Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-30
THE LABOR MASS MEETING.

| Lynch. Labor Candidate for Mayor Presides-Addresses by Henry 0
 Baldwin, of Naugatuck, and Henr,
 George, of New York.
 Carll's Opera House was crowded las
 evening with an audience made up yer,
 largely of workingmen, although there wer
 to be seen in the audience many prominent l politicians of both parties, who were nc 1 doubt attracted by the announcement that l Henry George, the recent candidate of the l labor party in New York city, was to speak. There were also quite a number of ladies in the audience.
 The meeting was called to order by Charles Stodel, who announced that Peter Lynch, l the Labor candidate for Mayor, would pre- side.
 MT. Lynch on taking the chair returned thanks for the honor conferred upon him not only in selecting him as chairman of the meeting, but also in selecting him as the candidate for Mayor. He said that for thir- ty years he earned his bread by the sweat of his brow. He was not there much as representative of the Labor party as of the principles laid down in their platform. He said he was not advocate of strikes and boycotts, but believed in fighting the wrongs of the workingman at the ballot box. Mr. Lynch's remarks were we'll received.
 On the conclusion of Mir. Lynchs address the Harugari Liedertafel gave a song that was we'll rendered and we'll received
 Henry c. Baldwin, of Naugatuck was then introduced and made a short speech which stirred up the enthusiasm of the audience When he concluded the Harugaris gave an other song, which was followed by the read ing of the Labor platform by MT. Busche. The platform and accompanying resolutions were adopted.
 MT. Lynch in brief complimentary ad- dress then introduced MT. Henry George, of New York. MT. George on rising to speak
 uaS i1-al1 Iaboa no substance as follows: I thank you for your reception. I come to you from the men of New York to say to you men of New Haven God speed in this work. You are taking the only steps by which poli tics can be purified; our sympathy and our hearts are with you. I do not know whether you will elect your candidate or not, but as in New York, you will win a victory for principle that will be heard around the world. You elect your can dldate if the workingmen of New Haven choose to do so, but this is matter of triv- ial moment so long you educate the peo- pie as to principles. What have our elections amounted to? The last presidential election was fought on the question of personal character. As between the Democrats and Republicans it is tweedle dun and tweedle dee. Important questions are forcing them selves upon us, the greatest of which is the abolition of industrial slavery; yes, what we want is the abolition of white we'll as black slavery. Politics sink into insignifi- canoe when these great issues are brought into consideration. At last labor has begun to organize. Strikes and boycotts to my mind like swords and rifles; they are ugly things and no great social questions can be settled in thet way If anything is done that will be permanent we must go to the social relations of society. The man to struggle and fight for is the very lowest man; you raise him to the position he should occupy and place him where he will not feel as though he must work for whatever is offered him and you have accomplished something. At last opinions are crystallizing, and until the rights of all men to an equal footing the earth is acknowledged there will be one class of men who will get what does not belong to them and another class who will not get what belongs to them. All over the world to-day the class that is called the working class is the poor class Riches, amusements, are not for the working class. How is it that work has come to be considered boona It is not natural for man to like work, or to seek for work, when he don't need it. Yet it is common to land men who build factories to furnish work. Why is it! It is because the facilities for building factories are monopoliZed. In your platform you have taken your stand on the broad platform of human rights. No one has the right to demand work of another, but we have a right to demand that all men shall have opportunities to employ them selves. There are natural differences in men, but we don't propose to make war on nature; but we believe that all men shall have equal opportunity to employ himself and employ labor, but our civilization and boast of a democratic republic when everywhere pauperism is increasing and tramps are everywhere to be found. What is tramp? He is an American citizen What we have to fight in this campaign is not only the very rich but the very poor. A tramp is who first started cut to get work and failing in this was obliged to solicit charity and finally lost his self-respect and became wreck of society. There are many things that are wrong in society today, but the greatest wrong is that which denies to the children of the earth any right to the land, sets out an orchard and builds house. Well, along comes the assessor aud fiues him by putting a tax upon him for creating wealth. When you buy coat or house you pay for what labor produced but who produced the land? Why should you pay for what the Almighty made? Is it not about time that we asserted the selt evident truth that the land of the earth belongs to the living2
 A voice-By what right does Trinity church hold the land which 1t owns? - MT. George-By the right of some dead king of two hundred years ago who never owned it. (Cheers.)
 Putting taxation on land values means that no man can afford to hold land without using it. Is this state of society natural? If I thought so I should believe that there was no God. There is nothing in nature that parallels the inequalities we see in society o-day; no there is nothing in nature like it; there is nothing like it among savages The creator has furnished enough for all of us on6 he nf hecauSa there is a tendency in society to grasp every thing they can get. The advance in civii- zation ought to be towards equality and not towards inequality.
 This movement is only in it's beginning. What you do at this election will arouse thought if nothing more. 1 sincerely hope that this good citizen you have nominated Iynch) will be elected your next mayor and that thus you will show your determination. If you cannot elect him come as near to it you can.
 I ought 10 be and I am prouder man tc- day for the vote received in New York, be- cause 1 know it was an honest vote given without fear or hope of reward. Let it go forth then that the men of Connecticut are awaking to duty.
 You may give your bodies to be burned, but you do nothing to cure the real evils of society. Ycu must enter politics if you would correct these evils and do it through the ballot. Leave the old parties of the na- tion and take part with the new party that has for it's principles the abolition of indus trial slavery. That is the reason why I come here tonight and ask you to vote for this man, knowing that if you give him crown- ing vote it will tell for the good cause.
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