The Press., 1890-08-14
THE VOLCANO AT THE NORTH.

Following is the speech of General Haw- ley Tn the senate, in reply to MT. George as printed in the Congressional Record
 MT. Hawley-I have listened with a good deal of surprise to most of the remarks made by the senator from Mississippi I MT. Georgel, though I think I have heard something very much like them before, which which received quite conclusive cuntYa-- diction and instruction, apparently with out any effect. It is very singular, when we reflect upon his history and the history of his state, that he should tell us with so much solemnity and with an apparent ap- pearance of entire sincerity that we of the north were living on volcano, and that if we should continue to rob the laboring man and take so large fraction of his wealth to put into the coffers of the rich, etc, we might expect-and then the solemnity of the shake of his head and foreinger was such that I saw before me the horrors of San Domingo.
 Does he wish to go to Mississippi He is quite welcome in Connecticut-quite vel come to come and supplement the negro minstrels with that kind of amusement be- fore our people but I wonder if he thinks it worth while to go down into Mississippi, where large portion of the population is not so we'll instructed in their social con- dition and rights and preach that doctrine He said something like this It is a query whether all this wealth Saying that one hundred thousand people owned more than half the whole wealth of the nation) I is not part of the heritage of the labor ing man, whether he is not entitled to his share. He compels me to remember that it is but short time since the majority of the people of Mississippi were slaves and | hal f,r less and suppose they now-unless tho statute of Limitations has run against them should declare that the wealth of Miss issippi belongs to the black men who earned it, what would become of the white man who went about Mississippi preaching that doctrine there?
 l invite him to go with his communism where we live, but 1 warn him it is not healthy to preach such things at home. I return the compliment. When he runs from state to state and takes just the blacksmith or engineer, he. finds in one place one gets $l 25 and another $2.5 50 he teaches us nothing. He gives us no in- formation. One engineer of twenty years experience runs ,OO0- horse power engine ill mill where 2,OO0 people are at work. gence, often worthy to sit in this place. tell you, gentlemen, we'll informed on all these questions, and if he does not get $5 or $S day he docs not get all he is worth. Another is boy of 21, running 15- horse power engine in a saw mill, and glad to get his board and BIO month for a part of the year, and he knows just as we'll as we do the difference in wages and in time between men at different times and at different places. That matter makes nothing. I do not think he is judge of these things. He provokes me to ask him what blacksmiths were worth, what they used to be worth-blacksmiths, carpen- ters, shoemakers, and all that class the whole man out for all time in the south. They were worth anywhere from $600 to $2000, according to their skill. They were the skilled mechanics of the south, these black men who are fit for very little now in the judgment of some of these gentle men.
 The senator referred in half courteous way to Connecticut, and yet it was little aggravating when the figures are so extra ordinary. I am amazed that such gen. tleman should challenge any comparison.
 The area of Mississippi is 46,810 square miles, that of Connecticut 4,990. Miss issippi has nine times as much-nearly ten times. It is over niue times as large as Connecticut suppose from what have heard it has a good deal of wealth in it's soil and it's trees. It is capable of SUD- porting very much larger population. There is no reason, judge, from the ex- tent of its water power, why it should not have something of manufacturing. Well, the population of little Connecticut was