Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1878, Page 5

THE CIIICAGO JANADA. The Qreatest of Political Excite= ment Concerning the Que- bac Crisis. ” Prorogation of the KLegisiature by Lieutenant-Governor Letteller, Marked Disrespect of the Disappointed and Ousted Politicians. A Clear Statement of the Causes of the Present Excitement. An Interosting Will Caso at Toronto— 0'Donovan-Rossa—Grangers, TONONTO. Bpecial Dispateh to The Tribune, fononto, March 10.~A euso which has ox- clted considerable Interest here has just been settled. An old restdent, Mr, Andrew Mercer, 1led In 1871, leaving money and property smounting to $150,000, He had hever been marricd, and died intestate. Ilis housckeeper, who llved with him twenty-five vears, and liad been all that the term wife implices, bore him an INegitimato son, 8hortly after old Mr, Mercer's death, the son belng then 24 years of ngo, it \as pretended that an unwitnessed witl of the old gentieman was found in a law-book in his library, and, curfously enough, there turned up simultancoualy a register showing that, a month before the birth of the boy, Mr, Mercer hail beeninarried to hla mother, Upon these pretended discoveries the young man founded a clahiw, olleging that he was heir to hls father. There was a trlal of tha claim, and the Vice- Chancellor, who trled tho ecnse, declared that he had not the shadow of a doubt that therc was no marrlogo; that the young man was not the legitimato son of the deceased; and that both the will and the pretended entry {n the marrlage-register were forgeries. The Vice-Chancellor sccordingly de- ¢lded that 3Mr. Mercer had died intestate, and the Court pronounced a dgereo to that offect. Asno other helrs could bo found, tho property was handed over to the Province, and has just been disposed of by Parliament as fotlows: Tho Oovernment wishing to deal humnanely with the ton, Andrew Mereer, he fs to receive $30,000; #10,000 {s to be appropriated toward tho erec- tlon of a_Proviucial eve aud enr {nfirmary, to e cnlied the Mercer £va and Ear Infirmiary; §00,000 Is to be devoted to the erection uf a re- Iormnlor{ fostitution to Lo ealied the Mercer Onterlo Reformatory for Feinnies. ‘The bale ‘ance, somo $20,000, lias been absorbed in law- costs, cte. ‘The Dircetors of the Cotswold Breeders! As. sociation bave decided to hold thelr annual meeting In this city on the 21st inst. The pedi- grees of a thousand sheep have atready been submitted for entry [n the reglster, 0'Donovan Tosan, having been advised by some of tha lukewarm fricnds of the cause (as be styles them) not to como here to Iecture, for fear of creatinw a riot, says nothing will provent Iim from coming, IHe is not afrald of causing o rot'In Torouto, If Orangemen pay their ad- misslon-fee to the Jocture aud keep quiet, there will bo no difliculty; but, 1f they disturb him {t would warm the hlood of his heart, and he would give them mors than they bargained for, He says ho has o body-gunrd of picked men, who will accompany lilin. [o proposes commencing his lecture by reading a Konlon of a_specch on Insh griovances made by Lord Dufferin befors he beenme Governor-General of Canadaj and sa38 {t coutains more treason than nuything he could say, e says ha is not a bit afrald of bo- Ing arrested at ‘Toronto; but ho thinka tha although an American cltizen now, If arreste: the United States would be mean enough not to nsk for his restoration, in which caso his people would vote solid againat tho party in power, Ife is announced to lecturo here on londay, tho 18th Inat, The D recently, passed o resolutfon to petition tho Ontarlo Government for a loan to farmers for the purposc of dralning and improving thelr fands. ‘The Government have ncccded to thelr requeat, and grauted $200,000 for this purposc. The monuy s to be lostned, not directly, but tnmufih tiio municlpalitics, In amounts of not Jess than $5,000 or inore than 815,000 to a town- T":'"' Iutr » perlod of twenty years, at 5 per cont ntercst, The Orange Incorporation bill swaa glven the go-by by the Legialature, and wilt not_ ba heard of szatn until the next general election, when 1'2:.1.11 bo brought out to do service in tho can- QUIBEC, QuEnEs, March 10,—After a scens of great disorder in the Leglslature to-day, tho Diack Rod was admitted with the nsual ceremonial, dellvered his messago to tho effect that tho Lieutenant-Governor demanded tho attendauce of the Speaker with thu members of the Assem- bly at tho bar of tho Upper House. 'I'lio speak- erroso from Mfs chalr, ond, preceded by the Bergeant-ot-Arms, with his mace, left the Chamber, followed by the Liboral meinbers, Mr. Angers and his friends refustng to respect the command of the representative of the Sov- erelgn, and romaluing pebind in the Assembly Chamber. The following is Lieut.-Gov. Lutte- Mer's speech at tho closo of tho Quebee Legtsla- ture to-day : loxonaBLE GEXTLEMEN THE LEnIsLATIVE CouNviL AND GEXTLEMEN OF THE LEGINLATIVE A8~ skuuLYs Helog deslroas of ascertmining in o cone ttitutional maiuer, the feclings of the peopla of this Province regarding the present stai Affaire and the Miulaterial changes Just takeu place, 1 have determined upon the imaulug of the Logiutaturo of this province, wi tew Lo {ts dissolution at an enrly a: 1alncoro- K II‘coap ot ‘I‘n‘ LR tativ BIBit e much ol elr_represen o; fudgient ae patriotisia. in ordor. fo Sociry. tha Ppeople of aco, proaperity, and happiness of the u:; :m {uce. 0 Bpeaker then announced Parlfament rogued E.Lnu April 1§ next. s 8pectal Corresponience of The Tribune, uenec, Morch 6.—Notiwithstandlug the ter- riblo outery that has been mude by the Con- servative pross concering the actior of the Lieutcnant-Uoveruor of tho Yrovince in relley- Ing hls Miniaters from further duty, and hand- oz the of gavernment over to thelr oppo- nents, it 18 not clear that Ler Majesty’s repro- renfatlvo i aeserving of all the lursh things sald of hin, or that he should be denounced Yy the Couservative press us an unprincipled gamge Sterand a traftor to the principles of respoust- ble Goverument. Thie tacts of the case are thesc: The Licutens snt-Governor and his adyisers hiave not been on the bewt ferms for some time, and only recently the Hon. Mr. Angers, tho actual leader of thio De Bouchervitlo Government, was compelled to Spologiza for some nflront to tho Licu- tevaut-Goveruor of which he had been guilty, * The “Government 1s so violently Partisun that its members refused to attoud a Public dinner a short tme ugu, for fear they Yould have to drink the bealth of tho Hon, M McKengle, ‘The Lfeutcnaut-Govornor, un the :Iher baua, 18 & warm fricnd of Mr. McKenzle, c::‘l;l.fl:ut 8 few mouths ago retired from his Tl Lil which has becn mada the oceasfon of lonor's octlou In turning out the Governe ment {s one {n connection wlfi: rallways. Bowo Jears ngo, the peoplo of Mautreal, Quebec, and Other munleipalities, voted lurge bonuses 16 aa- 4t the Uovernment to construct a Proviucial which was to 'lgfinncct Quebee, Mon- Vi cre was soms dlse pute’ about the route. Montreal wanted e road to Lo run to the ufury Quebee, and uebee was oa fiflon- that it should be run to the injury of ontreal, It s sald thot, fu order to secure b 0 bonuscs frow the various municipalitios, 1018 of promises werg inndo as o the routs Ik would take; and when it came to the acation of the line, It was found to Lo fupossi- Distobuild 1t o that the stipulatiou ag Df‘n shiould be carried out, ontreal had yowd $1,000,000, and pald over o before it was dlscovered that, so far m‘m that city beinz mado the headquarters of Theroady 1t Was uot evon to bave & station. stipulations upou which the moncy bLad b“m‘“ &rauted were fguored. In consequenco of aar Mootreal Crofused to band over ln'h hnlun.h:r rortion of the promised lileg 'c!