The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-08-11

The conduct during the present important
political crisis of certain Of our daily con-
temporariss is highly discredisable to them
selves, and especially calculated to lower
the character Of the English press, both
abroad and at home. On Monday last an
enormous gathering Of the working classes
of London took place in Trafalgar square,
the object Of this meeting being to protest
against the incoming Of a Tory and the
outgoing Of Liberal Administration, and
Q couple Of policemen were found amply
sufficient to maintain the public peace.
The demonstration was in every point Of
view a sufficient one but despite its num-
bers, and its peaceable and orderly charac-
ter, the Times, the Morning Post, the Stan
dard, and other organs Of the aristocracy
and Adullamites, have sneered at the meet
ing as one of no importance, and described
it as composed of al the tagrag and bobtail
Of the metropolis. The object, however,
Of all this scurrilous abuse Of the working
classes, by some Of our daily contempora-
ries, is clear enough. They want the Gov
ernment to cancel the right of public meet
| ing-that is to say, save and except ON such
occasions as when the Great British public
| is expected TO show it's admiration OF 10y
atty BY thronging the thoroughfares BY
which some foreign prince or princess, hav-
ing an eve upon our goods and chastels,
enters the metropolis. But the right of
public meeting for political purposes is one
that Englishmen will not readily surrender;
so we trust that the new Home Secretary
will turn q deaf ear to the dangerous
promptings of the Times and its jackalls.
The Times endeayored to pooh-pooh one
Of the most magnificent gatherings that has
ever been held, By scarcely noticing the
proceedings In Trafalgar square, whilst col
nmns of the same journal were devoted to
au account Of what transpired at Trinity
House dinner, whereat the Duke OK Edin-
burgh presided, having for the guests the
Prince of Wales and other aristocratic per-
sons. LIZ the patrons of the Times prefer
reading the wretched sip-slop, the miser-
BILE plstitndes, spoken parrot-like BY the
royal and noble noodle of he nation, why
that is simply matter Of taste ). and as the
conductors Of the leading journal probably
knew what conduces most to the prosperity
of their property, the inserting In srfenso Of
such matters, il to them, perhaps, an affair
Of business. With that the public has little
or nothing to do. But when in leading
article the world II gravely informed tina,
the great assemblage In Trafalgar Square,
on Monday night, was principally composed
OF boys and rough" we say that such an
limpudent falsehood- -such an audacious libel
on tens Of thousands Of homes, peaceable,
Intelligent workingmen, must not 20 uI-
contradicted. The Time 10 trying hard ta
curry fsvcr with the incoming Tory govern
ment, and hence the reason wherefore 1t vii
lies the workingmen, and lauds to the skies
4 such IN admitted noodle and ninny as our
i Colonial Minister, Lord Carnarvon, Who il
lspoken Of in our contemporary - likely %
eclipse al his predecessors In that post
i Tbs NoSuin1 Poa, the recognised organ
iof I'll ths butlsrs, ladiss' naids, modisEss
and lackeys ~ Bslgavia, Il solEss -
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