Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
ON THE PACIFIC COAST,
A Nationalist Convention to be held in
San Francisco.

A Nationalist Convention to be held in
San Francisco.
The Nationalists of San Francisco filed
Metropolitan Temple to overlooking
when, some days ago, their chief club
held its fourteenth reception. Mr.. Z.
D. Wheeler was the principal speaker
and in the course of his remarks, as
reported by the Pacific Union, he said /:
Here is an immense gathering Of
ladies and gentlemen, but some of the
papers will dismiss the fact with a line
or so, while a column will be devoted to
an account of Pete" Jackson or some
other 'Slogger.' They now aft ct to ignore
us; but papers can't afford to ignore move
ments powerful enough to ignore hem.
Soon we will count our friends by the
thousands, and then even the Bulletin
may be able to lend hand Zap
plause.
"'Rome, as the adage goes, was not
built in day We do not expect any
thing different with Nationalism. We
propose, however, that this city shall
own its own Water Works, and that at
no very distant date. How about next
November? (Great applause Some six
years ago the Spring Valley Water
Works tried to sell its works. Whether
we buy theIn or not is with us ques-
ton of economy. If we can get them
cheaper than we can build simllarRor
better ones, we may do so, if not we
proceed to build. Once in the possession
of our own works and water, great
source of corruption will have been
stopped. Then, again, we will have our
own gasworks. [Applause.l We will,
nevertheless, take nothing for which we
will not pay, but always at a price lower
than that for which we can build. That
is the beauty of Nationalism ZAP
plause. In time we will take hold of
the great ranscontinental railroads and
the telegrarhs, that SO oppress our
people to-day. These great concerns
oil, sugar, wheat, railroads, gas and
water-are all a band of cOrnering
thieves, sworn to stand together in the
nefarious business of robbing the people
The individual members of these bands
escape the responsibility of their crimes
and evade the righteous wrath of the
people by shouldering the whole thing
on the Board To quiet a reproving
conscience they individually say: 1t was
not |, but the Board.
"The gentlemen of the Central Pa
cific Railroad q know them alD could
not, with their combined capital, have
built twenty miles of road. They con-
ceived the plan of receiving Government
aid. The Government generously re-
sponded, lavishing its millions and
principality of lands, every alternate
section, 40 miles wide, from here to
Promontory Point (about 40 miles this
side of Ogden, in all some $50 milss.
When the road was finished land the
celebrated golden spike driven, these
men found themselves millonaires with
large landed estates, arrogantly refus-
ing, in spite of all law and Justice, to
pay their taxes, while they levied a rail-
road impost upon our helpless producers
of all that the traffic will bear With
the hard earnings of these, universities
rear their marble fronts to the sun and
are donated as individual gifts to quell
the rising clamor of the people; the land
beyond the Rhine is ransacked for de-
cayed princes, and as soon as found
bought up to suit the matrimonial am
billions of marriageable daughters; yet
they say they have no money with
which to pay their taxes"
Resolutions were then read by Bur-