The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-04-29

4
| alyzes affairs beyond belief. Every item
! of the tariff is based on the idea of Civ
/ ing preference to some; giving preference
i to the few for the oppression of the many.l
/ You don't realize this until this forestail-
| ing or 'cornering. brings it forcibly to
your attention, as it is being done at the
/ present moment We are bound to aE
wheel. When you attack the right to live
you awake the American people and to-
night there is an awakening from Cali1
| fornia to Maine. (Applause). We are ats
| tacking a system which is draining the
| lives of American workingmen, eating out
| the heart of your country and making
brutes of your boys. Continued APP
/ plause).
/ Expansion said the speaker, sis part
and parcel of the same process. Can you
! civilze by taking away the necessaries
| of life. So far is it from advancement
that in my opinion every step taken in
| the imposition of an unjust tariff, and ac7
/ quiring territory is against the advance
ment of the American people / believe
| the day of reckoning is not far off; the
day coming when the people of the United
| States will utter the words of Samuel j.
/ Tilden Tariff Reform Cloud cheering).;
And as your government today is honey-
combed with corruption and favoritisms
and engaged in robbing the pockets of the
many to fill those of the few, when that
day does come this country will resume
it's march onward. prolonged cheeringl.
What right" continued Mr.. MeDer-
mott, "has the government to say to.
me or five others: If you'll corner beef
on the hoof we will protect you from
| Canada? When a government fosters or
protects that manner of enterprise it is
! the duty of the American peop.e to pro-
! test and demand of their representatives
| in Congress to overthrow such protection.
/ (Cheers.) / believe the right way to do
that is to take the tariff off the meat, and
believe it is the duty of the government
to prosecute in every court in every State
every man offending the provisions Of the
Sherman law. (Cheers) l believe 1t is
the duty of the American people, ire
| spective of political party, to unite in one
great purpose-equality of privileges and
production. GRenewed cheering.) 1t is the
duty of the American people in the future
| to see that power is centralized to defeat
| the trust. (Cheers.) Whatever the re-
suit be to remove the tariff, and fear
we won't get any freedom from tariff un-
der this Congress, or from the courts
either I have belief in the integrity of
| the American people that they will say
:. This is a question of justice, and JUS
| tice is not dead
q Who says so, lies in the faces of the
Gods; it is indestructible and immortal. /"
| prolonged applause as the speaker fin.
ished quoting these lines).
When he sat down Mr.. Tenant read
the following resolutions, which were en-
dorsed with cheering again and again re-
newed.
THE citizens of Jersey City have met in
! public meeting this twenty-eighth day Of
April, A. D. 1902, to consider the present
oppressive condition of the meat market
The prevalence of exorbitantly high
prices for meat and other necessary arti-s
cles of food is without reason excepting
that by the continuation of the same the
treasures of these companies which have
been permitted to monopelize the market.
are unduly enriched at the expense and
| to the sacrifice of the consumer. Any
system of laws which permits a monopoly
| of food supplies is inherently bad Win
food at our very borders. prohibited an
entry until tariff rate is paid, is not
protection-but oppression. The tariff
protection at the present time to those
who control the beef supply throughout
these United States is without reason.
| Those who because of great wealth have
been able to purchase all the available
meat supplies, and have now an actual
monopoly of the markets should not be
permitted to hide behind a protective tar
iff and to raise the prices at their own
will and at the great sacrifice of the peo-
pie of our land. With large supply Of
beef and mutton waiting at our very
| doors. our people cry out for the immedi-
ate repeal of any tariff which can per-
nit such a condition to continue.
with a government supplied with all
proper machinery for injunction proceed
ings against monopolies, too long a. time
has already elapsed. too much suffering
| has already been endured, the business
| affairs of too many of our best merchants
unsettled. to warrant further continu-
ance of these conditions until the right of
| the present monopoly to continue is de-
| termined The essential and most ex-
pedious remedy to bring to an end this
! condition, is the immediate repeal of the
tariff on all meats and food stuffs IN
! daily use.
/ I'VE endorse the action of the Honor
able Allan L. McDermott in introducing
| a measure in the present Congress to re-
peal the tariff on meats and we call up
on his associates to lend their voices and
their votes to the passage of this bill; ard
we do now
Resolved, That copy of this statement
be sent to all the members of Congress
and the United States Senators from
New Jersey"
DIR. Gordon read telegram from Con-
grcssman VIM. Sulzer, who was unable to
be present because of sickness in his FAM
lily. Then, on seeing ex-Assemblyman
Allen Benny and ex-Congressman Thomas
McEwan in the back of the hall. he asked
them to come on to the platform.
Mr. Benny, when called to speak, said
that it was mistake to say that the
people could not be awakened on momen-
tous questions. The present crisis forced
! by the Beef Trust worked great hardship
among the poor of Bayonne. where he
! lived. The large population of laborers
at Constable Hook and the coal docks felt
severely the high prices of necessaries of
l life, he said. The people were aroused
now, and learning the fact that the gov
ernment and the United States were vir-
tually controlled by a few men.
"a few, said Mr.. Benny, tcan say to
! you what you shall eat or whether you