The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-16
MANY CHEAP PATRIOTS
Are in the Country Says Rev.
MyrOn Reed,
Who Want You to Look at the
White Flag
While They Pick Your Pockets-Col-
orado's Two Distinguished Re
formers, Reed and Waite
Address the Mems
Convention.

Denver. MAY ia joint open meet
mo of the convention of the Western
F7ederation of Miners, now in session IN
this city. and the Denver Trades anu
Labor assembly. was held last n1shl z.
trades assembly hall. Eighteenth and
Market streets There was a very large
attendance of delegates and working
neonleand the remarks of the numerous
speakers were received with enthusl-
asrn. Rev. Myron Reed and e1-GoVern-
or Waite We're the principal speakers
and the latter was greeted with the
widest applause upon his Introduction
the Assem- bIage rising to It's feet ana
cheering Justify for several SECONDS.
Vice President F. W. Lee OF the trades
assembly presided over the meeting
Rev MvrOn w. Reed was the nrst
speaker. He said the people must unite
The enemies of the people are united
very cOmpactIy and they control the
government, the church and even the
courts There are three WorkIngmen IN
prison in California Tor Lnelr cOllec-
lion with recent railroad troubles there.
Three weeks ago petition Tor lhelI
pardon signed by $50 lawyers and all
the jury and court officials was sent to
President Cleveland 1t has not yet
found its way to the president, but has
probably been pOcketed by some dude
of a clerk 1t has become as impossible
to reach the executive now with q plea
from the cOmmOn people as though ne
We're an absolute monarch.
This combination against the people
of the United States is growing vastly
strong. and you, too must organize
more thoroughly. L should like to see
labor organized all over this country,
as it is organized at Butte, Mont You
cannot separate Capitol Hill from the
bottoms You can't raise society by pull
ing at the top. You must raise the
whole of it, If there is a man in Denver
willing to work who can IND work,
then say society should be overturned
for the sake of that one man. I believe
i'm the cOmmOnW ealth What is good for
all is good for me. AS long as several
million tramps are found here this y MI
ted States cannot be called the best
country in the world. have seen q
whole army marching under the stars
and stripes with this inscription be
meath the flag: Under this flag we
starVe." The COuntryS full of cheap
patriots, who want you TO look at the
flag while they pick your pockets.
There is q growing disposition among
the people to take charge of affairs.
Hence the desire of the enemies of the
people to distract your attention to
something else. so that you may forget
your real wrongs and your real condi-
ton. Hence we see Sherman talking
/ about Venezuela and weeping crocodile
tears over Cuba and Armenia We have
Armenia right around the corner Gap
plause) I believe in most thorough
I organization of the people under the
motto. Each for all, and all for each /
don't know that I advocate the killing
! of the people who are depressing US or
of the people who take our jobs for less
wages. Were the Tories suffered to live
in peace ard quiet in the colonies dur
\ ing the seven years Of the Revolution
airy WARP No. They were invited to
/ leave the country and they left They
| didn't wait upon the order Of their go
/ ing. either.
we've got to draw the line some
/ where. We're entitled to a living. a de-
] cent American living I don't want Car
\ negie to build public libraries I want
\ every man to have his own library in
! of this country to have the experience
4 the people Of ireland have had that of
/ living on potatoes for 700 hundred
| years. A man can't fight on q potato
] diet, and the longer he is subjected to
/ it the easier he is to overcome The
| time for a change is now. The powers
| that are against US are growing
! stronger day by day How are we go
/ ing to win if we allow ourselves to
| grOw weaker every day2 Columbus
/ didn't endure their hardships that we
might live on corn meal and water. I
4 insist on the hours of labor being where
they should be- I want to see every
4 body work. particularly the genteel
I loafers of both sexes. They're too idle
7 and too well fed We read of too many
/ deadly parallels in the newspapers
/ these days All I ask for is to be q
/ comfortable man in comfortable
I world-just comfortable, no more
Look at the increasing carelessness
/ concerning human life and the CORE
spending increasing carefUlness con
corning the rights of property Oh. thai
| the dollar should be so dear and human
life SO cheap The nation. through its
courts is controlling two thirds Of the