The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

churches. He maintained that the present
depression and distress was due to the excess
in competition and business, and that the
condition of the working class was growing
worse continually.
George w. Maddox and Mrs. Myra Hall
were the representatives of the congress OF
humanity, and each made a speech. MIR.
Maddox desired "lnfnite imitation in public
works and the colonization of all public
lands. " The constitution should be so changed
that congress, instead of enaeting, should codi-
fy the laws, and their adoption left to the peo-
pie of the country. Mrs. Hall, represented
not only the congress of humanity, but
also 20, OOO, 900 slaves, who were not allowed
to vote, and who emphaticalIy declared,
until the women of the United States
were allowed to vote, no order could
come ont OF chaos, no peace to the troubled
country, no better days for the laboring
class
The next speaker represented mo body
but myself, butt have rights to maintain
and wrongs to redress" and his particular
wrong was the existing patent laws. He
wanted inventors to receive royalty fixed
by law from any one who chose to manu-
facture, but that the government ought not
to protect them as an arbitrary monopoly.
The government ought to buy all patents for
the benefit of the people. He said that in
one instance alone, the Singer sewing ma
chine patents, $4,000, 600 had been stolen
from the workingmen of America and
Europe. He wanted no restrictions of the
hours of labor, and the removal of the pres.
ent protective tariff
Robert w. Hume, president Of the labor
league and the congress of humanity, made
the last address, and he struck off on new
trail toward better times. He denounced
the taking of interest as a crime, and had for
his supporters the commands and sayings OF
Moses. Aristotle, Mohammed and Christ.
He thought that the right to issue paper
money was not constitutionally vested in
the government, but he would favor an
amendment to give such right to an un-
limited extent He would give women the
ballot and. equal wages with the men, and
would make four hours a day the extreme
limit for the hours of labor, forcing people
to cultivate their minds the rest of the time.
He SAID that the French nation fourlshed
under a huge debt simply because it was
held by Frenchmen in France, and con-
slant healthy circulation was kept up. But
the people of the United States sent the in
terest of their bonds to Europe, and thus
encouraged and fed the oppression that wa:
running them as nation.
And thus the committee has from day to
day the expression of the representatives oil
every class, every principle and every
theory, and when this immense mass oil
testimony is sifted to the bottom some ides
of the needs and desires of the country will
be reached, and the best remedy for existing
evils can be readily suggested and applied
and it must come in the shape of reform in
office, OF the clearing away of fraud, the re
/ vival of public confidence in officials, the
wise adjustment of questions of finance, Law
and trade, and when these settled and
the country rescued from those who have
/ plunged it into such dire distress, then viii
the United States be again the home and
the refuge of ALL