Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-08
COMMUNITY.


If it is not generally understood TIL
there is an element of communism |
this country, which wOald take psopsF'
from those who have Inherited 1t,
earned i, by toll Snd seoOO1y that tn
same nay be divided ont aHeog ties
Who have neither The iadUs,sy to ear
nor the frugality to keep the seeaua'a
tons Of honest toll let tAe peeps
read the folleEisg resclatio1s sd0p's'
in New York On she Ssh last st the 81
nual eopvsatica ef the American Labor
Rssosn Uaioa Il Il EsyvOod, Presi
ssss. made sAs opening address sayiOs
that the league sesss liberty to Asser.
the natural rigSs CT al people to Dc
their best a. their own risk, sad to rspea
al laws recognizing property, aud Il
abolish al noaopolies which give prop
eetr sseeial advantages against labor
Hare are the resolutions adopted;
Resolved That since capitalists take
nfs ss6 destroy property to retain their
mower 60 steal KeSrnsy men who invoke
Inc halpsr il Cahforris, MOllie Msguires
reported to have killed coal bosses aud
railway strikers, are morally lawful bel
lrsren.s Justly exercising the same
rights Of defensive warfare ~appiauded 10
tppiug the British tea in the Boston har'
Dor. in John Browns march on Harper
Ferry. sad in killing Of the pro-slavery
S~outhsrners BY Northern Uniouists.
Resolved, That the chief mission OIL
the silver bill and the %greenback move
ment is 10 hasten reputation, when
debts paid ouce in the form Of interest
will Be paid forever, and we call on the
now growing irresistible tendencies
South and West to second the purposes
of the New England Labor Reformers
By a~bolishing all power to get pay for
loans, stocks or other %vsluables, more
than once; to make it illegal, dlsgraceiul
aad impossible to prey on other people
earnings.
Resolved, That the National aud
WorkiDgmen's party-like their older
brethren in sin, the Republicans and
Democra,s-by sustaining male usurpa-
ton, enslaves, defraud and despoil wo.
man; that in demanding for her equal
pay for equal work with man, we seek
industrial equity to erase sex lines, as
we'll 90 race and color lines, from labor
reform.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Haywood
the president, made an address on labor
greenbacks and free love. George W
MADDOX said New York ought to issue
her own money and build markets, dock
and other improvements, and be hoped
"by the eternal" that the people would
starve in order to awaken them to thest
facts. He said, if these things could no
be got by the ballot box, then be favored
getting them by the cartridge box. HI
would make it a States prison oiense fo
any man to hold more real estate thai
was necessary to support him, TIT
laborer makes wealth, and it should be
long to him. Similar addresses wer,
made by others. This means virtual.
that the worst species Of French com
munism has been grated on our system
Of government, aud that if it Crews W
may expect to see a party which will de
mend an equal division Of all the pro
perty of the country, and a general level
ing from which none may hope to rise
In other words, the tramp who is TO
lazy to work, and too triaing to kee.
property if be had it, demands that th
honest yeomanry, the intelligence an
the decency of the country, shall b
dragged down to his level, that all ma.
perish in a common herd. Communism
has failed in Europe, but has been trani
planted 10 the prolific soil of this coun
try where ell kinds Of isms flourish, fror
Bescherism in New England to Mormcr
ism in the West. This is one of the s,
cisl and pOliticl perils which we nav
TO face SO soon alter the CenteI
NAL. 1t does not appear in Ii
South, but this is one commO
country, and whatever destroys u g
ton or any one great interest, affects a
the others. This may have taken dee
root, or it may be the expression Of
few fanatics, out the sudden growth
MormonisE, of Abo~litionism and 9th
movements at first held in contemI
should warn the American people to be {
their guard, and to be ready to repel an
invasion of their rights OF person az
property, let it come from what sour,
il NAV.