The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-13
Co0PHn UNToK CROWDED.
Strike ,sympathizers strongly Denounce
 the President.

Strike sympathissrs strongly Denounc.
 the President.
 New York, July 12.-The labor dem.
 bnstration at Cooper Union tonight
 was one of the most extraordinary out
 pourings of people ever seen in this
 pity. The meeting was called to ex.
 press sympdthy with the strikers in
 Chicago and eisewhsre in the west and, as an expression of sympathy, it was a
 decided success.
 Daniel Harris, who presided, in a brief speech introduced MT. George. He proved the star speaker. He was more than usually vehement in denun- ciation of the use of federal troops to put down the strikers. In the stand they took, he said, Governor Altgeldt and Governor Waite were right, and the action of the president in sending troops was an arrogant assumption of authority. He would rather see all the railroad property of the country burned = 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 legislators and now they want to preserve them by the bayonets and arms of federal troops, and for that purpose the rights of states were being enoroached upon by the federal authorities. Then Mir. George entered into g lengthy condem- nation of President Cleveland who, he said, from the first had taken the part of the capitalists against the strikers. Every mention of the presidents name was greeted with storm of hisses. MT. George further condemned the presi- dent for his appointment of federal off, oers in the vest
 ''What are you going to do about it2'' he asked. "Impeaoh him." shouted one voice. "Hang him." another sug- gested. Nearly everybody seemed to have remedy. Mir. George, however, differed from all these suggestions. He said the system would have to be fun damentally changed. The condition of tho laborsrs oould. net be improved by strikes, because there was no city, town or hamlet in the country where there were not men to take the places of the strikers. Unionism, with its weapon, the strike, always has been failure.
 Then, getting in word in favor of his pet theory, MT. George said that the key to the labor question ley in the land question and the destruction of monopoaies lay in the adoption of the single tax idea. There were a few hisses at this, but they were drowned in the greater volume of cheers.
 When Mr. George sat down the chair man read telegram from Samuel Com psrs. fron Chicago which asked that voice of labor should be heard from New York, adviDing them to be calm and dstarmined and assuring them that the cause of labor would finally be tri- nmphant. ..
 'Fredsraok K. Tostar of Boston, ex- member of the executive committee of the Knights of Labor, was the next speaiear. He began by paying his re- spects to the Thigh legal luninary' whom the president had seen fit to appoint to hA the important post of attorney gsneraL
 ''We, the people of Boston. however, do not wish to assume the responsibili- ty attaching to his disgraceful acts" he said. We might say harsh things of him. but this Is sn era of indictments and omnibus in3anctlons, and we see fit to appeal to 8 court of higher authori- ty than that Of the club or the bayonet | Two bring our appeal bsfore the bar of the common people whose final verdict ] In this issue shaM De supreme. We Bos- tonfans do not hold you of New York entirely guiltless h t1iis matter, and we I might ssy harsh things to you for the man.Eho 90 forgot hfs dignltyro onlce