple and for the people, in place of self; 
 of national inspiration instead of nar- 
 row sectionalism; of larger liberty in 
 party codes in place of ostracism for 
 free thought; temperance in place of 
 intemperance, of legal order and a noble 
 reform among men, but anarch v, or in- 
 terference with the just rights of private 
 property, real or personal violently or 
 by expost facto acts no where; in short 
 the reign of a truly united America, 
 founded on the divine rock of real Free- 
 dom for every voter, instead our besott- 
 ed Babylon, with slavery to Capital for 
 its cornerstone, or indeed any other 
 form of serfdom. The Saloon imposes 
 such a serfdom on its victims, but until 
 conflicting views can be well digested, 
 through calm discussions inspired by 
 the love of Justice, into needful laws, 
 we recommend abstinence as a good 
 one for each member of our society; be- 
 cause after a.l a man's heart is the best 
 statute book, the fountain and end of 
 
 Law, in any state which the Soul of our 
 Father dominates; though aided bv 
 Reason, Faith can speedily chain the 
 Opposition on this or other fields of bat- 
 tle, if uniting we organize for political 
 work under One Head here, like branch- 
 es of a single Vine, scions of the same 
 Blood, or Bees of the same Hive 
 
 6 And the same principle, of Moral 
 obedience to the LJivine Spirit only, 
 suggests that war chiefs be retired from 
 civil idolatry in every Republic, as rep- 
 resenting bloody feuds they cause alarms 
 to Labor as well as Capital, which if 
 rightly used subject to just laws are 
 like the two hands of one body, equally 
 essential to brilliant progress Our new 
 era of real brotherhood between men 
 and nations, to prevent further conflicts, 
 summons the heroes of Peace to power 
 — genius born in other iields than 
 butchery or a forensic battle between 
 sections, the fields of productive indus- 
 try, that pour out bread, in place of 
 blood for the millions — stars clad in 
 white robes, with no speck of human 
 gore, peace-makers instead of peace- 
 breakers. We "oppose any union of 
 church and state by a statutory or cori- 
 stitudonal law as Blasphemy — the bar- 
 barous rule of a sword over cons: en ce 
 and matter over mind— a hell of despot- 
 ism, because every creed like every 
 man should have equal scope for 
 growth; but we favor their wedding in 
 the Holy Spirit of righteous judg- 
 ments at all elections, on the part of a 
 wise people in every free state, repeat- 
 ed forever in thunclertones by the choice 
 of God-like characters to each seat of 
 secular power, both small and great, as 
 the goal of history* and the perfection 
 of civil government by human beings. 
 The Kingdom above must be one of 
 love, not force, based on the equal 
 rights of citizens and their free support 
 of it; and ours may be like that if we 
 will — A shadow of the Jerusalem to 
 come. In fact the Spirit of our Father 
 in human forms beine God, may be 
 able to guide us to all Truth, of science 
 or art essential on this earth to save 
 nations, as well as souls, individual 
 atoms, or unions composed of them 
 form i no- federated States -if we will 
 
CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 
 
 only labor with Him to that end, faith- 
 fully; for which Jesus, the Christ, died, 
 yet lives as our lirst born brother and 
 ever faithful child of Deity, lifting 
 man with Him to His Sky. If this be 
 so, the age of Inspiration is not ended. 
 We have thus far lived in a twilight 
 only. — often dim of that Morning Star 
 — though shaded by our doubts. For 
 practical uses to society, Its Sun must 
 rise again with such burning glory on 
 our globe as to consume the Snake in 
 man, and his wrongs public or private, 
 like Lightning when it tires the noxious 
 vapor of black clouds from east to 
 west, and makes of Night's own throne 
 a torch, revealing The Truth to every 
 eye. 
 
