Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-06
QUEER IDEAS.

Commfttee---The Mosaic Land Law-.-A
And not Enough Taxation---A Cigar
makers Reasonable Complaint.
New YORK, Aug. 5.-Before the COMPRESSION
al labor committee to-day, labor representa-
tive, Hastings, had tilt with Mr.. Hewitt. He
would not make statement specific. and was
told to stand aside. He then charged Hewitt
with being hostile to him, and said his treat
to say in view of the allegation of Hastings,
that he (Hewitt) was not shareholder in any
bank, and did not import any foreign goods
MIR. Robb read long statement setting forth
the Importance of the question under consider
alton. He said God would hold the committee
responsible for every hungry stomach ard
naked back in the land God says, I'VE shall
not sell the land forever" No man has right
to give title for land. We have violated the
laws of God, and fraud and perjury prevail
everywhere.
There was great deal more of this kind of
talk, interspersed with questions by the COM
mittee, and the auditors were amused.
| j. p. O. Grady who represented the dry goods
statesmen and the shoe trade, wanted to read a
statement, but the committee declined to hear
him, as it would take too long, and O'Grady
declined to submit his brief statement, which
would take two hours to read.
Maurice G.. Cotter, formerly manufacturer
of silk cloaks, said the large manufacturers
had crowded him out and were crowding out
all small dealers, and he requesed the COM
mittee to attend to these matters.
| Mr.. Graham, secretary of the workingmen' s
| union, held that we do not desire the outlaws of
! the old world to come here and upset government
He did not intend to denounce capital when
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road monopolies and the raising of the prices
of provisions, ETC., by stock jobbing and spec
ulation. Reduce the tariff and stop sectional
| legislation. Stop railroad jobs and give the
country benefit. Our shipping has been
| driven off the by foreign steamers. l
| would tax the steamers in favor of the freight.
| Here Mr.. Hewitt asked Mr.. Marshall, a large
ship owner. to give his views. He said he did
not want any protection against steamers. He
| thought a removal of taxes much posi-
ble consistent with revenue necessities, would
revive trade, and the abolition of the prohibi-
| tory law preventing Americans from buying
their vessels abroad would revive the shipping
trade.
Mr.. Graham then continued and said he be-
lieved the large unemployed population in
cities ought to be sent to the prairie lands and
settled thereon by private enterprise.
Horatio D. Sheppard, of the National Reform
association, attributed the present depression
/
| imitation and not enough taxation.
| The president of the cigarmakers union spoke
of the cause of the depression in the cigar
| trade only. He said while the number of cigars
manufactured steadily increased, the condition
of cigarmakers got worse. In one month there
were four suicides in New York of cigarmakers
for want of employment. The trouble has
been caused by the general government by q
system of taxation which throws the business
| into the hands of large manufacturers. The
first is the introduction of 900 COLES into
/ the trade in San Francisco, and in New Yorl
the tenement house system caused ruin. The
system is shame and disgrace. The whole
family, man, woman and children work night
and day from fourteen to eighteen hours anC
still only make enough to live, or rather starve
on, and when cigar makers struck for wages thu
landlords, who are the manufacturers, turned
1000 wretched families into the street. In ten
ement houses the people get, say tobacco fo
1000 cigars and make 100 of it, and they
trade off the extra 100 to the butcher, groce
and barber aud pay revenue on them. HI
asked that the tenement house system b.
abolished and that cigars be allowed to be mad
only in factories. He was not opposed Il
Cinnamon as rule, but he opposed to TIN
importation of Chinese or any other labor un
der such system. He did not care how man,
Cinnamon came to the country or what wage
they worked for, provided they not i'm
ported as Coolies. He was opposed to the i'm
portation of all labor by contract.
There were other and uninteresting addresse
and the committee adjourned till tomorrow.