- Quebec aod other _munieipal- them by ollowed guit. The Goverument ln D brought a Wi} for the purpose of toinpel- n fh"‘fl"“'" of the bonuges,—providing that, llun:b syors of the municipalitiea refused to [ urunmlulngtlflheuluru, syndicatesshould huzwhnud by tue Uovernment baving power If ult.ln-m. sud u.w{ should be as binding as m“nf&l larly fasued. - Tue people of many oflhc Yool palitles becama focensed ub what they Upon a8 8 high-banded plece of lerdsla- b wud petitioned sgatnst it, held public ominion Grangers, in conventlon herd' mectings, denounced the Government, and wound up by burning thelr rutlers fn efllzy. It 13 safd the rallway hills were forced throuch the THousc {n opposition to the wishes of the Lien- tenant-tiovernor; and that he, inding his yro- testa unavalllng, tonk upon himeelf to dismiss hia Ministers, aud Intrust the formation of o new Government to the leaders of the Opposi- tion. The atamp tax of Mr, Treasurcr Chureh, imposing n tax of 10 cents per 8100 on the nominal value of all contracts, and 25 centa on all translers, ctc., o make up the deficit In the Quebee Treasury, also created great diseatisfaction, and tended to make the Government unpopular. ‘The question now to be deefided s, whether the Lieutenant-Governor has tramiped the Con- stitution under foot, and played the part of an usurper; or whether he was justified fu arsum- ing that{he Guvernment wasnot Acting inaccurd- ance with the well-understood wishes of the peo- ple, and that lie had « right to lte? Inaud pro- teet them fron the operation of leglalation rh(cli was clearly unjust, {l not umcunstitu- lunal ——— MONTREAL, Bpectal Dispate to The Tridune, MoxTngzAL, March 10—There wereforty com- merelal faflures In Montreal in January last, ngaregating llablities of $1,274,000; assets, 057,800 deflelency, §587,000. Eleven fallures have taken place since tho 1at of March, nggre- gating Habllities of $330,000, and asscts $112,000, The valuo of imrorts at this port for tho month of Fébruary Just was $1,752,112,~n de- crease of $774,000compared with the correspond- ln; month of lnat year. The principal falling- off was In dry-zoods,—the finports of woolcns alone having been some $200,000 less than In February, 187, and of cottons about $150,000 less, Tea showed o falling-oif to the value of about £50,000, Orangemen and Catholles had n collision on the Papiucau road, In the outskirts of this city, to-night. Knives and clubs were freoly uscd. One youngz man was stabbed fn the ribs, and othera %ere badly pummeled. The pollce were sent for to quell the disturbance, and succeeded In makiug a number of arrests. Tho new Presbyterian Church on Dorchester street, which cost $100,000, was dedicated to- day. Dr, Ormiston, of Brouklyn, N. Y., preached in tho morning, and tho Rev. Mr. McKay, of Brighton, Evg., {n the evening. OTTAWA. Special Dispateh to The Tribune, OTTAWA, March 10.—Tho value of the exports of dsh and fish-product from the Dominion In 1877 was 85,874,500, of which the United States took $1,225,375 worth, The total smount of Iosses by fire In the Do- minlon for the Jast year fs 820,261,000; Tosscs to insuranco companics, 810,637,700, Thd losses wero Immensely augmented by the great tire at 8t. John, LONDON. Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribune. Loxpo, March 10.—Tho Jublice Bingpra com- plainthatthey have experienced great difficulty In obtaining lodgings §n this city, on account of thelr race ond color. Al the botels declined to recelve them. ROCMESTERVILLE, ONT. OTrAWA, March 10,—W. Mecllnee's house, at Rochesternille, burned this morniug. Mcllnco returned for valuablo papers, and perished. A dunghter was severely bumcd in attemptiug to save clothing, * ORIME. NELD TOR MURDER. Epeciat Dispatch to The Tribune, Keorux, lowa, March 0.—Alexander Laurie dled Jast night from the effects of ao injury re- ceived some time since, 1le was an archifteet, and was giving directions to a carpenter named C. A. Calhioun, shout the manner of setting some window-frames, when the man assaulted him and pustied bim from the building, pro- ducing a dislocation of thoe spinal column, from which denth cnsued, Callioun was arrested on tifo charge of murder, put undor bond of 82,000, and, fn default thercof, 14 now in jall. His case 1s now betore the Grand Jury. ® MAYO., #pecial Disvatch (o The Tribune. InptanaroLts, March 10.~Charles T. Mayo, Iate Cashler of tho Sccond Natlonal Bank of Lafayetto, througl whoso defalegtion ts recent suspenslon was caused, was brought here yes- terday, and gave ball ia $15,000 to answer (n tho United Btates Court on acharge of embezzling the funds of the Lank. The prosecuting wit- ness is Mrs, Mellesa A, Barbee, who was one of Mayo’s bondsmen, and who paid $10,000 as hor puart of the labllity, $ A WOMAN LYNCIIED. New Yonx, March 10.—A specisl from Rich mond, Va., says a party of disgulscd men took & colored woman named Clarlotte Hsrris, ac- cused of [nstigating a boy to sct fire to tho barn of Heary E. Bioe, fn Rockingham, Vo., from Joll last Wednesday night, and hanged her to o trec untll dead, The boy awalts trial, VAN DEUSEN. Dr. Emerson's Depositlon®In the Dending ‘Trinl, 8pecial Dispatch (o The Tribune. KavLaMAzo00, Mich,, March 0.—Tho sixth doy of thy trial of Newcomer vs, Van Deusen has been given olely to the heartug of the depost tion of Dr. Justice E. Euerson, the attending phyeiclon of Mrs, Newcomer whils at the Asy- lumn. The dlrect Iuterrogatorics contalned in the deposition wero read, and a portion of the cross-futerrogatorics. The deposition, In answer to questions from the delense, stated that de- ponent was i physiclan and surgeon, o graduate of tho Leng Istand Medicad College, and the Medical Dopartment of Hurvard College; thay Lie had the fmmediate care of Mrs. Newcomer duriug her stay at tho Asylum; that sho lmlwfi badly when sho entered: that she was oblivious of persons and things about her; that sho walked about In an almless manuer: that sbe wus ut thines very apprehensive of danger of sowo kind; that he had 150 patients under bis personsl charge, ifall No, 1, where the emunn: was at liret placed, was filled with pa- fcnts convalescent and harmless, Hall No, 3 coutained more Insanc. Eight , vaticuts were dononted. Plaintiif would expose her verson in the presence of others, 8he would not llo fu a bed at the proper hours, Bhe refused foud when her systcm 'l}“ml it. - 8ha would cry nervously, * Not* % Nol" to the de- ponent’s’lnquiry, if sho needod anything., She did not know where sho waa, Sho was sure shu was fu nelther Alblon nor Kalamazoo, Bhe called for meals late at night., Deponont knows sho was fnsanc. Does uot know of anv luflurlu sburccelved ot the hands of patleuts whlle (v the Asylum, Plalutl® made no com- plutut of her treatmont, Deponent wos pres- ent when Mra, Kelly vistred plalutiif, Plafotit was willing to go homs with Mrs, Kelly at tirst, but atterwurds refused. The abuve I8 the substauca of the deposition of Dr, Emerson lu responso to the direct luter- rogatorics, 'The unswers to tho cross-nter- vogatories, few of which were read on sccount ol journment, elicitod several {mportant fucts clalined to bo fu the interests of the pialutl. This part of the doposition will bo seug a8 a wholo In the next roport of the trial, The Court adjourncd st noon tiil Mouduy morulug next, when the oflicers and attondants of the Asylum willbe put upon the stand to testify to the guod and proper treatwent of plaintil while she remalued there, ‘The defensehas asyct made nosttempt to prove authority for ber contiuement, and this volnt in Itaelf ls'the subject of much discusaton, It is thought the case will go tu the jury about Wednesday, ‘Tum Citicago TRiDUNE fs tho only fm- rurluut, dally thet contalns anything like o ull report of” the trial, and couseyuently tiuds many renders bere. WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE, Epecial Dispateh to The Trivune, Mapison, Wis., March 0.