 7 As however, many have been slaves 
 so long as to be unconscious of their 
 chaias to a throne of Darkness, and this 
 free union of our wills under the Divine 
 Spirit, can only work perfectly after 
 the masses shall be well educated if any 
 one, being fearful or unbelieving may 
 wish to withdraw from a Hive, the right 
 to do so will never be questioned, but 
 no one shall ever be expelled permanent- 
 ly, except by a three-fourths vote of 
 all its members, nor from a special meet- 
 ing for disorderly conduct, except by a 
 two-thirds vote of that meeting. The 
 poorer voters will be given front seats 
 in this synagogue, because needing 
 most instruction, and shall always be 
 treated as true sovereigns equal in 
 worth to the richest of earth's monarchs: 
 for they are divine incarnations, and 
 breathing temples of Eternal Life — our 
 brother freemen — endowed with a legal 
 right to crown the King of kings 
 through true and* faithful representa- 
 tives, bv their suffrage at the ballot-box; 
 which is a sacred trust to be used with 
 scrupulous care in every town, county 
 and state, of our great city— the Feder- 
 al Uniou if ever purthed by free, fair 
 and full consent of its dominant major- 
 ities. Moreover as blind servility to 
 edicts of organized power, in relms of 
 thought religious and political, has been 
 the bane of past generations: and its op- 
 posite, the independence of an enlight- 
 ened Individualism must be the iris of 
 future ages under the empire of one 
 
 Divine mind, no binding nominations 
 for office are to be made by any Hive or 
 associated branches, tho' recommends 1 , 
 or endorsements or calls may be, and' 
 members will be encouraged to work 
 for good material in other strictly par- 
 tisan organizations, acording to prefer- } 
 ence, if permitted without fetters, so, 
 that in any event the best man shall 
 rule by aid of our millstone which may 
 4 'grind slowly but will grind exceeding 
 fine." Mark well, that to control even 
 active partisans morally, the proceed- 
 ings of co-actors, and candidates too, 
 must be moral; from the duty to review 
 which critically, no body or 'thing- can 
 absolve a voter, especially, if on the 
 bench of last appeal— eitner as a ques- 
 tion of rght or expediency. Of right, 
 because np onp can delegate or,transfer 
 his conscience to another. It is not as- 
 signable. It is an inalienable, irre- 
 pressible, attribute of souls; the prop- 
 erty of God, and His tabernacle in Man: 
 the Holy of Holies. Of expediency, be- 
 cause, if nominations, even by over- 
 whelming majority parties, cease every- 
 where to mean a sure elect; on, our coun- 
 try will be well ruled, peaceful, pros- 
 perous and happy; as Snakes will not 
 dare aspire to office, when a Son-Dial 
 can barely stand such judgments of Fire 
 —from our "Wine press" of Almightv 
 Wrath, the Public Gonscience. This is 
 a pivotal issue, the turning point for life 
 or death in republics. It is exactly 
 the essential difference, the gulf, be 
 tween Hell's government and that of 
 Heaven where "Dogs and Liars" are 
 not only kept out of power, but ,, with- 
 out the gates" of good society; while 
 to "stand up" for our true brothers at 
 all times, against the Serpant's spawn 
 and hvpocrites, is a Divine Satute, of 
 paramount force, obligatory on every 
 citizen of the upper sphere, living or 
 dead, in our clay forms of after their 
 resurrection, here and hereafter. Al- 
 legiance to God, -patriotism, the good of 
 all parties and ourselves, alike requires 
 this much of manly Independence -this 
 free exercise of a clear conscience— as 
 the balm of perpetual youth to men and 
 nations, individually and collectively, 
 under the "Iron Rod" of Right, or 
 
CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 
 
 Milky Way, whereby with flight of time, 
 and pure schooling, corruption and 
 pain must quit our globe — at least in 
 'very child of His Spirit, that sweet 
 Mother, the white Dove now here in 
 myriad hearts, whose soft Wings star- 
 ward woos the race, still pleading for 
 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, "Oh! Jerusa- 
 lem. '' though false and fallen. 
 
