St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-10
WHAT W0RKINGMEN SAY
ABOUT THE MEX VINO opposed THE
BOND ISSUE
ON HAxmARkEr SQUARE.

Several Thousand of the lUnem.
ployed Hold Mass Meeting
Speeches Made in Which Al
dermen and Others Are Sc
verely Censured Mannix
Comes in for Roast.
The failure of the city council Friday
night to pass favorably upon the matter
of the Issuance OF the 100000 worth
of bonds gave the unemployed chance
yesterday morning to score the alder
men who voted against the resolution.
The meeting was large one. several
thousand men gathering on Haymarket
square. There was no disorder. and
the speakers were applauded in a deco
rous though enthusiastic manner. While
the meeting was in progress Mayor
Eustis and his secretary. Joseph Man.
nix, drove up. Loud calls were made
for them to mount the stand, but they
declined. Arthur Keep, the -'iery
young Englishman" of the Knights of
Labor, called the meeting to order and
made few Introductory remarks. He
CdltVo ottC1dtiOu ~ thC oSotOiVheo thoe
the registration books were padded !;
also to the assertion said to have been
made by Mr.. Mannix that the men who
gathered on Haymarket sqnare were
for the most part buns who did not
want work. Mr.. Mannix came in for a
''hot roast" and the crowd cheered Mr..
Keep for giving it.
E. l.. Writ, in a speech, said that
more than 5000 men i'll the city were
without employment and a large per-
centage of them were not registered at
all. If something is net done to aid all
these unemployed there will undOubt-
eddy be bread riots next fall. for men
did not intend to starve in the midst of
plenty.
At this point of MIR. Wirt's speech,
! Arthur Keep broke in with the remark
that the men who said the committee
knowingly allowed the registration
books to be padded was liar. Then
he read the names of the aldermen who
voted against the bonds, saying. "Thev
are all Did hard-shell plutocrats who
live in aristocratic wards and don't see
any of U.S."
The address of the meeting was made
by Rev. Sample. His SPEECH was a
stirring one, and among other things he
said:
I'VE are told that we are viole mt; that
our utterances are anarchlStlc; that the
only meaning to this is political one.
OF course, all of you have left good
places to come here to hear political
speeches. No one desires more than
the members of the committee that the
books should be carefully scrutiniZed.
1t will be easy to find the false entries.
These assertions are made by parties
who hale this movement. and would
rather see you starve than that anything
should be done except through their
politics. They seem to think that be-
cause some scoundrels have registered
that all the remaining ones should go
without bread; that it is better LOCI
innocent worthy men should suffer than
that one guilty man should be allowed
to register and to refuse work when it
! was offered him. This Is humanity, ism,
it? This is sympathy, isn't it?
II am called believer in heretical
doctrines. an anarchist. terrible nihii.
ist, for the part l have taken in this
matter. Well, 1 do think suffering
wives and children are of slightly more
| Importance than private schemes. They
| say that nave an ak to grind. have
| 5000, If you please. OIe for every ul-
| employed man in the city who wants
work, but 1 resent as falsehoods the
| statements that have any sectaiian
| political or personal ak to grind. Ii
had l would accept the offers for sub
seriptions to peoples meetings, PROVIDED
!, that l would not talk abOutsingle tax.
/ Friends, you want to remember tht
linen who voted for the bonds last night
and you also want to remember the mel
who voted against them. Haunt theil
homes. Call at their offices. They viii
he glad to see you. and you must lie
them see that there are a few men GU
of work i'll this city,"
Tom Lucas made speech in which
he cited figures flOm the city comp
troller's report showing the salaries .
the city officials. He said the cit!
attorney. was paid q. 800 a year TO
interpreting technicalities between thu
unemployed and their bread and butter
The meeting was adjourned until mex
Monday morning.