Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-09
COMMUNIST KEARNEY.
In the Course OF an Interv ew. Tells
some Truths that Ought TO have
fleet with the BOndhOId-
ing Money.
and MOnopOIists.
Ballots. not BuIIets-Resumut iOn and
Redemption Impossible Don't
Wear shirts Washed at Chi
nese Laundries If your
Skin is Scratched
-LeprOsy.

| -LeprOsy.
| Boston correspondent of the New Yorl
| World, Sd: With singular forbearance Den
| mis- Kearney has during the first week of hi
| stay In Boston refrained from saying any
thing more than the few disjointed sentences
| of his last Sunday mornings speech. If ht
4 would have said anything he need not hav,
| done so in set phrase or even IN desultory re-
| marks, Tor almost every reporter IN town hal
| endeavored to interview him. To these ht
! says: Il don't want to talk over special is
| sues. If you desire to chat on every day
matters, very well, but beyond them | vii
not GO. In order TO see the man and to fine
out if possible what he intends doing while
| he remains here, your correspondent went ou
| to the house where he is stopping. 1t is g
| one-story French rooted structure neatly
| painted and carefully kept, with flower gar
den In front and vegetable plat in the rear
The famous agltator met the correspondent
| with pleasant smile and replied cordially tc
| the customary greeting. He was clad IL
blue flannel pantaloops. which were held II
| place by a well-worn pair OF braces, a striped
Bingham shirt, IN which were bone studs
| and upon his feet were pair of old carpet
slippers His head was uncovered and his
face showed that he had not visited the bar
| Der for some time. He said that his health
was never better, and his appearance sup
ported his assertion.
$50 you have come to interview me?" slid
he; well, you can't pump me. | have
refused every one else, and | don't propose
to make fish of one and flesh of another
"But, Mr.. Kearney, this is not for a Boston
paper"
That may be so, but l don't want to be
interviewed by any paper. My plans will be
developed N their own way quickly enough
to suit me. | shall speak In Faneull hall on
M nday night, but beyond that | cannot tell
at present what | shall do Do you know
whether l will have the chance to speak the
truth here in Boston? In San Francisco an
attempt was made to choke me off. "
Il hardly think you will be meddled with
here, replied the correspondent, ''but the
course of the authorities toward you will de-
pend on the manner In which you and your
sympathizers act. What will be the tone of
your speeches?"
81 shalt condemn monopolies, as l have
always done, and | shall endeavor by my
APPEALS to rouse the workingmen to united
action"
Then your remarks of Sunday morning
may be taken az the text of those that are to
follow?"
Yes, they may. The country is ground
into the DIRT by monopolIes OF every sort.
Ihleving corporations, managed by thleving
officers, control business. The grasping cor
are bought and sold to meet the whim of
every purchaser, and the government itself is
run by set of numbering thieves who ought
to be IN the penitentiary. Although | voted
for Hayes, think he is the greatest fraud
alive, and from this time out l am done with
the Democratic and the Republican parties. l
believe in the workingman's interest first,
who produce should rule, and until they do
so [ shall do all that lies IN my power to give
them the making and enforcing of the
laws
''How about the greenback issue?"
81 believe In greenbacks as curative for
all our financial ills. Resumption and re-
demption are impossible. The case as ii now
stands is Just this: We pay the man who sold
the bullet that crippled our surviving soldiers
in gold, and we pay the Soldier in greenbacks.
In other words, many of those who hold our
national bonds obtained the means to pur-
chase them by selling goods first to the rebels.
Now, think these men have been paid suf-
ficientIy. They purchased the bonds as low
as thirty, and their income from them is just
as great as though they had paid full price
for them. The law provides that certain
bonds shall not be taxed. / would not change
that law, but | would tax the bondholders'
income, and thus return to the people a part
of that of which they are being defrauded."
How will you get along with Smart, Eel
mold. Shelby and their association, many of
whom do not believe in working at all.
''Oh, we shall sink our differences over such
matters as that You know that we are
mainly uneducated men, and we often get
into wrangles because we do not understand
each other
ga row like that at the meeting of the re-
ception committee last Monday?"
Eyes; but here, as In California, little diff
ferences will be laid aside, and we are going
to march on to success to the utter discom6-
ture of the bloated capitalists"
''What will be the main issue in the Cali
fornia campaign?"
''The Chinese question. 1t is all-important
on the Pacific coast, and unless something is
done to turn back the tide of emigration that
has set in from China, there will be strug-
gle against this new form of slavery far more
bitter than was the irrepressible conflict. "
will you fight for your rights?''
Flight? Never. We propose to use the
he continued, THAT under the constitution OF
the United States Chinaman is citizen.
Certainly no man who wears his shirt outside
of his pantaloons, and who will work for
wages upon which another would starve,
ought to have the rights guaranteed to free
men. The SIX companies control San Fran
cisco now"
''Then, why did not The city council receive
in a public manner the Chinese embassy that
landed there few days ago?"
1.-The members did not dare go so far. The
entire State is aroused now, and he who IA
vors the Chinese is a marked man. Let the
Chinese but get foothold here IN the east,
and they will pour in like water through a
hole. in a ships bottom, and as that will sink
the craft unless it is stopped, so will they
swamp the institutions of this country unless
they are sent back where they come from.
| warn you, from personal observation, never
to put on clothes from one of their laundries
if your skin Is scratched"
Returning by easy stages of conversation
to matters Of interest to people of Massachu |
sets mainly, Mr.. Kearney said that he be-
lieved that General Butler was the smartest |
man, not only IN the State, but In the United |
States. ''He was, said he, ''the only officer |
VINO had the courage during the war to hang |
a guilty man, and he had the manliness, the |
pluck, to stand on the floor of congress and |
declare that this government had hung an
innocent woman"
Was the general out to see you Wednes-
day."
and are the reports of your interview cor
rect?"
''Ihave not seen what has been printed, but | |
have no reason to suppose that either of US |
have been misrepresented, so far as that con-
versatlon Is concerned"
While this conversation was going on peo-
pie had been gathering around the agitator |
until he was the center of a small group, and |
many of his remarks were made for the ben |
eft of all his hearers. He told one of these |
who was signing for a paper devoted to the |
interests of the workingmen that speeches In |
the open air were far better than finely writ /
ten editorial opinions. To another he gave
some sound advice on the labor question, and |
still another was cautioned against hoping to
10 anything if votes were either bought or
sold. Finally, he had evidently had enough |
Of it, for he turned to your correspondent and |
said Goodbye"
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