Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-04
LABOR LUNATICS.
Another Batch Of Them Appear Before
tho Congressional Committee-The Com
munistic Theory of Government Pre-
sented In Its Various Dam phool Phases.

AAcOEy OI 1OvO1nm0nS Tf6>
sented in Its various Damphool Phases.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Before the Con-
gressional committee on labor, workingmen
representatives were on the stand again, and
they laid the blame of depression in business
to national and State legislation, the grant
ing of lands to railroads and other corpora
tons, and the granting of large interest on
bonds. They advanced the idea that the
government should pass homestead law,
and throw public lands open to settlement,
and assist men to settle there.
w. A. A. Corsey, who sal he was a brick
layer and editor, declared that in his opinion
the public school stem was bad. The gov
eminent, he claimed, should establish schools
where mechanical trades and arts would be
taught. He denounced the contract system I'm.
der national, state and city government. Asa
consequence work was of the worst possible
construction, and it gave an opportunity to
men to grind down the laboring class and
employ Chinese and others, against whom
American laborers could not compete, be-
cause the latter cannot live as the former do,
and he thought it bad policy for any ,yern-
| ment to encourage swarns of foreigners to
drive out native laborers. Cors.y appealed
| to the committee to impress on their fellow
! Congressman the necessity of some legisla-
ton this winter which will bring relief to
the working classes. Knowing the temper
and needs of the workingmen he felt Ger
tain that if Congress did not step
in at an early day with
ameliorating legislation, this winter
could not pass without trouble-without
repetition of the labor riots of last sum
mer His remedy was a comprehensive
system of Internal improvements and inaa-
ton of the currency to carry on these I'M
provements. He said he would have q
strong central government which would
issue It's notes to assist its people, and be
looked upon by the people as the real gov
eminent of the country, strong, popular and
protecting. He would have seamen work or
shore and sent away to the plains where
back system, but said let Congress give thu
country homestead act with the right tt
settle on public lands and q comprehensive
men would fight out the initiation question
at the polls. He did not believe the labor
ing classes willing to starve for eight o
ten years to prevent panic.
j. Osborn Ward, said he was an organizer
of the Sociaiistic Labor party in Brooklyn
He advocated a grand cooperative Christian
society in which everything was to be equal
and in common.
Geo. w. Maddox, of the con
gress of humanity, wanted the govern
: ment to issue fourteen Thousand million dol
| lars or 80 to New York to build docks, an
so forth, and comparatively similar sums t
other cities to be expended in public work!
When these works would have made sui
, fcient returns, then let the government b
paid back and the notes destroyed as car
: celled bonds are.
j. Osborne, ward organizer of the Socia
ist Labor party, advocated grand co-opt
rative Christian society, embracing all tt
people of the United States, with the go'
; eminent az the nucleus. In this socie1
8 everything was to be equal and in common
y Mr.. Ward kept the audience in the best
Y humor by his peculiar answers to question
/ by the committee.
: MIS-. Mira Hale, who announced herself
member of the congress of humanity of tt
world, said the first step necessary to bri,
back prosperity to the country was to gra
, suffrage to women. Give women the ball
> and everything would be lovely and perfee
Robert Hume characterized as wrong t
present financial system, and said la
should be amended to allow the issue of p
per money to much larger volume than
> present.
Jas. 0 Donnell, who announced that
j. represented his sovereign self, said ii
nonsense of the previous speake
the past two days had pain
= HIM. He wanted neither greenba
nor Communism, nor eight hours, but
did want some satisfactory manner of arl
l. tration between master and man, restr
ion of the right of patentees, and t
G. right to work wherever and whenever
= could get it for as many hours as he chose.
- Adjourned until Monday.