Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-01
SOCIALIST PARTY.
Mass Meeting Held Yes.
terday Afternoon.
MANY OPERATIVES PRESENT
Addresses Made BY Franklin Burton
and Charles H. Matchett.

The Socialist Labor party held mass
meeting In the lower hall OF the Audi
torium yesterday afternoon and there was
a very good crowd present. the ma
jority being mill operatives. Franklin
Burton Of Providence called to order and
made short address cautioning tho
voters TO cast their ballots next Wednes-
day for those of their class, for the men
who will legislate for the working people
and not against them. "rhe trouble and
turmoil throughout the country" said
he, "is because the legislators represent
their class and lot the interests OF the
working people. There have been strikes,
lockouts and bcycotts in Rhode Island
during 1894. There were 5000 out at
Olneyv!lle ut one time striking for what
they should have, but they didn't get
it."
"Mr. Lippitt is manufacturer. viii
he vote or approve OF any measure ifyour
favor? lie will legisiate for the corpora
tions. yet you cast your ballots for him
You are to blame II you vote for him or
anyone else that will lesisiate against
you. Do you always want to live in this
crushed down? you don't vote for the
men who work for your interests.
~ would like to be millionaire; we all
would. They are not to blame II you ell
low yourselves to be made pack horses Of
Take the reins In your own hands and do
some Of the riding yourself and you can
do It through the ballot"
He then introduced Charles II. .Matchett
xuh ha
lists and prohibitionists as we'll as the
two older parties and described the pro-
tectIve tariff as fraud on the people.
During his remarks he said: "The So
cialist party is political party with the
same rights and privileges as any other
party, but we have an ideal, an object, a
platform entirely different 1from any
other party. The old parties have changed
their politics and platforms from time to
time as 1t suited them, and one OF the
great differences between them was the
tariff. The great landslide from the Dem
ocratic to the Republican party at the
last election was on account of the people
getting the mistaken fdea that the Repub.
lican protective tariff would give them
work, good wages and keep out pauper
labor, SO we all voted for the Republicans.
Are the times any better? Are thu condi-
tions OF the people any better?
be then described the constitution Of
the United States and characterized JEFF
ferson as the apostle OF liberty and free
dom. He said the President had greater
power than q king and could veto any
measure whether In favor OF the peoples
interests or not. The Car OF Russia, he
said, was the only sovereign with as much
power as the President, while the Senate
is patterned after the Britished House of
Lords. He told how Henry Clay inau-
gurated the tariff system, not to help the
working man, but TO build up manufac-
tories In order to make this country in
dependent Of Europe. 1t remained for
the lying Republican party to bulldoze
the people into believing that the tariff
was their benefit. He described the pro.
gress Of 1.-THE country from 1912 down to
the present time, and showed how the
working people had been hoodwinked and
urged all to vote for the friends OF the
laboring classes on next Wednesday.