—Iu tho Beuato a bil) was concurred I amending the city clharter of Eau Clalre. Under o suspension of the rules Lills passed to incorporate tha City of Jefferson. Uunder a suspension of the sules in the As- scmbly, bills passed to authorize the Cow- wilsslouer of Bchool Laudsto extend the time of n certain loan; to repeal tho law authorizing [ lru.ycbrld:za n::rou the 8t. Croix River fu Bur- nett Countys to provide for thu preservat ot fish In (.’uou Ihr\‘u:r‘, relating to |:Iw n,l-:'??- tion of voters In incorporated citles; to uwend :hu laws relating to the sale of land for unpala axcs. Both Iouses adjouracd till Monday evening. t looks uow as thouzn the Legislature will adiourn sine die Friduy or 8aturday next, to be called togctheron thu 25th of My, by wulcl tiwe the Revlsory Comuiittee will have gnhhexl tho revision of the statutes. The extru scsslon will not last to exceed a week, Nearly all the members and employcs have goue home, aud the cliy by fixmmcly qulet. . CRAZY GEORGE FRRANCIS An Eccentric Harangue by " The Champicn Lunatic of the World." An Extraordinary Hodge-Podge of Per. sonal Reminiscences, Prophetio Ut- torances, and Buffoonory, Matter and flnperllm:h(:}' Mixed-- Some RRenson and Much Madness, The frrepressible G. F. T, spoke In Hershey Music Hall, yesterany, to an audience of nbout 800. Ilis subject as advertised was “Tho Fi- nanclal Crash,” but it proved to be (corge Francls Troin. Ile nscended the platforin with his hat and overcoat on. After removing eev- eral articics from the pocket of the latter, ho shed It and dropped it on the floor, Then he vulled off his rubbers and threw them down, and appeared fn & full dress sult, with white kide. Rumpling his hair a little, he then, with asort of hop, skip, and jump, moved to the edge of the platforn and began his nondescript talk, I ho wanted any better cvidence, ho eaid, of the force of tho psvehological tidal wave, 1t Was to ace the number of people present on four hours? notice. Ha never saw any kind of o show, dogs, snakes, or the twa-headed man, Lrought out on tho sameday. {Lauchter.] He had been advertised for the flrst time In the morning papers, and how the audlence managed to find out he was herc, and was going to lecture, he couldn't understand, unless it was psycholopy, It was pretty fair to presume, then, If such an audicnce would come. out on two or three hours’ notlce, that 5,000 people couldn’t have got futo tho hal, even thouech there were nigger-minstrels, a cirens, the Siam- ese twins, or any other monstrosity in town. ([Laughter.] There must be something going on. He dide't know why ho was here. He came by merc accldent. 1o cnaed hls Presis dentlal canpafgn hero (laughter], where he held his one thousandth convention. ilgmade the country pay all his hall-reut, hotel bills, per- sonal expenses, ete., and to pay him $30,000 o fenr for three years for the privilege of nom- nating him for the Presidency, and calliug blm alupatie. [Laughter.} 1118 PROGRASIME was free-trade, American judustry, manufac- turers’ rights, cotton, wreonbacks, prosperity, and high wages to workingmen, He was sgainst Grant, specle-payments, free-trade, ad- versity, shipwreek, Bud” repudiation. Instend of brinting up i the White House, ho brought up in the Tombs. [Laughter.] Mo was looked upon as abnormal. In other words, the only way people vould get out of it was to call him crazy. As ho baan’t robbed any hen-roost, embuzeled any savings-bank's funds, or made any effort to Beecherize any Mrs, ’l‘lllan. nll théy could say nbout bim was that he was crazy ‘ln\u!hter]: ory in other words, it they couldn't whip bim, they were resolved to make up faces at his alster. When ho thought ho was everybody, hie discovered Ly was nobudy, Now that” he “saw this oudience, it scetned he wns cverybody, He bad been yehiolo- gizing people. Now the people” wero psychologiziug him, [Laughter.] Ouce ho apees ulated on the world. Now the world speculated ot him. Up tothe timo of the Tombs the will vontrolied the power. Now the power cone trolled the will. After the campalgn, huthought 1t a good time toretire. lie hud gone beyond the newsnapors. Instead of them ndvertistog himn, ho advertized them, When he was in Hong Rong, and about a dozen other cities the nanies of which lic ruttled off ot a marvelous rate of speed, lie never heard of the New York and Chicago papers, notwithstanding the enterprise of the latter. And yet, while everybody knew him, nobody koew him. Il wus casy to define the measurs of Emmlnenz men ke Disracll, QGladstone, Garlbaldl, and others, but people coutdn’t measurc Train. (Laughter.] Ie wos FROUADLY NETTER MISUNDERSTOOD than any other man living. People didn’t know whether he was In carncst or whether what he sald was a joke,—~whether ho was a talker, or o willlonoire, the bigzest man ?n»duml for cont- turics, or o Junatle. [Luu;; hter,] For once peonlo were obliged to confess that two con- tinents couldn’t measurc Traln, The newspa- era having fnfled to introduce him, b would rutmdnuu nimself. 10 ho hod dishonored his country, got into ofllve through some Keturning Board, or dishonored some woman in Chicugo and got a divorcee fn Indlanapolls on the eround of cold feet [laughter] uewspuper editors would Le prescat to do him fionor, " Havlug committed 1o fraud, never hasiug tasted a glass of Mquor Ju his iife, he couldn't be Introduced nsa re- form temperance leturer. 1n order to appear ln that character, it was nccesaary that ho should bLaye hiad the delirfum tremens. {Lluuhlnr.] Mr. Troln then Lranched off into bis ‘ PERSONAL LISTORY, dwelllnz on his councetion with the old ship- ping-house of Enoch Traln & Co., his emigrie {on schemes, bis street-ratlroad in Birkenhead, England, thoe firat built there, and Lis connee tlon with the building of the Atlantlc & Great Western, whose lue of road and connections he representea on tho blackboard. It was then kuown as the Broad Gauge, but now as the Broud Uuage Road. [Lnughter.L With the #100,000 he ot frow that road hu bullt his villy on the Hudson, There ho kept horses and scrvants, au Irish boarding-housc aud livery- stuble, 08 long o8 he could atford {t. Many people wera still to lkeep up appearances, but meet at—tho crash, [ garret in New Yorl, for which bo paid 83 a weck, and nine ccuts a bowl for oate weal o day, tio wouldi't say that Chivago would be burut up, but be didu't believo any- budy woulc*boluumi drlvlnflg o two-horse car- tage in Chicagzo fu thirty duys. IIo bappened to be in Parls when tho commune was organ- {zed, ho added, and ho only threw this out fnct. dentally. When ho went nbroad for the flrat time he was fond of telling about the Unfon ond the Coustitution, Hedidn't kuow then thut the real inanhood i the country was to break the Inws. When laws broke miep, it was about tioie furmen to break the laws, In fact, It waa about thne now to scttle matters, as they would baeetlea after o while—paycholozicaliy, psy- chologially. h}uugmcr.] He then told uf bis bul dimf steamships, ond golug to Austrulla, where ho Introduced strovt- cars, erected warehouscs, cte. When his ruliroads wero ripped up in Eugland, hic satd he would bulld a routu to China, * varls to Pelin in thirty dn?'