The San Francisco call., 1896-09-08

negie is held in execration by the masses of
the American people?
At Pullman many workmen were receiving
no more than 20 cents day. A labor trouble
ensued. The workmen sent a committee to
interview the magnate and to ask for arbitra-
ton. What was his answer? His answer-his
heartiess answer-was, that there was nothing
to arbitrate. You all know the story of the
subsequent happenings. Is it any wonder
that the name of Pullman is held in execra-
tion by the great masses of the American peo-
ple2
believe in De mortuis nil nisi bonum -
but as q man lives so shall he die And when
Jay Gould died. unwept, unhonored and un-
sung, there were none so poor as TO do him
Coils P. Huntington of course you all know
something of. He believes it the proper Thing
to oppress the workingmen and to send mil
lions of American money over the ocean to re-
habilitate old world palaces and feed the hun
cry scions OF a decaying so-called nobility.
His code OF ethics is oppression of the people
debauchery OF their representatives and rob
berry of the Government, and I would con-
slider myself lacking in my duty as a citizen
and unworthy OF the name of trade-unlonist
If did not here tonight from this platform
denounce him as the arch-enemy OF the people
the arch-enemy of labor. And let me say to
our brethren of the East that there is not one
individual member of a trade or labor union,
or an independent man whatever his calling
upon the Pacific Coast, who does not re-echo
this sentiment.
Ladies and gentlemen, have told Won some
thing of the Children of the Trade Unions. -
of their friends and of their oppressors our
cause is just and all-embracing. The divine
word has gone forth that truth and Justice
shall prevail; and as well forbid the roaring OF
the thunder or the whisperings of the breezes
as to forbid Its progressive march.
The next number on the programme
was selection of songs by Messrs. Myer
and Mcneil, which was followed by a song
'Sing, Sweet Bird" by Miss NJ. Aspen,
with violin accompaniment
AnnUraw EurucPth Of CO;
Union of the Pacific delivered an able ad-
dress on "Trade Unionism, Its Necessitv.' -
in which he said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: AS
the church has set aside one day in the ves
to commemorate the birth of Christ Christ
mas, Good Friday for the conservation OF
suffering, Easter Sunday for victory and as
Pentecost brings TO our thoughts that assem-
blage upon which descended the spirit of re-
hgious. political and social equality-brother-
hood-causing mo one to call ANYTHING his
own," so has organized labor set aside this
day as milepost upon humanity's road at
when to hnger for one brief moment while
we drink new strength from the fountain of
the past. by help of which we NAV see more
clearly, suffer more patiently and do more
Valiently in the future.
Labor's day All days have been labor,s dav
in which TO serve or TO seek an opportu nitv 10
serve IN which to have master or to seek one,
m sn tal M,icH 10 s[nggle against oppression or to
snter II, sometimes with hope, Sometimes
without 1T, sometimes advancing toward hat
ter conditions, sometimes dreaming awav the
present In vain hope that oppression NAV cease
OF itself; again, at other periods, realizing that
reforms come high and must be bought bv the
Ilfe-blood OF men and the tears OF women
tyranny is constantly assuming new forms.
and ~ Is sometimes so seductive IN appearances
that It's real nature is not discovered until the
marching column has turned on its track ana
is again approaching the servitude vbanoa a.
emerged. S ~
This road from slavery to freedom from war
" harmohy, from force to justice, as we look
along 1t, is strewn with the skeletons of hu-
manity's oravest and best, who on it suffered
death under the pale on the cross, at the
stake, on the seafold, in the prison or bv pro-
scrlption, From the times of the Greeks and
romans, with civilization the fragments of
which have come down to US TO testify to its
greatness, but in which absolutism and in
equality ruled supreme-inequality before
God. inequality be fore the law, and in its later
DAYS especially, the master and slave on the
held and in the workshop-an of it force,
authority, absolutism, we have attained TO
equality before God and at least pretense at
equality before the law. But as yet absolutism
practically reigns supreme in our industrial
system.
Agitation, organization and education have
given us what we have We have by religious
organization been taught that we are the