New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-18

theory Of tariff or free trade, no question c
finance will do that. They know that there
something wrong, aud they are right when the
know it.
The speaker described the begrimed appeal
| ance of the children employed to-day in tn
Pennsylvania mines, and said that the miner
who were on q strike now had once been lik
these boys, and that these boys would be tn
| strikers of the future to light the torch o
| revolution.
What is capital doing? Why, capital j
buying up every acre of coal land in Pennsyl
vania. Three or four corporations will owl
every tun of hard coal in Pennsylvania II
seven years. Think Of it-$400, 100000 o
capital welded in the hands of one ambition
man--the President Of the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Railroad. There is not a Legislature from
Harrisburg to San Francisco that in ten year
Will stand up against that thrifty power. Con
gress is but frstrate secretary to record it
DEGREES. Scratch a Russian, and you will fin,
Tartar underneath scratch New York, anC
you will find Paris just below the surface. Th,
result of impressing the laboring classes will
the belief that there is no such thing as jus
tee, and that law is not sacred, will yet devel
0pe into revolution in the country, Right be
hind the coward cunning of Tweed and Sween,
stands the revolt of the kind that has been wit
messed in European cities. When July, 1868
comes again in 1873, perhaps they won't hans
negroes to lamp post--they will indulge in 6
millionaire.
Now, you say this is a terrible picture fol
me to give, but if you want law and order, i
you want progress. take England for your
model; make your law to be respected because
it is respectable. New York will be Paris
soon. You stand Mt the dividing of the ways
1t is almost by the skin Of our teeth that We
have avoided open war in the coal regions Of
Pennsylvania. Let it come again a dozen
years hence, and the muskets will be actually
loaded. That we cannot afford to have come
This is the question that is to be settled in -
1t was far too sad jest when one of the
members Of the Pennsylvania Legislature sug
gested that if John Scott had no further bust
ness with that body it could adjourn. What
is a corporation? Why, corporation is a
method by which wealth doubles its power and
decreases its responsibility. [Applause. A
corporation is power or method by which a
dozen men put tenth part of their fortune
together and WELD the aggregate amount, and
millions
Now, am putting the rich man back Give
them all the power of their wealth, and load
them down with all their responsibility | be
lieve that the discomfort among the laboring
classes is the present peril of the nation, as it
connects, on the other hand with the oppres
sion resulting from the combinations made
practical by the manner in which capital can
now be used. 1t was only by the strenuous
efforts Of few cool headed men in the conven.
ton of the laboring class, last July, that the
Reputation doctrine, or the non payment oil
the public debt, was not formally enunciated
there.
That resolution would have startled every
exchange in Europe, and affected the price OF
every United States bond. We have no time
to lose-not an hour If you want Grant t.
sit in the White House, if You want secession
to stay in its grave, if you want law and order
to reign in the great commonwealth, we want
to crush the Ku-Klux on the one hand and
corporation tyranny on the other.
Lucretia Mott was then introduced and was
received with applause. She said
l am much gratifed that | have a little re
naming strength to meet you here to-day, and
to have had the opportunity Of hearing your
excellent report, presenting to us, as it does, a
view of so much that is to be done. Let us
recollect that this meeting is called not merely
for the purpose of entertainment, but to see
how far we can unite our individual exertions
for the benefit Of our fellow-creatures. We
manent foundation and I think We can wei vel
hope to attain that result by aiding this move
ment But want to ask friend, Wendell
Phillips, about one of the resolutions offered
/ think / could not support the resolution thai
advocates the killing of human beings. Our
friend Phillips has spoken with approval o
Gen. Buffers hanging of Mumford. Now i
seems to me that the bravest of those men anG
women who went forth in the great battle
against slavery, went forth armed with mora
power only and think that it would not b,
proper for us to advocate the use of any othe
power now. Let us have faith in our argu
ments.
If we had fixed opinion right when the re
bellion broke, out, all need not have met j
with the sword we might have met it will
intelligent argument.
The Rev. Highland Garrett said he hatet
the whole SantO Domingo scheme from begin
ming to end, and thought it the most fatal mis-
take made by the Administration since it ha
been in power, and that if presented to tn
American people, the majority would repudi
ate it.
MRS. JULIA WARD HowEs ADDRESS.
Coming here to-day, dear friends, to salut
you, | find a little knot Of people who hav
not bowed the knee to the popular idol, an,
who have not lost heart or hope in seeing thu
idol worship of the crowd. TO you law mean
justice; and gospel means charity and love s,
you can maintain your being and position il
the alldevouring city. 1t has no brides t,
buy you no danger with which to intimidat
you. Honor to your poverty, which earns it
bread by the sweat of its brow, plunderng n,
man Honor to Your obscurity, which plan
and labOrs without announcement blowing n,
trumpet before its covert benefactiOnsl Sinc
you have thought me worthy to meet you here
| will join myself to your ranks to-day, ant
ask how words of mine can help your gooC
work. and what illustration foreign syInpath,
can throw upon the outline of your faithful
services.
You are here, friends, in the very camp o
the adversary. Near to you are the court
whose unrighteOus verdicts disgrace the lega
profession. All around You, like wall o
weakness, is the sea which lets in upon You tn
flood of European emigration useful aud vel
come, but bringing with it most dangerou
elements to your city, and leaving them there
The poor spirits that perpetually compromis
between God and MammOn the Journals tina
utter lies and malice for truth the might,
market where Moloch trades in souls, with al
exchanges, from a robe to a ribbon; all thes,
are around you. But if the dangerous ele
rhents of corruption are here, here are also tn,
elements Of redemption. Great energizing
vitalzing currents pass through the city,
mighty heart. The emigrant, pausing here
sthinks of home, and dreams of the far West
and New York, positive as at is to those wht
live in it, is in one aspect all memory. nj
4keam-memory Of the old civilization. vision
Of the new. A certain hospitality of aspeo
disting WISHES the city she invites you with he
liberal harbor and open country. The wealth
does not hide itself in small streets it devel
ops superb avenues and brilliant facades
The handsome thoroughfares lead to mag
nihcent park, there the poor mans baby ma,
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