Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-21
ARE GOING no nATIFY.
The ropulists and Labor Union Men
to Hold n Large Meeting.

At Odd Fellows hall, corner Four
tcenth and Houston, the worlingmen's
Political Reform club held their regu-
lar meeting Thursday night There was
a good attendance, when the multitude
of counter MISUNDERSTANDING Pete
Dury's wedding-are considered.
The meeting was called to order by
President Hartman. whose rendered
resignation was, by request. Withdrawn
until the next meeting.
A ratification meeting was decided
upon. to be held in the county court
room on Monday evening next. pro-
vided the room could be secured. at
which eloquent speakers will be pres
emit
Judge John NJ. Moore. candidate for
county attorney ON the combined
worhngmen's and Populists ticket,
was called upon for a speech, and re-
sponded In an impromptu talk OF an
hour, which was received with many
marks of appreciation. Judge Moore
declared his membership in the Peo-
pies party TO be the result of the hui
man sympathy which persuaded him.
Seeing all around him evidences, con-
stantly multiplying, OF want in the
midst of plenty. OF enforced idleuess,
where wealth untold awaited but the
touch of the laborer's willing hands TO
spring from mother carth's fruitful
bosom; seeing periodically recurring
seasons of abnormal depression when
labor, oppressed beyond the power OF
patience to control, rebelled against
the conditions, and strikes and boy
colts, with their attendant violence,
devastated the land; seeing, also, that
each recurring upheayal Of this kind
exceeded In strength and violence the
one preceding ;al these things, and
more, being forced upon his attention,
he was led to look for a cause. Failing
10 ind Fuch cause in any natural law,
as a belief In an all-wise providence,
precluded the idea that such condi-
tons were part of the plan Of crea-
ton, he was led to look for their cause
IN man-made laws Such investigation
inevitably led 10 the conclusion that
monopoly, bred by law and protected
by law, was responsible entirely for
the misft conditions. He had found
monopoly to have three divisions that
bore directly and heavily upon the
people ana prevented the operation Of
natural laws. These We're monopoly
OF land, OF transportation and of
money. Judge Moore then paid some
attention 10 criticism of returt
made by him to the effect that "A man
should be able to make enough before
breakfast to support him all day. The
criticl1er had assailed him as an enemy
of labor for this assertion, when, as
matter of fact, the increase I'm the
power of man to produce, brought
about by the invention and perfection
OF labor saving appliances, had been
not less than twelye-fold In the past
$50 years. so that, II man could pro-
duce enough in twelve hours to sup
port himself at that time, one hour
should be sufficient now to achieve the
same result.f Referring to the recent
strike, judge Moore declared that while
all strikes wore expensive and UNI
profitable, ard would be found TO he
unnecessary II the wurlSingmcn of the
county would act together in the cor
rectiun of existing evils through legis-
lation, they We're an evidence of the
existence In the breasts of the strikers
of that noble sentiment of human
sympathy which considers IAN injury
to one the concern of all" This sym
patty is recognized and applauded
until the effect Of the operation OF IL
reuches the pockets OF the public. when
they see nothing to commend. but
everything to condemn In its exer-
else. With an eloquent eulogy of
Judge Nugents qualities Of head and
heart, which was loudly applauded,
the speaker declared that this knowl-
edge of She leader OF the Popullsts, the
knowledge that the party was founded
on the mudsllls Of society the laboring
masses who alone had ever been able
to bring about any great reform, had
led him to align himself with that
! party III the strike will but lead to
the naturalization of the railway
I systems OF the country, It viii wen re-
pay MI of the cost--cXcept the de-
structlon OF human life. which nothing
can repay-and the number Of prom
incnt thinkers and writer's who have
been led during the past few days to
espouse the cause OF such nationaliza-
| tions points to the early accomplish
ment OF this reform"
After some informal discussion by
| the members present. the club ad-
! juurned.