The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-21
MR.. GEORGE ON EIGHT HOURS.
Resolutions Threatening to Jay Gould and
His Property.
New York SUM-


Not all OF the 5000 men and women who
gathered at and around Irving Hall last
night to hear Henry George give his views
on the eight-hour movement were wage work
ers. There was fair sprinkling, apparently,
OF employers. James Quinn, who presided,
told the audience that the Central Labor
Union had called the mass meeting in order
that they might judge of the increasing in
telligence of the working people of the city,
that and the purpose of the eight-hour
movement was 20 create a condition of So
ciety in which the wage workers would nave
all the necessaries of life and the comforts as
well, and also to bring about a condition of
affairs where the wo7kingman at forty-five
would not be worse off than at fifteen, be-
cause his capital, strength, had been ex-
hausted while that of the employer bad in
creased ten per cent. Then he presented
MIR. Henry George, who said among other
things:
Trades unions are bit movements of brute
strength al stupidity pressing against an opp0s-
ing condition OF things. They are a great power
You must go further into politics. Government
interference in sch matters as this is but tenn
hibiting more thu eight hours OF work in fac
tories wauld not c as sound In principle and
better in effect tba many now existing.
Look at the enoI nous economies that could be
Effected When you ride on the elevated there is
it. When you nc Up in Mr.. Fields big Office
building there is one to sell and punch tickets.
The tenants pay IL the ride when they pay their
rent. Pay for yOU rides the elevated roads
when you pay yoJ rent. Let the city run them
free:
What Is need is uniou-th feeling that
teaches men that leir interests are one that in
working for the Z a OF all you are accomplishing
the greatest perso Al good.
Editor S. c. 6, haewitsch, of the Volks lei
tung spoke in German. The resolutions
adopted recited the introduction to the
American Declaration of Independence, and
asserted that:
The first step toward aboliShing the present
system OF wage slavery and and spoliation OF the
laboring masses is the reduction OF the hours OF
| labor to eight hours per day.
Resolved, That we deem il necessary and posi-
bic, in this and all other large cities of these
| United States, to Introduce the eighthOur work
| day on May l. 1856.
Resolved, Thatwe consider the recent actions of
Jay Gould and his accessory, Hoxie, in the matter
Of the strike on the Gould railway system, though
| but an outcome of the present system OF robbery
and eriminality the direct cause Of all riots and
| the result OF starvation and oppression.
Resolved, That Jay Gouldism and riots are
ana his confederates persist in provoking aggres-
sion, the result will be that reign OF terror will
| commence all over the land the outcome OF which
Resolved That we herewith give fair warning
| 10 Gould and H0xie, as we consider the cause OF
the railroad men in the West to be our own cause
the southwest we viii do our utmost to see that at
they will be adjusted in this city, and wherever
otherwise Gould and his so-called property may
| be found
The Career of Hennessy, the Great Brandy
| Maker.
| ILondon world.l
| Mr.. Richard Hennessy, bead OF the famous
| brandy firm, died at his residence at Cognac
| on "Wednesday last, after brief illness. By
his death the French turf has lost one of its
best known and most popular owners OF
| horses.
| Mr.. Hennessy has had a very checkered ca
reer, and he has never been the same man
since his wife. who was his cousin before
marriage and brought him considerable
fortune, eloped with a Paris rough rider
| named Earle. Mr.. Hennessy himself was not
altogether blameless in the matter and it
was the knowledge of this fact which induced
| peculiarly shameless print called Gil Bias
to attempt to terrorize him by series of par
| agraphs relating to his affairs.
Hr. Hennessy, despite the entreaties of his
| friends fell into the trap laid for him, and
instead of letting the paper severely alone,
went to see the editor and purchased his 81
| lence. But what annoyed Mr.. Hennessy
more than the loss of his money was that
the editor, who must either be great hui
morist or quite lacking the sense of humor,
after he received the thirty pieces of silver,
began q high moral disquisitiun, and said
that he had been obliged to notice the affair
as one of public interest, but that he knew
| Mr.. Hennessy was a gentil-homme, and, in
fine, hoped they might become friends. Mr..
Hennessy's reply was curt. He said: "Most
| of us meet with some mischance in life.
| have had two misfortunes: one to have had
woman of bad character for wife; the
second to fall into the clutches of thief
like youp