 <s Vet as a rule, except only in cases} 
 of well-known honesty, we will never 
 vote for millionaires or any poor ape of 
 their greed, notably such as fatten in 
 office, not by salaries, but a betrayal of 
 public trusts for the benefit of classes ; 
 because whosoever covets more than a 
 competence, save as trustee for charita- 
 ble uses, is a slave to Self, through Pelf, 
 and hence unlit to represent true free- 
 men, or without a change of linen, to 
 sup at table with the humblest citizen 
 who may have our Father's Spirit for a 
 guest. How much more unworthy then 
 are such to sit on the judgement seats of 
 a government built by Pure Reason 
 from the Word of God, as a home of 
 Liberty —a jaspar cube hewn square out 
 of Truth's Mountain to banish Night, 
 and sink all tyrant crowns of unholy 
 Might, reared from Seas of Ignorance, 
 — like a crystal city of the sky ablaze 
 with Heaven's Fire, and brighter than 
 burnished gold in noonday sun ; though 
 dimmed for years by "dogs"' inside of ev- 
 ery capitol, faithful to the Dragon only. 
 Indeed to pass over the House of Con- 
 gress, and each state, county and town 
 organism, whose number is legion, a 
 Federal Senate, meant lor council near- 
 est Heaven, though lately next to Hell 
 as the richest set of self-made lords on 
 earth with its millions of plunder in 
 possession, ami billions by proxy, is 
 Alone enough to stir the very bones of 
 our dead martyrs, slain for civil or re- 
 ligious freedom, and lift their spirits 
 from the grave, by waking the living to 
 a new birth of unconquerable devotion. 
 Be it known that most "fortunes' 1 are 
 not earned in any way. They are sim- 
 ply stolen, usually from a body politic 
 by some creature — a Serpent, with a 
 soul, if any, framed in Hell. For Bell 
 also is no spot, but a slate of Servitude 
 loeatable wherever the Snakish Self 
 
 dominates ; or Error i. e. the wan 
 Light, holds a mind in carnal chains. 
 And, as rleaven with its Prince of Light 
 is here partially now ; so is Hell with 
 its Prince -of Darkness, at dual war in 
 us for a 2d Life or 2d Death — our 
 petual weal or woe, collectively n.ol 
 than personally. Because all creations 
 are ideal — a product of Mind— and Soul 
 only is real, our Eternal Essence m 
 dying, though clad in changeable forms 
 or transitory types, fitting the Antitype 
 of another Sphere, whither we gravitate 
 at will. Moreover as our Woe. i.e. 
 Death and Hell here in a middle state, 
 began with the Dragon-in-man.Jor Mat- 
 ter, Mammon and the Belly deified vol- 
 untarily; so the God-in-man, our Spirit 
 nature, or Mind alone can end- them, 
 when we shall have sense enough to 
 obey the Inward Monitor, who. although 
 the same Person, is in one phase our 
 Fattier, in another our Mother, and still 
 another the Christ, An Oilspring 
 of Both, according to the vest- 
 ure worn. And this further implies 
 that as every individual must, like our 
 Model, be chiefly his own savior on 
 earth, i. e. build up or deprave the In- 
 ward Being; so" mankind, the human 
 race, every nation and every state 
 rising from Depravity mmt chief- 
 ly build its own Throne of final 
 Judgment, clean and white - that great 
 Tribunal founded on a pure enlightened 
 Conscience — before which the past, 
 present and future generations are to 
 pa>s in review. 'Wherefore it is not our 
 dusty laborers on a virgin continent, 
 whose posterity is already manacled 
 for ages with corporate debts, but their 
 robbers — the typical Dragon — who 
 should be despised and forever hurled 
 to a Pit of wrath, burning hot at each 
 successive election, while Libert v shall 
 live in America. Yet "he that is unjust, 
 let him be unjust still, and he whie 
 filthy, let him he filthy still; 11 and we 
 ask none such to sign this Constitution, 
 but those who L/ve an honesl Workmrn, 
 in any walk hi Ji or low. and long for a 
 resurrection of the poor in both mental 
 spirits and physical com for s. are urged 
 to organize a Bee Hive for pure honey. 
 which can If found in everv srarden of 
 

 INSTITUTION OJ THE WORKMEN'S U 
 
 Truth, both religious and political, if 
 Wisely knowing- Good from Evil, we 
 elect the sweet, but shun a bitter bud. 
 And when thought proper by a majority 
 of this Hive a session may be held on 
 any Sunday from 8 to 10 a. m.. or from 
 3 to 5 p. m., to dust the Jasper House 
 of our Sires, with a broom of Patriotism, 
 holier than the bigot's zeal as giving 
 daily bread to all the Masses, by sweep- 
 ing out the greed of Classes, so that our 
 rich will be brothers of the poor— do as 
 they would be done by— like true child- 
 ren of one Father. 
 
 9 A thousand years between Spiritpow- 
 ers in man at war. is as one day: and un- 
 der a type of relapsing Faith, necessarily 
 incident to the barbarous past, steeped 
 in clouds yet ever yearning for the Sun 
 our world has about rolled through its 
 bullet rule; or seven forms of Beastly 
 Dominion — a 2nd Captivity, wherein 
 infidelity, idolatry, murder, lust, theft, 
 lies and lucre, do still dishonor the 
 the double Law of Sinai, the ten com- 
 mandments, among "all kindreds and 
 tongues. " So now reserved to us is 
 the final onset of a nobler victory for 
 Faith, in Megiddo\s Valley, by the peace- 
 ful suffrage of Truth's millions. There 
 first in our public heart— the Throne 
 of Peace must rest: thence— in its pure 
 and free voice— must How the crystal 
 river whose fruit shall feed the nations: 
 and there too is to be found at last that 
 grand Commune of humanity in One, 
 whose golden key will unlock the Scroll 
 of Ages, for all who wish to write their 
 names upon its pages. This does nor, 
 imply any physical cataclysm, that the 
 planet will be "burnt up 1 ' or destroyed 
 by material fire; but man's world in 
 every realm, will be beautified and bet- 
 tered under (rod's quickening Spirit, 
 "\V:io is a consuming Fire" to earthly 
 (dements in us: for the scene of His cru- 
 cifixion is to be the seat of His "honor 
 and powers—the centre of universal 
 Intelligence — and He can, have no spite 
 against matter as such, yet does want our 
 appreciative companionship. Here is Inv- 
 olution and evolution is man's destiny, 
 the inevitable result of real Freedom, the 
 law of growth from a low to the higher 
 
 Life, sublime though fore >rdained as 
 
 — 1 — ...___. _, w - ~ - , 
 
 k of Faith, in a divine revel a- \ 
 ?,h every eye that wills can s< 
 hough Cod, a Living Spirit. \ 
 
 the effect of a cause, to-wit, the o 
 First Cause; for our Liberty grows out of 
 The Rock of Faith, in a divine revel 
 tion which 
 But althc 
 
 accepted through Faith, by our intelli- 
 gence, in fiesh and blood and bones, to. 
 control human volitions, and make men 
 and women true both to Himself and 
 each other, is the concurrent Enuncia- 
 tion not less of Observation than Reve- 
 lation, and also a beautiful Reality now 
 at length clear as the Rainbow after a 
 storm, and free for our Inhalation as the 
 air; this Reality is fraught with conse- 
 quences so immense to the race, in op- 
 position to avaricious despotisms every- 
 where, that monopolistic minds, pre- 
 dominating in every chi*rch, have nat- 
 urally kept Its candle under a half bush- 
 el, for merchandise, while drinking the 
 blood of Christendom, like lords at 
 Belshazzar's banquet. Therefore, in re- 
 ligious as well as political, financial, com- 
 mercial and social Circles, with the Dark- 
 ness of four thousand years beneath 
 us, and the Light of nineteen cen- 
 turies shining down upon us, ma\\ 
 we not at so late an hour command 
 severe attention to that Hydra-headed- 
 monster— this Devil-fish from the Deep, 
 ever fattening on the death of men and 
 nations— -the Spirit of Monopolv ? For 
 Me ! Me ! Me ! My Interest.' The 
 4k Ego"-istic Self : or Satan. Father 
 of our Hell. See now, as we 
 look over the whole range of vision, 
 abroad and here in America even, he 
 q 1 1 aft s on r Life, w itli a gold e n cu p, i n Blas- 
 phemous mockery, and as a result, the 
 Philistines are. swarming in our city ! 
 Need we, who are Freemen, wait 
 longer. idle and distract d by 
 sect and party, for a Giant to help 
 us; or will the people rise like Samp- 
 son and east dc.wn that Power, and 
 over its ruins rear The Temple of Love, 
 in a just government of the faithful and 
 true by our best men, to stand forever 
 as the Ancient of Days -a Republic of 
 the Almighty indeed ? Let no one 
 pause for a reply, but relieeting that 
 the booty of power is the only issue in 
 controversy between Northern and 
 Southern clans, Lot h now under control 
 
