The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-09-11
BRYAN MEN CHEERED
mt New YOrk's Trained Police Force
Wouldn't Have Il
T. v. PowDERLY'S HARANGuE
N ddresses an Audience of Work.
ingmen and Tells hem How
inslnoere are the Chicago
Platform and Nominees,

New York. Sept. l0,-A mass meet
ing was held In Cooper Union to-
night under the auspices OF thu cam
paign committee OF the Mckinney
league. Terrence V. Powderly. late
master workman of the knlghls OF
Labor, was the chief speaker and was
followed by ex-S, natOr Warner NH
Ter. The meeting was planned Tor
wage earners and very large audi
ence was present early and when the
speaking began the large hall was
crowded. Several Bryan men were
present and made their presence
known by loud cheers for their can
didate. This interruption was speed
ily stopped by the police. after whlch
the programme of the evening was
carried out. Mr. Powderly said;
MIR. President and Friends: Did
believe an apology for my presence
on this platform necessary. l would
say that am here because | believe
the right OF the American wage-earn-
er to receive the highest rate Of COM
pensation for service rendered and
the right to claim and receive the
best kind OF money In exchange Tor
his labor should not be interfered
with" Mr.. Powderly then took UP
the Chicago platform and compared
1t with previous platforms OF the
democratic party. saying: The
democratic platform OF four years
ago pledged the party entering into
power to overthrow the American
system of protection, and with all his
and their power, with all the force
and influence at his and their COM
mand. the man and party upon whom
the power was conferred lahored to
place the foreign vorkingman on
higher plane than his American COM
petitor, and that platform was any
thing but meaningless.
-Four years ago the pivotal point
around which the democratic plat
form swung was free trade. When
that congress assembled there was no
deficit: the revenue was amply suf-
flcient for the needs of government
and there was no income tax law
upon the statutes OF this nation. The
income tax law was an after consld-
eration. II was no part ~ the demo
cratic platform of 1892, and was only
thought OF when ii became manifest
to its originators that they had sawed
of the revenue limb on which they
had been sitting in their mad at
tempt to undo what their republican
predecessors had so well planned and
so faithfully executed. To make
amends for a blunder they would per-
petrate a crime. and the income tax
law was no less than a crime. | may
be charged with opposing one OF the
cardinal principles of the knights Of
Labor, which demanded that a grad
uated income tax be levied
Does 1t not appear inconsistent 10
the defenders of the Chicago plat
form to assert that they are opposed
to English rule in America on the
financial question after they have
opened our ports to the product OF the
English factory and mill? Our chief
competitor in the domain of manu-
facture Is England and he must be
an ignorant man indeed who will de-
mand the abolition of our tariff laws
and not know that the gamer by the
abolition of these laws would be
England. The farmer Is told that the
cause Of his ills Is because he has not
been blessed with free silver. But
whoever tells him that deceivcs him
To his injury. Those who advocate
free silver tell the farmer that the
crime OF 1873 is responsible for the
ills he bears. Since 1873 farming In
the United States has undergone n
radical. an almost total change. and
causes other than the demonstration
Of silver have combined to cheaper
his product"
Mr. Powderly then told of how I'M
proved machinery had displaced hand
labor in cities as well and called at
tention to the great influx Of lnmi-
grants who settle In the cities and
work cheaply and continued: Here
then, are two cause.-the introduc-
tion Of improved machinery and i'm
migration-which combine 10 lower
the prices of products andrdeprive the
farmer of his market and the crime
of 1873 has had nothing 10 do with
either one. What remedy does the
ChiCago platform offer for this con-
dition Of affairs? That 81 recognizes
such a condition is true. for It con-
tains a plank calculated tn lead the
uuthlnlting into the belief that they
would abolish one ~ these evils. It
reads: we hold that the most eff
cient way Of protecting American la
Dor Is 10 prevent lhe importaiion Of
foreign pauper labor TO compete with
IL I'm the home market, etc There is
"A sample of craftsmanship for you.
They pitch their tents where the
knights OF Labor extinguished their
campflres ~ years ago. To-day such
thing as the importation OF labor l.
hardly known. Had these patriots
who affect 10 tnlk in the name OF la
hor been sincere tlsy would have in
serted immigration whore they
faunt the word importafiou.'
THAT there is not enough money
In circulation may be true. but n So.
II Is because labor has not been EN-
uloyed From the city ~ Scranton
alone laborlns men last year sent
$4,000 in gold, or its equivalent. To
foreign hands, and scare ly a dollar
~ II went To England They sent
this money TO their friends. In the
homes OF the poor of Europe. Every
dollar sent reduces the per capita cir
culatlUn Of our currency. But what
of t? So much per capita Is mean
lngless term. for Il gives n man a
dollar and adds nothing In III wealth
q man or ComouIrN alth Per cap
tia circulation Is a circulation which
does not cirru,at' and no man cuu
lly fingers un "A dollar ~ that p.r
canita eNcaat in one ~ two ways
honest or dlsh0nest-by q labor OF some
kind or hy thef' Of some Kind
Passing To- IN" Chicago strike hc
said tn. lawless element ~ the city
AND not the strikers, riUted and add
el. Il d. NOT aurryv' ~ GOV. rnmrut
by any othfr power than tho VIII ~
| the American People. but " We viii
] have government by trucking, tIm=-