-. This way _to Peki" [Laugh- 4 it over the Rocky Mouutafis, board for the purpose of showlugz the route, 1o lvokod ot it, und turned up Lis nose. When ho was Liero beforu he bad'a blackboard 8x14, he satd, sud he wouldn't figure un that litlo thing, Chicago bad shrunk as wuch as the blackboard, Lauglter.] “All o favor of my theurins on a urire bluckl d say sye,” ‘Thu peoplo ssld “aye,” ‘Tueu he touched ou the Credit Mobiler, saymg It was nll squore; no froud. He “was o long way o ad. yance of the people *on the psychological twist.” They called bim crazy, v entered tho Presidential canvass. lle hado't any idea of tlovating himself. He wanted to elevate tho Whito House. (Lougbter.] Hu wastho blegest thiug yet produced elther on land or lce, Hu was & power, snd had dono the greatest things i the world, 1is vunity was magniticent, bis cgotism supreme. 1fe was the Mlsslysippl, the Amazon, a0d the Orinocs, Tut ho at length realizea that 0 was but oue lttla drop {n the universal ocean ot life. ‘Then bis vanity dropped and his egoe tisin left i, Ouo couldn't wteam over thut ocean. When fodividuality camu avalust it, it was like throwing rotten e; galust o stono wall. [Laughter.) 1lo sal o would never speak again, But tho audienco prescut cone viuced bim that ke had MO CONTROL OVRR UIMSELY, They had_toved the drop. * Paschological,” sald he. This was prellmiuary—the tlrst fesson, a3 they sdld in the churches.” An Euallah rivg ruled ‘this country, When Excter Hall took suuff_tbe nc‘yubnmn party sncezed. When Frec-Trade Hull sueezed tho Democratic party ancezed alvo, e had sald* Bocese on vour owi suuil,”” and was put into fourteen jalls. [Lnughlcr.L Men sold out fu the right time fu order that England might come fu and skin the cat, Free-trade and specle paymcuts wero links of the sawo satvnge mudo vut of the sume dogz. 1o 1864 be had come to Chicago and slown her, by vrotection, she could be made & Birminghain or ashicfield. In 1973 the Eocligh riugg 0 wanaged gs to clect a Presldent, Toero wero My Conventions, Al they wanted was specio payments sud national nkruptey— ttu rulu of Awmcrica inorder to build up Englaud. Mr. Traiu described the Baitimore anuuuun.-wlwre Tweed, Connolly, sud Genet oceupled tho seage; aud the other scoundrels thc fhont svats, while belilud theus. were tho e F.'s of the Bouth, who bad crawlud up on thelr bellles for the privilegs of a beuch n the rear, “Never was such a couccntrated lot of d— fools got together {u the world.” Mr. Traln Wrole vu the black-bourd, ‘“‘dumn phoold” lu order that his licarers might ree that he was not vrofane. e himuelf bad attzoded the Blaston Dunean Conventlon. The only great man there, he was titehforked ont. Yef the sumne crowd had_ had the fmpudence, five vears Iater, to co ta Toleda and call themselves Greenbmck men, All'voted for ong of the other candidates, Why was he (Train), backed by 1,023 Conventlons of Uircenbackers, with a platform of prosperity and Industry, left out! *One sane man and 45,000,- 000 lunatics. {(ircat laughter.] All fn favor of that sa; 1 A few mil' Ave,” but there was one * no.” ! There is & man," eald Mr, Traln, * who be- longs to that rotten crowd.” |Laoghter.] This was * the second portion of tho first lesson by way of introduction,” 11 ho couldn’t be President, he thought the next best thing was to KMASH TIIR CTIURCIES. IHe went to New York. 1o thoucht he would he President. Ho could not believe that evers- Loy would vote for bankruptey. Ife waited 1or the people to come to the 8t. Nicholas and cheer him. ‘They didn't come. ‘Three days belure the election he went Into Wall street and aaw 10,000 histentuge to Drooks. They raw him (Train) und yelled for him, pasieg no_more at- teution to Brooks, 1lc wouldn'tspeak Lo dead- hiend owdiences. He never had and never wonld. But tha police camu to him_ and said, Y 8peak, Mr. Traln, and it will drive them nway." ll.mmmnr.i o saw psychologleally. He predicted that there would be a big fire, that a steamer would ¢o down, that we werc on the ove of o flnanclal crisla. EVERYTIING 1B PROCAESIED CAME TO PASS, After that soine onc told him that Woodhull sud Claflln were arrested for obreenity. This Ted him to discover that the Church was biczer than the State—that Beecher could use it as an agent to throw women into jall in order to ruver up his lechery over In Brooklyn. . He wrote them that he would go thelr ball, s he was sntisfied they were ancrliiced tocover up tha rot~ ten state of society. Ho put a pistol in his nocket, **If you touch thoee women you touch me, and 'L blow your brains out.”” For five weeks there wasn't aunother man pure enougn to defend them. [Lauzhter.] I quoted three columus from the Dible aud swas bimself ar- rested for vbscemty. In court he safd “gullty.! Lawyers sald to hilm, *Bay, not qullty,” “He told” them to dry up. They had nothing to do with it. It wesn't thelr funeral. Lawyers had more check than anybody else. The clerk said ellence. Iie sald “Blicnce, yourself, you aro making more nolse by erye niz out than any onc else,” Ilo “should liave been sentenced after s plea, but a town. meeting was held ob the beneh, aud they aaid o was not guilty and Rut him into the Tombs, His paper went up 25 cents, 50 cents, 31,50, holas. 4 Yes, §2. Judge Dowling went Into the St. “Ilave you wot Traln's paperi" stJesus Christ, rive e another cupy.” [Laugh- ter, “llow do you lke this for a Sunday dis- course!" nsked Mr, Train. The sudience answerced by laughing. “All In favor of my oine on n {ittle while longer sav aye,”” Hewas gmdnn toroon, Ilo was psychologle, he satd. e had the whole thive (n his hands. 