Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-31
The Commune In Wash.n.son.

Report has had it lately that branch society
of the Paris Commune OF "Interrational,, had
been organized in Wa<bins ION, and " thin the
last fOI right this branch soce.y has issued for
secret circulation an address bearing the fol-
lowing tstle:
defence OF the Paris Commune. Address
OF the General Council of The International
70 me "Orkngmen OF Europe and America.
fublshed by the Washington s ctiOn of THE
International Washington, ID. C.. 1s7I.p
In the preface TO this address it is stated that
''the 'iiends Of OrdeT'-of social ininstice. or
gained into NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have control of
TIE machinery by which the average Of public
CIir'on : formed" and that ''the Washington
SSctlon of the international Workine-men's As
iDeiauOE-sym of the mort comprehensive
political, social and economic movement modern
society has given birth to-desirOus of correcting
TIE fall ehOods Of cdpitalistic organs and agents.
have determined to publish a series of docu-
mentS relating TO the purposes aims and actions
Of the Commune and of the great International
movement Of productive labor now so violently
denounced by those who have substituted Prop
erty for God, and Competition for Humanity ana
DutJ. Then follows the Address, which
set forth the doctrines of the Com
mune, and says, among other things that
cit (the CoDmune) is intended to abolish that
class-property which makes the labor of the
many the wealth of the few" Itcomplains also
that the Empire insulted their voltairianism
Onhdelty) by handing over the education of
thelr chucren TO the Jreres Ignorantins,o and
defends their shocking murder Of the Archbishop
OF Paris and sky four others on the ground
that il YVES an act Of retaliation. In conclusion.
1t says that all the prayers of the priests win not
ava' to redeem their exterminators from the
pt'oIy to which history has nailed them
hawr - a
"Wasbington Section" of the commune seems IN
De zone Allen CofHn, and we find him acting as the
principal speaker at ameeting held at Boulden,s
church last night, ostensibly for the benefit of
the laboring men. At this meeting Coffin wanted
the adOp,-on of res1lutions that would " draw
blood" Another participant at the meeting was
the notorious Marcellus West. who, at the Civ
Hall labor meeting in June, beloved for " the
blood OF the contractors and aristocrats," and
thus established his eligibility. for commune.
brotherhood.
Another participant was Dr. j. G. Stephenson.
recently discharged by the Board of PuhIic
Works. In fact it was soon deveIoped that IL
was meeting irstigated by communist dema-
goguGs and discharged employees, with the idea
OF Toping in the workingmen by the CIV of 40
day and eight hours labor. The small at
tendance, however, showed that the Iaborers
Oh Washington are not quite ripe yet
for the doctrines Of the Commune. And
they do. not favor this denunciation of the
EoaTd OF Public Works and clamor for
g day, because they appreciate that
by raising the price to that figure, not
only would the amount of work be neces-
saIily reduced, but the price would bring
iatoTers here from the neighboring States in |
such numbers that the competition would in the
ehd reduce labor to 81 per day. The laboring
men OF washington are pretty wide awake to
'her own interests, andare not disposed to be the
duPes Of the demagogues.