Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-10
The Greeabackerx and Labor Re.
formers.

The GfeeA0ackerS and Labor Ne.
formers
THEIR adAss-AEETING LAST NIGHT.
A mass-meeting of greenbackers and labor re-
formers remaining over from the conference
just closed, was held last night, at Fenton Hall,
ON street The hall was well filled among
the audience being spr1nkHng of ladies. Mr..
Richard Trevelliex, OF Michigan, was called to
the chair, and Mr.. Hart2eI, OF Mississippi, was
chosen secretary.
MI. de LA MATYR
was the first speaker, and in the course of his
remarks spoke Of the effects Of iabor-saving
machinery upon the laboring people in this
country and In Europe, and said that laborers
toll now more than ever before; that they suf-
hours Fortunes are piled up for the few at the
expense OF the masses. He asked If this was to
be endured what was the grand object Of life?
and daSs m @a tne PLAIN
troddeD. In the way of doing this the eoneen-
tratfon ef.wealth is the great barrier. He pic
tured the aard life OF the poor and lowly in con;
trast witlB..he lives of ease of the wealthy, and
said the concentration OF wealth is
TIE GREAT DANNING CURSE
Of this world Has not human society the right
to protect Itself from this evil? This is, Or ought
as the power Of the government can, it ought to
discourage this state Of things. This concentra-
ton of wealth has gone on with fearful strides
since the war. Speaking of OuI financial policy,
he said what has been done has got to be I'M
done. We wanta steady currency and not a
fuctuating one. The currency is controlled
upon specie basis by the mOnieG classes. It is
this manipulation 81 the currency which results
in the accumulation of wealth. The remedy is
to have tie volume OF currency regulated by
the government. Can this be done by the Ma
honal Congress? He thought not, as the legis-
lators had proved themselves Incapable of self
government. What viii Congress do7 Nothing.
He had an INFINITE contempt at drawing money
from the tOiiing masses with which to cay the
interest on our immense public debt Our
monied autocrats constitute the most fofmida-
pc political bulwark the world ever saw. Even
the press back up and sustain this bulwark to a
great extent.
THIS NEW MOVEMENT
OF the people has no leader, thank God. They
want none but the people. Let the republican
up their own leaders-the same as Abe Lincoln
was lifted up. 1t may be that he could not kiss
his hand at the galleries la Conkling (suiting
the motion to the words, but he was the peO-
pies leader, aud good one he was. [Applalse.l
The people are now thinking, and will find a
leader. Let them think-there Is a period when
the people think. The people will march to the
overthrow OF this money power with the ballot
In hand. They want no civil war. The ballot
Is the only arm necessary.
JUST FROM MAINE.
HI M Richard Springer, OF Illinois, said he came
into Maine last summer to engage in that me-
morable contest against the money power, and
had carried the state; He intended to have left
the state the day of election, but in the city of
Portland he witnessed the system of frauds be-
ing perpetrated to cheat the people of that state
and came to the conclusion to stay there and
canvass the. votes of that state. Over 600
voters had been driven from the polls by the
force OF money or by intimidation. The returns
were held back by the republicans, and manip-
ulated to show that they had elected the gov
ernor by the people Men were purchased, as
they had abundance of proofs. He went on to
reclte the action of the republican leaders In the
OF the press and the church to car
detailed
OF Gov. Garcelon throughout the heated contest
OF mat state, and concluded by saying that 1t
was tight of'honest men against the combined
money power and fraud of the deepest dye.
DENIS KEAREEY ON LEECHERoUs BONDHoLDERs
AND THE HEATHER CHINEE.
Denis Kearney was next called for. He said,
to Maine, that he believed in local
government: The honest ballot, and not
the bullet, should govern in Maine and all the
other states In political contests. 1t made him
smile to read in the newspapers about the good
times Good times for who? Why, for John
street. Give him (Kearney) a currency based
upon potato or head of cabbage, and not on
bit of gold, fit only to be stuck In ladies' ear
or gentleman's hollow tooth. Let the war cry
be: The thievtng, leceherous. hondholders and
National Bank directors must go. He next paid
his respects to the subject Of cheap Chinese la
Dor, and said there was another irrepressible
them would live in single room like the one he
was speaking in: that they live on rice and rats
and believe our people barbarians. How are we
to compete with these rice and rat eaters? Yet
our capitalists delight at their coming here.
has got to be done in this matter. A
solid south and west can whip the devil out Of
the New England states, where the bloated
capitalists live.
A vIRGIN1AN'S HOPE.
Ex-Governor McMullen, of Va, was the next
speaker, and said he gave his testimony with
Mr.. Kearney relative to Chinese labor, and
hoped to see immediate legislation upon this
subject. Never, in his opinion, has there been
such crisis since Noah's flood as at the present
time. Legislation has the tendency to favor the
wealthy rather than the poor. He was sorry to
see that his state had. deteriOrated in the pro-
ductlOn OF great men, but, thank God, there
were few of them left A greenback club had
been organized in the county of Smith-his
courtyard he hoped to see such organizations
all over the country. In Virginia the green
hackers will give good account Of themselves
at the next election. They need more money in
the south-nOt your Sherman money, but a
universal paper money with the stamp of the
United States upon it. They want no SWindling
national banks, but a greenback money in
accordance with the programme Of the green
back party. He was opposed to secession and
the war; but when his state seeded he stayed
with his state.
Speeches were also made by Mr.. Parsons, of
Chicago, and by the chairman, Richard Trevel-
lick, OF Mich.