1o went to jall, and people came to ball him out. He sald “No." They offered to et him out on bis own recognizance. e sald, **Let the women out.” A man under ball was a convict. Tncs wanted to nolie prosequl him, seeing they hai made o mistoke, He knew ho bod theu. if they kept him In he would smash thelr law. It they prosceuted him for obscenity it would destroy the Bible. e felt psychologically that they wounld find Iim guilty of insanity, If o, no insaue man could commit a crime, ho could get out of the scrape. Physiclans came to see him. The; sofd, ** Unsound mind; no horm {n him." They fi“u him o certificate to blow out anybody's raing. Here Mr, Traln took out his watch and_nsked what was the usual time aliowed for n Sunday sermoni Bhould ho goona little longer? [A volce, “No."] . [Laugnter,] “Ile hiad zotten the officials Into a uzht place, and forced them to try-him for fn- eanity. Al the things that h clitmed {o havo dono were proven, and for seventeen days he inade them the laughing-stock of the world, He found ho wouldn't be sent to an asylum. Ho wus scrry, for lie would "have shown up these terrible ovils. They were ntodern Spantsh inquisitfons,—places = where people were sent in order that others might steal thelr money, He told the Jury that he wanted the question of his Insan! wanted power from the law to sel the proj crty of any man who sald he was insane. He admitted oll the delusions. He declined the bonor of being the THESIDENT OF A RACE OF DOGS. The ‘\lry sald, ‘*Sane, and responsible for his acts,”” ° That verdiet gave him uuthority to walk [nto tho oftice of an editor who called hin Insane, and say, ** How much money have you ot1" It accounted for the sudden chauge, Tho press now only indulzed in o little socer, This ended the sccond lesson. e had enid ke would never have anything more to do with the American people. They would hurrah for him, but ‘when it eawmo to Ho went abroad. TURRISII DATHS. When he began takiug them every day ho couldu't eat nonything. When nho bad taken 400 ho coutdn’t “touch butter, When he tind takeu 50U he couldn’t shake hands. He found that the people wercllkummnuz dead men, He didu’t want anybody to touch him or speak to WMm, Hehad s monopoly of lmnm?. and was tho cnampion lunatic of the world, Ho didn't propose to allow anybody else to be as crazy as bo was. {laviug the_monopoly, he fn- tended to bold it. [Luughter,] He associated only with children, birds, and” anfmals. Three wecks from now, il ony one said he was crazy, he would bo shot like o dog. ** Are you ablo to judpe whether I am crazy or not{* he nsked. Aund then he would pay, “If I am crazy, you must be lunatics to come out to bear me," Ho had sald he would never apeak sgaln, but he was wow lecturivg, ln order that the pro- ceeds might o to the family of onc Lant, a young mun whio had been put into the Albany Penttentlary for printing his (Train's) prayer for Beecher, It wouldu't onn{ Food to pray for help, Prayer had better bo abolistied alto- rether, i ‘Then he branched oft into the paychologleal scercts which he elaims to possesa, 1le. conld only tell them to the women, he sald. and he had greal audlencen of them, Ie had agreed that he wouldu't o any nearer them than the stage, sl.mmlotcr; Bat the effect was, after his tirst lecture in Nowark, that not a single ono that heard hiin_ would got up tho next morning and bulld tho flre, [Laughter,] 1o gave out thiat he would lecturg to men alone, and he did, uud the housca were full. 1o had been in every house of fHl-fame in tho world, and knew moré, and bad seen more through keyholus, than any- body else. 8o ho thought he could tell them somnething,—cover them all over with thelr own filth, Hudidu't lke obscenity, profanity, or vulgarity. In Toledo he got along very well until ne alluded to Keed, of the Post-Ofice,- who tricd to got the nuthorities to arrest bim, The papers tuero that reportea bis specck would survive, but those that didn't would become bavkrupt. At this point ho asked all thoss who were [n fuvor of bls golng on o little lunger to suy sye, Tho tesponew was pretty gencral, but there wos one no, whicl ted fiim to remark, *Our friead st stays heve,” [Laughter.] A yolco—=Glva bim thne, “Ting s what you want on mortzazes in Chicago,” contlnued Mr. Traln, Time was jm- rtant, There wag an old sayhng, "'femxnu votlng thicy were not there. ‘There bie took uzit," which signifiéd fly-tine, (Laughter, Well, hls vext stopping-place “after leaving Toledo was Detrolt. Ilera ho ran over to the tuble and picked up o of the articles he had empticd out of bils overcoat pocket. It wasabout seventeen yards louy, and proved to be a roll of clippings from the uewspapers, fle polnted to it triumphantly as he unrolled it aud Jet it fall srouud the stage, remarking s he did so that 1t contatued what the uewspapers bad saldabout. bim. Mo had discovered GIGANTIQ KING I DETROIT, Tho biegest swindle over organized eince the world began, There was 8 nng fo the market- house, 8 ring {n the Court-flouse, a ring in_ tho rlug fu the uavy,a riugin tho State o rlug at Lanilng, & ring among awyers, o ring amoug the doctors, & g awmong the Aldermoen, & ring among the churches, sod oll culminated I tos LPost und Fres Press, There was us great dunger of a 810,000,000 steal thure ns there was of a $11,000,000 steul In the Treasury st Wash- fugton, ' When a newspaper attuckod a mag, veople might reat assurcd thers was suine fraud ot tho bottom of It. He had recelved 8 tele- gram_ tu come to Chlcago. He thought tha thne had ripened ayd tho people wanted to sey i back ‘again, The rlugs tn Chicazo were trightened. Ho was not wsnted bhere. This wuas evidenced by tho fact that there were oo votices of his arrival fu tho ucwapspers, Hu juteuded to lecture to women. Could the women of Chlcago ralso from thelr beloved brotbers, futhers, and husbands a quarter) [Laughter.] Al witliog to give thelr wives a quarter to hear me talk to them about the laws of Iife and bealth say aye." There were bi fow respouses. “Yes, thof Women were sure to ever, oud he wouldu't Ve a muu withiu a wile of the cstablishment. What bappened was purely a watter of privacy be- tween bim and the women. [Laugbter.] Amer- dcu would ucver waku any progress until the 60,000 churches were turned futo Turklsh baths aud tha 60,000 priests futo shampooers. [Great laugbter.) i **All fu favor of that say aye,” shouted G. T. ulte genersl, He then would Lave s larzer “The response was Weat ou to say that TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 1J, 1878, ‘Thot man had all_he wanted. scttled. He blackbonrd at night, and tell what was to hap- n. ** All fn favor of my being Dictator ray ave,” w28 his next appeal. he responses were pretty general, but ono fralisIqual ehouted * No." "“That man wants to be Diztator himself.” was Mr. ‘[rain's reply. ‘AN who have had ilielr money's worth,” he continued, **say aye.” Nearly everyboay signified that ho or eho had been. well ‘repald by singing out a dectiled ave, This eerved the lecturer for a peroration, and the audience got up and went out on the atreet to laugh, like the melancholy Jacgues, ‘*sans Intermission, an hour by tha dial.” Mr. Train lectures at Hershey 1all tnis after- noon *to ledles only,” THE RAILROADS. DETAILS OF THE NEW YORK MEET= ING. The New York Tribune gives tho following account of the proceedings of the Managers’ meeting at New York, at which the ralirond war on East-bound frelghits was brought to a terial- valion: ‘The conference of rallroad Managers met at tho Winduor Iiotel yesterday morning, Tiere were rescnt J. 1L Ratter, of “the New York Central: . 