Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-15
ews of the Leader on tie Recent
Great National Railway
Strike.
10 ARE THE CONSPIRATORS?
General Managers Association
Held Up to the Gaze Of
the Public.

A.aKsSsU., lectured at the opera house
Sunday night to a good-sized audience,
inClu1ing many ladies, but it was not
ns1Sly so large as the man and his sub
jocfs deserved. The lecture was a lengthy
lnla4Nend was frequently interrupted with
apppianse.
a8M5HNN& THE MEETING.
After an overture by the orchestra the
lecturer, accompanied by President }. r..
Chenevert of the local A. r. U. and
other we'll known gentlemen in labor
~cirUles, entered upon the stage amid the
appliance OF the audience.
ME. Chenevert as chairman of the
meeting said it was extremely gratifying
To- 1850 large an audience in attendance
especially 30 many ladies, particularly
90 IL was Sunday evening. Mr.. Debs
hardly needed an introduction to any
audience in the United States, but he
would cay that he was a native of In
diana, had been a member of the legis-
lAture Of that state, and was a working
Q He had served as a locomotive
freman and had edited the Fireman's
Magazine, one of the abjest papers Of it's
class In the land. lie is a man of con-
yiCti0ns and is fully able to discuss in
telligently the all-important labor ques-
tion. [Applause.
When Mr.. nebs arose he was met with
,~prolonged applause and when it had
subsidized he began his lecture.
Mr.. DEBs' LECTURE.
Ladies and Gentlemen: There are
many thousands who view with alarm
the unrest that prevails in the land, and
who feel that self government is to be a
failure. / am not of hat class. ] be.
lieve Ia the increasing intelligence of the
masses and am filled with hope that that
intelligence will land the ship of state
safe In port. The outlook just at pres
emit 10 not especially cheerful, tho prog
ress 10 slow, painfully slow, but the pro-
cession IL headed in the right direction.
The working people are now beginning
to think and think seriously, and the re-
suit lie that they will not now beg for
their rights but will take them. not by
lawlessnese but by virtue of the ballot.
LApplause.]
There IL a weapon snrer yet,
Than cen the glistening bayOnet,
weapon that cones down as still
As snowf1akes fall upon the sod,
But executes Il freeman's will,
A. lightning does the will of tod,
The ballot.
After q beautiful apostrophe to labor
10 the foundation of all wealth, ne con
iinued: Shall not labor come to its own,
Who ohali doubt it. Let labor every
where take heart for the midnight is
l passing and Joy cOmeth with the morn
f ng. lApplause
= Many good people we're opposed to Ia
,or organizations because they made
. trikes possible. He was himself op-
'osod to strikes if they could be avoided,
/ ut when q choice was to be made be-
d ween the oppression Of capital and the
lst rights Of labor, he was for a strike
)r the best that could be got. Ap-
{" lauSe.J We live under a government Of
,rikers. Lexington, Concord and the
-. Their battles of the revolution we're but
succeesion of strikes led by rebellious
Il objects, and but for these strikes we
E ould today be British subjects instead
i American sovereigns. Applause,
~ 70 all believe in law and order, but sup
10 ,se the
HEROES or THE REVOLUTION.
! I'd believed in Law and order, what
ould have been tte result: There
ould have been no United States. They
u, lew they were rebels and as Franklin
id to them: "Gentlemen wo must
- ing together or We will hang separ-
)u ely" Today the children ia all our
,as ho0ls are taught TO venerate the
!mes OF Washington and his associates,
" ~ fhAPl t,1s n lima u'Inn tlnu ,Inr,
a. aitore and d~emagognes. They are
be 'mt-gOds now And the only difference
ma tween deulagogues and demi gods is Il
ntury.
VI '0mfnG to the question of labor he said
at every labor organization had been
be ought about by the unjust oppression
ar. labor BY capital, He had no bitter
sjudicee on the subject and did not
cN stend to say that all employers were
u fair. He then related how he bad
0. rked for one honorable and Just en-
#. yer tor ten years, and added that if
the employers were like this man he
lV' nbted II there would be a labor organ-
pa ti0n in existence. He must admit,
ada b, that labor organizations were not
nv ,ayssin the right. They have some
" les made mistakes, acted hastily and
j. rcipitated trouble without sufficient
for zee, but generally they had good aud
W hcient grounds.
.. t0wever, they were hero tonight to
cuoe the most important industrial
'latMt that had ever took place in the
Iec' r!dSSSfhe late railroad strike, or the
e!@ llmM4Setrike. He asked that all pre-,
= , lee H. laid aside, and as he had been
iewhat in the strike, he began by
ting iron a pamphlet published by
/. Dt. Carwardin of Pullman with an
a1y ,odUction by Rov. Mr.. Driver. From
n, ne read a few extracts showing the
Z. MISERY N POVERTY
chaS&$he Pullman employees had
nFrS4hced to, and then said: The
% ~ Mr.. Pullman endowed a
ll,OO0SsRrt museum in order that he
az contlnue to pose as a p%hilanthro-
dc! ~ could we'll afford to be gener,
met WITH other peoples money. 1t
laghave been more honorable and
bis credit had he paid his en-
honest wages. If there were
VEIy alice fhnrn mo,,Il ho lo,, ,aoJ