The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-05-19
GEN. MASTER WORKMAN sovesflsn.
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His Speech 1t Dsnvsr--What the ). Of
L. Army Would Do II Called Upon.
From the Denver News.
A tremendous crowd gathered At
the Coliseum hall last night to hear
General Master Workman Sover-
eign. The programme was opened
with music. In the midst Of the
music Mr.. Sovereign entered the
hall. Some one caught sight Of
him and began to applaud. and as
the general master workman and
Governor Waite, the chairman of
the evening, stepped upon the plat
form applause shook the great
building.
Governor Waite in opening the
meeting, said that there could be
no victory and no progress without
organization. This the plutocratic
classes we'll understood, and their
organization was perfect. Trusts
and corporations had taken posses
sion especially of the United States
senate, whose members were their
paid hirelings. Colorado was to-
day unrepresented in the senate, be
declared, by two gentlemen who, If
the charges made when they were
elected, and never denied, are true,
we're sent to that body by fraud.
II am proud tonight" he said,
"to do honor to one who, under
God, I believe to be doing more
than any >other living man to con-
centrate the sentiment OF the work
ing classes and organize them for
the preservation of their liberties
Jas. R. Sovereign, = warrior true az
steel, and sovereign of our hearts"
A shout went up when the youth
full but famous knight of labor
stepped to the front. II should be
less than human" said he, iii l did
not thank tho people Of Denver for
the reception they have given me.
ut was impossible" he said, Tin
this day and age, to maintain an
order with 200, 900 people with evil
for its basic principle. Only grand
and honorable principles can hold
such an order together in America,
the center of civilization and the
garden of the world. There are ap-
proximately 100000 human be-
ings, roaming the avenues of this
republic, being nodded into felons,
or wearing out miserable exist
ence in the chain gang. We have
had neither famine, war nor pesti-
lence. There must be something
fearfully wrong in our social and
industrial conditions. We have
been an industrious and ingenious
people. Truth and error are always
the gladiators in the arena Of hu-
man life. Right and wrong are the
positive and negative forces of the
human mind. There is never a
revolution even in the material
world which does not involve right
and wrong, freedom and slavery.
The cotton gin made slavery profit
able in the South, and it took bill
ions of treasure and millions of
lives to suppress it. Yet how small
an invention was that compared to
the wonderful inventions of the
last generation.
us it any wonder that steam and
electricity have produced totally
new industrial conditions? We cut
down the trees, we make them into
pulp, we run it through the press,
we take it 10 the breakfast table and
read the orders of all the generals
of the world twelve hours from the
lips of the giver, and We call it the
Rocky Mountain News"
The speaker drew lively picture
of the difference wrought by the
marvellous inventions of the pres.
ent. He showed his entire famil-
iarty with every branch Of labor,
and found fertile field for the ex-
hibition Of his ready wit and hui
NOR. His audience was kept in a
continuous roar of laughter, until
suddenly the speaker brought them
up short with the fact that all these
improvements and wonderful labor
and time.saving inventions had not
lightened the labor of life, or bet.
tered its condition one whit.
WHAT THE coxEY MOVEMENT MEANS.
1.-THE milkman who waters his
milk" he said, lis sent to Jail. The
railroad magnate who waters his
stock is sent to congress. We want
the lesser thief punished, but we
don't want the greater thief placed
as a bright and shining light in the
galaxy Of the republic. And if the
Coxey movement means anything
| or the meeting of Coxey's sympa'
thizers this afternoon, the people
will soon demand that the railroad'
| be run for their benefit by the gov
eminent. Banks may be necessary
under present conditions for thu
transaction of business, but tn
issuance Of money is no part of
banks duties. It is q function 0
government. Labor pays the inter
est every day. The government
anld ;,saf na wall NIT ont fh0 ne0