We do not exaggerate the gravity nor the danger of this situation. and we most devoutly and solemnly appeal to you to do all inyour power to preserve the present duty on iron ore. The Government certainly needs the revenue from it. and we. as your countrymen. need the work at American wages. We can not exist on the recompense or food given to coolie. peon. or slave labor. At a meeting of the abovenamed lodge. at which almost every member was present. and held on January 5. 1894. the foregoing was unanimously adopted. with no dissenting voice or vote. and it was ordered that the same be certified by the president and secretary under the seal of the lodge. C.