The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-13

Henry George and Others Score CIeve-
Land and the Federal Courts.

Henry George and Other8 score [AeF0-
Land and the Federal Courts.
New York, July 13.-The labor
demonstration held last night in
Cooper Union to express sympathy
with the strikers in Chicago and the
West, was an extraordinary outpour-
ing of people. The hall was crowded
to excess, and 5000 people surrounded
the building, unable to get in
The meeting was a vehe ment one in
the manner it expressed its convic-
tions. The name of President Cleve-
land was received with such a storm
Of Kisses and hootings that Henry
George, who was speaking. had to
cry. whats the use?''
Damet Harris presided and intro
duced Henry George, who was the
star speaker of the evening. The
apostle Of single tax was unusually
bitter Vehemently he denounced the
use of federal troops to put down the
strikers.
Governor Altgeld and Governor
Stone were right in the stand they
took. and the action of the president
in sending out troops was an arrogant
assumption of state authority. Mr..
George said he would rather see all
the railway property of the country
burned up, all the rails torn up, than
to see them preserved by force Of
arms.
The millionaires made their money
by robbery and debauchery: by the
purchase of judges and legislatures,
and now they want TO preserve them
by bayOnets and the arms of the fed
eral troops, and for that purpose the
rights of states were being en-
croached upon by the federal author
tiles
Mr.. George then entered into a
lengthy cond e mnation of President
Cleveland and his empl Oyment OF fed
eral troops IN the West. Every men
ton of the presidents name was
received with Kisses, and when Mr..
George asked, 'sWhat are YOU going
to do about it2" a voice shouted, I'm
peach him.
Hang himr' shouted another.
Nearly every body followed with
suggestions until the hall was in an
uproar.
Mr.. George differed from all the
remedies proposed by his hearers
The system, he said, would have to be
fundame ntally changed Strikes were
useless and always resulted in failure.
At this point the speaker drifted into
his we'll know single tax theories.
and told his audience things would be
better when his theories shall have
been adopted
After Mr.. George had finished a
telegram was received from Samuel
Gompers, at Chicago. asking that the
voice of labor might be heard from
New York and advising calmness. and
assuring them of final success
Frank n Fosters lawyer. of Boston,
was the next speaker He. too, de-
nounced President Cleveland and At
torney General Olney-
Father Thomas B. Ducey, pastor Of
St. Leo's church, said the criminal in
this case was not President Debs but
President Pullman.
The resolutions adopted commend
ed the decisive action of the Ameri-
can Railway union in demanding
arbitration. Little sympathy was ex-
pressed with violence, but the reso-
lutions demanded the removal Of con-
ditions provocative of violence
OF the authorizes at Washington
the resolution said: owe denOunce
and condemn that perversion Of the
functions of the federal judiciary by
which unprecedented orders, granted
manifestlv on untrue allegations are
made the basis for the assumption of
military authority
THAT the unwarranted and anti
republican interference of the federal
government with the affairs of the
states. even in spite of the protests Of
their governors, is an usurpatiOn of
power which should be condemned by
al liberty loving Americans"
The -gOvernme mt was declared to be
in the interest of corporations and
consplring against the liberty and
civil rights of citizens