The Morning herald., 1877-08-09
rHETHUHDER KOLL.

xueIS WdS Wo"s oA6NA
on Monday night in Baltimore; the Mary
land Institute hall was packed with about
5000 working men, and the widest enthu'
siasm was manifested by them. The prin-
cipal speaker was ]. P. Mcdonnell, a
young Glasgow nsan--as' We are informed,
although the newspapers make him Irish;
his speech was inaammatory, wicked, and
ridiculous beyond all parallel in Ameri-
can demagogism; withal, it was not new.
Mr.. McDonnsll has evidently been realing
the speeches Of Flocon, Louis Blanc, and
Ledru Rollin to the "capaille " Of Paris in
June. 1s4s, speeches which brought about
the red republican rising in that month,
during which the Archbishop Of Paris
was shot at barricade, while endeavoring
to make peace. For three days in the
heart of Paris, blood flowed like water,
but order triumphed, amidst ths'ros of
President Cavignscs cannon, and disorder
wilted in the bloodo Of thousands Of French.
men. The Commune Of 1870 was the 1e-
gitimats successor Of, the rebellion Of the
Reds in 1S4s. The mission of cDonnell:
his object as expressed in the following
words is war against society.
"If the strikers had been driven to
burning depots and destroying railroad
property by the unendurable tyranny Of
capital, and that they might have been
better off now if they had done the same
thing before, set the audience off into .
whirlwind Of applause. Their justifca.
tion for the destruction of property, he
said, was that necessity knows no law
and the men did it in their hunger and
despair to show their hatred Of tyranny
and prove Of what they are capable. The
mention of the names Of Scott and Garrett
was greeted with terrific yells and shouts
Of Hang them.' The working men were
urged to act together in politics, to come
out from Republicans and Democrats, both
Of whom were expressing them, and nom'
mate and elect their own men to Office. Il
they did they could overcome their op
pressors and enforce a new regime. A,
for the soldiers, the speaker said that, il
necessary, the workingnen could organize
regiments to sweep out Of existence thos'
who would dare to fire upon them. TIL,
whole tone of the speech Was fanatical ane
violent"
The leading plank Of the platform
adopted is that all railroads and canals
telegraphs and labor machinery shal
be common property Of the people, to b
operated by labor unions, under the pro
lection of the National Government; tha
the wages system shall be abolished an
labor have an equal share in the earning
of capital, and that labor bureaus shall b
formed by State and National Govern
ments.
Are there NO laws in Maryland to puu
ish this treason against public order? Al
the workingmea Of Baltimore 20 craze
as to listen calmly to proposition to tes
up society by the roots, fling into = com
mon pool every atom Of property, with ii
leaders certain to play the part Of Annani,
and Sephirs, without an avenging God
strike them dead Jet loose the hoodgat'
Of lust to dishonor, Ito debauch our wome
matrons, and maids alike. The propositie
to arm the workingmen to carry out Il
platform of the Commune is diabolical.
Our sympathies are with the workers,
contest Of classes, if such should unfa
tunately arise, we would cast our lot wi
them; hence We feel privileged to advi
and inform them. The great apostles a
teachers Of communism, and sooialisI
never practised what they taught. M
z;pi, the father Of thesystem now croppi'
out, lived in luxury all bis life tim
Ledru Rollin was known to use psrfum
baths, and was noted in London as gov
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