The Morning herald., 1878-09-02
THE GREENBACK LABOR PARTY.

THE GREENBACK LABOR PARTY.
LARGE MASS MEETING ON SATURDAY
NIGHT-2, 900 PERSONS PREsENT-THE
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICAN PAR.
TIES BOTH CoRRUPT-sTAND BY YOUR.
SELVES. '
On Saturday evening the first open air
mass meeting of the National Greenback
Labor Party held in this State took place in
this city. The speakers stand was erected
at the N, E. cor. Fourth and French streets,
around which about two thousand persons
had assembled. '"
At o'clock the meeting was called to
order by Mr.. Leary, VIM. q. Price was
elected President of the meeting, j. 8. Bull
lock, Vice President, and A. D. Davis Sec
retary.
The first speaker was Mr.. James Fitzger-
aid, Philadelphia National, who con-
demned the Democratic and Republican
parties as being corrupt, and whOlely man.
aged by political thieves and shysters.
Both were once In the hands of honest men,
but those days have gone by. This grand
meeting will show them what we the Ma
tionals will do. What has been done in this
city to relieve the working mens Mr.. Gal
lagher, the Republican nominee for Mayor,
commander of the Street Broom Brigade, by
looking back on his past history, you will
see at once that he is not fair man to oc-
cupy the position to which he aspires. His
| is specimen of the men that are brought
fourth to be voted for, and the parties
boast of them as being good and honest
men. Disregard party; don't look after
name, but vote for honest men.
The party press was denounced bitterly
for falling in line In campaign contest and
| fighting for their respective clans. When
they have nothing to talk about they show
forth the crime and dishonesty In their own
ranks and denounce the efforts of q suffer-
ing people to form a new party. If the
business men do not come forward they
will see an uprising come on this land.
| The Democratic and Republican parties
having accomplished their object cease to
exist, and a new party Is now coming into
prosperity. The speaker in the strongest
language opposed the third term question.
The law makers in several States have
decided that man who is out of work is a
tramp, and have him arrested as crimi-
nal and put in workhouse. By putting
the tramp in Jail they do work which
should be done outside, destroying our trade
and then they will have US all tramps.
The speaker ceased by calling on his fell
llow workingmen to stand up for their lib
erty and found an honest government. a
William Miller, the Factory Boy Of Phil.
adelphia, was the next speaker, who
attacked Messrs. Bayard and salisbury.
American workmen must govern them
Iselves. Because we are uneducated is no
reason why we should not legislate. There
are many men in our ranks ft for that duty,
but many are deceived and give way for
Others, thinking no one can legislate but
educated people, This is our mistake and
the ruling of the country is entirely In the
hands of educated people. We must rise
up In the magnitude of our power and cap
ture the legislature and make such laws as
will be to our interest. We must tear down
the two parties or they will destroy your
country. England 10 ten years would have
been Republic but for the action of the
Itricking politicians In this country, which
has disgusted them. The country is now a
money power and is governed by the rail
lroad potentates. The speaker said the
lcountry was worse than Rome in the days
of Tiberias. Mayor stockley of Philadel
was denounced for having peniJentiary
bird for his Secretary, and with the Mayors
of other cities for keeping an eye on their
communistic movements. Washington, the
: speaker said, was the cess-pool or pig~pen
Iof America, and denounced it in the bitter
est terms as den of prostitutes. In ten
: years, If you don't be up and doing, you
will have no government.
! Col. William Murphy, their candidate
for Mayor, made few appropriate remaks.
DR.. Welch then took the stand and said
it had been falsely stated that the Nationals
had been working tor either Gallagher or
IAllmoud. This is not the case. The gen.
tlemau stated that q State and county
ticket would be nominated composed OF
men from your own ranks. Thanks again
were returned to the press, with three
cheers for Murphy the meeting closed.
| The following are the resolutions passed
by the National Greenback Labor Party in
this city on August 2, 1878:
| 1. We hold that all persons are equal,
with right to life, liberty and happiness
that this right is unlimited as long as II
does not encroach on the rights OF others
| 2. That society represents two forces, OF
powers-the money power on one side and
the labor power On the other.
8. That the money power, by expanding
and contracting the volume of money, has
enslaved and robbed the labor power.
4. That labor, or the products Of labor,
are one and the same, so that when com.
modities fall in price it means fall ir
somebody's laber.
5. To enable persons to exchange their
labor or products, money has been ere
ated. 1t may consist of metal, or paper, If
the government declares 1t to be lega
tender.
. 6. That the general government should
furnish enough money for a cash business
after which all laws for business, after
which all laws for collecting new debts
should be repealed.
7. All writers on money az rec that (
large volume of money raises the price o
labor, whilst small volume reduces it.
8. In 1865 we had In paper money abou
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