Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-01
THE GRAND RALLY.


General HavvIey Delivers an Eloquent
the Present Campaign-An Exhorta-
tion to Republicans-An Important
Election.
In spite of the rain of Saturday night q
large audience gathered to listen to the words
Of Connecticut's most worthy soldier-senator,
a man whose name stands with those of Ed
munds and Dawes in senatorial dignity,
and whose re collection should be emphasized
by strong majority. even in the closely con-
tested State of Connecticut. Hon. N. D.
Sperry presided over the meeting and open
ed by calling the attention of the audience to
the Importance of the contest at hand and
the unexceptional high character of the can
6idates, after which he introduced General
Hawley to the audience. Repeated and pro-
longed cheers greeted the speaker Of the eve
ming, after the subsistence of which he spoke
in substance as follows: It was the custom of
political speakers to claim that there was a
crisis at hand, and in one sense they are
right, for an election is always more or less
of crisis. In the present case this is espe-
cially true here since all the State officers
and the legislature are to be elected and the
character of the national government may be
decided by few votes. The Republican party
is to-day more united and determined than
ever before, and there is every reason for en-
couragement. Yet the Importance of
the present contest demands ev
cry effort In answer to some ques-
lions which came to him by labor unions he
would say that he had never been able to find
dividing line between capital and labor.
Capital is labor stored up. have always
been the firm friend of labor. Labor associ-
atoms have the same sanction and the same
rights that any form of incorporation may
assume, subject, of course, that the persons
and property of others may be respected.
With regard to law compelling CORPORATIONS
to make weekly payments to employees, it
would be difficult in cases of piece-work.
The credit system would be modified as it
concerns the laborer, who would then pos
sess credit but his honesty.
He had been asked if he would favor an
eight hour law. If such a law were passed
in Connecticut and nowhere else, as a result
of the twenty per cent. more work done for
the same money elsewhere, Connecticut pro-
ducers would be undersold in the market,
which would react upon the employees in
lower wages. If it is to become the law it
must be general one in order to benefit the
workmen. There is no harm in agitating it
and working for it, as such course will tend
toward the establishment of general stand
ard working day accepted by the whole world.
The increase of machinery has a strong ac-
ton toward shortening the laboring day.
The speaker then dwelt upon the
which had accrued to this genera
ton by the introduction of machinery, re-
sulting in the decline of prices, which is
practically identical with an advance of
wages. Thus the condition of labor was
improving. "It's good world"
said he, "and don't let us complain too
much. It's getting better all the time" He
i j E. -
ton of savings banks under the control of
the government. No, he would not. The
nation has already enough to do and enough
employees The government would be viz
tually asked to borrow at five per cent. what
they could obtain in Europe for three per
cent. Offices must be opened in all parts of
The country to carry out such system and
the door would be opened for the most collos-
sal scandals, frauds and political chicanery
The same objections would apply with equal
force to the government assuming control of
The railroads. The case is different in this
country than in Belgium. Here we pay for
Dur railroads by issuing bonds, or at least we
promise to pay for them. The national
would be increased to most unwieldy proper
ions by the purchase of the railroads, and
when purchased they could not be as pro-
1uctiye as they now are. All this tends to-
ward socialism, that so-called freedom" |
where every thing is to be obtained from the |
government, an apparent paradise, which is |
n reality the worst form of slavery. |
Dur strength, mentally, morally and
physically, comes from honest labor |
or our support. Let the government |
Ittend to the great general walls of protec- |
ion, and leave US with our elbows free. |
That's the Republican theory.
Child labor in factories was denoun ced. |
With regard to ''labor troubles" said the |
Senator, no rule or law can be passed that |
will dispose of them for they find their
pring in the passions as well as the needs of /
men. Arbitration boards, established by /
10Th employer and employee, are much more |
satisfactory than similar bodies established |
~ the government could possibly be. Such |
arbitration is conducive to mutual respect |
between employer and employe. There is |
10 new way to settle these difficulties, but |
here is rule two thousand years old by |
which they can all be adiusted-the golden /
ule.
I have been asked in regard to contract |
abor whether favored Chinese and other /
oreign labor coming here. I would say that |
do not believe in importing foreign labor /
Iere by the contractors, to be worked for a |
while, then sent back. The laborers who /
ring not with them their wives and chill |
ren, who care not for citizenship, nor the |
'eace of the country, nor for the govern
uent which protects all Americans, don't |
elieve in. 1t is not best for the country to
ave such laborers come here. It is an injury
0 the country to bring them here by con-
FACTORS. 1t is much like the old days of
African slavery.
I don't wish to see criminals and paupers
rought over here. am a straight descend
Mt of the Rev. Francis Hawley, who settled
4 Stratford in 1899. As a true born Ameri-
an citizen I am opposed to bringing contract
abor to this free and beautiful country.
Tinety eight per cent. of the people in this |
-ha oil 1o1oo rho |
reat army of the late war was made up from
MS great class. They came from the work |
hops, the farms and mills and from the |
esks over which mental work was done.
he laboring problem presents new
'sue with some, but not with the Republican |
arty. Labor owes to the Republican party |
greater obligation than can be expressed in
-ords. Senator Hawley said that he voted
gainst the bill forbidding the Importation
E contract labor. The speaker could have
,rmulated bill which would have remedied |
le evils complained of without the deplOra-
lie weaknesses of the present bill.
They say the country never did anything
,r labor. Whatever is calculated to secure
le faborer his just rights, to secure for him
1equate and just compensation for his labor,
improve his economic and social condition
le Republican party by all its principles and
additions is bound to maintain. The party |
'cognizes the right of labor to organize and
use all fair means in their power for adj |
1t is a strange thing, however,
lat we should have third party to do
,mething for labor. Was party for labor
seded when the great war that this country
assed through banished slavery and put an
Id to capital owning labor? Was a party
II labor needed then? Can any man name
,ything that the Republican party has not
one for the benefit of labor? The record of
lie Republican party is that of the friend of
e laborer. AS have already stated the
ntral principle on which the Republican
.rty wss organized was this: ''The laborer
a man."
Under the Republican party the great
lest had been developed and our national
edit established. The Democratic party
bids all the national government except the
snate, and now she longs for this; but what
its records There has been no advance
ent in the civil service under their rule. |
epublican employees are afraid to go home
vote; Democratic employees always came
,me to vote without prejudice. It is not
lily the right, it is the duty of every man to
,fa Minister'S and 1ouh1in off sbou1d l