Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-26
CHICAGO'S DAYS.
How Capitalist Newspapers Report
Our Lecturers Meetings.

Our Lecturers Meetings.
To give our readers II report Of
the agitation in Chicago from our
own comrades pens will perhaps
not be rs comprehensive as to copy
from Chlcago's capitalist papers
their views on the socialist propa-
ganda. Says the Morning NewS, in
It's report of the large meeting held
at the Norwaerts Turn Hall on the
2Oth inst:
The first speaker was Prof. Garsde,
whose utteranCes on state socialism are
familiar in two hemispheres. and have
more than once led to his imprisonment
in European cities. Prof. Garside's leC-
ture was brilliantly and logically word
ed, and even his most revolutionary ut
teranCes were without a suggestion of
the doctrine of force. The influence Of
the speaker over the large audience was
absolute. Repeated bursts of cheers
greeted his thrusts and sallies at the
powers that be, especially when they
had local reference.
Prof. Garside began by replying to
| certain criticism on himself in IA Sunday
morning newspaper. He read from the
same article an affirmation that wages
constituted a partnership between capi-
tai and labor. This he denied. If such
a contract existed both sides should re-
CeiVe the amount stipulated in the con-
| tract. Instead of this statistics, he said,
show that the profit reaped by capital is
| growing greater, while the ratio paid as
! the product Of labor is growing less.
Its the same kind Of a partnership"
said the speaker, - that exists between
a hOrse.leech and a horse"
The speaker related an anecdote Of
| Lord Antrim, who told his Irish peas
ants to either pay their rents or emf
CRATE, as he could raise cattle more
proiitably than he could peasants. Ad-
dressing his audience directly the speak.
err continued: "You men here are no
more than cattle in the eyes of capital.
They say you are free, but the govern
ment of the land, even, will hire out con-
vets to cut down your wages.
Professor Garside ridiculed the theory
that the cure for social ills would be
found in the proft-sharing or cO-perat-
i've system. Those who undertake such
enterprises, he said. have to fight in the
open market against the monopolies of
capital which eat into the legitimate
recompense Of labor, In reply to the
theory that the rich classes are made so
by natural strength and intellect the
speaker said: "ls Jay Gould strong in
mind? His strength consists in being
sharp enough to steal more than any
one else"
In reply to the theory of the survival
Of the fttest, the speaker said that So
cialism gave to the weak as well as the
strong the same privileges and rights.
He repeated the old arguments as to the
basis of wages being all wrong. He
said that Andrew Carnegie pocketed ST.
25o, 600 in cash by reducing the wages of
his employees 10 per cent "rher say
the rich get rich by saving their cents.
Not so' said Prof, Garside; its by saw
ing their sense"
The speaking'a concluding words were
Il glowing picture Of society on a social
istic basis He said, in reply to the
claim that capital is Independent of la
bor, that labor is the foundation and
capital the walls and roof. The social
lists propose to take foundation away
bodily and to see if the walls and roof
will then stand all right. He said social
lists did not advocate force, but the cy-
clone of human liberty will sweep every
thing before it when it is started.