1. Blancuand, of the Erto; ‘A. J, Cansati, of the Pennsylvanta: and Mr, Doherty, of the Daltimore & Onfo, constituting the Executive Committea of the trunk lines; Mesure, Nowell, of thy Lake Bhare: l\filfivnu. gl the Michigan Central: Urborn, of the e eargeant, of the Grand Trunk btm:q-. Great Western of Canada: Muir and J'erry, Cannda. Southern: Horlbut, Cleveland, Columuus, Cincin- Lat) & Indisnapolis and Indlanapolis & 8¢, Louts: McMullin, Chicazo & Alton: White, Tletrojt & Milwaukee; Potter and Edwards, Fiint & Perc Mar- anette; Peck, Chicago & Lake fluron; and Simp. #on, Vandatin, —representing Western ralroads. Mr. Bliss, of the Buston & Albany; Mr. Millis, of the Vermont Central; and Alvert Fiok, Trunk Linca Commiasioner, aad N. Guilford, Cotamls. sioner of the Weaturn Aesociation, were also fn at- tendance. Mr, Blanchard acted a3 Clolrman snd Mr. Guilford as Secretary. After remarks from several of those present In reapect to the present unsatisfactory condition of the transportation husinces of tho country, Mr. Fink was asked to address the meeting, 1e spuke at lengih, advocating meel-n proporeed by him at the Chicngo meeting, Feb. U, refercnce o which Was made in yesterd: Trijune, Thia scheme provides that sn sgreement shall be entered into todivido at once the whole East-bound frelght basiness from each important competing point, divistan to be made in kind : in cane percentages of division could not be settied by the companses, the Commlesioners were to decide, Mr, Plnlldmlllefl that there were diflicultics in the way of carrying out such & acheine, but he clatmed tuat they were not Inanrmountable, and e belleved that the plan was the beat that conld be devised to prevent the unprofitable catting of rates which Lad Yeen practiced in the poet, Flualiy 3ir. Jiurlbut offercd the following: Reeoteed.~That It s the sense of this mecting that it s deairablc to establlih eqnitahie, aurecd divistonsof Esst-bound tonnsge, from thie privcioal ‘comnp pointa and districle tn the West, and that, therefore, the Commimioncrs (Mewsrs. Fink and Gutiford) be requented to_report adetalicd plan for_carrying the same {nto practical operalion. And wo sgrec L5 Shide by tha plan and perceutaiies thaf may, affer full hear. ing, bo'so sMlgned to each company for the period of six months., Ta this resolution il entitled to vote pave thelr votes In the aftirmative, cxcevt Mr, Newell, of the Lake 8horo, He dld not object 1o tho fret part of tha resolutlon, but he was not willing to sgree to the clanee leaving the questions of plan and per- centage to the Commissioucrs, withuat firet cunie sniting Mr. Vanderbilt. The meetinz theretore ndjounrned to 8 o'clock last evening, togive Mr. Newell time to consider the matier, nnd anop- portanity to confer with Me, Vanderblit. At tho evening sestion, Mr. Neweil agoin hesi- tated to give his axsent 10 the adoption of the rogo- Intion, and st une time it was thonght that st could not be passed. All the membera of the Con. ference azain voted for it, however, thus placing the cause of the fallure. If it should not be adopted, cotirely on the Lake Shore manageuent. The pressure waa eo groat that Mr. Newell finally consented to vote for the resolutlon, if tho timo during which the different ruade bonnd themselvea to ite torme was limited to threo monthe, instead of slx months, This change waa readily agreed to by the other members of the Conference. ‘The next question for considerstion was the o vance of rates. The Inst schedule that was ado) Western roade made tho rate on e from Chlca, New York 40 cents per 100 poin: Iiy the continued cniting that bad been golmt un for some tline, the Actuai rate obialned had fullen a4 low as 15 cents a handred from Chicaro and 10 centsa from St. Lonis. Afier considern- blo dircusslon the inceting last night agreed to make the tarl rate _on und ufter noxt Monday 30 cents a hundred on grun fiom Chicago to New York. other classes of fretuht und rates between other pointa in the West aud Eaet to ba based on the rates above uiven, It waw anlso agreed that If any of the \Western roads had unful- fllod contracts at less fignres than those of the new schedale, thess contracts should not in any wa: Interfere with the apportivnment rcheme whic! will gointo effect at the sawe tiue that the rates nre advanced, Al future contructs must b made 8t the new (ari@ rates, but& was clutmed, and the meetiug neted on the sssumption, that if any roads have been so foolish s to make thmu contracts ot unprofitable rates, they wmust suller the conso- quences of belny compelled to carry them out, rather than to hold the niore careful lines respon- riblo for contracta over which they have never bad control, 1t ts admitted that it will require same timo to erfect the kcheme adovted yesterday, but the ale rntmem- wheu mnde will dato from next Monday, and the Commiseloners will have entiro control In all questions of dispate. NMUMORED CIIANGES, ‘The Bt Louls Zepublican has the following gossip inregard to fmpending chances In the management of certain 8t. Louls roads: Very little of conronuence was developed yester- day in the matter of the prospective changes in tne Buperintendeucy of the Missourl Pacltic and the Missourt, Kanvas & Texas Rallways, Altthat was uald 1n yestenlay's Repudiican was tully verificd, 3r. Talmuye bav been uflered the Supertitendency of the Missourf, Kansas & Texas. e will accept, I2 hie relotions with the Missouri Paclic wiil per. mit him, and thero is every reaton-to belleve that they will, Bt Mr,Talmago ha or £0 indicate ail the pha & chango fsmade theronre rumors atfondiug the same, Accordingly, it may noted that 1t {s commen talk that D, R, Garrison 13 10 be made Uenernl Manager of the Miavouri I'a. ciiic, and J. W, Conlogue, or somebody else, Gene cral SBuperintendent. 1t wns aivo sald yesterda that Mr, Talmagze had concluded to remaln wit the Missourl Paclfic, but a lepudlican reporter, in two faterviews with Mr. Talmage. gained an afto- gether ditforent imprewslon of the situstion of afuire. 5 11 tranaplecd yeeterday that the romors relative 10 the reslnatio f J, A, Hil, Oeneral Fraght Agent, and Warder Commings, Diviston Superin. ny of i Pacifle, were without gnations hud been made, thoy woull have been mado 1o Mr. Talmnge; but the latter gentleman positively asscried that ho 0d recelved no resignations from the onicialw mentioned. This setties the case of Mr, 111)] and Atr. Cusnmiugs for the prosent. What they may da in the future 1s anotuur matter, CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE &S8T, PAUL. The Chicago, Milwaukeo & 8t. Paul makes the following statement for the business of 18T Gross earninge (3, 787 por mile) housan 88,114, 805,27 Expenascs (65,15 per cotit) veen . 4,040,433, 57 Net earnings (82,550 per mile| $74,460.70 Intercat paymeuts 1 130,15 Balanco e sivnrenne vone snees SN TITTS Oue dividend of fi}f per cent on the preferred stock was pald Jon. 73, 1673, and a second of the suwe amouut hay juat beva declured. MICIIIGAN ROADS, Special Dispatch 1o The Tyibune. LaxsiNg, Mich., March 10.—Ileports to tho Btate Railroad Commuissioner frum Dee. 1 to Dee. 81, 1877, show five persous kilied and elght slightly fnjured oo Michigan roads. ince the reported sale of tha Chivago & North- eastern to thu Lake Shore Road various rumors bave beeu atloat, President Turner states that the rosd is owned wostly by Lansing and Flint veople, and that the Grand Irunk docs uot own 8 dollar of stock. e —— — CAMPAIGN OP THE CANONICUS. New Ontzsxs, March 10.