St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-01

ofthe Labor Congress.
CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-Mrs. Lease, of
Kansas, was at the labor congress to-
day. She spoke on the relation of the
farmers to the labor question, and de-
clared that they and they alone can
solve the great problem. When she
spoke of the financial troubles she
threw her voice out with tremendous
force. You in the cities cannot solve
the labor question:" she said. I'VE
i'll Kansas can do it. The hydra-head
of slavery dare not raise on the sun
burned prairies of Kansas, for there the
spirit of John Brown still survives and
would overcome such oppression. You
may starve and club your laborers here
III Chicago. That way of doing bust
ness is not tolerated in free Kansas"
She assaulted the plutocracy aud its
plutocratic press with the most
Savage Words
the dictionary afforded, and alluded to
the contemplate Hoke Smith journal
in terms of particular bitterness. The
Republican aud Democratic parties got
a severe dressing down also.
You had chance to escape from
this miserable condition of things" she
Kissed in rage. ''Last fail you should
have voted for the friend of liberty, but
you voted for your Harrison and your
Cleveland, and now see what such ac
ton has brought you to. 1t is mt ret
ribution. Go home and attend to the
babies, and we women will do the duty
you have not the courage 10 perform"
Mrs. Lease spoke very rapidly, and
her ferocious onslaught made many of
the women in the audience viSibly quail.
She denounced Col. Hughes, who re-
fused to obey the governors command
to muster the militia against the legisIa-
ture which resisted the Populists' in
auguration. Laboring men, she de-
clared. are nothing more than slaves.
She advised the laborer to resort 10 the
ballot to remedy the evil. With great
vigor she
Denounced the Police
for clubbing the unemployed and de-
clared that there was no longer any free
speech, free press, or free aSSemblage.
She gave the silver question crack too,
and said that both the old political par
ties belong body and soul to Wall street.
Gen. Weaver was called upon, and
pursued the same vein. On the plat
form was NJ. Victor Delahaye, of Paris.
the famous French labor leader, and
Thomas j. Woods. of Crown Point. Mr..
Woods spoke upon Labor and Its Pro
lection"
NJ Delahaye read an interesting paper
on 1.-The Contemporary Struggle Be
tween Capital and Labor" in which he
detailed history OF industrial troubles
in Europe. Augustus jacobson, OF Chi
cago. read paper written by Felix
Adler, of the Society of Ethical Culture,
Philadelphia. on the topic moral Forces
III: the Settlement of the Labor Cues
tion."
Tonight the congress discussed Pub
lie Schools and Industrial Conditions"
The speakers were Rev. John p.
COyle, of North Adams, Mass; Charles
r. Hamm, of New York; Augustus ia
cobson. Chicago, and Prof. E. w. BemiS,
of the University of Chicago.
Mrs. Lease and Gen. Weaver repeated
their speeches in the single tax con-
gress, and demoraliZed the business ses-
sion of the conference. Among other
things Mrs. Lease said there was hemp
enough raised to hang every landlord in
the country. Gen. Weaver expressed
his sympathy with the single tax move
ment, and was applauded for the senti-
ment. The delegates then discussed
their DIatfOrm