The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
Bccciscr OF, Kcarney,

u ISCCEtScr OH AASSsEuGy .N.gJ-
,,r PAYS HIS COMPLIMENTS TO SAN FRANCISCO
FOR SENDING TEE sAND.L0T AGTTAT0R
rAsT-sHARp LANGUAGES FOR COMMUNISTS
FROM THE nUSGHILLs OF FRANCE AND GER
MANY.
from the San Ffancisco Record Union August
AR. Rcecher spoke for two hours ut Ma
sonic Hall last evening, and in the course OF
his address said:
We are indebted in the East to you for a
nro,>hes whom you have sent to our great
cities. ELaughter.1 Not TO be lacking in
generosity, we have sent our General But
Ter TO embrace and kiss him, and these two
heroes OF virtue and Of large craftsmanship
stand now enthroned in the hearts OF all
men that have any consideration for pho
pomena. And you are hearing it bawled
out all over the country that the great mass
Of Iaboring men that create the property OF
the community are being trodden into the
dirt, Phey earn your wealth and you grab
their land, and the top Of society GOODIES
mp everything they earn. They are SUI
Iering; they arc the slaves OF capitalists
aud bloated bondholders. OF men that ilVc
at their ease on the top OF society. NO man
that brings merely hard manual labor TO
bear does more than that; somebody has
done the thinking for him, and he Is
merely doing the work OF another mans
thought. The man that only knows how TO
work with his hands, and not with his head,
must be content to stand where the hoof
stands. where the foot stands. He is at the
bottom, and there is no lever that can raise
him uD. say to all the workingmen
throughout the land, ii you are intel
l;gent and know how 10 organize dead
matter into living powers by your ~
tcllirence, then you create proper
~: but il you are mere appurtenances
to men that organize the plan, that organize
the machinery and all the processes, you
cannot hope TO be on footing OF equality
with the organizers. 1t is thrown out that
men are slaves. say that you are the slaves:
I saw that the ignorant man is tue slave OF
the wise man the world over; that the ami
NAL man is subject to the intellectual and
spiritual the world over. 1t is Just as true
OF laboring men as OF everything else.
These are truths that ought to be heard ana
discussed. do not hesitate TO say that the
cormunistic doctrines that are afoat are
the most brainless, the most absurd OF
any doctrines that ever have originated
in the volcanic brains OF ignorant
men. [Applause.] I do not say. this be-
cause I have no sympathy with labor
and the Iaboring man; for belong TO the
labor party, and have belonged to it all my
life long. 1 was one Of the carly originators
OF it. It is hereditary with me. I have not
drop OF blood in nay veins that did not
come from laboring people on my mothers
side, workers in leather, and on my fathers
side, workers in iron. That is one reason
why am so tough. have always been
proud of my blood, and am yet. know
how the laboripg classes feel, and have the
deepest sympathy with them, as part OF my
own history is entwined into theirs. |
have never forgotten that, and when |
do forget it, may I die. When see
the multitude OF perfidious philoso-
pliers coming over here from the dung
hills OF France and Germany to breed mis-
chief, I am free man that has right to
say, on behalf OF my own brethren, abhor
it, abhor it, and stand far away from 1t, for
in the long run society eases all its greatest
evils upon the lower classes. 4 mistake in
legislation at first may hurt the capitalist,
the strong man, the rich man; but they
very easily shift it. 1t goes lower and
lower, and when it stops it stops with the
poor, the weak, the ignorant. And there
fore | say, in respect OF all these
modern pcstifcrous heresies OF labor,
of production, and political economy, /
oppose them because / am friend OF
the working-people. I am friend OF the
men who have yet to lay the foundation
OF their prosperity. Iwant these men to
20 up, and when see them attempting to
Climb those precipitous cliffs, from the face
of which they will surely first or last be
dashed or tumbled to destruction, stand
and cry out, not because have no human
ity. but because have so much. want
men to 60 up. Did not I, when slavery eX-
isted in this land, throw my soul and body
into the work for men, even il they were
black? [Applause.l Have not l, first ana
last and always, striven to stimulate men TO
aspiration, to better themselves want
men to go up, but want men TO go up ny
the way Of the school-house-by the way OF
intelligence, knowledge, skill, tidelty-by
the way of observation-disclosures.