—The steamboat Bbavoon, from Quachita River, with £00 bales of cottou, at 3 &. m,, collided with tho monitor Canonicus, and. sank fu a few miuutos. Capt. Dapart thinks no Ilves were lost, The Canon- fcus 18 at unchor_(n tho river st tho foot of Cunal street. This fs the second steamboat sunk by colllslun with Ler. Bteamboatimen clutm thist the Hlit displayed by the monitor is insutlicicus. The boat Is's total loss, A por- tion of the cargo may be saved badly damaged. The boat and carco were valued at §60,000. ———— OMAHA. OxAT4, Neb,, March 10,—A Board of Trade mass-moctiog is called for to-morrow evenlngto presert to Congress Omaha's clalms for tho es- tablishuent of s branch miut here. Nearly two-tbirds of tho silver product of bu:o country, i, 000 ju value, besides over ae nuwu: o fi'fiu\l!nn wero bandled here last year. Tho sgzregate bustucss of the Owma- ha smeltiog works Jast year was about 85,000,- 0. Everyeffort will "bu maue 0 secure s braoch wint. THE ST, LAWRENCE. Warzzfows, N. Y., Marchi 10.—~Tuo 8t. Law- reoce River is free from fec from the lsko to Udensburg. SOCIALISTIC LABOR. The Bnecessors of the Communists Adopt & Platform with Many Planks, PESST P And Promulgate a Declaration of Prin- ciples-—-The Despotism of the Wages System, The United Sections of the Soctalistic Lahor party of the City of Chicago held a meeting yesterday afternoon at No. 45 North Clark strect, and transacted & great amount of busl- ness, Indicating thelr groundwork of operatfons in the coming municipal campalgn, Four Rec- tions were represented, and the attendance was quite Jarge. The party bas, it scems, reversed its tactics in regard to the admission of the representatives of the press, and now the for- merly-despised reporter is looked upon as a belng not wholly unfit to take a seat and notes amongst the elect. Ono of the eraft applicd for adnission yesterday, Tho Scr- geant-ot-Armns checked him In his bold strile for n scat, and, detaining him till all had become qulet, ralil In a volee of awfu) solemnity: “Mr, Chalrinan, the reporter of Tis TRIDUNE prays for admission.” And they all with one accord Iifted up thetr vofces and salil: **Let Lim en- ter,* Now the reposter of Tue TRisUNE had not “prayed® for adinission. Yet the customs of the Order must be observed, There were thiree Chalrmen and three Secro- tarfes conducting the meeting. One of the Prestdents and one of the Sccretaries was a German, anotlier an Englist-speaking man, and another a Bohemtan. All business was done thrice—nnce {n each tanzuage. - Mr, 8amucl Golawater was the English presiding-officer, and Mr, Morgan acted as Becretary. The first husiness was the reading of a de- cislon from the National Execative Committec of the Iparty to the ciect that o Hection must have been In ‘organization for &t least a year be- fore {t could nominate any candidates Tor pub- Me office; and that no cauld become the nomince of the party unless be had been o Boclaltst for at least one year, The Chalr then announced that the DECLAICATION OF PRINCIPLES ! wonld be read, aud the Secretary read the fol- towing document, which was ndopter as read: No rood can be obtalned by electtng men to of- fico except as sepreseniatives of idens and princi- ples that tend to elevato and add to the happiness snd comfort of mankind.” Heretolure the political contests In thia eity bave been between the **ins ™ and *‘oute,” The desire for the apolls of aflice han been the moving cause, and not a queation of principles uor a desire todo poud, Tho old parties are ali upposed to the interests of the working classes, uniting st all times to defeat any measute or movement for the purpose of 1muroving their condition, and using every means {u - thele power to keep them divided, That they haveforfeited all clafmn to the notice of lhnrenu ¢ has been abundantly roven by the condition of the city at the present rllm'. T{:e robberics of the public offices, the im. mensedelit of the city, the amonnt of unpald taxes (the llst of the tax-fighters Incmdln}x many of the leadars and even the ofliccholders of the party), prompt ue, the Socialistic Laboe party, to' repadia ate the old parties and their work, and presont the lixllh;wlm: 28 our declaration of principles and loeal aiform: v Earth, air, light, and water are notaral gifts: therefore priceless, ~As all theso things are caven- 1ial to the support of humau life, uvery mi 1 into this world hseanatoral richt 1o a ehite of them, and it i« the duty of the Guvernment which exfsts for the common guod to ses that no nian nor number of meu shall bold a monopuly of these nstural gifts 1o the exclusion of the wuecds of others, The safetr of soclety depends upon the equality of tizhts and the opportunities of all jis membars, and whenever from any cuuse the freedom of a part of the communily s endangered, cither iu thelr political or indusirial rizhite, It behooves the people tudeviss methods by which the usutpativus of the powerful sbhall Le orerturown and the falleat freedom of the name blest be maintaiued, The political rights of & peuple are ot more sacred than their industrinl rights, and to prevent a clasw from posscasing all of the material advantages of a progzressive civll- ization, 12 08 much sn act of tyranny na to provent them ffom exerclsing tholt rizhts of scif-govern- ment. The 7ictory over divine right ond raler. ship must be supplemented by a victory over prop. erty-rights ralers, for there can ne governs wment of the peaple by the people and for thepeople wneras the many are dependent npm the few for thelr existence, Men will racrlice thelr libertien for thelr lives, and those who control the industries of & people can ond do cuntrol thelr votes. ‘Tho twages-workers of the world are forced b‘ their poverty Into dendly competition with eacl othier, race ls thrown 15(0_antagoni«m with race, and nations of people are driven by thelr necessl- ties to retard the progress of thelr fellows In "K!“. ‘he remorseless warfare upon human weifare, hollest tles of iife are destruyed. The sl of 10 §s wade to compete with the woman of 0. ¢ hoy of 10 with the man of 40. Children aro driven from the school, and men are forced to live {n ldlenesa upon paitry earnings of their wives and little on ‘he achirementuof Iiberty are the epochis of history, Villanage, serfdoni, and cliattel alavery—the past systems of Javor—have foreser dlsappeared. The laborers of tha civilized world have gained tarve. It now rosts with them 1o aecury srenslun of tho products of tholr hor, The Hberty of 1abor l4 the hope of the world, and that hberty can only be obtained by the nolldarity of fuborers upon labor meuarures, We therefore, in the Interesta of & comwoen brother- hood. declares First—That the wages-systom 1s n despotism un- der which the wacve-worker Ia forced (o sell his labor at such a rflcv and unger vach conditions as the employer of labor may dictate. ‘Second—That political liberty cannot long con- tinue under industrial bondace. for he who i furced to sell hts 1abor or atarve will acll his vota when the same siternativu is prescnted, Third—That civilization meany the diffuston of kuowledge and tho distribution of wealth, and the prescut syatem of labor tends to cxtrentes of cul- ture and {gnorance, attuence and penury, FourtA—"That the hops of progressivo civiliza- tion dupends upon the i¢ that ehall enlarge the kuowludge snd incresse the wealth of the warkers, Ff(A—That, as the wealth of the world s dle- tributed through the wagus-aystem, ita botter dis- tribution wust come through higher wages awd better opportunitics, until wages shall represent the earning and not' tho necessitics of labor, thus meling out of existence profit upon lsbor, aud making ln|l~umnla{ad labot tha natural and logical stop from wages—slavery o free-labor, Sixth— atiomplsto anlicipato co-opora- tion v advanes of socloty conditiuna are exutics, ners Liot-house growths, thatare kept alive fora timu through tho sheer forco of character and vel sacritice of their leadersitln, and are ns foreign (o an atmospbere of chieap labor and & world of wages o4 wre the vlants of the Troplesina Northern fwe, Seventh—That the first atep toward the emaucl. ation of labor 3s & reductlon uf tho hours of .bor; thal the sdded leisuro Fmdntud by & reduce tion of the huure of labor will uperate” upon the natuzul cunses that affect tho babite sul custows of the peuple, enlarnnz wants, mulating ams bition, decreasing ddlonces, aud’ increasing wazes, Imunedintely followingz the declaration was TRE PLATPOLM, which was read aud adopted, plunk by plank, as followe: Plank 1—Tho boalth of the city is of the tret importance, therefuro the cily wust be clexuod aud kept clean. Adopted, lank t—Sanitary Inspection of food, dwellings, factusles, and workshops, Adopted, after the word “all # had been fu- scrted niter the word * food,” *'We want to &t aftor some of these ricdh bugs,” explafoed oue of the party. 