The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-07
will do all we can to urge them onward in the
good work Of education.
PowDERLY AT THE EXPOSITION.

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good work Of education.
PowDERLY AT THE EXPOSITION.
At noon to-day the alliance delegates
marched In body to the exposition hall,
where over 1000 people had assembled 20
near speeches from the distinguished
visitors. Director General Long introduced
1: '. Powderly, general master workman
OF the knights of Labor, as a leader in
the great reform movement and
a speaker Of national renown. Mr..
Powderly said he had never addressed him
self to just such an audience as this before,
and he hoped they would carry away his
words and think about what hs had said, IL
he gave them any new ideas to think about.
After outlining the inception of the Knights
OF Labor movement and the history of the
order, together with its policy, he addressed
himself TO questions Of government
ownership of railroads, the employment
OF child labor, aud compulsory education.
de painted woful pic ture of the condition
OF 200 child operatives in a fac
tory at Biddeford In illustration Of the need
OF reform in the s. stem of child labor, and
in closing this topic asked the cooperation
of the alliance in this direction.
GOVERNMENT RAILRoADs.
As to railroads, he insis ed that if the
government has the right to control letter
which conveys an order for goods It has an
equal right to control the carrying of the
goods in return by the railroad company.
de also touched upon the question of equal
pay for women who do the same
work as men, advocating it at
some length, and he then made
a fiery attack upon the employment of
labor saving machinery as defrauding work.
men Of the right to work. lie was especially
bit or against all electric devices, declaring
that NanifoliStS in THAR erroad haH
nered Gods wrath and compelled it to do
their bidding.
CONGRESSMAN DAVIS TALK.
Mr.. Powderly was followed by John
Davis, Congressman elect from Kansas, who
spoke chiefly on finance, following out the
line of argument pursued by him and others
during the peoples campaign in Kan
sss. While Mr. Davis was speaking Mr..
Powderly was being shown about the
exposition building by George W. Wilson,
president of the Seni-tropical Exposition
Company, and at tie completion of his
inspection Of the exhibits, etc, he asked
permission TO say word or two more.
PowDERLY ON sECTIoNALIsM.
This was granted, and, coming to the
front OF the platform, said:
During the New Orleans exposition, in
1885, it was charged by newspapers at the
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been carried there from Philadelphia, was
draped with confederate flags; that the
bands never played yankee Doodle" and
the 'Star-Spangled Banner, and that every
thing was suggestive of the south rather
than of reunited country. l inspected the
old Liberty bell myself, but found it filed
and covered with beautiful flowers of the
south; and just now l asked President Will
son, Have you nothing here, in all this col
lection suggesting the lost cause, no relic of
the rebellionY he scratched his head and
answered. pWell, really, we had forgotten
that;' and believe you have. see moth
ing here but this banner Of your own state
and the flng Of the union, no music
but that of union and fraternity,
and no relic of sectionalism or
hate. l believe you have forever buried all
that, and that your attitude here to-day,
and all your purposes are living protest
against what incendlary politicians charge
agaiustyouf + their own base purposes. You
have put your past behind you. You have
trampled disloyslty under your feet. and
whera you have trodden 1t under have
sprung up tbe orange tree and flowers,
emblems alike cf industry and peace.
No matter what the politicians may
say, we Of the two sections
are together again and together we will
fight monopoly" A cheer from 1000
throats greeted Mr.. Powderly's closing
words, and men and women stood upon
benches and tables and waved hats and
haudkerchiefs while the band played
Yankee Doodle" This ended the forenoon
exercises OF Labor day.
THE ALLIANCE AND POLITICS.
1t has besn recognized principle of the
farmers alliance from the very first that its
organization should not be used by its
members for gaining anv political advance
ment, and President Polk, in his annual ad-
dress, dwelt strongly upon this point, insist
ing that the acceptance Of an alliance office
should debar a member from
becoming a candidate upon any
political ticket, and vice versa. Since
yesterdays election there has been strong
undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the
action of several prominent alliancemen for
accepting an alliance Office while holding or
having been elected to political Office.
KANSAS WANTS THE EARTH.
A leading allianceman of national repu-
tation said to the Associe ted Press repre-
sentative tonight: THE alliance people are
subject to the same infirmities as other peo-
pie There is a strong current here in citi-
clsm of the election of the national alli-
ance officers yesterday. Many are asking,
does Kansas want the earth2 Right in the
face of President Polk's address the alliance
Kansas as its vice president, and John F.
Willeus of Kansas as national lecturer, he
being prominent candidate for the United
States Senate against Senator Ingalls,
This was not the work of Mr.. VIII
lets himself, but his friends, under
the idea that it would benefit him
for the senatorial contest at home 1.-THE
criticisms are very severe upon this use Of
the national alliance to foist men in the
different states into Office. There is q strong
belief that the election of Mr.. Willets yester-
day will prove not boom but boomerang,
and some of his friends are alarmed at the
existence of this condition of affairs, and
are thinking seriously of insisting that he
refuse TO accept the Office under the circum-
stances.
JACKsoNvTLLE'S PREPARATIONS.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Dec. g. The board
of trade decided to-day to give the visiting
farmers alliancemen now at Oca a, and who
will arrive in Jacksonville next Saturday, a
trip down to the bar of the st. Johns river,
aud the evening previous TO give jubilee
reception at the Sub Tropical exposition. J.
j. Holland of this city, mem Der Of the
executive committee OF the Knights of
Labor, has retarned from Ocsla, where he
went to meet 7. V. Powderly of Pennsyl-
vania, general master workman; Richard
TreVelick of Detroit, Mich, general lect-
urer, and Ralph Beaumont If New York,
chairman OF the c)ngre sional legislative
committee Mr. Holland says the above
national officers Of the Knights of Labor
will be here tonight and will address the
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