Workmen's advocate., 1886-12-12
THE AVELINGS' TOUR.
Louisville, Cincinnati and Dayton Nisited-American Sections
 Organizing.

Although the meeting addressed by the Avelings on the 29th at Louisville, ky., was not very large in numbers, it was a great success all the same, and both speakers and organizers were more than satisfied. One result of this meeting, it is hoped and expected, will be tie re- formation of the at present disband. ed Section of the $. l.. P. here. The press of Louisville quite distin. guished itself by it's stupid and inso- lent attacks on Socialism and its teachers. Among other pleasant little amenities of the same sort the Louisville ErrHi0g Ners called the Avelings 'tramps" and waxed indig- nant at the idea of the dollars they make out of the poor working people. Both speakers went for the Neacs in way that delighted tEe audience. The Neps next day retaliated with the brilliant remark that the Avelings were poor speak CTS. A poor argument with which to meet the doctrines expounded at the meeting.
 On Thursday, December 2d. the Cincinnati meeting was held at Music Hall, with a larger audience than we had any right to expect on such a night. It was the first really cold day of the year, and men and women who had intended to come to the meeting were kept at home by the keen northwestern wind that seemed to have been laid on by the capitalists on purpose. It is worth recording that the theatres and con- certs suffered far more from the sudden cold than did our meeting, many of these being quite deserted, while any less luminous place than Music Hall could have been well filled by those who came to hear the the Avellngs. On the platform with them sat, besides the chairman, twenty-five vlce-presldents (of whom many were women), and many rep resenting Labor organizations and being "Americans.' The audience, remarkably intelligent and critical one, was reused to the utmost en- thusiasm, and dozens of men and women came forward at the close of the meeting to say that they had never before had so clear a concep- tlon of the true meaning of Social ism as after listening to the speeches of Dr. and Mrs. Aveling. We ex- pect to get strong American Sec ton at Cincinnati, and the comrades who worked so hard and so well to insure the success of Thursdays meeting, feel that their labor has not been in vain. "This is the first time Americans have had a chance of understanding the question" is what is being said on all sides. As the Avelings are staying few days at Cincinnati (they make that town their headquarters for week. only away Saturday and Sunday to Day ton and Springfeld) they are going to give an evening of recitations from English and American writers, for the benefit of the s. l.. ?. Many friends are going to help by contributing music, choirs, quar- tetts and solOiSts, and great sue cess is expected. At this "eyening" ednesday, December 5 ,an Ameri- can section, for which many names have already been given in, will be formally started. The Cincinnati papers have behaved very finely, and the Avelings have been overrun with interviews" while whole col umns have been devoted to the re- porting of their public and private utterances. It is not very pleasant for them, of course, but it is very useful for the Party.
 The last meeting, and the last of