The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-07

90 hc working people of the United States,
20 rrof,erlv treated y Mr.. & Maddox yoc1fe-
rafed In a. tome which would have made ring
the rafters of q building weaker than the
most. office. &C would not be the scavengers
thew are now. st present they are only
used ns timber and lumber for the capitalist
TO build his fortune upon. sWeiWant the
:Cohstitutson so changed that you, our SER
wants. ,sGaiI not be able to make our laws.
but only codify. our will and then refer oil
laws back to the people for adoption.
.z{ THE orHER WITNESSES DENOUNCED.
Mr.. y. eO'Donnell was the next Wit
ness.
sovereign self; that's. what ] represent in
tlIe frat place. I am here, in the language
of Robert Burns, !. for my ain horn.'
Laughter
Mr. ODonncll denounced in scathing
terms Dir. Donai, the witness Of Friday, as
q g New Jersey pedagogue." He proudly
announced that he was an Irishman-a man
belonging to the race who would rush for.
ward at any moments notice in times OF
war to save the nation. He denounced com.
munism and greenbackism as thing con.
ceived in vice, developed in villainy, and first
started by that usurper and blood-splller,
William OF Orange, when he asked England
for paper moneY-G1, 500, 000-with which
to crush out the liberties OF the people OF
England and to butcher the people OF Glen
cove. He thought that no communistic the.
orist should be allowed to plumber the real
producer. daughter
Mr.. O'Donnell spoke for about an hour
and half without stopping. He then said
he did not desire to make speech, and
pointed out the injustice OF tile patent law;
to the workingmen. Untrammelled lib
erty to labor, shatter the protective tariff
and America would be the bapplest coun'
try in Goods green footstool." Loud ap'
plause.] Mr.. O'Donnell then called the
other witnesses "theoretical botches, .
which raised roar OF laughter, and amio
shouts OF hilarity and applause Mr.. O'Don
nell stepped off the stand.
TAILOR SOLVES THE PROBLEM.
Mr.. P. Bremen, 4 tailor, thought that al
previous remedies suggested were mere
patchwork. The only real improvement
would be to let the people vote their owl
laws, abolish Congress, the Executive, anC
the Judiciary, and let the people take care
OF themselves. Laughter. The people
could not do any worse than Congress did
[Laughter.l 81. -.
Mr.. Patrick Logan, in the course OF al
hours speech, demonstrated that the stall
Of the nation'' through which their BLOOD
flowed was the selling Of bonds to thu
'Shylocks OF Europe" .'.
Mr.. Rice: Isn't it good thing, to attrac
capital A. II we had taken all these bonds
up ourselves the interest would all be here
it would remain in the family. Laughter.
With tremendous blow upon the table
Mr.. Logan advocated the reduction OF thu
salary OF the President. " down to the las
man." congressman included. He termi
mated with a peroration addressed to tn,
workingmen, which elected both laughter
and applause.
TAXING INTEREST A CRIME.
Mr.. Robert Ii. Hume, president OF thu
Labor League and the Congress OF Hu
mainly, said at one time this was a nation
but now it was a mob. eve are tramps
to be shot down." Mr.. Hume argued tina
thee should be no law for forcing people t.
pay loans.
ssI hold, in common with Moses, Arts
totle, Molammed, and Christ, that to TAX
interest on money is moral crime. dom
want to be the poodle-dog to carry none,
for usurers," Mr.. Hume vigorously de
clared. He was opposed, in the interest O.
religious liberty, TO allowing Congress to ap
point chaplain.
Nlr. Rice: There would be a slight econo
my in that. Laughter.]
Mr.. Hume advocated woman's rights, th
issue OF .irredeelnable paper currency, ant
other reforms, and the committee then adj
iourned. .....