The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-13

in Chicago and the west, was an ex-
traordinary gathering of people.
The hall was crowded to excess and
three thousand people surrounded the
building unable to get in.
The meeting was a vehement one in
the manner it expressed its convictions.
The name of President Cleveland was
received with such a storm of Kisses
and hooting that Henry George, who
was speaking, had to cry whats the
use?"
Damet Harris presided and fntro-
duced Henry George, who was the star
speaker of the evening. The apostle
of 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 the
troops was an arrogant assumption Of
state authority. Mr.. George said he
would rather see all the railway pro-
perty of the country burned up, 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 pur-
chase of judges and legislatures, and
now they wanted to preserve them by
the bayonet, and the arms of the feder-
al troops, and for that purpose the
rights of states were being encroached
upon by the federal authorities.
George then entered inJo a lengthy
condemnation of President Cleveland
and his employment of federal troops
in the west. Every mention of the
presidents name was received with
Kisses and when Mr.. George asked:
What are you going to do about it,
a voice shouted: ''Impeach him."
Hang him." shouted another.
Nearly everybody followed with sug-
gestions until the hall was il an up
roar.
Mr.. George differed from all the rene
dies proposed by his hearers. The sys-
tenn, he said, would have TO be funda-
mentally changed. Strikes were use
less and always 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 mad finished a tele-
gram was received from Samuel Com
pers at Chicago asking that the voice
of labor might be heard from New
York and advising calInnesS and asSur-
ing them of final success.
Frank K. Foster, a lawyer of Boston,
was the next speaker. He, too, de-
nounced President Cleveland and At
torney-G General Olney. Cleveland and
Olney. he said, were passed away bur
the labor power will finally carry all
before it. 1t was a movement of evoiu-
ton, not revolution, and when the wave
was strong enough God help the Pull
mans 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
President Pullman. The trouble arose
out of the arrogant attitude of the lat
ter, who said there was nothing to ar
In conclusion, he affirmed his
belief in the righteousness of the
cause of the present strike. The reso
IutiOns adopted commended the decis-
i've action of the A. r. y. in demand
ing arbitration. Little sympathy was
expressed with violence. but the reso-
lutions demanded the removal of con-
ditions provocative of violence.
Of the authorities at Washington,
the resolutions said:
I've denOunce and condem that per-
version of the functions OF the federal
judiciary by which unprecedented or
ders granted manifestIy on untrue al
legations are made the basis for the
assumption of military authority.
THAT the unWarranted and anti
republican interference of the feder-
al government with the affairs of the
states. even in spite of the protests of
their governors, is an usurpatiOn of
power, which should be condemned by
all liberty loving Americans.
The government was declared to be
in the interest of corporations and
against the liberty and CT
vii rights of citizens.
The Senate was denounced for rush
ing to the defense of monopolies and
in the sacred name of
liberty.
Sympathy was extended for the peo-
pie of California and Congress is ask
ed to foreclose the nations mortgages
On the Pacific railroads.
In conclusion, the workingmen were
,alled upon to use their political
tights.
The meeting then adjourned.