The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-08-03
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.
The Rights of Labor.

lOhl SpCNSil d1 u lhuFco iUboI iiASN0
inc in New York at the close of the
strike, which was not published in
any of the daily papers except the
New York World, but was de-
nounced by the plutocrat dailies,
as incendiary, demagogic, anarchis-
tic, socialistic, and by all the adjec-
tives Of abuse possible to use.
These papers condemn everybody
and every complaint against cor
poratiou outrages as "anarchistic." "
But the public are fast getting on
to their dodge, they have so long
palmed off shoddy goods on them
that every statement made by these
organs of the gold aristocracy is
received with doubt of it's truth.
II came here tonight at consid-
cradle personal inconvenience" he
said. 81 came here to discharge
what I believe to be a duty. /
came here to talk to you as | have
always talked, frankly and plainly.
| am not an equivocatOr. In some
things | do not agree with the men
who have invited me to come here.
In some things | probably differ
from the majority of this audience.
| do not believe in strikes. Kisses
and faint cheers l am not dis
posed to denounce George M. Pull
man. prolonged hisses and
groans. / am here as a citizen, as
Democrat"
This statement set the audience
crazy with excitement. At first
there was faint applause. Then
came a storm of Kisses, groans and
catcalls.
"I came here as a Democrat of
the kind,n he continued, "who,
from his great tariff message in 1887
has earnestly and with all my
strength and ability supported
Grover Cleveland, but now stand
here to protest against his actions. "
This was quite a different sort of
a Democrat and one to the liking of
the crowd, 50 they cheered Mr..
George quite as heartily as they
had before hooted him.
KISSES TURNED TO CHEERS.
~ came here to say what no
daily paper in New York City
dared to say-that the action of
Grover Cleveland was in violation
of the fundamental principles OF
our government, and was, there
fore, dangerous to the existence OF
the republic. Gov. Altgeld loud
cheering] has spoken the true
Democratic doctrine. You men
who are kissing the name of democ-
racy know no more about that doe
trine than do the Democrats of this
city. The democracy that [ am
talking about, the democracy to
which | belong and as a represen-
tative of which | stand here, is the
democracy of Thomas Jefferson. 1t
is not the false democracy of today,
but it is the true democracy, the
democracy that believes in equal
rights, the democracy that would
crush under its foot mOnopolieS
Cheers. 1t is not the democracy
which now rules, but the democ
racy that / hope soon will. [Cheers. ]
~ am not a lawyer. | have
had no time to make special study
of the matter we are considering
from a legal standpoint. / cannot
say how far, if at all, the president
has violated the written law of the
land, but this l do say positively
He has violated that law which il
greater than the written law; ; ht
has violated the fundamental prin
ciple of our government. ICheers.
"The doctrine that the fedora
power should be slow to interfer,
in that in which it Is not directly
concerned has been violated, ant
that doctrine is the foundation ston,
of our republic. Gov. Altgeld i,
right. [Cheers.] If the standin!
army has to be sent into the state
of this nation as it has been il
Illinois and other states what shal
the end be; We shall need
standing army of hundreds O
thousands of men. The mOmen
that this is an acknowledged fac
= the republic dies. Then we Nigh
t just as well constitute ourselves a
, a monarchy or as any other form G