San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-15
HE IS HUNGRY.
PRESIDENT BAOAREssE HUNTING
FOR A SQUARE MEAL,
Decides to Resign His 0fice-The La
boring Men Did Not Rally
to Help Him.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

New orleans, Aug. I4.-Wltn ltS
president, e. B. Barcaresse, starving,
according to his own admission, the
New Orleans Laboring Mems associ-
alton is in bad way. Barcaresse, it
will be remembered, was the man who
made such fuss about the terrible
state in which the unemployed of the
city had found themselves, owing to
their inability to find work. With a
German anarchist by the name of Graf
he went about sowing discomfort
among the army of loungers about
town and one day was lucky enough
in succeeding getting together suffi-
cient number to hold a meeting. At
this gathering the bloated capitalist
was denounced and Bacaresse after
some hustling had himself elected
president and Graf state organizer.
Bacaresse was not flushed with coin
at the time, but he confidently ex-
pected that the members of the or
ganization would take enough interest
in the movement not to allow their
chief officer to get hungry. But he
reckoned without his host The men
belonging to the Laboring Mems Pro-
tective association had trouble of their
own. All of their energies were de-
voted in finding something to eat for
themselves with the result that Bar
caresse grew hungry. He frightened
up his trousers and waited. But in
vain. Not a sou came to him. Final
ly he grew disguised and determined
to throw up the job. In this morn
ing's Times-Democrat appears a let
ter over his own signature in which
Bacaresse gives his reasons for re-
signing. 1t is a rich effusion and
among other things, it says:
I, the president of the New Orleans
Laboring Mems Protective associa-
ton, find myself constrained to here
publicly announce my resolute inten-
ton to resign from the said presiden-
cy-exactly on the ground of being
myself pushed to the very brink of
starvation. On the one hand this is
being done by the plutocrats of this
damnable society who have given
themselves word, as it were, to sys-
tematically boycott me and my re-
sponSibilities from an honest liveli-
hood. On the other hand, by the stu
pid masses of the people who feign
to believe that man in my present
position can and should make stand
for their just rights on only air and
wind for his nutrition and fortifica-
ton.
OF course there are thousands of
others, l full well know, starving to
death today in this bounteous repub-
lican representative country of ours,
for which our epoch-making fore
fathers gave up their precious lives
to secure it unto us, their unworthy
successors. This is about the only free
dom that the great mass of American
citizens enjoy today-the liberty, per-
feet liberty, to starye, and die, and rot,
and keep mouth-bound!
Two days have elapsed since l, the
president of the New Orleans Laboring
Mems Protective association, have
had to forego my natural, not to say
for the least, a sheer mouthful of
grub" let alone a square meal" for
lack of wherewithal.
Just the same I, the president, am
made to understand, in short l am
surely expected as president, to push
forward the salutary movement re-
Gently inauguarted in this city for the
benefit of all wage earners and 'rea-
sOnable" capitalists alike, to that sue
cessful consummation which is the
universal desideratum.