• I 1 II L \\ OKKMEN'S LEAGUE 
 
 of Wall Street at the East,' while here 
 is an everlasting issue of world-wide 
 import, the character of a Kingdom to 
 be chosen by us as free agents, let ev- 
 ery man who is a man, act in unison 
 with neighbors on this question — and 
 act at once — decisively for the reign of 
 Love. For You ! You ! You ! The 
 Public Weal. The "Alter" -isti'c Self; 
 or (rod. Father of our Heaven. Yet 
 sure, O, Babylon, is thy fall, and thus 
 violently, though "without hand," O, 
 great and mighty city, shait thou be 
 thrown down and be found no more at 
 all." Burnt by Reason on Fire ! The 
 Torch of Truth ! Indeed as the seed of 
 Faith consumes its carnal soil to drink 
 eternal Life, as the blind babe springs 
 from its prison home to blink the light, 
 as the acorn grows from mud, and a 
 diamond from charcoal: so, near by, 
 from the dying womb of Hades in 
 Man's heart, already leaps upon her 
 Solar Walk, amid celestial orbs, the 
 New, the Golden Jerusalem, Humani- 
 ty's most glorious Mansion, a Holy 
 City, adorned with every jewel of the 
 Moral Universe, to brighten hourly, un- 
 til the Sun shall yield her his royal 
 robe, till the Moon pales at her feet, the 
 Stars of Heaven cluster on her brow, 
 and Darkness is no more — that Peer- 
 less Queen, the Bride Divine, and 
 Creature of our reformation, having 
 the good father, holy mother, and true 
 child, or God-head in us, as the essence 
 of Her glory, — a Trinitv ol Love but 
 Unit of Action. 
 
 10 However, as these views, even if 
 hereafter admissible, of a religion united 
 logically with politics — of a state mys- 
 tically married to a church — of a Lion 
 in subjection to The Lamb — in short of 
 a bridal city, different only from the 
 old Jerusalem, in that it must be built 
 with Spirit aid by mankind for a oattle 
 monument of the Divine victory over 
 Evil, in flesh here on our earth as its 
 chief end — meaning simply a govern- 
 ment upheld by human wills, pure in 
 every branch, like a diamond of first 
 water, or iinest gold without alloy, are 
 views novel to the public, and perhaps 
 partly erroneous, the undersigned do 
 not now commit ourselves to auv except 
 
 the first sentence above. The rest we 
 regard as patriotic ideals, and a plausi- 
 ble plan of public organization for I 
 ing their truth worthy of trial by the 
 people, and extension, if found benefi- 
 cial; which may be easily worked 
 cording to taste, in any neighborhood, 
 as it is simple and will cost little or 
 nothing — beyond a cordial, earnest ef- 
 fort for harmonious judgments under 
 One Sovereign, u p o n o i i r b a s i s < > t U \ i - 
 ion stated again, to-wit: 
 
 The undersigned citizens, of a Repub- 
 lic built for the general Weal if eon- 
 trolled by the Good, or the general Woo 
 if controlled by the Evil, and through 
 Faith, hopefully so of another Govern- 
 ment, which also calls upon us to up- 
 hold the First, and reject the Last, con- 
 sidering thai as freemen now, sover- 
 eign in our proper spheres, we have in- 
 dividually certain inalienable rights re- 
 served within our parties, or sects, 
 though perhaps a minority; and intend- 
 ing as such freemen, while still faithful 
 to our sound principles and their pure 
 exponents, to follow each one his own 
 conscience always; subject, however, in 
 actions to enacted law, and to have that 
 conscience dominated intelligently, as 
 nearly as we can by our Heavenly Fa- 
 ther, the Divine Spirit in every thing, 
 especially our votes about ail public 
 problems like prohibition, the currency, 
 free trade, suffrage, taxation, transport- 
 ation the just wage- of labor or capital, 
 etc., etc., herebv unite to form a Work- 
 men's League, and talk over the same, 
 which shall be conducted under such 
 officers and by-laws or rules, as we 
 e 1 e e t — n o t f o r < 1 e b a t e o r d i s p 1 1 1 \ 
 Truth seekers, led by that Spirit, to ad- 
 vance His influence in all administ ra- 
 tions of each commonwealth withii 
 
 ;i!it V 
 with the 
 ord : 
 
 United States, and to enthrone 
 above Mammon in politics, 
 grace of Jesus Christ, our 
 
 iiid God menus 
 
 God means Lig 
 and God means Liberty fo 
 t \\u^, is here, ready to ace-' 
 ion, from generation to 
 when we are to be true sub 
 Witness our hands, i ead 
 hereto set al 
 of . IK8- . 
 
 n, and 
 )omin- 
 ■ \ii ion, 
 
 hearts 
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 BY-LAWS. 
 
