The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-25
A RED HOT MEETING.
A FIERY SPEECH-THE STRIK-
ERS SUSTAINED.


to Overf1owing-3,O 900 Can't Get
in-Henry George and Others Ar
raign Cleveland.
Last week tremendous meeting
of labor unions and others was held in
Cooper Institute; New York. An i'm
mense crowd could not get in and or
ganiZed an overflow meeting out of
doors. We quote extracts from some
of the speeches.
One speaker said:
'There will be an ms urrection
Voice, II hope sou but it won't be un-
til November. and then there will be
deadly rain of ballots" declared the
speaker, with something Of an anti
climax tone. ANY one who tells you
this strike is lost is poor fool; no
strike was ever lost; the greater the
defeat the greater the victory"
The audience didn't fully compre-
bend this, and 50 he went on to say
that if it should be necessary.he hoped
they would all strike. This struck the
audience in the right place and the ap-
plause, mingled with cheers, was long
and hearty. He then said that if the
officials of his organization told him
to strike he would stop work the next
morning. The applause and yells last
ed fully minute.
Henry George made a powerful
speech, in which he said:
want to speak with the utmost re-
spect of Mr.. Cleveland (Hissing, loud
and prolonged.)
No man has received at the hands
of the American people such high
honor as he, simply because he sound
ed the keynote of the battle against
monopoly, yet from the very first he
has taken the side of the monstrous
monOplieS which have crushed the peo-
pie, and one of his earliest acts was the
appointment of man VIGOROUSLY
corporation lawyer as attorney-gener-
al. (Hisses.)
You have heard of the senate inves.
tigation into the Sugar TRISTAN in
vestigation that was designed to do
too, by reliable man in the city Of
Washington that he had heard from a
Democratic senator of the United
States that the Whiskey Trust ought
to be considered, because the Whiskey
Trust had contributed 100000 to Mr..
Cleveland's election. (Hisses). Wheth-
er the railroads contributed anything
| don't know.
What are we going to do about it?
(Cries of impeach him"o What about
this strike? A general strike could &C
complish nothing. 1t is test of en-
durance, and who will endure the long
est, the rich or the poor? (Cries of the
poor."O No, the rich will endure the
longest. They always do. And as to
arbitration, the rich in the long run
would be sure to get the arbitrator.
Are you prepared then to submit
submit to arbitration which would be
merely cheap way of compellig you
to work for low wages? (Cries of "No.")
Another suoges ton is that the other
labor unions should contribute so that
the employees of Pullman could leave
that town. What good would that do?
Where would these men go? There is
not town in America today in which
there are not more men looking for
work than are able to get it. The la
Dor movement is on wrong basis. 1t
is the fundamental right of man to
work where he likes, for whom he likes
and for what wages he likes. The only
true remedy is the single tax on land
prolonged applause.)
Frank K Foster, of Boston,, a young
man who spoke with easy grace. fol-
lowed Mr.. George. He said in part:
The cause for which this meeting
stands is for now and for all time.
Gov. Altgeld is right in his protest
against federal interference. The la
Dor movement of today is on the right
| basis. 1t is movement of law and
order. one of evolution, not revolution
God help this country when the wage
earners come to the conclusion, eX-
pressed by Pullman, that there is moth
inc to arbitrate. If the military pow
er is to be the court of appeals, land the
judiciary is to be an annex to the rail
way corporations, we have only one
means of relief, and that is at the
polls.
Father Ducey speaks for his church:
Father Ducey was then introduced
and received hearty welcome from
the crowd. Before reading written
speech, he said he wanted his hearers
| to listen with a judicial mind and ap-
plaud all they wanted TO. but not hiss
! the name Of any person. The Catho-
| lie church was the church of the
masses, he said, and he had felt it was
his duty as priest of that church to
plead the cause or the masses. The
| United States of America was the land
! of the mass and not of the class, the
land Of law for the people and by the
people. He denounced George M. Pull
man as the one who had tried to be the
| dictator by refusing to have arbitra-
ton. Mr.. Pullman, he declared, should
have learned that charity for alp of
which Abraham Lincoln spoke.
At the outside meeting speakers
were Edward King, George K. Lloyd,
az tho tin and chpnt irnn WnrknrS.