St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-13
COOPER UNION ORATORY.
LABOR LEADERS DEN0UNcE cLsYE-
LAND. 0LNEY AND PULLMAN.
Growers Ns We KISSED.

Henry George Was the Star Ora
tor Of the Occasion The Single
Tax APOSTLE Condemned the
Use OF Federal Troop, and
Endorsed Cows. AItgeld and
stone-Father Ducey speaks.
NEW YORK. July lathe labor dem
onstration held tonight in Cooper Union
to express sympathy with the strikers
at Chicago and the West was ALI extra
ordinary outpouring of people. The
hall was crowded to excess, and 3, 600
people surrounded the building. unable
to get in. The meeting was a vehement
one in the manner it expressed its con-
victIons. The mama OF President Cleve-
land was received wit h such a storm of
misses and hootings that Henry George,
who was speaking, had to cry Whats
the use?"
Damet Harris presided and introduced
Henry George. who was the star speaker
OF the evening. The apostle of single
tax was unusually bitter. Vehemently
ne denounced the use of federal troops
to put down the strikers. Gov. Altgeld
and Gov. Stone were right in the stand
they took, and the action of the presi
dent in sending out the troops was an
arrogant assumption Of authority. Mr..
George said he would rather see all the
railroad property of the country burned
up. all the rails torn up, than to see
II 20 IS
THE NIILLIoNAIREs
made their money by robbery and de-
bauchery, by the purchase of judges
and legislators, and now they wanted
to preserve them by the bayonsts and
the arms of federal troops, and for that
purpose the rights of states were being
encroached upon by the federal author
tiles. Mr.. George then entered into a
lengthy condemnation of President
Cleveland and his employment of fed
eral troops in the West. Every men,
ton of the presidents name was re-
ceived with Kisses. and when Mr..
George asked: what are you going to
do about it?" voice shouted: I'm
peach him."
Hang him." shouted another. Nearly
everybody followed with suggestions
until the hall was in an uproar.
Mr.. George differed with all the rem
edies proposed by his hearers. The
system, he said. would have to be
fundamentally changed. Strikes were
useless, 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 had finished, tele-
gram was received from
SAMUEL GOMPERS,
of Chicago, asking that the voice of the
labor might be heard from New York,
and advising calmness and assuring
them of final success.
Frank K. Foster, lawyer of Boston,
was the next speaker. He, too, de-
nounced President Cleveland and Attor-
ney General Olney. Cleveland and
Olney, he said, would pass away. but
the labor power would finally carry all
before it. 1t was a movement of evolu-
ton, not revolution. and when the wave
was strong enough God help the Pull.
mans, the Carnegies and the Ulneys.
Father Thomas B. Ducey, pastor of
st. Leo's 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 that there was nothing to
arbitrate. In conclusion, he affirmed
his belief i'll the righteousness of the
cause OF the present strike.
THE RESOLUTIONS
adopted commended the decisive action
of the A. r. o. in demanding arbirra-
ton. Little sympathy was expressed
with violence, but the resolutions de-
manded the removal of conditions provo
cative OF violence.
Of the authorities at Washington. the
resolutions said:
I'VE denounce aud condemn that per-
version Of the functions of the federal
Judiciary by which unprecedented or
ders, granted manlfestIy on untrue allie
cations, are made the basis for the as
sumption of military authority.
THAT the unwarranted and antisre-
publican interference of the federal gov
eminent with the affairs of the states,
even Ill spite OF the protests of their
governors, is an usurpation of power
which should be condemned by
all liberty-loving Americans" Thegov-
eminent was declared to be in the inter-
est OF corporations and conspiring
against the liberty and civil rights Of
citizens. The senate was denounced
for rushing to the defense of the mo-
nopolists aad corporations in the sacred
name of liberty. The projection of the
mail service was declared to be mere
pretext. and as private corporations
have shown their inability to perform
their duty as public carriers, conse-
quently congress is asked to nationalize
the railways. Sympathy was extended
to the people of California. and congress
is asked to foreclose the national mort
cages on the Pacific railroads. In con.
clusion the workingmen were called
upon to use their political rights once
more.