The evening world., 1909-02-13
Bingham's Slave There

. Al O'CLOCK the hour advertised for
tie opening Of the meeting, a huge
crowd blocked the street In front OF the
church, and Il was necessary to ne
forcible 10 make way through It 10
the front door OF the edifce. The Eve.
ming World reporter recognized Cen
trail Ohce man at the door and asked
him what he was doing there. The de-
tective replied that he had been sent
over by Commissioner Bingham to see
that the Constitution was not violated
at the human auction" He need not
have worried so far as the Constitution
was concerned.
once inside the church-a small, white
Mashed walled structure-you saw a flag
draped desk and the before. referrcd-:o
unruly organ, az the keyboard OF when
sat scorbutlc youth in spectacIes. lie
seemed alarmed at the antics OF the IN
s,rument, but unable to quell It,
The Rev. DR., john D. Long. intro.
duced as the pastor OF the church.
opened the proceedings with a speech.
Dr. Long is a short. stocky man, with
walrus.like brown mustacue, and
wears a jacket OF blue cloth resembling
the fatigue uniform Of SalvaiIo Army
officer, on his breast he had pinned T.
small red flag. At desks beneath nil.
were ranged several oushy-ha!rad. spec
;aclcd men who later were to play an
important part in the proceedings. They
represented Vorwarts, The Call. The
Appeal to Reason and Emma Godman's
CLASSY little sheet, Mother Earth.
A Word for the Constitution.
Mr., Long opened the proceedings by
saying that numerous persons had been
to him when they learned that Nj.
'Loushin had been offered the use Of
his church and had :orI him that they
feared that the Constitution would be
violated t. the unemployed men Mr..
OLoushlIn had dug up we're sold into
slavery.
WAY" commented Or. Long the
man who owns my job owns me- said
Alexander Hamilton. aDl | say so too"
ne added, These poor devils must be
rescued from the hell OF unemployment.
The Constitution does not condemn vol
UAtary, though Il does condemn invo.-
un,ary slavery. The whole social sys-
EN- Is wrong, Vast anplause) vii!
now Introduce Mr.. OL)ushlin, who WI!
ell you how lie came to pe mixed up
In this affair"
O'lough.in item hustled himself and
a check suit 20 the reading desk OF the
church. Mr. O'Loushi!n was all
wrought mp about it, especially when
a photographer who. by some mistake.
had been admitted to the gallery. fired
oT q flashlight with n noise that made
the several women in the audience
t'cp the dimes they hnd ready for the
collection they felt sure was coming.
"The Low Brow stuff"
Mr. O'Loushlin IL quite a democratic
speaker, He believes in getting down
to the level OF his audience. He
bands EN- the low brow stuff" con-
nded a man answering to the name OF
Alfred. who sat at The Evening World
reporters elbow, and whispered that he
had been on Park Row twenty years"
and knew Teddy" for at least half OF
that time lie worked with me on the
independence League thing" confided
Alfred.
Now. people" began OLoughlln,
"tiIs thing here Tonight is no thing to
laugh ut, I'm tired. and YOU won't
hear me make any funny jokes Ike you
just expect me to crack, but I'll tell
you few plain truths. some wise
guys Of my acquaintance comes up to
me tonight and says, Say. why don't