 RULES FOR EXERCISES AND ORDER. Sec. I. 
 
 1. When the presiding officer takes the chair, the officers and members shall 
 take their respective seats, and at the sound of the gavel there shall be general 
 silence. 
 
 2. Prayer by the acting President. 
 
 3. Roll-call of officers and members by a Scribe. 
 
 4. The tilling of vacancies in orderly rotation by Seniorities present. 
 
 5. The refilling of Junior posts thus emptied by nominations from the floor. 
 
 6. The minutes of last regular and adjourned meetings b} r the acting Secre- 
 tary — Correspondence, etc. 
 
 7. Report of Board of Almoners. 
 
 8. Report of Wage-workers. 
 
 9. Report of Musicians and Music. 
 
 10. Booking of new members. 
 
 11. Miscellaneous and unfinished matters. 
 
 12. Opening of the Hive by the Chair for discussion. 
 
 But this routine may be varied or dispensed with at pleasure by a majority 
 vote. 
 
 Sec. ii. — 1. The President shall state ever\ r subject before the Hive for dis- 
 cussion and call first upon the Counselors appointed to open its discussion, who 
 shall conduct the same, without malice or buffoonery, by canons of Logic— the 
 Rod of Truth from statistics and facts. 
 
 2. 4i The presiding officer shall preserve order and decorum, and pronounce 
 the decisions of the Hive on all subjects: he may speak to points of order in 
 preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose; he shall 
 decide questions of order without debate, unless entertaining doubts on the 
 point, subject to an appeal to the Hive by any two members, on which appeal 
 no member shall speak more than once, unless by permission of the Hive. 
 
 3. In case of an appeal, the question shall be: 'Shall the decision of the 
 Chair stand as the judgment of the Hive?' 
 
 4. All appeals from the judgment o¥ decision of the Chair shall be reduced 
 to writing and handed to the Chair. 
 
 5. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if any member desires it. 
 
 G. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be stated by the presiding 
 officer, or, being in writing, it shall be handed to the Secretary, who shall arise 
 and read it aloud before debate thereon. 
 
 7. After a motion is made and stated by the presiding officei\ it shall be 
 deemed to be in possession of the Hive, but may be withdrawn at any time be- 
 fore the decision or amendment. 
 
 8. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to ad- 
 journ, to lay on the table, for the previous question, to postpone indefinitely, to 
 postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, which several motions shall 
 have the precedence in the order the} T stand arranged. 
 
 9. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, except while a member is 
 speakino, while the Chair is stating a question, or while a vote is being taken. 
 A motion to adiourn, to lay on the table, and a previous question, shall be de- 
 termined without debate. But the Hive shall never adjourn or be closed except 
 in regular form. 
 
 10. No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consid- 
 eration shall be admitted under color of amendment. 
 
 11. When a motion has been once made, and carried in the affirmative or 
 negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move the recon- 
 sideration thereof, at the same or next meeting of the Hive. 
 
 12. No member shall disturb another in his speech, unless to call him to or- 
 der, or ask him a question for information, nor stand up to interrupt him, nor 
 
BY-LAWS. 
 
 when a member is speaking, pass between him and the Chair, or leave the Hive. 
 
 13. Every member, when speaking shall confine himself to the question un- 
 der debate, and avoid all personality or intolerant language, as well as any re- 
 flection upon the Hive or its members. 
 
 14. If two or more members rise to speak at the same time the Chair shall 
 decide which is entitled to the floor, 
 
 15. No member shall speak more than once on the same subject or question, 
 until all the members wishing to speak shall have had an opportunity to do so, 
 nor more than twice without permission of the Hive. 
 
 16. No motion can be made by one member while another is speaking. 
 
 17. The Chair, or any member doubting the decision of the question, may 
 call for a division of the Hive, and a count of the affirmative and negative votes. 
 
 18. All reports of committees shall be made in writing, except committees to 
 receive visiting brothers. 
 
 19. No more than two amendments to a proposition shall be entertained at 
 the same time; that is, an amendment, and an amendment to an amendment, 
 and the question shall be first taken on the latter. 
 
 20. All points of order not herein provided for shall be decided in the discre- 
 tion of the Hive according to the usages and customs of parliamentary law." 
 
 Witness also our hands and seals hereto set at this day of 188 — 
 
 (names.) 
 
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