New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-25

| VOice-Yes, Lord.
1t is all wrong to pay so much for the
necessaries of life. The retailer can live in
| fine houses, while the Workingman lives in
narrow rooms without being able to pay
/ the rent. The mechanic and labOring
classes must teed the rich, who subsist upon
the labor of these men. How much are our
difficulties increased by certificates of in
debtedness which are worth but seventy
five centsl Brokers are vampires. Some
plan must be devised to relieve us. Pay in
currency. Let dollar be dollar. COmpen-
sation of police should be Incorporated in
the organic law of the State. Public works,
as carried on lately, we're a stupendOus
fraud. Contracts we're to be done away
with The principle of all contractors was,
money must come out of the job What
care the officers so long as they receive half
Of the profits ? We get the hide and the
bones; the contractors get the meat.
VOiee-YOu don't say so
City officers only work six hours in the
day. The Exposition building was filed
with the triumphs of the mechanic and
working man. No intention to detract from
other classes, but we depreeate any system
which makes one man better than another.
The following planks should be engrafted
in the party platform: /. Payment in cur
reney on public works. 2. Abolition of
contracts - compensation fixed by law.
3. Eight hours labor a day. The working
men had to enrich men who had neglected
them. Signed by Perry Williams and R.
III Isabelle.
These resolutions were to be submitted
to the next Baton Rouge convention.
These principles we're adopted, MOgul
carefully avoiding to put the negative,
while Terry, after he had retired, signed 10
the band, who cut of a speaker in the mid
die of sentence.
DR.. Cramer offered a resolution indOrsing
the National Labor Reform Convention
lately held.
These resolutions, Mr.. Burch, who came
to the front as the next speaker, said were
to be offered at Baton Rouge, which are
the representatives of the people. Poor
man pays all the taxes. He pays rent thirty
three and a third per cent more now than a
year ago. The milk he puts in his coffee,
like taxes, have been we'll watered. Taxes
fill his pipe sooner than tobacco. He
said, the workingmen should demand
of the Legislature let it be a de-
probation Of the taxes and a little
less depreciation on ''Our wages In the
National Labor Convention the five votes
against the eight hour law were from Mis-
souri,. Your rights are as sacred to you as
the rights of any men. 1t is an easy thing
for politicians to promise, but these labor
resolutions had been Endorsed in New York.
The party is the friend of the wOrkingman,
as it.freed the slaves, the wOrkingmen OF
the South, and placed them in manhood.
Every word uttered in the resolutions
would thrill the bosoms of the labOring
men. Mr.. Bureh simply repeated himself
a few minutes, and then backed out while
the music played tune.
Soon as the music stopped, a motion was
made that Colonel Carter address the meet
ing (MOgul had already announced Colonel
| LOWELL and in the midst of "great cry
| the Colonel advanced up to the front and
rendered his 'slittle wool" He only wanted
| to excuse himself, and had been reminded
while Burch was speaking of an anecdOte
| of GrOtius, "sOme" on International law.
| Grotius said if he had his choice he would
| take the place of some other man who took
| eight hours for work, eight for recreation,
/ and eight for sleep. The meeting had the
| same idea, he seemed to think, and he then
| referred to Scripture: LET your moderation
/ be known to ali men; be carful for nothing
7 The speaker tried his level best to fit this
! text to the meeting AID he did some OF
/ the tallest lecturing and twisting to make il
! apply that any one had ever heard. This
! is a fight against capital, because capital il
1 held BY hard and seltih men," he went on to
/ say that he had no more to say, and theu
retired.
Colonel Lowell resorted to the method Of
/ writing letter, in which he said the pm
| ciples of the meeting were those OF his Re
| publican party.
Mr.. James Todd, who bowed low to the
| audience, and next made a speech, which
| was interrupted before he had got very far
| Mogul insisting on his right to speak, ano
| getting very mad as the crowd refused tt
| listen to him. GrOans assailed 1.-THE old
white head;" Kisses were poured out to hin
like from a nest of rattlesnakes, while he
seeing the temper of the house, had nc
| no better sense than to stand on the plat
form, saying: Il have been invited to speak
| and l will speak
There we're loud cries for music, and tho
band played twice, but did not lull the
storm. A storm of groans, chorus o.
wells, tempest of shrieks, and cat calls
| rafting of chairs, and the like, broke GU
like the angry echoes of the Nevada wheI
| a boulder is lOOsened and tumbles from
point to point below. eve throwed hin
| out o. the Republican party, and then hI
went into the Reform; now he can't ge
back again" This cry arose from out thu
hootings and misses, while Mr.. Todd sa
down. This was greeted with shouts o.
triumph and loud calls for Colonel Field
| who advanced to the platform and declined
to make a speech under such circumstances
Then a simultaneous move was made to
adjourn, MOgul, the president, getting yer!
| mad over the IufDule1I nature VI Ill
crowd Mho only treated s his efforts b 5 to 9a9
laughter.
In the midst of an indiscriminate row
the meeting broke up, somebody turning
off the gas in the midst of things,
The next thing after adjournment is tn
calling of mass meeting, to be cOnvOke'
according to the following programme o
Terry"
The president of this mass meeting i
hereby authorized to appoint COMMITTEE
of twenty-five for general mass meeting
to be held in Lafayette square at such TIM
as the committee may deem proper, for tn
advancement OF the interests of the me
chanics and labOring classes, and all classe
who desire a true and honest republican
form of government, with full power to act
and provide the necessary funds to carr.
out the object of this resolution.