The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-03-22
LABOn MEETING.

IN New York city the other day, few
b,isterous men got il into their heads to
call meeting ofthe "unemployedr tbous-
ands of that strange city, including men,
women and children. To create as much
excitement as possible and thereby make
rs much of crowd ms they could, these
,lisaAected people had several covered
wagons driven through the principal
strects, upon which were emblazoned
notices suggestive of the object of their
Hlspting. On the day set apart for the
a'sembling of this grand convocation,"
n band.of music was present, stand fixed
mp. and the, usual number of ''orators'
ready to do the spouting. A preamble
and resolutions were read for the edifca-
ton Ct the multitude, which, in them
selves, were modest enough-barring a
spirit of complaint at that which seems to
he inevitable Fate. Here were gathered
together a motley crew-some, perhaps,
Of those who had seen "better days."
others who expect to exc out subsistence
BY hook and by crook principally the
forper) while few, perhaps, were real
suhssors from want of spirit to defend
themselves from the cold reception of this
relish world.
This meeting Of the "un,mployep of.
fords an ample text for sermonizing, far
better than many of our divines find in
the Political bosh of the day, or that
equally fruitful source-suicides and en-
heszlements. After the multitude had
assembled, they were RECALLED by several
"orations" % of the decidedly vulgar
type. Oaths and imprecations interlarded
slleir discourses; calling down vengeance
'lipon the erich and the aristocratic." In
the minds of such throng, riches are
Invariably associated with aristocracy.
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7i'bse men Gem TO think ana that
Z laan who is able to live without Sdnual
Sabor, is "non-producer," and hence an
pristocrat. They seem to have no con-
ception of the fact that away back in the
years gone by, these same men who now
live at their ease, in a comfortable brown
stone house, were, many of them, men
who begun life as poor and obscure as
they are now, but who, by dintof sobriety,
industry and economy, accumulated and
saved their earnings, instead of squander-
ing and wasting them in beer gardens
and liquor saloons. Many of those who
assembled in that meeting, might have
hen men Of influence to-day, and been
living in ease and comfort, had they hus-
landed their earnings and lived lives of
sebriety and honesty. The remedy for
the evil complained of by these mer,
does not lie altogether in the direction
they point out Far from it. We ven
ture TO say that there is not, in the
great city of New York, many persons
who would long remain.out of employ-
ment, If they would soberly and industri-
ously attend to the work placed before
them.
On the whole, this meeting is not with
ont its lesson. Ii shows us one view of
the world which we never had clearly de
fined before. In republic like ours,
men learn from the cradle, that all Of
them are equal. 1t Is among the first
lessons Of their lives. But they do not
learn that lesson correctly. Their ideas
Of equality are that all men should
have an equal share of this worlds goods,
they labor for it or not. If they
could have their way. a system Of agra
,ianism would be set on foot, and the
lai'0s. tenements. cad hereditaments of
Of all Of rs would be parcelod out to all,
share and share alike. Yet, if this were
done, single decade would not elapse
before the same original disparity in
amount would be found to exist. But
we Ind this subject growing upon our
minds, aud must reserve further comment
ior a more convenient season.