Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-06
THE BIG PICNIC
OF the smaIsamatsd Association,
at Beaver,
Yesterday Twenty thousand People
Present-The Speeches
Delivered.


of the Amalgsuated Association at Bsa-
yer, Pa. There Wss.plenty of room on the
cars Of :rhe time they pulled into Bridge
mort, but il seemed that before the train
had fairly stopped there was not vacant
seat in any Of the six cars which composed
the train. With the audscity common 10
excurs;ouists, every man took whole seat
10 himself and rsised the. windows,
allowing torrents of dust to
pour in upon the gay dresses
Of the ladies, playing sad havoc with the
specially arranged hight picnic garments.
at Martins Ferry the depot platform was
crowded aud the opposite side OF the track
bore nearly as much of q jam. At last eli
were safely seated, or stationed on the plat
forms or IN tins aisles, and the train moved
cf with Tom Lees in charge. At Brilliant
the mex! stop, two more cars aud people
enough to fill them were added, and the
happy throng proceeded on 1t way. At
Weilsyilie two more cars including an
emieraut csr, were attached and the con-
ductor reported eight hundred passengers
aboard. At East Liverpool another car
load, making in all eleven, was taken on,
and very good time made to the scene OF
the demonstration, tbs tram arriving
twenty minutes ahead of time. Advance
aud Mountain CITY Lodges A. A. |. q )
W. formed in line, snd headed by the
Union Cornet Band of Htu0ville, marched
10 the fair grounds where the festivities
were already in progress Here the usual
picnic amusements were IN tnll blast
crooks pickpocketS, msgiclsns oil arts, par
ticularly black, were stationed wherever q
space large enough could be found.
One stand was selling bottles OF liquid,
bearing the deceptive label Birch Beer,
which would hold q remarkable bssd, and
which the majority of those tasting 1t
called Lager"
The following committee of arrange
ments were at work keeping order, and
making arrangements to accommodate the
immense crowds who would come sttsr
dinner: Henry Klein, Pittsburg; Stephen
Madden, Sharon; Thomas D. Edmons,
Wheeling; Dudley Warner, Wheeling
Benz. l. Davis, Bridgeport; John Carey,
Burnett Keelsn, Thos. NARROW, Florence
Sullivan, Michael Reedy, Pittsburgh Eman'
uelle Schillo, James Gibson, Youngstown;
Daniel Mooney, New Castle; John Harris,
Harris Sharon, and Dennis Lssry, Wheel
ing.
The affair drew better than uaual from
the fact that it was not onl y picnic but
tariff demonstration as we'll. There were
thousands of men present who wore nc
badge to indicate their calling, who were
drawn thither By the desire to hear General
Beaver, T. V. Powderly, and the other la
Dor big guns deliver their addresses on the
tariff question.
A number of pailers were present, and
were kept busy shaking hands, and receiv
ing compliments irom their only yesterday
made brothers. Said one: Had it not
been for those Ballaire fellows who kicked
over the traces and induced Us to pull apart
from our early love, the trouble Of the pas
rear might have been averted. We are
back now, and think it will be cod day
when We leave"
After dinner, the Union Cornet Band OF
.Etnaville by the way, ono OF the hnest
present, WAS deputizsd to go to the Beaver
Hotel and escort the speakers and the OF
ficers to t. e grounds. This was considered
quite a compliment aud the boys fro q
down the river districts cheered them luStl
" az they passed along the street, with the
tall forms Of William Weihe ard General
Beaver looming up in lsndrau behind
Upon the arrival of the speakers, the meet
ing was organized by calling William
Weihe to the chair, and naming score OF
more of Vice Presidents and Secretaries
The fret gentleman introduced was Gen
James A. Beaver. General Beaver is G
tail fue looking gentleman, with one leg
Of above the kaee, which rather adds tc
than detracs from his appearance as q
speaker. His aubiect was the tariff aud
as be expressed it, he could tal4 either five
minutes or FIVE hours and not exhaust tbs
subject. We will make c few pertinent
quotations, it being impossible to 60 into
details for want OF space.
1T is the greatest question before the
people TO day" 1T is not party qaes
tioa but one which affects all alike "
Men women end Children should study
it" 1T must be settled, and will be set
lied the wsy Pennsylvauians OF ell parties
want it settled, because all men are labor
era aud are affected by it." Every man
is entitled to share of the reward arising
irou labor and that share must be IN pro
portion 10 the labor performed. Every
mans duty is to protect his family and the
Government must protect its family, which
are its citizens
This is the FIRST tariff picnic, but would
like see them ali over the country, and then
there will De no political ditferces"
Here be put in very pretty illustra'
ton Of what labor does to,
ward increasing values and in
what proportion it should be paid. "Iron
dirt viii not create vegetstiopj it has no
value for agricultural purposes; is worth
so cents per ton in the ground" Lime
stone and coal cost 10 cents per ton each
before mined or quarried." The three
quantities combined and passed through
the msnipulatioas OF lsborers, cost $lS per
ton aud is called pig iron. After the pud.
Ter aud roller gets through with it, it is
worth SlI per kon bac iron ana n8ll
plate, with no additional material, cost $40. Z"
'It the pig iron is put into converter and
made into fle steel, and under the skiliful
manipulation OF labor drawn into watch
springs aud needles, it is worth 81 900 per
ton" In the ground it cost 81 30; in 9
finished condition it is worth 81 900"
This (psttiug his muscle) makes the val
ues." 1T takes furnace, railroads,
horses, wagons, etc to assist, buS the fur.
mace and railroads are the product Of
labor" Take the tariff of
and who loses2 The compo-
nsnt paris OF all things cost nothing with
out labor, the producer of all values, and
"a q natural consequence, the only ones
who can lose are the lseorers The shoes
and other clothing, OF lsborer, and the
dinner basket aud its contents, represent
the labor OF thousands, all the
workmen who handle the leather
from the time it leaves the back OF
the steer in Texas or South America till it
is neat fttisg shoe or hob nailed bro
gan" The men with the picks are the
representatives men Of America for they
ara the nrodncers "Shpt nm pi,tsbn,a