Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-04

of the usual seven, were run on the road am
 1t is estimated that 10, 600 people went dow from the city.
 One of the days events was a base bal game between the moulders and printers The latter won by score of 16 to T. Tn. moulders were: w. Coady, Gushe, Dunn \ Coleman, Ray, Ginty, F. Dunn, Kelly, Duch. f en. The printers were: Brennan, Graham, Grogan, Lawlor, Houbet, Hayes, McQuesny, Quinlan, Crowly.
 the Second Regiment band and was one of the most enjoyable features. The grove was filled with people and dancing was among the most attractive amusements.
 During the afternoon, the crowds are ad- dressed by Edward King, the labor agitstor, of New York. His speech in substance was: WHAT THE STEAMER SAID OF BOTH THE GREAT POLITICAL PARTIES.
 Friends and fellow labersrs: To-day is the day of days for labor and labor shall be our theme. I address you not as a political boss would talk to his ring of followers, not as demagogue would address an audience whose views he knows not and whose inter ests he cares not for if he can gain his owu aims;-not as these do come before you, but as fellow laborer, one who has tasted the bitter dregs of labor, smiled in it's sun- shine and been overcast by it's clouds. The great question that is agitating our age is the problem of the workingman, and the crisis is drawing near when the star of honest toil will rise to it's true zenith and culmination or sink in everlasting oppression and oblivion. Our land is ruled by capital and it is this tyrant that we must overthrow and fetter so ss to be of greatest benefit to the masses of men whose sweat has accumu- lated it and whose purses are deprived of 1t. There isn't an employer in the United States but that wants the labor market flood ed with cheap foreign labor so as to get all he can for the money he pays for work and bring your wages to the lowest pitch. The politicians of both parties are gathering sta tisties of the prices of labor, and what dc they amount toi Trash, nothing but trash. They show one face and the black back gSound is withheld. Let some of the record gatherers go through the mining regions of Pennsylvania and the West if they want to see the miseries of man. There are working men there who can't buy even plate of oat meal. Half the time they have no work at all and the wages they earn in the other half are all they have to live on during the whole time. Here, you can easily seq, the statis- tics of wages show double what the men get, for when they don't work they live on what they've earned when they did. The census shows that there are twenty trades in which 50 per cent. of those em- ployed suffer disparaging competition from cheap foreign contract labor. Now if we have such laws as make it possible for peo- pie of foreign poverty to come here and les
 sen our value by their miserly prices, we should overthrow them. The power is in the people, and the people are the laborers.
 You, fellow workingmen, are the wielders of
 the greatest power in the world, and that is
 the ballot.
 The orators of both parties swelling
 with bombast to catch your votes and voices,
 but the sole result of their real acts is to in
 crease the 50 per cent. of foreign competi-
 tion to 75 per cent, and they do it because
 it enables them to produce goods cheaper,
 and consequently lower our wages. Both
 Republicans and Democrats talk under the
 assumption that they know how to spend
 your money better than you do, and they
 keep it back and put it in the plant. The
 employers will tell you that the best policy
 is fer them to have as much money in the
 bank as possible; that if you had it you
 would eat it all up at once. Boshi Aren't
 there heads, brains, minds and understand
 ings among workingmen as well as capital
 iGtsa
 By keeping the market choked with inn
 ported 1aborers they can do up all the work
 in six months and leave you without anything to do in the other six. Here is where they have you in their power and all of you know how hard their grasp squeezes when 1t begins. They make you use up your money as fast as it is earned and then rant of high wages. The other day that great leader, the good old Roman of the Democratic party, said (mark you, he said it in theacampaign, for if it hadn't been before election he wouldn't have been forced to say it): "All these hard times, strikes and boycotts ars due to the tar if which the Republican bosses have raised to the detriment of labor.'' It is true, but Allan G. Thurman wouldn't have said it if it hadn't been to catch you workingmen's votes. Did he ever organize union4 Why was he so very delicate in saying that they were rights Who is he, anyhow! I tell you, workingmen, we are sick of these political chestnuts. The Dernotratic candidates need | not sheer at trades unions. If Thurman was ! g brave man he would have upheld labor, the sinew and arm of the country's prosperity. There's one large class of capitalists who make their money by transportation, carry ing people and things from one place to another, and free trade would of course bene- fit them. Such man is Jay Gould, and they are Democrats in one State and Repub- licans in the next. There are lot of half baked professors who go about the country in these times and try to educate the people. They don't know what it is to be laborer and never did days work in their life. Their argument is that we don't know enough to do for ourselves and they want to do for us, aye, and pocket some of our fair won wages. Don't truft theml They are snakes in the grass. They sheer at us and think we ought to be sufficiently educated to go month or two with nothing in our belly for the sake of what's coming later. Brothers,
 don't listen to them. They want your work
 and would take the last bit ofS bread out of
 your mouth to live without working them
 selves
 Loads of people continued to pour into the
 grounds even to the late hours of the evening
 and the place undoubtedly saw one of the
 greatest days of the year. All sorts of
 amusemsnts and pleasures were entered into
 and the festivities carried far into the
 night.
 During the evening another fine concert
 was rendered by the Second regiment band.
 The programme was: