Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-18
masses of the oppressed are rising and demanding their rights.

demanding their rights.
 saw many beautiful countries, he continued, but in each l saw also much shocking wretchedness. l saw in Rome the disinherited hunger and freeze, while another portion of the population rolled in luxury, Similar conditions met my eyes in France; yet in France the time Is at hand when the proletarians will burst the shackes which the present republic is | fastening upon them. London pre- sented to me an inspiring spectacle. There the social question is up before all the layers of society, and is discussed everywhere. Workingmen, capitalists, professors, all are bending their thoughts upon this all-absorbing question. The signs of the coming social revolution are there visible everywhere Half mil. lion workingmen assembled ip one day at Hyde Park If Bismarck Mad had a flea in his ear, all our papers would have taken notice of it. But Wallstreet took care that none of our papers should properly notice that wonderful mani festation. At the right time, Wind sor Castle and the whole navy and army of Great Britain will be swept away as so many cobwebs. This revolution bids fair to be a peaceful one, provided the ruling class recognize it. Woe unto them, however, if they should dare to oppose it. They will be ground to dust. In Germany a million and half of Social
 st votes have brought that question up for permanent discussion; and Bis
 marck, the man of iron, and of the iron jaw-where are you, Bismarck? Ameri. cans! Do not lag behind your German and European brothers. America is the land of authorized revolutions. On ward, ye men of toll, lay the foundation for better society ,and raise the system of industrial cooperation upon the prin- ciple of liberty, equality and fraternity.
 Telegrams from several parts of the country sending words of greeting were then read. A motion was carried that the meeting send to the Socialist Con
 gress, now assembled in Halle, Germany, a congratulatory telegram; and after the band had played the "Marseillaise" and the Socialist Liedertafel had sung several selections, the other speakers were introduced.
 Alexander Jonas said Socialists were not inclined to indulge in qualifications of men. Everyone working in the cause,
 be he ever so little known, was deserving of the same praise as those who fought ill more conspicuous places. In joining to do honor to John Swinton. however, Labor not only honored itself, it also met in demonstration in favor of the Socialist idea. This was an interna- tional demonstration. At time when, owing to such laws as the Mckinley
 bill, the nations of the earth were stirred
 to mutual hatred, the workingmen dem. onstrated their solidarity by joining
 Americans, Germans, Russians, Irish,
 Italians, Poles, etc.--in an acknowledge
 ment of their obligations to John
 Swinton for his services to their cause.
 In few we eks these same workingmen
 would have an opportunity to prove
 their conviction still further and by voting the ticket of the Socialist Labor
 party, to emancipate themselves from
 their oppressors.
 Daniel DeLeon followed. He said it
 was ten years ago when for the first
 time he saw John Swinton, in this very hall, at memorial service to Karl Marx, the man whose scientific works, ever since their publication, have been the file at which the serpent of capitalism
 had been idly gnawing, and the prick
 against which the donkey of bourgeois. dom had been fruitlessly kicking. Before and since, John Swinton had always
 been found on the side of the class that 2 suffers as against that that does wrong Other men had come and gone; other men, like the king in the doggerel, with 6S, no men had marched up the hill oi ! the labor movement in New York, and
 then had marched down again to hunt , the fesh-pots in the camp of capitalism but, true to his ius! !incts, John Swintor l, unswervingly championed the cause ol justice, and was to day noble illustra z tion of that American manhood, which T T differently from the sneaks that sian dered the good name of America, boldly
 recognized and asserted the truth tha America was the land of ''authorizec 1, , revolutions" The speaker, who wal ! introduced as Nationalist, then turned Il to MT. Swinton and expressed the con viction that he expressed the sentiments :, not of the audience only, but of tht solid phalanx of Nationalsts throughou 2 the land in welcoming back to Americ, U T the veteran champion of Labor, in hop a a ing that John Swinton may be long pre- served to them to add dignity to thei
 cause, to cheer and to direct them.
 E. StoIeschnikoff followed in the Rus siaL language with few spirited re . marks. Then August Delabar wa Y introduced as the standard bearer of tn party during the campaign, and in tn r name of the c. L. F. extended to Johl . Swinton the greetings of that organiza !, tion. A. Cahan closed the ceremonie h with an address in the German-Jewisl ;, dialect that, with its fervor, electrifie' . even those who could not understand il U Throughout the proceedings the great "A s est enthusiasm prevailed and the speal II ers were intprrIptpd with frpuupnt an