The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-14
INTEKNATIONALIsM.

"ShOuld the Principles Of the International
Society be Encouraged by the American
People 90
This was the question brought under discus
sion IN the upper han OF Cooper Institute last
evening, under fhe auspices OF the senior
members OF the Institute classes. Prof. Frobisner,
instructor, occupied a supervisory position; the
char was occupied by Mr. Thomas Duffy and the
auditorium by members OF the Institute, their
friends and many others interested In the debate.
The first speaker OF the evening was Mr. J. c.
ANDERSON, who while not member OF the Inter-
national Society, deemed 1t meet for him to speak
In their behalf. In opposition to the general ten
dency OF belief he held that the Internationalists
Of America were not Identical with the
Communists of Paris; but, as their enunciatiOn OF
principles showed. were organized for the purpose
OF mutual Improvement mentally and physically,
and, with view to the furtherance OF those
Objects to improve their material ana social posi-
ton as producers whO having most to do
with the creation Of wealth, should have more OF
the profitable product OF laoOr than the producer
was apt to secure while laDOrers were not Or
ganized and capital, as always, was He read o
history OF the origin and progress OF International
ISM and denied That its tendency here Ii 10 either
lrrelgOn, immortality or disorder.
He was followed py mr. OAhohAM wn3 held that
their acts than by their more guarded
aeolara!ions Of sentiment w,, He was there;
acts OF the men VINO have been and now are. In the
International movement and in dong so he found
the answer to be that they were indicative OF
CONTROLLING LUST
and persistent inclination 10 that which is bad in
religion morals and law. He found that the Inter-
nationals here, as elsewhere, were associated with
the Communists OF Paris. who were vicious IN both
precept and practices and when he scrutlniZed the
associations he found them, In the main, composed
of
BLATANT DEMAGOGUEs TAKEN FROM THE sLUMs;
men who claimed to represent the mass OF the
people, while they were not recognized by one
eighth OF them; who KILLED the people, senced the
press and destroyed trade IN the name OF liberty,
and whose every effort seemed to be to
and put unbridled license in its stead. lie denied
that the InternatlOnals in any way represented The
worklngmen OF America. or that they did other than
offer insult to the workingman of America, by
representatives OF what Is called lnternaliOnallsm
were patriots then so were
MAJOR ANDRE AND WILLIAM M. TWEED.
This declaration was received with marked ap-
Tweed clerks TO be true Inte-natiOnalIsts as
the practice goes, for, like the most
vicious OF the ancients, they held him
70 lie the greatest man who could rob the most and
considered one or the women seen In the late In
ternatiOnal PROCESSION IS the best exponent OF the
International tendencies. she proposed TO do away
with all stigma upon prostitution by
BECOMING A PROSTITUTE HERSELF,
and inducing all other women to follow her exam
pie and giving TO the gr0SSest immortality all possl-
BILE glory. The lnternatlOnas, like the communists
In Paris, placed robbery where before was the Word
OF God, anu In England they had already pronounced
the Bible o fraud.
Mr. DUFFY followed in favor OF the Internationals,
claiming that they favored mass education and gen.
eral Improvement OF the condition OF the door, and
at late hour the debate was brought TO close,
both sides seeming well pleased with the manner in
which they had acquitted themselves.