The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-28
worK1se JEWS nEeTINo.
Call for MASS Meeting 10 Nominate I
TieHet

evening NJ
wheeling. Franklin Cline. Esq, was
called to the chair. He explained the
object of the meeting to be the eleva-
ton of the working classes. The object
was 70 combine the working men OF
wheeling and vicinity in support of
candidates for the Legislature at the
coming election from their own ranks
men who would legislate for their in
teresIs instead of the interests of the
aristocrats and capitalists OF the coun-
try, He said four-tifIhs of all the laws
in the United States were enhcted for
the benefit of the aristoCracy and CAPT
talists OF the country. II was Tor the
working men here in wheeling 10 say
whether they would be ruled by such
men who hold the offices and make
/ laws TO mold the working mans nose
| on the gTiudstone.
Mr.. Cline then introduced Mr.. M. j.
/ Smith. as President OF the Trades As
| semDIy of this city. ,.,,
Mr.. Smith said he had been DIhii nee
for leaving the Democratic PETTY ~, III
/ he UoDId throw that aside ana "ouiu
S,.nd herenfLar among his fellow-to!l-
Ue knew the opposition TO tnis
/ ,,,,,,,.,nant was very strong. me uit-
E No., nartirs would nominate
man 10 suit themselves anu
II cTnsb the working men. lne
W 'Is,i,,,, M town tonight Democratic
,i'setinS nj the Court Housed WAS got
,,,, an purpose 10 circumYent the meet
mr. here. They first started IL AS a
.'Youug Mems Democratic Associa-
uOu," and he saw it was now the
young Mems Democratic Working
Mems Association" He believed most
of those here knew what this was for.
II only remained for them now to
start the party, aud it would 1y from
the lakes of the North TO the Gulf OF
Mexico flster than anything else that
had went over the United States yet.
They had startled II in Pitts
burSh anu here it was already.
Ii was also raised in Chicago.
The many thousand working men OF
this city would be certain to carry their
candidates. He thought they might
elect any ticket they might nominate,
II they would lay aside politics. The
question was would they do it? Aud
tnen when it was spread from the North
aside, all prejudices would go with IL,
and they would be once more
II united nation, which they were not
now and no Likelihood of being.
Mr.. Smith proceeded to illustrate
how The working men here and in 9th
er manufacturing cities had allowed
capitalists to elect the Lawmakers in
the working men the right to form
Trades Unions in Wheeiing-denied
| them The right to dictate the terms on
| which they would labor. He looked
upon labor as any other goods that can
| be barlcrcd or sold. The capitalist
| owned his capital, and they owned
The labor and the lHborer had Il right to
| dictate his terms. 1t was awful 10
! think of the laboring CLASSES of the
| United States working themselves out
! day after day for IA mere nothing, and
/ when IL came Saturday night they had
their bills to pay, which often amounts
! TO more than their wages comes 10.
| The taxes which the capitalist grum-
bles about in fact comes OFF OF you.
| Everything they bought was taxed
and the tax came OIL Of them. The
lGoVeTnment put IA tax on an article
/ when IL was first manufactured, aud
| then every dealer whose hands II went
through added something to pay his tax
cs anu the working men who consumed
! ii had 10 pay all the taxes. Would the
! working man stand it? IL he has the
| chance TO put men in office bad not he
| the right to do it? Wasn't the Govern
| ment made for every man? There was
| too much of the old English style of
| Government mixed up i'll ours. They
say they don't recognize caste or
| different classes here-thHt every man
is free and equal, Was 1t so? Was
| not the man that lived in "A stately mau-
sion alongside of toem in "A better posi-
lion to get place in the Government
| than IL Hiboring man? Had IL not al
ways been so in the political parties
raised in the North. He lived in the large
house by the taxes raised OF the labor
| ing classes of the United States. His
hearers probably lived i'll II little squat
i'd hut alongside, labOring day and
uIght-their wife bending over the wash
l ., FfnFr In a "a "a
that keeps that man in the large man
sion up alongside of them. Why was
| II? Because the working Innn Of the
! United States Ind never heretofore
dared express himself and put forward
his own rights. 1t was always a Wing
party or Democratic party or Republic
| can party or some other party. and the
said parties Will always take men that
are rich and put them forward and
| the working man will vote for
them; and he will raise him up
aud he will turn and cut the poor mans
throat and bleed him that the rich man
may he raised higher, that he can sit ON
his throne " lille we kneel in front.
The working men of the United States
| has majority of the voting popuIa-
ton. Money fluctuates and gets in the
hands OF very lew men who are high
up, who are raised there by friends in
the Government; and the money gets
people outside 10 labor. Then he would
furnish his capital. One man would
furnish capital enough may be for II
thousand laboTers. 1t certainly was
clear they had n majority. Then why
could not they use it. Couldn't they meet
and put forward their candidates ind
elect them; and If they were elected
couldn't they use their Influence and
other means to more equalize the mon
ey in the United States2 Couldn't the
Iaboring man command a larger per
ceutnge of the money that huctuates
and flows over the country for his use.
Was IL right he should labor for
nothing while one IMAM should
have enough for thousands to
live on "a life tlne-while the
thousands need IL, and henever uses III?
Some men would own so much capital
they didn't know how much they did
own; but still he would stand up and
higgle and barter about 81 working
mans wages ana go against Trades
Unions and try to abolish them be-
cause they dare ask a right amount OF
wages.-Hn amount they ought to have
and are entitled TO.
He supposed this meeting would
probably call convention to meet next
week To nominate Working Mans
ticket. He had talked over this town
all day nearly TO see how the thing lay,
and he found lots of men that say they
are not going to leave the Democratic
party, and others say they are not go-
ing TO leave the Republican party. He
had been AS strouga Democrat as any
man in the city. He had dropped il.
He had dropped it all, however. He la
no politics, and didn't expect TO have
with any party that didn't
support the working man of the United |
States. Hereafter his life was to be de- |
voted to the labor movement that
would rush over these States and carry |