, 1875-08-29
FIGHTING THE FIRE LIMITS,


motley crowd of about 100 disappointed
ofce-seekers, Communists, loafers, intermin sled
with few honest workingmen who merely came
to see the fun, held ano.her fire limits meeting
last evening At Lochners Hall, No. 46o 1Iilwau.
kee avenue. This meeting Was gotten up by the
game parties who engineered the one at Ogden's
Grove two weeks ago. The object Of those
meetings Is less 70 work Tor contraction OF the
ire limits, for nearly all those attending tbs
meetings do not care whether the city is BALL
Of wood CT brick, having never paid .
cent of taxes IN their life, but to
bring semi-C -Communistic organization styled
the Guard OF the Republic into prominence, sud
help its leaders into office. It seems that the
better class Of wo1k1ugmen haVo already become
aware Of this fact, and for this reason the meet
ing last evening WAS but poorly attended, and the
next one will undoubtedly fare woise. The fire.
limits question las been chosen by these hungry
politicians because they thought 1t most calcu-
lated to euthuso the workiugmen- They, how
ever, do not onthuHe worth cent. Most OF them
have come to the conclusion that it is ~ cheap
10 build of BRICK As wood, aud those who
have not, are too wide awake not to sec through
the t1imsy pretenses Of this clsmorous body Of
ofdce-seekern, and will have nothing to do with
them.
The meeting wss called to order by Mr. John
". Hoffman, who stated that
THE OBJECT OF THE MEETING
waB to protest against the present extended fire.
itmits- They had similar meeting on the
North sida = compile Of weeks previous, and
resolutions we're passed asking tho Common
Council to change the present ire-ordi0soce.
They had thought it best to give the suffering
workingmen OF the West Side chance to ex-
press their ludguation at having ths ti.e-limits
coextensivo @ith the city limits.
Mr. G. F. HaTteman Vas elected Chairman. and
Mr- Henry Miller, Secretary.
Mr.. c. ARNOLD
was the first speaker. He said MI beginning
Was hard, as the thief said when he first rtole Al
anvl, and it Was hard to ihaugurate naw moya-
ment for the overthrow OF corruption and fraud,
Be could only refer to. the corruption among
the County Commissioners who onl7 a few
weeka ago perpetr1ted steal in giving away
the county printing to the Union aud Courier,
the first cae being paper of no account at ali,
aud the aeoood bad haru1y more than five read
ers. Such corruption as existed stnoug
the officials in this city did not exist
in monarchical Europe. Il was foolish to claim
that small franc house would make a worse
fire than larpe brick building. The wealthy
classics were making this ou.cry for brick build
inss because they would NOT tolerate a poor
man alongside Of them TIE chief aim OF these
people was to drive the poor workinemen ont of
the city altogether, and keep them IN slavery
aud poverty forever But the time would coma
it they all worked together man to man and
boou!def 70 S00pkdef WnG0 t4e86 EoFrQptlOnI5ts
would be driven f.om their strongoolds By the
outraged people, and then this city ro1id be-
come free indeed, and the vorkingmen would be
allowed 70 tuild their houses OF whate7er ma
teri1 they chose.
Mr.. CARL R4CssSER,
the next speaker, dcplored tbs fact thst the
meeting was not better attended but the reason
Was that mistake had been made N the sajec-
t,on Of the hall :; they onght to have moved fur
ther cut of the city. whers the people we're suf.
ferlng more from tho present fire ordinance, It
was fooiiah to ASSERT that prick house could be
built Ae cheap rs = frame one. and besides. a
hr1ok house could not be moved from one lot
upon smother az frame building could, Through
the present ordinance workingmen were preyent-
ed from building > home Of their. own. Tney
even were compelled 10 sell the lots thay already
pos"essed, because they could not afford to
build OF brick He attacked Greeuebaum and
others who were in favor Of extended tire limits
aed claimed that they wore actuated bY selfish |
purposes only, OWNING large tracss 1T lands out
eide the citT limits. IF the meetings had been I
.ix times - large. their moral force would hara
aad no weight wltn the Conncil TheF hnd m |
80 600 to give away like tho tsilrnad commands
md without money nothing could be rotIen
through the present Council They tharefore