The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-10-22
A CONVENTION CALL.
Notice Given Of the Meeting Of the
American Federation Of Labor.
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII FAVORED.
Senator Morgan Returns from His Trip to
the Islands and Is Enthusiastic Over
Them Becoming a Part OF the
United States.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9O-President
Samuel Gompers, by Frank Morrison,
secretary, has issued a call to all afil-
lated unions for the 18th annual con-
VentiOn Of the American Federation of
Labor to be held at Nashville, Tenn,
in the hall Of the house of representa-
tives, at ten o'clock Monday morning,
December -, next The session is to
continue until all Of the business of
the convention shall have been com
pleted. Resolutions Of any character
or propositions for changes in the con-
stitutiOn intended for the considera-
ton by the convention must be sub
mitted to the secretary at least two
weeks prior to the meeting. The com
mittee on credentials viii meet at
Nashville three days previous to the
opening of the convention. The call
makes a strong plea for full attend
ance of wOrkingmen at this conven-
ton, and states that no convention in
recent years has been called upon to
deal with more momentous questions
than confront the workers of to-day
The objects of the convention are, in
part thus set out in the call:
The s3veFities Of the industrial stagnation Of
the pastfour years have not yet been abated
The wrongs from which the workers suffer
have not been righted- The injustice imposed
upon our people remains unremedied The
OYerWorked large mass and the unemployed
many are still testimony to the folly OF our age
The employment OF children in our factories
and workshops, though modified. fingers with
US still, and the spectacle is witnessed of idle
men and labOriously busy children. Legisla-
lures are more concerned with the privileges
to the few than with the rights OF the many:
while public assem0lage and free speech are
Invaded, threatened or forbidden, and the
modern judicial weapon Of injunction Is utilized
In the effort to crush labor These rights and
wrongs and others Of equal importance but too
numerous for reference here must Of necessity
be considered at the forthcoming convention
and such action devised as shall tend to attain
The one and set aside the other
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII FAVORED.
SAN Francisco, Oct. Ex-senator
Morgan and his daughters and T. NJ.
Hatch, the new minister from Hawaii,
were among the passengers who ar
rived from Honolulu upon the steam
ship Belgic yesterday. Senator Nor
gan expressed himself as well pleased
with what he saw and the manner in
which he was entertained while on the
islands. He is more than ever enthu-
siastic on the subject of annexation,
and intimated that Hawaii may be-
come a part of this country before the
close of the coming year. He says:
Hawaii Is certainly going to be a state but
whether it viii be a. the time Of its annexation
or later remains TO be seen. Should it be an
neXed as a territory, the Hawaiian commits
siOners will recommend that the Islands be adj
United to statehood and a spe,ial act Of con-
gress would undoubtedly follow. I have IA
voFed annexation from the beginning but I
was surprised, upon investigating the matter,
10 ind that the arguments in favor Of the
movement had been underestimate. In my
opinion, Hawaii is absolutely indlsp TO
the United States and we must have those
Islands. The only opposition found was that
Of few Of the LiliuOzalani royalists, who have
no weight over there. AMI are for the most part
rOyalsts for revenue only