Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-04
HAVE EF0RE|GNP0UCY HOLIDAY FOR LABOR
IHoboes Talk of Alliance With Ninety Fer Cent OF Wage
Those in Other Lands. Farmers Taking Day Off.
IcHEERs GREET SUGGESTION A TIME OF RECREATION
Committee Afed and Oatory
tails of the Idea. the Program
ANGRY AT PRESS ACCOUNTS PLEASURE PLACES THRoNGED
Had Chief Celebration
Support of a
O Holiday
Hoboes Talk of Alliance With
Those in Other Lands.
CHEERS GREET SUGGESTION
Committee Formed to Work Out De-
tails of the Idea.
ANGRY AT PRESS ACCOUNTS
Socialist Would Boycott if He Had
Support Of Hundred Mil
lion Persons.

1T iss a big surprise TO know dot in
dis country we got to get a permit 10
talk yet" Indignantly exclaimed So
ciaiist. addressing the hoboes and their
friends gathered at the hobo head
quarters. 1914 G street. this morning.
He continued: "Iss not der constitoo-
shun der guarantee Of free speech al
retty?"
You forget. brother" said Million
aire Hobo How, with a twinkle in his
eye; ''you forget that the District of
Columbia is not in the United States"
II should chudse not 1t iss in
Roosha.'
An open-air meeting to exploit the
hobo's idea Of what is needed to run
the country right is planned to be
held tonight near the Center Market.
that police permit is necessary to
hold an assembly.
International Alliance.
The hobo of America greeted the hobo
of Europe this morning, when amid ap-
plause and cheers the hobo executive
committee took steps TO form an interna-
tional alliance, to keep in touch with what
the hobo across the water is doing. Hav-
ing worked UP to a climax of excitement
on that subject, the hobo speakers were
afforded an opportunity to exercise their
lungs in denouncing the morning news
papers which gave accounts of last
nights meeting of the hobo staff. and, al
though no one knows where it is coming
from, the hoboes want to offer S1,Co0 in
cash to the man who can prove that the
statements that a woman was discour-
teously treated at the meeting last night
are true.
With Brother Quirk. an Irish hobo with
tattoOed arms, acting as temporary sec
retary, Millionaire Hobo How got The
committee to act quickly in regard to the
alliance with the European hobo. y let
ter from the hOpOeS' legal adviser, now
i'll Glasgow, was produced by member.
DR.. How explained that the Inject of the
alliance would be to keep the Inan out OF
work in Europe in touch with conditions
here, 60 that shiploads Of British hoboeS
would not land in America thinking the
roadWays offered gold dollars.
Il am in favor OF immigration. said
Millionaire Hobo How. but | don't want
to see immigration when there arc ...:FD,-
900 men out of work in this country now.
In making this International alliance We
VIII keep the foreign brother informed
SO ne won't be misled about conditions
here
\ committee vas formed to study how
best to reach across the sea and keep the
British hobo where he is. and an artistic
touch was dealt out when the cnairman
Brother Saunders, put on this fore Gn
committee an Italian tramp who had just
blown in from somewhere out in tne
country. They put him on the foreign
committee because he can't speak a word
OF English.
Angry at Press Accounts.
The hoboes arc very much put out
because there have been published
stories about last nights meeting
which, they say, do not agree with the
facts. One socialist expressed himself
! this way:
AS for me. l don't give rap for der
| newspapers: der capitalist press
hate, and 1 only read it from curiosity.
Al l needs iss one hundred millior
people to stand by me- und | poycott
der press
Slapping his chest. he sank into his
chair and began 70 read a morning edi-
tion of the hated press. Millionaire
Hobo How suggested that the commit :
tee get statements ready for the press
giving a true account of what hap
pened last night. Other minds, moro
inf1ammable, expressed themselves on
the subject of the newspaper reporter.
DR.. j. L. Hoencs OF Philadelphia. ed
itor of hobo newspaper, said he
thought a thousand dollars should be
offered to the man who could prove
that the accounts of last nights meet :
ing as published in certain papers are
correct. In discussion of this the meet
ing got itself into a parliamentary tan
gle of terrific proportions. No one suG-
geSted that there was not a thousand
dollars in the treasury except DIR.
Hoenes. Because Millionaire Hobo How
opposed the idea DIR. Hoenes arose and
said:
HE opposes it because he thinks he
may have to pay it,
Brother. ] haven't got a thousand
dollars said Dr. How.
Charge of Discourtesy Denied.
The hoboes at eadquartcrs. 1914 G
street northwest, were highly indignant
at the reports Of discourtesy on their
part toward lady who addressed them
on religious subjects last night. They
said the lady was not howled down. bat
that she received an ovation. The story
of yesterdays meeting which the hoboes
take exception to is to the effect that a
woman, said TO be Mrs. Roberts, start
ed to talk to the hOboes on a religious
topic. AS the topic for the meeting hap
pened to be "The Ethics and Religion
of the Labor Movement. Millionaire
Hobo How. found ii necessary to re-
mind her that she was wandering from
the subject Finally several OF the ho-
hoes made it plain they wanted food a
| little more solid than food for thought
and the speaker stopped. 1t was the ac-
| count of this to which the hoboes OBJ
| ject.
That the 'boes are taking their conren-
ton seriously is evidenced by the fact
that before breakfast today one OF the
men clipped the newspapers and read
the accounts of yesterdays doings aloud
to a group of interested men who listened
intently One of the accounts did not
satisfy the hoboes. and they voted not
to allow it to he pasted alongside OF
the other news accounts of their dotngs.
One side Of the wall is fairly well cover
ed with newspaper clippings showing the
doings Of the convention, with the various