New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-24
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turn they are imposed upon, tyrannlzed over
ground down and crushed. The wrongs they
suffer are so heavy and griev0us that they
have 10 tine nor inclination to do anything
but discuss them. They haven't even the
leisure to do any work. Their duty to society,
their families and themselves requires them to
forego every other occupation IN order to talk
over their wrongs. And to DO this lntelli-
gently. they are obliged to have beer. There
can he no intelligent discussion OF the wrongs
which these patriots have to submit 10
at the hands of organized capital, and
of the remedies therefor, except 1t
he over beer Hence JustIs Schwab
and his beer saloon, and school OF political
economy which aims at such distribution
of CAPITAL and such satisfactory adjustment Oh
the rewards Of labor az will make everybody
comfortable, happy, and cOntenled, and relieve
MIR. Scbwab ard his fellow philosophers OF
the laborious duty OF regulating the universe
between drinks. These men are doing every
thing forsOcicty. Notwithstanding witch, society
seems hardly to appreciate them, bat turns
I'D its nose ut them. refuses to divide up
IFS accumulated capital with them, CT to let
them make the laws or break them with I'M
punity And all this is exceedingly nara on
Mr. Justus Schwab and the renovators OF so
cial order, who drink ard think his beer. The
truth is, society has got the upper hand OF
Ju..us Schwab, and cOmpei9 hlm to sdbmIt
TO It's diciat0ns. This IL an outrage III Itself,
and Mr. Sclwab feels It deeply. He u engaged
IN an effort n noble effort, We may say
IN tlIp the tables on society; TO get the upper
hand himself and compel society 10 submit to
his dlctation. The perfect propriey OF this wall
he at once admitted by every wcli-iegniated
mind. Society is still little ahead. but Mr.
Schwab ard the men who feel crushed and
who resent the wrongs they are doomed t"
suffer, are talking it over indnsiriously and
occasionally making a demonstration.
The manner in which these gentlemen are
put upon and abused was strikngy illustrated
m the meeting in behalf of honest city gov
eminent at SteiDway Hail on Monday evening
That meeting had been called by taxpayers Of
the city who hold the absurd notion that those
who pay the expenses of the city should have
something to say about how much and Tor
what The money should BE- spent. most
ridiculous proposition, as has been settled time
after time INA Mr.. Schyab's saloon Mr.
Schwab knows tn It the men who own prop
crty have no right to any voice IN the disposal
of it; that the only men VINO are cOmpc-
tent to decide how the money OF the tax
payers shall be spent are those who pay no
taxes. And, of course. it was proper that ne
should attend the meeting at StclnYay Hall
with a retinue Of his followers. and administer
A stern rcbuke to the selfish and designing
men who show, as did Mr. Simon Stern, that
a man can come to his door and beg
his breakfast in the morning, aud in the after
noon clan n mortgage on his house by his
v0.e That Is one Of the outrageous wrongs
nrder which Mr.. Schwab has to sit down be-
hind his bar; the thought that there are meu
III the community who object to having a
uamp-n0, not tramp, nm i'lnefant pbllOso-
pher-whom they have fed III the morning vote
away their property in the afternoon. The
bare suggestion that any ono could be 50
base as to offer an objection to this
charming feature of republican instItu-
tons was very CALLING to Mr. Schwab.
TO have it preached in public meeting was in
tolerable. SO he and his noble band wen, to
Stclnway Hall determined to put It stop to 1t.
And now consider what these philosophers had
TO put up with. Notwiths anding the purity of
their motives and the unmistakable plilan-
thropy by which they were actuated, and the
fact that they occupied front seats and took
an uncommonly active and energetic part in
the preliminary proceedings, the villains
who had issued the call, and hired the
hall and paid for it, would not let
them organize the meeting. Upon the spe-
cious pretence that they were entitled, by
right, to conduct the proceedings, merely be-
cause they had called the meeting aud hired
the hall, such conspirators against the
people as Royal Phelps Samuel ID. Babcock,
Wm. L. Dodge Simon Stern, David NJ. Stone
and Oswald OttcndOrfer went on and man
aged the meeting to suit themselves Not
only that; they refused even to permit Mr.
Schwab and his friends to break it up. They
actually rcsorted to the extremity of calling
m the police rather than give up the meeting.
Does 1t need to be pointed ont to any re-
hectng mind that this is only one of long series
of brutal outrages to which society compels
Mr. Schwab and his fellow patriots to submit
II ONLY goes to show that in the long and
dusty struggle that Mr.. Schwab is having W it'll
society, society Is still atop, and still taking
that unfair advantage of which the oppressed
and down-trodden complain. Wherever the
philosophers gather to-day to discuss their
wrongs over their beer there is now new
grievances, IL new cause for complaint. Society
not only objects to dividing property, but
even refuses TO divide time with them.
And if this action at Steinway Hall is to be
taken ~ a precedent a. in the present cOnsti-
tuition Of society 1t ~ quite likely, the time
win shortly come when the privilege of taking
possession of hall which other people have
hired. and organizing "A meeting which other
ncoDlc have called, will be denied TO Mr..