Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08
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ing together on the Enemy--A
Great Mass Meeting in San Fran.
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ward" and Gronlund's Cooper.
atiye Commonwealth" Finding
Ready Purchasers among the
People.
Our California exchanges are brimful
of news and comments relating to the
progress of Nationalism in that State.
Los Angeles has four clubs and two
more are forming. At meeting of
Club No. |. on Jan. 12, the Congrega-
tional minister of that city, Mr.. Wells,
delivered remarkable address on the
wrongs we unnecessarily inflict upon
each other under our present want of
system, and advocating an entire
change in the social programme.
Among other things he sad
"Here, in this new land, uncursed by
the hereditary ills of the Old World, in
the hey-day of our youth and in the
face of vast resources, we are struggling
with the problem of poverty. A strange
and unnatural paradox is presented;
millions of needy men seeking employ.
ment in vain, and untold millions of
capital seeking investment. Compe-
tition among the tillers of the soil COW
ers the farms with mortgages and rent
ers and we are face to face with the
question of tenant farmers.
"You buy suit of clothes for $40.
Cheap? Yes, but horribly dear to some
body.
"The causes for all this are complex,
but among them as chief, the heart of
the evil is this barbaric struggle for
existence.
"Is this the best the race cando Nav,
not the kingdom of God, but Pande-
monium will come along this line. " is
not charity the weak want, but fair
chance.
The present system divides society,
Injuries manhood, is hostile to the spirit
of brotherhood, is inimcal to righteous
ness.
"Walt, says CarlysJe, till your vital
electricity is cut into two isolated por-
tions of positive and negative-of money
and hunger, The stirring of child's
finger brings them together and then
what then? Imagination shrinks from
the vision of things suggested by the
grim pessimi-t
But the patient voice says: Behold,
make all things new" And we dare
to prophesy the coming of day when
all wrongs will be redressed, all contra
dictlons harmonized, all problems solved
and man will summer in brotherhood
here"
Two days later Club No. a of the same
city inaugurated its formation with a
membership of 55, music, songs, recita-
tions and an address by DR.. PEBBLES, in
which he said
"There are two diseases spreading
rapidly throughout the land, both epi-
demic and very contagious. If you
meet man with watery eyes, red nose,
flushed face, sneezing and coughing,
you may know he has an attack of La
Grippe If you meet a man with his
eyes blazing with enthusiasm, his face
aglow with ardor, and he talks of eternal
justice, equality and the increase of hap
piness among the whole human race,
you may feel certain that he has an
attack Of Nationalism
In Oakland, Ocean View, Compton,
Santa Monica, Santa Anna, Long Beach,
Ventura, Pasadena, San Jose and many
other places, there are clubs which
make their weekly meetings very at
tractive by excellent entertainments be-
fore and after the lectures. The result
of this is. hat many young people attend
the meetings and become thoroughly
'nationalized. In lecture at Ocean
View lately, Burnette G. Haskell, seeing
many young faces in his audience,
directed his remarks more particularly
to them. THE ancient, old fogies had
done their work." he said, "and were
entitled to be put on the retired list;
but the success of the movement for in
dustrial justice depended mainly on the
young men, who had just attained man
hood and we're about to take the reins
of government"
On January 10, great mass meeting
of Nationalists was held at Metropolitan
Temple in San Francisco. The hall was
packed to overfowing aud hundreds of
people were unable to gain admittance.
The special object of the vast gathering
was to protest against the extravagant
price put upon its property by the
Spring Valley Water Company. which
has monopoly OF the water supply and
will not surrender it to the city for a
sum less than twenty-fi million dol
lars. Mr.. Gator, who was the chief
speaker, stated that the water rates
charged In San Francisco were five