The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-25

q ~ 4NE ZO, 1910. MI LIZ
would listen and the barbados made their appear
ance ~ the streets Of Paris
cAvAIGSAcs PEACE.
After the citizens had been slaughtered. Cavaignac
reported officially that he had secured to France
twenty years OF peace. What a Ieacol To-day tue
question Is stl The same Aye, il IS the grea, burn
ing question, What must do 10 obtain tho desired
as those who consider themselves as belonging TO u
higher class Everv one wil then DO able 10 answer
10 him SO frequently by the posssssors OF
the soil We have been accused OF violence
munc IL ISL. History when once written by impair.
uul hands will not lay tho blame OF lnisdeeds at our
doors We did not org nate them. We were driven
ingmen have NO iood TO give to their families. Let
those who have learned tho dangers and horrors Of
come the workngmen are oppressed by other classes
OF society.
DO NOT DREAD THE CONFLICT.
We who are true descendants OF the Communists OF
old fear not the conflict, though detest II, but
mover will we be found the aggrossors, never
sucn conf ct from en- VINO love the people
US do the workipgmou. wo can only BIO goaded INTO
dcsas committed when once the people arc
made desperate. wo hear daily a great
many threats IN sho public press and elsewhere In
a menacng manner VIZ are told every hour OF the day
that there are so many poilcemon and 20 many mill
tiamea 70 light and xiii every one Of u.s. Why all
Now YORK never Will have many troops as
Louis philippe had under him, and what has
now threaten Us deceive themselves. II the people
arc once made desperate ana in their might that
very moment police and mitia will together vanish
IN thin air. Nothing can resist the mighty onward
march Of the people. tGreat applause.)
DKuRY's
The next speaker was CiIzen Henry Drury, whom
the CHAIRMAN culogized as man who, like Mazzlni,
kept alive the sacred fire OF liberty. Citizen Drury
said :--"Although We are In the minority to-day and
calumnisod, dcspised and vined there may be time
when we are gone when tne qusstioos anu ideas
dcicnd will DC respected The speech wncn have
Just listened from my colleague relieves me OF the
necessity oil referring To those scenes Paris
when In single night Darricades tho streets
and a dynasty was overthrown which WAS seated on
tho most pointed Of bayoncts and the best OF
kerry. WIN these dcspots OF al, patlons DO thew
democratic, auocratic or republican, ever learn that
IN idea Is stronger than all the soldiers they
can Keep TO mold u down: We are asked VIVA. wo
TO uaY What Is ls4S IN France to us in the United
states? In response, say that the condition OF me
AMI Industrial Condition oil France IN 1913 We huve
In the United States to-day without shelter, With
out 1000, without clothing.
REVOLUTIONARY CONDITIONS
THOSE conditions brought about he revolutions OF
l.Sv i's- and isSo. Tue hrst French Revolution
was grand battle In which were engaged all the
Ideas, interests aud conflicting passions that could
animate mo minds o. men. That battle IS still
raging, and IL tenooseS to study us import
ana use u as Leacon light OF caution when
should prevent society OF to-day from repeating the
errors oil society oil the past. Revolution represents
principle and an idea Had II not been SO the
coalition OF tho Powers of Europe would have crushed
the first French Revolution Socialism is the domi-
nan, tact OF tue nineteenth century. LOUD applause
Tho speaker claimed thai socialism introduced u
princpie--namely soidarity-which led 10 universal
harmony, universal health aud universal knowledge.
Citizen Drury next took severely 10 task those VINO
spoke oil SOCIALISTS disparacingy. They ala not sock
TO make the rich poorer aud the poor richer. Their
doctrine TO make the poor rch and the rich
richer We workingncn to-day say thai II To
DO forced to sCbsist IN poverty and 10 suer tho pangs
OF hunger no society can be secure, matter
what form OF government exists. rho social cond'-
ti0n OF a people governs the nation Whom Ia l34S
tho workmen oil Pars arose they asked only ior labor
Only two forms OF civilization had ever existed-ono
destructive, the other constructive. In all nations
and under all dynastes those Two forms been
always been on the side Vi peace aud construction.
The speaker then drow = vivid picture OF the daily
record OF starvation to DO seen in the Journals OF
large metropolis, and said "When know that all
infamy Is upheld by society my heart almost bursts In
Indignation" Loud chsering)
concluded by reading poetic euloxy oil the same by
Gerald Massey.
THE GOVERNING BODY DrsAPPRovE OF THE
MEETING.
The socialstic labor party declare In thoir ON cial
papers that they had connection with tho meeting
In tho Germania Assembly Rooms. and that tho
members OF the party declined 10 be invited by
bers OF their own party unless such MON lad
submitted their intentions 10 organize these meetings
and they were approved by tho general dirscti ug
body OF tho socialIstic movement
Tns declaration made 10 dispose OIL tho action OF
Mr.. Justus Schwab, who, without any authority from
tho directing body OF tho socalisc party, combine
with Mcgy ana his associates 10 organize last nights
meeting IN celebration OF the French movement Of
AS Tns explains tho absence all speakers OF the
German socaiisc party from The meeting last night.