Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-31
CHICAGO.

A well attended meeting of the
American Section was held last Sunday
afternoon at Waverly Hall. Comrade
Morgan opened the meeting by reading
the report of our delegate to the Paris
Congress that was published in last
weeks ADVOCATE. A paper containing
an article headed, Progress of Social
ism" was also ordered to be read by the
speaker.
Mrs. Woodman then gave her contri-
button to the meeting. She went on to
show to the audience that the principle
underlying our present system of soci-
ETY. is "Either kill or be killed. She
asked whether men have a right to abol-
ish such murder-preeding system and
to put better, a more Just system in
its place or not. Men themselves are
not bad, it is the system that produces
this falsehood and all these various evils
and crimes. Change conditions, and
you have changed the people from bad
into good.
Comrade Adams, one of the most ac-
tive members of our Party, said that
nowadays the people claim to have SO
much self reliance. II pity them" he
continued ''they ought to use the
proper name for it and call it selfish
ness
There are some regular attendants at
our meetings, few spies and boodlers
nf ha oII rttap l,n Ia, tLo4
is no people on earth that possess such
an amount of freedom and independ-
ence as the American people. "Be
proud, you poor devils, of your personal
independencer remarked Comrade Or
chardson, referring to them; chow
many are now in this hall who can say
Il am independent Not one. Our
modern independence is to be found by
the man possessing the greatest bank
account; he also possesses all virtues,
whether the whole amount of this
money was stolen from the poor or not"
Then the main subject before the
meeting: "Politics and Starvation in
the Coal Mines. came up for discussion.
| Comrade Morgan remarked that the
democratic" boOdler, Frank Lawler,
iuu obdtCu ooihC tllllS dSO lIldl HOW was
the time to look into the causes of the
troubles of the strike in the coal mines;
the strikers wanted bread, and that's
| all. Now the same rascal is making
speeches before the hungry miners and
their families teaching them that free
trade is the remedy for all these
troubles. II have just read in the pa
per" the speaker continued, that in
Hyde Park, London, in the free trade
country, there was Eeld meeting of
100, 900 strikers and unemployed to pro-
test against the tyrannical oppression of
their capitalist masters. Take our
glorious America, or that great and
mighty England, and you will find that
the poor wageworker has to suffer in
either country. There are a number of
so-called socialistic democrats and re
publicans' in our city whose only pur-
pose is to destroy the straight socialist
movement. Let me call attention to
two of these: Mr.. Hunt and Mr.. Cook.
They are agents of the democratic
party, who try to convince the working
people of the necessity of joining their
ranks. For this purpose they have
their own organizations, called Inde-
pendent Club and Social Reform Club.
Last Sunday they acted very much in
the manner of cranks at our public
meeting, and if they should attempt to
interrupt our meetings and to destroy
our agitation, we shall know how to get
them out of the hail."
STRAIGHT SOCIALIST POLITICS.
After the public meeting joint meet.
ing of both Sections was held. 1t was
unanimously decided to participate in
the coming fall election, and to nomin.
ate our own ticket. A ratification
meeting will be held on the second Sat
urday in September.
BY the way, comrades, don't forget tc
be present at the Lassalle Memorial al
Turner Hall tonight Aug. 81. H.