7 Flank 3-The catablishment of public biths in each divisiou of tho city. Adapted Plank 4—The -abolitlon of the contract system, all prblic work o bu duue by the day. Adopted. Plank 83—Eight boura’ work per day for all city employes. Adopted. Flank 6—The abolition of all fees; a fxed salary for all clty olicers, Aldcsmon tucluded; uo salary tu cxcoed §:2, 000 per yeus. . Adopted, i Plank 7—~Tho city to bo run on & cash basls, not o dler (500 experace waill seneeiod: J Unfortunatety for the much-sought solution of the kuotty problens at prescat vexiug the ity oiliclals, Plauk No. 7 was passed by in silence, Plunk 8—The common-school system of the clty must bo extended untll thor s sccutwodstivn fur il tho High-school shull not be allowed tw iuter- fere with such extensivn. Adopted. ank 0—Tho gas and atrect-csr compaules chaze uflw bo “n“.lxfi tho city to take cg:rg- of tbu monupol the pepop per weasures 1o bo taken to ‘uu the principal Interust of all money actuslly Inveat «d in sald comipapies out of the vrofits therefrom. Adopted, after s sbort discussion, revealing that tne party fotends to look fnto the question of the Councll's right to grant a frunchise for vinety-nine yeard. Flank 10—~Tax-0ghting wmust cease; the poor are compelled 10 puy tuclr lazcs uuderallclrcum. thqrich aust "o cowpelled o do the same. !lmmrfl suy taxpayer of taxpayers obtain exewmptiou from paymeut of taxcs through ilicyal aod fluprover asscsstucnts, thew be entits tux- levy whall bo declazed void, 8oy a new asseasuiont wade witbin three moutls, and no sppeal shall bo allowed ou the sccoud ascgament. That plauk wus also adupted alter ofew had Alred thefr devices for preventing tax fighting and collecting past<lue taxer, notwithstanding the statement that legislative (nterference was hecessary to change the tax system. | The leaders of the meeting kept qufet con- cerning this “plank,” advising that what the beat heads of the day had been unable to suc- cesatully Lring ahout would not probably be now accomplished by an {ncxperienced political party of laboring men. Plank 11-Charity, or slmsgiving, hae a demor- flizing effect upon all able-bodied recipfents; therefore measures rhonld be taken to provide work for all residents of the city that need it. tieorge Bchilliog remarked that the carryin into operation of such s plan as that wnulfi Lring to Chicaro the 8,000,000 tramps now roam- Ing the country. 'The plank was adopted, after one member hiad remarked that ail the Scctions in the country were to adopt aimilar planks. Upon motiow, anotier plank, providing that the Alderinen should represent population, not territory, was adopted. Still another plank, declaring that *city prop- erty should not be sold, or exchanged, or leased for more than fittcen years,’ was prescnted, &nd was ndonted, after o' man with an eye to the nicetics of the language had amended by sub- stituting “‘nor” fur *or.” The platlorm was Lhen adopted, as ainended, a8 0 whole, Upon the motion of Mr. Bchilling, 10,000 coples of the declaration and platform were ordered printed for gencral dlatribution, MR I'ARSONS, once the uknnwlm!tzcd leader of the Commun- Ists, then presented'n sot uf resolatlons, which he £aid had emunated from the Agitation Com- mittee. The resolutious atarted” out with the assertion that the labor question had become the paramount subject fu the minds of the Amcrican people; thiat that publie mind wasun- educated regarding labor, cte. ete,, and then the real polnt of the thing was shown when the words “ workingtnen's newspaper In the Norgh- west” wercheard, The resolutious then weut on to say that A NEWSPATER WAS WANTED immediately to support the workingman (with the usual adjectives); that it should ba callea the Zahwr Iulletin; and closed with the state. ment that cvery waces-worker should cousider it his bounden duty to subscribs und assist the enterprise. . Mr. Parsons made a_vers nlco speech abont the recolutions. It should be borne fo mind that Parsuns Is & priuter,and he coulil undoubt- edly run that paper to hls own eminent antisface tion, e didn’t suy ro, hut it’ls probably so, His innate modesty prevented him from presss ing his “eternal fitncss upon the inceting. Somebody moved to strike out the words ¥ trades-usfons.” Ile wanted the paper run by Bocialists In behall of Soclaltsm, Mr. John MeAuliil mude that speech. Mr. Parsons replicd that nineteen-twentleths of the Soclalists were trades-union men, Mr.. McAulllf resvonded that nineteeo- twontleths of the trudes-unlon 1aen were not Beciallsts. 1o did not want the trades-unions to run the euterprise under the gulse of Baclnlism while working onlv for the wrmulgs- tion of trades-unionism, The Lalvr Standard had been so managed, and he could prove that the Socislism that once ruled that orean lad been sold to the fenemy—trades-unlonism. ‘The Chair took oceasion to remark that “it the trades-unfou men run the paper it will run to Hell.! That settled It, apd the trades-unlon was atricken out, and Mr, Parsons’ resolutions wera adopted. U'pun Mr. Parsons’ motfon the reso- lutions were then added to the declaration of rinciples, and the whole thing was turncd over 0 8 committec of Mesers. Plelfer, Concert, and Balaratzeky for revision. 82An application] from the Bhocmakers' Unfon asking the privilewe of concerted action was re- ferred to the Amtation Comimlttee, and alter the trausaction of some miuor busfuess . tho mecting adjous e e— . INDIANA'S VAGRANT LAW. Bpertal Dispatch i» The Trikune. INDIANArOLLS, Ind, March 10.~Ou an appeal from Parke County, the Bupreme Court yester- day decided that the Suspected Folon was constitutional on the point favolved, viz.: That the subject matter of alf the sections is embrac- ed In the titie, and the provisions in Ece, 14, which are at fssue, ate properly connected there- with. Qolng outside of the recort of the caso, the Court say thut the other provisions of the act, touching ariest without a warrant and_ dfs. pensie with a jury trial, Wil be considered when they comeup, These are the points in- volved fu'the cases appealed from Marlon und Allen Countles, in buth of which the act was declured unconstitutivnal, ——— Flashing In thele pearly o From the glorions corant Aee thore teeth untarnivhed ! 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