The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-06
GEN. SAM. CARY.
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
| General SAM. CARY, of Cincinnati. ad
dressed tremendous mass meeting o
working men, at Cooper Institute
New York, on Friday night. The fol
Lowing is 4 synopsis of his remarks:
"The question is sometimes asked
half in .derision and halfin earnest, wht
are these working men who are claim
ing to be recognized as power In th'
nation This question will be answer
ed according TO the standpoint occu
pied Ly the person to whom it is ad'
dressed. Senator Howard asserted thai
they were the mudsills of society, and
that yon hi ght as we'll attempt to build
house in the air without founda
tiop. as to construct society with
these mudsills. Their chief requisite:
according to the same authority, are
vigor, docility and fidehty. lou mnsl
have this class or you cannot have thai
other class which leads to civilization,
progress and refinement. If 1 was tC
attempt to answer to the inquiry,
would say that they are Gods nobility
who obey the Divine decree aud eat
their bread in the sweat of their own
faces. Those who produce all the
wealth of the nation, and rs class
have nothing to show for it. They SOW
while others reap; they are those who
fought the battles of the late war, saved
the Republic from destruction, made all
the sacrifices, and are now toiling In
the field and workshop tn pay the debt
incurred by the war. They are not
those who staid at home making money
ont of their country's misfortunes, and
who are now living upon eSorbitant
rates of interest exacted from the toll
ing millions. The working men live on
the coarsest fare, while shoddy con-
tractors, bondholders and bankers are
appropriating the products OF their toll
upon their own terms. The working
men are the producers of all the wealth,
while capitalists appropriate 1t with an
insolcnt and merciless power. The Ia
Dor reform movement is n solemn pro-
test against this outrage. According
to the Hammond theory capital should
own labor; according to ours capital
should be the servant and not the mas
ter. BY means of legislation the produ-
Ger of wealth eats the crumbs, gnaws
the bones, wears the cast-off garments
of capital. The old law, "if q man does
not work neither shall he eat," has been
reversed OF superseded by another, viz :
"He who does not work shall have
everythingto eat, while the worker
shall often 60 supperless to bed" We
insist that that society needs recon-
struction that is wrong side up. The
workingmen assert that they have been
deprived of their just share of the Joint
earnings of capital and labor; that by
means of unjust legislation; by the es-
tabIishment of land mOnopolies and
monied monopolies; by the granting
of exclusive privileges; by banking sys-
TENS; by unequal taxation, they are
robbed and oppressed. Inspired by a
resolutc purpose they are resolved by
the establishment of labor unions; by
cooperation; by doing their own voting
and through the political parties, or in
spite of them, to correct the abuses of
which they complain. They are not as
falsely charged assassins, demanding
an equal distribution of property, nor
any distribution, except such as provi-
dence and imprOvidence, industry and
idleness, virtue and vice, produce.
They are no repudiatsrs, bat believe in
paying the debt incurred by the war,
to the utmost farthing, according to the
letter and spirit of the laws under
which they were created. They were
ready to offer their lives to preserve
the integrity of the Union, and they
will cheeriully contribute their full
share to preserve its honor. They know
their rights and will maintain them.
They have fought the battles OF their
country, and they will, without muir
mur, pay their proportion of the pecn.
MARY obligations. They insist and will
demand that those who grew rich with
out making any sacrifices shall con-
tribute to the liquidation of the war
debt. They will not heed the insolent
demand of the bondholder that he shall
not only be untaxed, but paid in bet
ter currency than he furnished to the
soldier, who, in the camp, in the hospital,
on the march, in the prisons, and on the
battle field, suffered, and struggled; and
bled, and died to save the Republic;
fallen heroes received for their support;
what the sons of toll take for their daily
wages, the bondholder shall receive for
his profitable advances to the Govern
ment. The capitalists made no Sacrl-
fees during the war. They loaned their
money to the Government at exhOrblt-
ant rates of interest and now have the
etfrentcry to claim twice as mnch as
they advanced. Their apologists and
confederates of the press, and their at
tornics in official position, denounce US
as repudiators, and say that we should
have our ears nailed To the pillory, be-
cause we assert that the money of the
people shall pay the debts of the peo-
pie. When we consent that the SOL
dier's widow shall receive over the gov
ernment counter one kind of money,
and the bondholder another-wh hen we
pay to her dollar that will buy her 4
bushel of potatoes, and pay to him a
dollar that will buy him bushel and a
half; when we consent that the labor
ing man shall pay one dollar and halt
of his earnings to pay one dsllar to the
bondholdsr; when We do this our ears
ought to be nailed to the pillory, and
there is no indignity to which we should
not be subjected. 4
Politicians have made their declara-
tions of principles aud call it o platform.
The workmen have q platform it is
composed of but few planks, but they
are made of sound material, and are
broad enough and strong enough to
hold the millions who are rallyiHg up.
on them. The declaration made by the
Labor Congress in Chicago, in 1867, isa
proclamation of emancipation TO labor,
and sooner or later will prevail.
One OF our fundamental principles il
that the public domsin is the common
property of all the people, and that moi
another acre shall be given to any cor
poration, or granted to spectators IN
der any pretext; but that the public
lands shall be withdrawn from the mar
ket and granted, at nominal price ant
in small quantities, to actual settlers
both native and.foreign born.
Another plank is, that We shall hayes
national currency created by the soyer
eign power, good for all purposes, as ;
legal representative of the valse Of al
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