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LABOR REFORM LUNACY.

THE QUESTION OF WEALTH AND WAGES AS
VIEWED BY THE HowLING DEIvisHEs or
LABOR nEToRM-MAD IDEAS AND WILD
RESOLUTIONS.
The seventh annual convention OF the American
Labor Reform League opened ut Masonic Hall,
East Thirteenth street, yesterday forenoon, and was
continued in u session during tho afternoon and in
another beginning at eight O'Clock in tho evening The
convention Will also BIO in session to-day.
The three sessions yesterday were presided over by
Mr.. X. W. Hume, who mado spirited address In
opening the Convention. Mr.. +. H. Haywood then
presented tho following resolutions making address
preparatory to doing 500
Resolved. That since exchange civilization its naru
raj depos ctie would show OF opuience and
dsstution and their consequent savage conditions
wealth controlled BY special asurpa,ions o. capital anu
productive enterprise but that IL be severely let alone
tariffs exclusive GnsaI carrencies crasades On middle
hostile to liberty ind practically unjust and until political
labor reiormcrs rejecting their cannsh aud despotc poll
they VIII not command the respect ofntssent ana
Kssoivsd. That while the so-csed workngmen's party
sG q 1 81
pnsory schools money marriage
ton property. labor reform i IN snheit movement,
Tor in them Is the stronghold q It's power.
quessionaby counted in BY fraud which the republican
party base enough 10 invsn. and God himself
men, who sanction the political usnrpaions Of capital
Speculative piracy that entitled 70
labor re,i vote who no. opposed e properly IN land
compulsory taxation every "iegav device
gives TO property increase and to Its holders income without
Resolved That 1t is unfair in New Workers. 10
unsuccessful cuprit like T~ced who stole
against law. while they honor Vanderbilt stewar. and Ar
tho three greatest OF legal American thieves: that
popular Ignorance OF the rights neral
blindness the claims Of equity are apparent in nothing
who should be remembered IA robbers or mcrcituy Tor
Resolved, That there citizens TO whose
lives and daily committed than masters
provcment and protection Is highly ereditabs TO them
yf Reading al" % crush thu
i've EnSnss blow a. H. the a., nsis,S right Of
from thu. road the Legisa!ures Of rennsyyanis and
not mere tools Of railway aud banking usurpers
That r. Is no ,N aI and S
should dsnonncs INCREASINGLY the special outrage whereof,
Boys and for the same work; and since the whole
S ~ rests ON ass S ds sn ss
women By men still continue equa pay for equal work
inleiligentiy OF love even friendship for women
That Is nor ss s the the
ternationa Working Peoples platform which invites c
ignorant and otous that bankers, bondhoders
rs Of the pssp until ne
socate decline TO bear and to abolish compulsory
Short speeches In support OF tho resolutions wero
also made by Mr. J. X. ingalls, and DR.. Lewis.
AFTERNOON SESSION
At the afternoon session addresses were maao by
Messrs. Hume, Haywood, Lcandcr Thompson, william
Hanson, DR.. Sheldon and =. Logan The extraor-
binary ideas wcro presented In these specchcs
According to some OF tho speakers men
should only own as much land as
they could cultivate; others held that men
should own land ~ all, God made
II tree TO every Again. II held that work
should send men 10 the Legislature who would
understand their wants. for otherwise benefit could
made the laws which Ut tunes prevented OBJ
obtaining work, the government was bound To nnd
employment for workugnon when II could not he had
otherwise. Another held that no should possess
than city lot, because he could occupy only
lot and that II any one possessed It law.
full 10 dispossess him.
EVENING
At tho evening Session Mr.. Haywood, the Sec
rotary, read number Of letters from men
Mr. G. Loomis, Of the Shakers; from Mr.
N. Arthur, President OF the brotherhood OF Loco
motive Engineers, and from gentlemen In Michigan,
Connecticut Massachusetts,, Syracuse, Louslana Penn
syivania and other States. lengthy address rcad
by Mr. j. X. ingalls,, who was followed by Mr.
Haywood, and then shorter addresses made by
Mr. Maddox, DR.. Newbcrry and Colonel Beeny, after
which the Convention adjourned 10 roasscmDle this
morning Tho speakers last evening took tho ground
thcy seeking for great reform they should
TO keep 10 the leading idea by method ami also
remember how necessary II was to educate tho public
mind up to that standard which required IN a
matter so serious