The morning call., 1894-07-13

| manner it expressed its convictions. Inc
name OF President Cleveland was received
with such storm of Kisses and hootings,
that Henry George who was speaking, had
to cry, Whats the useP"
Damet Harris presided and introduced
Henry George, who was the star speaker
of the evening. The apostle of the single
tax was unusually bitter. Vehemently he
denounced the use OF Federal troops to put
down the strikers. Governors Altgeld and
Stone were right in the stand they tooK'
and the action of the President in sending
out troops was an arrogant assumption OF
State authority. Mr.. George said ne
would rather see all the railway property
of the country burned up, all tie rails torn
up. than to see them preserved by torce OF
arms. The millonaires made their money
| by robbery and debauchery, by the pnr-
chases of Judges and legislatures, and
now they wanted to preserve them Dy the
bayouet and the arms of the Federal
troops, and for that purpose the rights OF
States were being encroached upon by the
Federal authorities.
Mr.. George then entered into lengthy
condemnation of President Cleveland and
his employment of Federal troops IN the
West. Every mention of the Presidents
name was received with Kisses. When Mr.
George asked:
what are you going to do about itP"
A voice shouted out '1mpeach him
Hang bimW shouted another
Nearly everybody followed with sugges-
tions until the hall was in an uproar.
Mr.. George differed from all the remedies
proposed by his hearers. The system, he
said, would have to be fundamentally
changed. Strikes were useless, and al
ways resulted in failure. At this point
the speaker drifted into his well-known
single-tax theories and told his audience
things would be better when his theories
shall have been adopted.
After Mr.. George had fnisheda telegram
was received from Samuel GOmpers at
Chicago asking that the voice of labor
might be heard from New York and ad-
visiDg calmness and assuring them of final
success.
Frank K. Foster, a lawyer of Boston.
was the next speaker. BE, too, denounced
President Cleveland and Attorney-General
OIney. Cleveland and Olney. he said,
would pass away, but the labor power
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movement of evolution, not revolution,
and when the wave was strong enough
God help the Pullmans, the Carnegies and
the OlneYs.
Father Thomas B. Ducey, pastor of ST.
Lees Church. said the criminal in this
case was not President Debs, but Presl-
dent Pullman. The trouble arose out of
the arrogant attitude of the latter, who
said there was nothing to arbitrate. In
conclusion be affirmed his belief in the
righteousness of the cause of the present
strike.
The resolutions adopted commended the
| decisive action of the A. +. u. in demand
| ing arbitration. Little sympathy was ex-
| pressed with violence, but the resolutions
| demanded the removal of conditions pro-
Yocative of violence.
OF the authorities at Washington the
resolutions said:
1--WE denounce and condemn that per
version of the functions of the Fedora
Judiciary by which Unprecedented orders
| granted manifeStly on untrue allegations
are made the basis for the assumption Of
military authority.
"The unwarranted and anti-rep publican
interference of the Federal Government
with the affairs of the States, even in spite
Of the protests of their Governors. is {
usurpation of power which should be con
demned by all liberty-loving Americans
The Government was declared to be IL
the interest of corporations and conspirnG
against the liberty ana civil rights o.
citizens. The Senate was denounced fol
rushing TO the defense of monopolies ant
corporations in the sacred name OF liberty
Sympathy was extended to the people o.