Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-10
KEARNEY's SPEECH.
Dennis Ksarney Speaks for stoneman and
Explains the Frafs ht and Para Question

| Dennis Kearney addressed mass meeting
ii several hundred at the corneri. # Third and
K streets last evening. He spoke for nearly
two hours, and held the vast audience during
| the entire address. He was frequently in
terrupted by storms of applause. Mr..
kearney's speech, with the exception Of few
immaterial condsnsations, is presented just as
be delivered it:
Men women and friends: need no intro
duction to Sacramento audience Although
not my home, il is the home of q great many of
my best friends. l like to talk to the work.
ingmen Of your city. Because when the
| organization known as ths Workingmen's
Party OF California was struggling for an
existence, you men came to the rescue. We
elevated and dgnifed labor by taking a
mechanic out OF your shops and electing him
Mayor OF this city. We also, If I mistake
NOT, went into a shop and took another
mechanic and elected him City Attor-
nsy. l never met either of those parties
but once then it was in the night and on
public stand. Were to meet them now 1
would not be able TO recognize either. The
Worklhgmen's Party was organized On the
Chinese must go" issue. 1t wrung from the
politicians little BIT of ten years legislation
to the effect that
THE CHINESE MUST NOT COME.
We have now law upon the statute books
making. it crime to bring any Chinese
mechanics or laborers, or China amen who work
IN mining, to this country. All of the ship
owners, both sail and steam, have notified
their agents and captains not to bring any
more Chinese except those who are entitled
to come under the bill. For one quarter of
century the politicians and the office
| seekers used the Chinese question as an issue
to get into office at every succeeding
| election. After the election was over the
politicians ard their henchmen were as dumb
as oysters until the next election came
around. Why, it was only last week that
friend of mine told me that an old stump
speaker of twenty years stsnding in this
State told him that the only chance he had
OF getting along with the people was TO lie to
them. Great God What an exalted opin.
ion these stump taffy suatteTeTs have of the
audiences they address. Their action on the
| Chinese question corroborates the statement
of my friend. These politicians believed in
hoodwinking the people. Had we not re-
belled against their lying fiattery, and kicked
over the party traces. we would have no Chi.
nese bill. In all the history of our country's
legislation it is the only measure upon its
statute books in favor of the working men
and working women. The factory lords of
New England, who favor high protective
tariff, favored an
UNLIMITED CooLIE IMMIGRATION.
The man-stealers and the protective.tar;ff
lords opposed the bill with all their might.
When fighting for protective tariff, thsy are
in the habit of saving the air on the dignity
of labor. They tell the workingmen that
law must be passed to protect the products of
their labor against the products of the
pauper labor of Europe. But who, let me
ask you, has this protective tariff benefited
| Only the lordly millionaire manufacturers, as
will presently show. Large producers are
| also large consumers, and when the working.
men go into the market as purchasers
for consumption, they have to buy in
protective market. But WHEN they go into
the labor market to sell their labor, which is
the only commodity they have for sale, they
are forced into o competitive market, to COM |
pete with the slave labor Of Asia. And when
ever strike was threatened in any of the
large manufacturing establishments, the
lordly protective tariff millionaire directors, |
who opposed the adoption of the anti Chinese |
bill, held these Asiatic slaves as lash over
their operatives, by threatening to replace !
them with Chinese. It was through their |
efforts that Arthur-whom Guiteaus pistol |
made President-vetoed the twenty year bill |
The workingmen of this country have o rod in |
pickle for their backs, which will be used to |
raise welts and draw blood at the proper time |
Because Oregon went Republican, Logan, |
one of the stalwart leaders of the Guiteau |
wing of the Republican party, introduced
bill TO nullify the anti-C Chinese bill that is |
now the law of the land. Should California,
by any manner of means. go Republican this |
fall, the anti Chirese bill will be repealed.
as A REBUKE
To this clique at Washington, labeled Re-
publican, who gave US a stone when we asked !
for bread, we should, and I trust we will beat |
that faction. Now that the coming of the |
80 he L.
lation, thanks to the "sand-lot" agitation, |
the politicians and the twenty.year lying |
speakers are clanoring, and blowing, and !
screeching, and yelling, and saving the air |
for reduction in fares and freights. You |
| ask any of them what they mean by reduc-
ton in fares and freights. With spread |
I eagle wave of the hand they will evade the |
question and wander off on their old,time
glittering generalities Now, as matter of
fact, the politicians don't want, nor do they
care straw whether freights are lowered or
raised. All they want is an opportunity to
cinch the corporation. These politicians are
backed by sheets who live by blackmail
It is only when an election is to be held that
the stink-po batteries of
THESE BLACKMAILERs
Are opened at the railroad company. Blath.
! erskites and blackmailers are not competent
to discuss intelligently the question of fares
| question some thought, Admits that the only
solution is governmental control. The Leg.
islsture of our State grappled with fares and
| freights for years, and were never able to
agree upon q schedule that would satisfy sll
parts of the State on account of the greed,
se6shness and conflicting interests of the diff.
| ferent localities. For example, your repre-
sentatives from this city would, to catch the
profit monger's vote, favor and work for a
bill that would establish cheap rates from
Sacramento away into the interior and high
from San Francisco into the interior, SO that
the country merchants would buy all their
| goods at Sacramento. Again, Stockton's rep
resentatives would like to have the rates
| cheaper from Stockton into the interior than
Sacramento, SO that their merchants could
deal with the country merchants and of
course San Franciscos representatives would
! like to have the rates cheaper from San Fran
cisco than any other part of the State into
the interior, SO that the merchants of San Fran
cisco could trads with the country merchants.
In short, every man who wants regulation
! asks for regulation that would
BE DISCRIMINATION
In favor of himself, or in favor of his locali-
ty. Nobody complains any of large freights,
however high they may be, which operate to
protect the trade of his town or of bis own
business. The man producing lumber in the
mountains is perfectly willing that the
| freight on lumber from his sawmiil to the
towns and cities Of the valley should be low.
and he would be very glad to pay the poll
ticians for lobbying bill through the Legis.
lature to that effect and would pay if the
rate on lumber from the seaboard to those
same towns and cities should be high, be-
cause this would give him an advantage in
the market He would get the benefit Of the
cheap rate from his sawmill to the Market
while the high rate would keep the lumber
produced on the sesboard out of that market
and thus give him monopoly of it. Nearly
| all the trouble in adjusting freight rate in
bills that have been before the Legislature of
this State has grown out of the conflicts be-
tween the different localities in this regard.
Each particular interest wanted the freight
low on the kind of goods it had to ship, and
| put up high on other kinds of goods, so that
the great burden of supporting q system of
| transportation in the State would be borne
by some article in which particular individ-
ual did not deal, or which he did not sell. If
| every town in this State were left free to es-
tsblish their rates to suit themselves, there
would be high rates to every other town, and
exceedingly low rates to and from the town
| that had the say in the matter. Again the
representatives from
THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS
| Wanted a low rate on the products of
their neishbors, who, in turn, were antsgon-
| lied by the representatives from the Glercan.
tile districts, who would not vote for a low
rate on exports without the agricultural men
would consent to vote for o low rate on i'm
| ports. And then, again, the men who operate
! the roads, such as conductors, engineers,
brakesmen, machinistz, brass fnishers, car.
penters, joiners, upholsterers, freight-hapd-
lers, clerks, etc., had some friends in the
Legislature, who kicked against any rsduc.
ton until they were assured that the wages
OF the men who operate The road would not
be lowered nor their hours of labor length
| ened And let me state before should for.
get it, that the men who operate these roads
should in justice to themselves
ORGANIZE AND ASCERTAIN