Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-22

most holy cause Of outraged innocence9
Fathers and Mothers of New York, will
you stand by your own flesh and blood
When the prolonged applause which
| followed the reading of this address had
subsided, Samuel Gompers moved that
the thanks of the meeting be rendered
| to Mr. Bellamy, with an expression of
| deep regret for his illness and an assur-
ance of the earnest hope of all present
| for his prompt recovery. The motion
was seconded from all parts of the hall
and UNANIMOUSLY carried with enthu-
| siasm.
The following speaker was Mr.. Thos.
| B, Mcclure, who in few short but etlec-
tive remarks dwelt vi M the necessity
of organization for independent politi-
cal action. Tie caricatural imitation
he gave of the politician before and
after election, was a masterpiece OF
comic oratory and carried the audience
| by storm. His speech was also inter
spersed with humorous anecdotes, OF
| which the following is a sample: "A
man who did not know what to do with
| his boy placed him in q room with a
bible, an apple and dollar Consider
we'll, said he, for upon your choice
will depend your future occupation.'
The father then went away, saying to
himself IF he takes the bible shall
make him o minister; if he takes the
apple, shall make him farmer; if he
takes the dollar, | shall make him a
lawyer When he returned he found
the boy sitting on the bible, eating the
apple and putting the dollar in his
pocket. MY boy exclaimed the de-
lighted father, / shall not make you a
minister, nor farmer, nor lawyer !;
shall make you politician,
At the close of McGuire's speech calls
for Schevitch were heard from all parts
of the hall and the Chairman gave him
the floor.
81 understand, he said, that number
of gentlemen on the committee of ar
rangements were rather averse to the
appearance of a socialist representative
on this platform. Some people always
seem to fear that |, in particular, may
explode bomb if allowed to speak. The
fact is that came with bomb tonight
and shall explode it. This movement
against ignorance and in favor of COM
|
scale regardless OF cost was conceived,
and started by Socialists. Public edu.
cation is fundamental principle of
socialism and / am glad to see that 30
many people are here tonight to
endorse it; that they deplore and de-
nounce as earnestly as we do the tre-
mendous waste of money on armories,
police and all the machinery of repres.
sion as compared with the small expen-
dture for the prevention of crime-that
is, for education. Many people who
don't know better. and some who know
. better, are apt to speak with contempt
t of those Ignorant foreigners, who
, would destroy American institutions"
But it appears that until those foreigners
$ began to agitate for schools the Ameri
I can people had not perceived that theii
9 institutions were threatened not by
foreigners, but by traitors in their OWL
ranks, by their own politicians in league
with their capItalistic masters, who
c foster ignorance, child labor and servi
, tude in all forms. Let us have few
: more meetings like this. The people
will then understand the aim of social
D ism, and by whatever name they may
: choose to call 1t they will establish {
{ social system from which servitude anC
ignorance will be banished."
August Delabar, of the Bakers, made
a strong speech in German.
Mr.. Thaddeus B, Wakeman was ther
called for and spoke as follows:
lfr. President and Fell0aC- CftizenS:-
At this late hour. | will take but few
= words to congratulate you upon tn
J, success of this grand meeting, and t
y. give a sort of benediction by a referenc
:, to the social and religious basis that un
= derles this movement for adequate
l. schools. This benediction falls to me a
r the most terrible Liberal present-a
v least so your committee seems to think
Let us take, then, as our starting lde
. that splendid human, social, scientific
i religious expression of Gladstone, tn
n English statesman, in his late Duel wit
I Mr.. Blaine on Protection and Free Trad
in the North American Review, to wit
J that "The Present Generation is til
Ii Trustee for Posterity." This is golde
Q expression and like unto it are the word
=. of our own historian James Parton, VIII
says that the chief duty Of each genel
Ii alton is to put better one in il
q place"
IS There is no escape from these concIr
II sions except by denying the social n;
ture of man, the continuity of tn
u human race, and all society and go'
i ernment. challenge any religious, an
social, any decent man to deny then
:, From these conclusions flow all that "
are asking for tonight and more. Frol
= them it follows that the children {
1t society are its growing and most pr
p cious element. The blessed boys an
! girls are the sum and substance of ii