Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-10-12
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THE KNIGHTS WANT THE EARTH
And They are Going to Have It-So
Says One of Their Speakers Mt the
Richmond Fair Grounds.
RICHMOND, Oct. 11.-This has been day
of music, marching, speechmaking and
amusement for the Knights of Labor and a
night Of banquetting and dancing is now
progressing. The demonstrations Gave been
successful in every respect. A good deal of
disappointment was expressed by the thou
sands who assembled at the fair grounds this
afternoon after the parade. United States
Senator-elect Daniel, Governor Lee, Mayor
Darlington, Grand Master Workman Pow
derby and others were to speak. Mr.. Daniel
| sent message stating that this being the one
hundredth anniversary of the city of Lynch
| burg he would deliver an address there.
Governor Lee and Mayor Darlington were
kept away by official business and very soon
after arriving at the grounds Mr.. Powderly
| became i'll and returned to his hotel. There
were two speeches delivered by other gentle
; men. Mr.. Ralph Beaumont, delegate to
| the convention from Elmira, was introduced
| by Mr.. Mullen, editor of the Labor Organ,
| front of the main building in the fair
grounds. There were five thousand or six
thousand people on the grounds and
as many outside who hesitated to
pay the twenty-five cents admission
fee. After felic1tating the citizens of the
old dominion's capitol upon the success of
demonstration Mr.. Beaumont said he was
| reminded by the remarkable contrast to the
scene of the gathering in Read
ing, Pa, in 1878, of thirty-two
men who organized and put motion
the great order here represented.
''This organization" said he, sis not a vol
untary one. Necessity created it and made
it grow" He denounced class legislation,
saying it put the wealth in the hands of a
few and made monopoly and oppression.
Abraham Lincoln declared this to be ga gov
eminent of the people, by the people, for
the people" but now, said Mr.. Beaumont,
within twenty-five years from the time of
this utterance we find it ga government of
the corporations, by the corporations, for
the corporations" The Knights of Labor,
he said, believed as an organization that the
government can be trusted in the hands of
the people. There were laws, but rights.
fsThis condition. said he, 'sreminds me of
the explanation of it made by salesman re-
Gently. In clearing away the of the
oppression in our statutes he said that our
laws and rights came to from England.
They came,' he observed, sin two ships.
One was loaded with laws, the other with
rights. The ship bearing the laws arrived
safely, but the one with the
rights never found its way here
Mr.. Beaumont denounced the press and the
telegraph as combining against the laboring
element The telegraph, he declared, throt- |
tied beneficial information and created dam |
aging statements. He pointed out at length |
the condition of the anthracite coal miner in |
Pennsylvania, saying that where he lived, |
one hundred and twenty five miles from the |
mines, he paid So. so ton for coal and the |
miners only received ten cents a ton for !
mining. The So. 40 went to the monopolists. |
The two hundred and fifty thousand acres of |
anthracite coal is controlled by six corpora |
tions who mortgaged the fuel of generations |
unborn-aye of generations thousand years |
hence He drew pathetic picture by con- |
trasting the wives and daughters of the cor
poratlon owners at seashore resorts in luxury, |
while the poor miners, amid gases and foul |
air, wasted their lives away down in the bow
els of the earth and their families in poverty |
living in slab shanties. ''Work your |
brains more,' he advised, 'and you |
will have to work your hands less" He |
did not think the fact could be helped that |
Jay Gould had his millions, but that the |
time had come for the Knights to say: "Jay, |
let's quit now and let's have another sys-
tenn" Here in this city he said they had an |
organ, ''and the editor has to live in gar |
ret and exist on cheese and crackers
There were many Interruptions by ap |
plause and cries of approval and when |
Beaumont had concluded at the end of thir- !
ty minutes Mr.. Charles H. Litchman of Mar |
blehead, was introduced as the 'ssilver |
tongued orator of the knights of Labor" |
Mr.. Litchman's address was more conserva- |
tive than Beaumont's. The economic CUES
lions which entered into the duties of voters
as well as laborers were dwelt upon. Labor |
ers, he said, must be consumers as well as |
producers, yet they can be neither |
as they should unless their COM
pensation as 1aborers was equal |
to the rights guaranteed them by our |
form of government. Labor creates all |
values and the Iaborers are entitled to a !
more equal share. They can only get this |
by standing together-by standing together |
in body as did the people of the North or
those of the South in 1861. Mr.. Litchman |
brought forth yells and cheers from the col |
ored people until the wtlkin rang by an al |
fusion to the race issue raised here during |
the convention. His hearers were largely |
composed of colored people. He said the Or |
ganization of the Knights of Labor ought |
not to be condemned for the act of a single |
man or the indiscretion of few men in it. |
The Knights of Labor an organization |
stood between monopoly and anarchy. He |
cautioned people against driving the laborers |
to desperation, saying it might lead to the |
execution of seven hundred thousand in many |
cities as we'll the eight men in Chicago.
Recently I was asked" he said, ''what as |
Knights of Labor we wanted replied that !
the good book told us the earth and the full |
ness thereof was the Lords and as we were
the children of the Lord we want ed our |
inheritance,-we wanted the earth" There |
were almost deafening cheers, renewed again |
when Mr.. Litchman added: "And more |
than this we are going to have it, |
After the address there were bicycle races |
and tonight the banquet, followed by ball |
in Agricultural Hall, which is progressing at |
this time. No disturbances ON account of |
the color line issue or any thing else have oc-
Cured SO far. There will be but one session |
of he convention to morrow and that will |
be in the morning, the armory being engaged |
in the afternoon. AS the committees have |
been at work to-day and will continue in |
dustriously, it is expected there will be a |
number of propositions reported back to the |
convention on Wednesday,. |
An American Schooner Seized
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE State de- |
roborating the reported seizure of an Amer |
lean schooner by a Russian war vessel in |
Alaskan waters.
Base Ball Yesterday.
Washington-Kansas Citys z, Washingtcns 5.
Jersey Cty-Jersey Citys z, New Yorks a.
Observation-Disclosures 4, Aetropolitans l.
NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND.
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