The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-15
Great Meeting in Cooper Institute

New York City, THE names are published
in the New York papers, meeting was .
held in Cooper Institute to cooperate with 8
with the farmers in their efforts for cheap !
transportation. The call for the meeting
says
The Arms signing It represent Ia the aggregate
Five Hundfed Millions OF capital and probably
Five Thousand Millions Of annual business
II 4. believed that no issue ever presented TO the
citizens Of New.York commanded such list OF
pipuAturcs among her business men.
There can be no doubt that 1t Is equally To the
interests OF the laborng classes that proper solu-
Uop Of the great problem Of cheap transportation
should be arrived at, aud indeed every cltlhen ana
property is Interested In THIS question.
An persons arr invited, and full attendance de
Mayor Havemcycr will preside, and eminent
speakers will address the meeting
Mayor Havemeyer was chosen president
of the meeting, with 30 viee-presidents,
and 10 secretaries. Many distinguished
men were on the platform.
The meeting was addressed by Mayor
HavemeyerA. w. Tenney,F d. Moulton,
J. w. Hustled, Bradford, L. Prince, B. b.
Sherman and others. We should like to
publish synopsis of all the speeches, but
our space will not permit. We clip the
following from the speech of Mayor Have
meyer
ATTENTION TO POLITICAL DUTIES ALONE
REQUIRED.
1T IS curious that almost all men seek
for remote remedies. rather than those
which are at hand, 10 overcome any evil
which afficts them How often have you
known some chrOncally impecunlous friend
who constantly attributes his want OF good
fortune ~ some remote chance which nc
thinks he has lost, forgetting that the
cause Of all his misfortune Is because he
he chooses to get up at . IN the morning
instead of g. ana is always too late Tor the
cars Thus, with Us, we are suddenly
disheartened by the fact that our com
morce is slipping away, that our rights are
invaded, and that great colossus ha'
taken possession of our legislative halls
and we naturally look to the most remote
remedies as the available and ethcaclou
ones But the true remedy is very sim
ple attend tO the political duties whlcl
we have neglected make up for lost tim
bv increased zeal, and act in accordanc
with the principles upon which our Nov
ernmont IL based 10 wit, that there Is II
governing class, simply because such me
are expected to give enough time ~ th
affairs of government, and the whole bod
Of citizens are intended to be that elias,
You know that all the honest and true
hearted Republicans are with you in you
work and To that party | belong | kno'
that the mass of our Democratic iellow.ci
zens are the Friends Of reform, aud 10 tina
party also belong.
But You know also that there are cel
tain cliques, called the Custom House
and "Tammauy' Rings, which are now q
the alert tO use these masses each III II
own personal interests Avoid both d
you would pestience We know VIII;
the Tammany Ring accomplished when j
office and power, and you can anticipat
from the signs of the times what you ma
expect from the other gang, if from an
cause you should suffer either Of then
from any inactiOu ON your part, ~ succeed
Select your candidates for office from tn
true men of both parties, and with the nee
essary organized efforts, your success is Il,
sured. II must not be understood that i
your efforts to right your wrongs you il
tend to attack the vested rights Of capt.,
devoted to So great a service to humanit
rs our system of railroads, but solely tn
existing abuses which in the progress q
time have overgrown 1t. In your efforts t
accomplish this, as in the solution of ever
social problem, you have a task before yuu
which to accomplish will require tn
strength of a Hercules, guided by the wi,
dom Of a Solomon. Fellow citizens, th
future Of our city for veal or for woe is j
your own hands and it Is for YOU % deter
mine whether that future shall be you
monument or your grave.
After the speeches the following resola
tons were adopted
RESOLUTIONS
WHEREAS, The productive industre- G
the nation are not only the sources OF uu
collective and individual wealth, hut ais
the elements on which our national and il
dividual existence depend, and
WHEREAS All material products a,
the fruit Of labor and capital and a. nett
err labor or capital can continue pruhtab
aud actively employed without Just equi
aent and
WHEREAS, Great national iudustri
are only sustained and prospcrcd by Il
interchange Of the products of one sectl
OF country for those Of another and
WHEREAS, The existing rates of tran
portation for the varied products Of d
mon from one part Of the country 10 a
other and 10 foreign countries, a well
the transit cost Of commodities required
exchange, are, in many instances inlurluI
and 10 certain interests absolutely destru
tive, arising IN part from an insutiiciency
avenues, and in part from the defects al
abuses Of our present system ct transpol
alton and
WHEREAS, One of the great aud mate
lal wants of the nation to-day Is cheG
transportation and
WHEREAS New York is the natural ou
let for the products Of great portion
the continent and
WHEREAS, A material and permann
diversion Of her commerce is thrcatcne,
therefore
Re,oicgd, That it i, our duty as me
chants aud citizens to organize an assUci
ton to foster the interests Of the city, Il
State, aud the Nation in connection wi
the question OF transportation.
Reso'cti, That the production Of Il
country, both agricultural and mauulactu
ing has increased much faster than q
facilities tor transportation that addltiu
al avenues of communication with ii
West and the South are an immediate u
ccssity; that the policy of our Cover
ment, both State and national, should
81 shaped that our great producing inte
est aud the commerce depending there,
should not be left 10 the mercy Of corpo
atoms which, by virtue Of combination
and consultations, have become monop
lies whose tendency is u override and su
vert the rights Of the people that in OF
present system Of inland transportatil
there exists many defects and abuses viii,
should receive careful Legislative attenti,
in order that all interests may be just
treated and barmonized.
Resoloed, That the production of Il