The Labor enquirer., 1886-12-25
WHAT THEY SAID.
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Mr.. Long. an elderly man, said he had
been agltahng all his life and did moi
mean to give up. because he believed
they had good cause. He advised
workingmen to unite as one man, and
tell the aristocrats that they would no
longer submit to the gross injustice, the
pauperism, and the robbery of tho upper
classes. Forty years ago he agitated on
Remington common for universal suf-
frage, and when they got that and the
rights which belonged to them as men
they would carry all before them. They
would dIsband the army and the police
and do their duty to one another
Women and children were in their
midst crying for bread, and such thing
must not be. They would tell Lord Sal
isbury and Lord Churchill that they
were upstarts and robbers of working,
men, interlopers, and hypocrites.
[Cheers.
Mr.. champion was greeted with loud
and continued cheering. He
said further. that even by their own
confession, and by the leading articles
which appeared in their own newspa-
pers, the ruling classes showed tEatthe
were aware that the poverty and degra-
dation of the large masses of the working
classes in our large towns we're menace
to the civilization in which we lived
[Cheers.] They knew, too, that the
civilization. could not continue un-
touched as it was at present, under ex-
isting circumstances, and that the day
would come when discomfort would
have reached a stage at which men
would tell them that 1t was better to die
fighting than to live under the misera-
BILE circumstances IN which thousands of
workingmen were living at the present
time. He was believer in the faith
first brought out by that great German
exile who lived in England, ignored and
almost unknown-Karl Marx, and he
said To the Englishmen assembled there,
right in the center of the money-makin ing
machine of the entire world, and the
clearing house of the commerce of this
planet, that they had a great part to
play in the next few years of this worlds
history. [Cheers.] If they would, if
they were strong enough If they were
bold enough, if they were resolute
enough, this country might take the
leading part in the great struggle for
the emancipation of labor all over the
world. Loud cheers, and cries Of I'VE
will" and Hand in hand."] The news
of that great meeting would be tele-
graphed that night to all the capitals of
all the great countries in the world, and
in every country it would carry joy and
comfort TO the hearts of men who we're
sacrificing their lives in the same
cause he was advocating. Cheers.
From the salt mines in Siberia, where
Russian exiles were diving, or rather
living diving, because they advocated
the cause-of the workers, those prisons
in Chicago, where men were lying under
sentence of death because they were
too hasty, or believed to be too hasty
in their advocacy of the same cause,
the news Of that demonstration would
invigorate the hearts Of thousands OF
men-the message of the Social RevOlu-
ton.
Mr.. Blackwell considered that the
demonstration ought to nVlnCe Lord
Salisbury that he must aCCede to the
Social Democratic proposals if he wished
to stave off Revolution of force. II
something was not done soon to relieve
the distress, it was impossible to say
how quickly bread riots and other vic.
lent scenes would be witnessed in the
streets of London.
Mr.. Ritcho, Youthful Democrat, re,
viewed the history of the movement,
and said that unless they used force
they would be able to gain nothing
That meeting would probably be the las
at which they should attempt peaceably
to obtain what they wanted, and then
they would be compelled to resort tc
other means.
committee to wait on Lord Sails
bury was appointed, composed of Bate
mau (compositor), Ashton (stevedore)
Morton (baker), kuchen tgasftter), Sy.
monds (br CklaYer), and Jackson, Clark
and Burr (lab lrers). On their arrival a
Lord Salisbury's house thef were re
ceivtd by one of his servants and ad
mitted to the Aall.
All the satisfaction they got was this
from the servant My dear bov1,
cannot talk with you. My instructions
simply is, no information to no one."
fLord Salisbury had left the evenin,
before for day or two "in the country.
The Socialists claim that he left in orde
to dodge meeting the committee.