Workmen's advocate., 1890-04-26

Tor, money has long been pouring into
 the National Treasury at rate that
 challenged the wasting abilities of our
 government. Means at last have been
 found of getting rid of the surplus at a ! rate of speed greater even than that of
 It's accumulation. Of the pension bills,
 halbor bills, navy bills, army bills and other like Cormorants' bills through
 which this feat of depetingan overflow Ing treasury Is to be accomplished a speaker tonight will give you a short synopsis. Let it be stated here that the
 plan IS so perfect in its details and so
 comprehensive as a whole, that if car rled out 1t will not only dispose of pre-.
 sent and future Treasury surpluses,
 but will actually necessitate the refund.
 ing of the bonds which will soon come
 to maturity and the issue of additional
 bonds, having long term of years to
 run. The object is twofold; 1-the
 maintenance of the tariff for the "prolec-
 tion of American labor" in general and
 of American capital in particular, by
 creating necessity for revenue; 2-the
 maintenance of the national banking Rystem-in other words, the subsidizing of our poor banks, who will thus be afforded an opportunity of drawing in terest upon bonds which the public will actually pay for by taking their notes issued upon the credit of the nation.
 These and other economic facts are also political. It were, indeed, hard to draw sharp line between politics and economy, for every political measure is intended to promote the interests of the capitalist class, or to prevent the work Ing class from advancing Its own; and you will do well to cast this paramount fact into the teeth of your conservative leaders when, for reasons best known to themselves, they deprecate independent political action. The police, the army, public education, are all managed poli. tically with the aforesaid economic pur- poses in view.
 The speaker here gave an account If the efforts now being made by the S. l.. r. to obtain an investigation of po- lice outrages and its demand for ade. quate legislation as stated Tn our article on "The Police" in another column He also referred to the exposure, in the WORKMEN's ADVOCATE, of the prepara- tions made at the headquarters of the army III Washington against the work lngmen, and lastly he gave brief review of our public school system and of the | work Of the School Conference. He then cOntinued
 Two classes of facts-the moral and | the intellectual-have not yet been re- ferred to in this report.
 As to the moral, they are unquestion- | ably the most important of all But you | do not expect us to mention-much less | do you expect us to narrate-all the | murders, hangings, suicides. burglaries, divorces, and other 'sensations" which | our enlightened press knows so well how to turn into cash. By all means read the papers, if you can read them intelli- gently. It ras rightly been observed that in an enlightened community the press does not make public opinion but 1t so acts that there is public opinion.
 As to the intellectual movement, little has occurred of importance within the past month except the highly significant expulsion, from their respective church es, of some New England clergymen who had been bold enough to proclaim them selves Christian Socialists Notice has thus been once more given to intellect by capital that it cannot proclaim its in- by advocating the rights of without forfetlng the pecuni- ary benefits of it's slavery.
 Prof. Daniel De Leon then gave review of Congressional Legislation. He was followed by Comrade Cahan, who spoke on the eight hour movement
 The next meeting will be held in the latter part of May.