The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-09-03

Mike then descended from the platform, and retired
among his friends-hrs having been greeted with three
Calls for brady shepherd, SC, were then made, but
neither Of these gentlemen made his appearance:
Taos D. ESoLIsH took the stand and spoke as follows,
amid much confusion and noise As in the Of Mike
Walsh. We unable TO catch but few remarks that
he delivered first We commenced taking when
he said-That he expected the meeting kad assembled
not for the purpose of creating disorder contestng
about private rights but in the words OF the call for the
meeting, TO express sentiments in relation to the
measures that have recently passed both houses OF Con-
gress fthst be the purpose for which the meeting
sent to hear me, will speak to you those subjects, if
not. ] will 60 ! suppose we have assembled for the
assembS-to discuss and decide upon the doings Of
public servants. IL dishonors the noble Offices of
our COVER to hear men assume the position that
the benefits OF our republic government are 10 extend
to lscation-one State-and not the whole confede
racy But trust in spite Of what has taken place. that
unanmity and enthusiasm will serve to alay all amino
sity and that monopolsts of every class will learn les.
son from the cordially with which the late measures
were passed in Congress-the importance of which
one can doubt and the good effects of which will be felt
for TO come or these measures there are two OF
infinitely importance than the warehouse bill,
the sub treasury, viz the with Mexico and the
duction Of the tariff l have intention of discussing
the origin of that wart is enough for that exists
1t is enough for me, and for all honest men, that
country is in war with a foreign foe and
being So that men OF all parties and all poll
verDment in prosecuting it, Yet am sorry to say there
is one who has opposed government in prosecuting
this war in every way in his power and who SO VIC
lent in his opposition that il questionable whether he
is mad His ideas confused and dsjontedit
is impossible to understand him lie denounces the 90.
and the constitution ITSELF and Horace Gree
ley sleeps quietly possible But point the negro
and speak well of him, and he is up. He
troops killed whouta regrehe can see the banner OF
our country insulted-he opposes the government in
fndicsting honor, yet. If you say that the negro
does not smell like the breeze from the Spice Islands.
he is up at once As an individual have nothing to do
and would not allude tn him he the organ of
system of reform which is destructve-of liberty
OF establishing earth Heaven. which is Eourerism
As an individual he is OF no account but he and his
party must he put down madmen and be confined il it
exhaus the treasury of the State to erect mad houses
to hold them Such those bran.bread formers who
oppose the war They must however admit the
Calhoun said of another thinga fixed fact to oppose it
is treason. The will go despite the men who
victories Satisfaction will be obtained,
and the results of the will be beneficial
mics It will teach them respect for our government
this stage Of the proceedings in the room accused
the speaker Of bang native In reply, the speaker
Office in the Custom House. for employ ment, and be-
cause he was intoxicated, he refused to employ him.
le and he could prove he was native Amid cries oil
put him out, the man withdrew. Mr.. T.. continued in
the wings in relation to late questions of tariff and
s0breasury that passed Congress- and was taken sud-
denly i'll when he gave way: We were badly situated
the platform the from the crowd being great
in immediate neighborhood, and besides did not
hear than onehaf Of what this speaker said The
above, however, is sketch of his remarks.
Here there were loud cries for Brady and Sheppard
whtA
MIR surrrARp came forward and said-Fellow. iz ens
feel complete joy glorious occasion the
present, on witnessing such q meeting. (Cheers)
have looked forward since the year 1887 the sub
treasury bill first brought FORTH to its many advan
tages and successful results and it has become
full beyond all doubt cheers-beyond the power of any
it. We meet here tonight to shake bands over this
great and mighty victory, which we the people have
achieved 10 shake hands the success OF
to shake hands the successful result of the
OF democratic admnisratioh-and shall beg to detan
you few minutes while consider the facts Of those
measures and their operation upon all classes of the
people, mean particularly the aboring (Cres Of
hear hear') Now, as to the sub-trsasury. begin
association of in tho whole line Of public business
class Of persons in our community have exercised
such dangerous influence upon the laboring man,
and cheers) For every dollar which the laboring
by the sweat Of his brow five dollars have been
extracted by the operations Of these institutions This
has been done without the slightest feeling
the part of these institutions for the laboring
man. clear hearl While he has been lifting the axe.
and pursuing his daily toll he has time 20 your
halls of legislation to the capitol to participate in bank
ing speculatons None Of It's benefits his hands
The rich man. who goes to the Legislature, has got the
power of using every dollar he gets increase
his capital to "a and make rase to az and he has this
amount of capital at his command by system Of opera.
tons Now look upon the Sub. Treasury not as re.
suit, but a sort of stop against this system /;
and hope in God il will be in my power, from my po.
10 the whole people equal degree Of advantage and
benefit by the successful working of the subTreasury
benefit that must result from this measure First
your government must alwaysu deals in what Is
(hear, hear, and cheers) and when any poor man will
do any thing for the government he will be paid not in
worthless paper, but in solid dollars tCheers) hope
can go further as to make this also operate that
when any public contractor the government is paid
in this way he will not be at liberty 10 shift it of his
hands for paper (Cheerng) There are great many
drops of sweat in the poor mans dollarand hope yet
to that lie will be fairly remunerated Cheers)-
Now in relation 10 the ia, III am in favor of this tariff
OflS hacn is n a MI prin
ciple; but final resting place, am opposed to it
lHear, hear) b 1t let us take il unit, we get some
thing better. Now what was the tariff of 1912 1t was
passed solely for the benefit Of the manuacurers-I do
not say oscnsibly avowedly for their bene
ftbu such its inevitable and irresistible operation
saw goods after its passage. rise in the market; saw
those in the east getting from % to 80 per cent and
you and you (pointing to various groups who in
the crowd. Again say that this tariff of 40 in
favor of the rich and against the poor The poor mans
salt taxed from LOG to ITO per cent The working
mans shirt paid from 80 to l06 per cent; the
baize for Jackets, the fustian jacket nd in reference
the articles which usually belonged the poor
man. Now let US 60 to the luxuries-he articles for
the rich find that the gold chain was taxed at but 20
cosmetics to ornament beauty at IS per cent; Laugh
te) diamonds and canoes at ~ per cents, and
But it said these articles should not pay asear
hear and cheering which drowned the remainder of the
sentence But how is it with the salt, the bazc and
the other articles have just enumerated These are
used not alone by the rich but by every man. woman
and child in the whole Union and the poor man. who
thus pays heavily is robbed of his hard earnings and
dollar after dollar thus goes away and where does it
Why into the pockets Of the manufacturer who have
more sympathy for him than for the in the
daughter and cheers) am glad that the tariff Of 1912
Is gone. (Cheerng) But the manufacturers cry out
rum Did you ever yet hear Of one who had been en-
joyng monopoly, and trading upon the public grev
that did not cry out ruin when the traffic put
an end to 2 (Applause) Do you not know that if the
mighty masses OF the of Ireland to
rise in their strength and assert their liberties
by their own arms-that the British Government would
not forthwith raise the alsrn-cry of ruin" [vocifer-
cheering They would complain and say that they
had altogether forgotten that the established pri
ciple Of common humanity that every stand
upon the broad platform Of universal liberty free and
equal. [Renewed cheeIingl They would assert that
they had lived long in the established
thai meyer could ioIRef So much for this tariff