The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-15
THE LEAGUE.
The Usual Entertaining E1ercises-A
Preacher Who Has the Courage to Ut
ter His Socialistie Convictions.

A com parativelY- small attendance
was looked for at the last League meet
ing, owing to the fact the Rev. Myron
Reed was to speak at his church upon
The Red Flag" and that at the Acad
envy the Madison Square Dramatic COM
pany were rendering benefit to the
Defense Fnnd" of the Southwestern
strikers who are under arrest; but the
house was comfortably filled when the
evenings exercises opened. 1t was a
striking evidence that Socialism is the
alI-absorbing question with those in the
cause, or who have once begun to study
it, when two other attractions upon the
same evening cannot materially lessen
our numbers.
The meeting was opened by singing
The March of the Workers." and was
followed by the reading of lesson No. 7
of the Socialist Catechism, entitled
Theories of Profit" the responses be-
ing made by Comrade Hatch.
The remarks upon the lesson were
made by Comrade Cardnell, who ably
set forth the ditfore t theories of profit
and the many evil effects produced By
their workings; and showed good and
conclusive reasons why all species of
Drofit shonld he aholished
The programme provided for zen
minute speec les, for and against Social
ism," but as no one present had aught to
bring against the cause-or if they had,
lacked sufficient courage to oppose it
the meeting passed on to an address OF
some length, which was delivered by
DR.. G. D. Henck, who touched briefly
upon the maLY phases and doctrines of
Socialism and their probable workings
and effect; the wrongs and injustices
heaped upon US by the present iniqult-
GUS system, and in conclusion depicted
the coming advantages of the aim
for which We are all striving-the Co.
operative Commonwealth.
Comrade Schuler then made few re-
marks, during which he disagreed with
some of the points made by the pre-
vous speaker.
Chairman Buchanan was called for
and spoke for a few moments, by re-
quest, upon The Red Flag" He ex-
planned briefly that the color of our flag
did not signify bloodshed, riot and pill
lage, as had been charged, but was en-
blematic of the international Brother
hood of Man, as, no matter what the
color or shade of a humans skin, the
blood that coursed through the veins OF
all was of the one color-Red
The recess was then taken, during
which there were number of slgners to
the membership roll.
After the recess the chair introduced
the Rev. Mr.. Stauffer, who spoke for 40
minutes, and made the finest and most
satisfactory address ever yet given by
any of the outside speakers that We
have had. His talk was plain, Sen
BILE, honest on , in Which he handled
without gloves" what was wrong on
both sides of the question, and upAeId
and praised what was right. Through
out the whole speech he used the term
I'VE Socialists" and showed that he had
given the subject earnest and close
study, and his opinions had the weight
ALWAYS carried by the utterances of an
honest man, formed after intelligent m
vestikation, and spoken by one who had
the moral courage to voice the hones'
convictions OF his heart. The speaker
at no time forgot his calling as minister
of the gospel or abated one jot his relig-
lous convictions, but mingled them SC
deftlv throughout his subject for the
evening that no unbiased mind coulc
fail to see that TRUE Christianity and
Socialism were one and the same thing
The address was listened to with TIT
closest attention, only interrupted BY
frequent bursts of applause, that evlnced
the high appreciation of the audience.
Comrade Graves then recited The
Fair Kingdom" in fine style, and after
song the meeting adjourned; many o
the comrades remaining to gasp II
hearty comradeship the hand ofthe rev
erend speaker and to thank and express
their pleasure to him.
The Skunk Editors,
Editor Labor Enquirer.