Show significant SENTENCES MB T V POWDERLY who stands at the head of vie the organization of knights ot labor in A ta united fl tates states is and for some day past ha hv been deeply and actively interesting himself in the cause of henry george in the batters lat aspirations to be chosen mayor of the city of new york today to day an immense meeting of the laadt labor party was held in that city last evening at which mr powderly spoke at some length after aulm adverting upon the growing tendency of capital to trench upon the domain of labor and gradually reduce it to a system of slavery the speaker madesse made use of the following language prefab prefacing edg his pero peroration ration with a reference to the charges made against george georee ot of being in favor of chinese labor opposed to the land leaguers and Parne fl and a free trader mr george is running for mayor ind and these charges have nothing to do with the case george and I 1 auree that poverty should be abolished we agree that every man has a certain amount of rights due to him and we believe that these things god ordained we should enjoy cheers and it we ask for these th ings that god gave us blame god and not us cheers yu you have asked mr george to leave his bis home which he loves and stand urion upon the altar of yoot hopes and you aa are in duty support him tomorrow to morrow as you are to administer to tile the wants of your family hearl hear hear and cheers cheer sj vote f for or your family your country ana your god in the person erson of henry george cheers and upkeep keep on till he takes his seat in th the eWhite white house cheers I 1 stand here the representative ot every man in this country who uses a toola tid thousands beside to ask you A do your duty so that all throughout the land may kno know w that there are 01 ther other things besides strikes other things besides boycotts that there I 1 ip a proper regulation of our land system which every man the full enjoyment of his rights and no more great cheering this is all when strictly consistent grandiloquence poverty should be abolished truet true buchow mt how powderly states a desired consummation without pointing out by what mean s he ad and his candidate would bring it about in this he simply appeals pea Is to mens prejudices it if not their propensity to commit lawlessness he would have thrim them believe that george i is the modern moses whose especial mission itis it is to lead captives of monopolists OP opo lists gand capitalists out of their captivity but the only path he points out is the election of the labor candidate for mayor Is not this extremely illogical logical ri Is not his conclusion avery a very apparent non sequitur to reaSon ingan thinking and law abiding people if george should be chosen to the coveted position in what way would or could be by reason of his office or otherwise or at all poverty poverty can only be abolished through a stroke of good fortune or through fi honest onest able and persistent effort and it willIl will hardly Ardly be claimed even by the most igno ignorant kaut leveler that the mayor of new york boik city is capable of disseminating in a substantial form either ot th these se conditions on dit ions no matter to what extent backed up by brawlers crawlers braw lers on one band and legislators on the other it would seem then iben that Pow derlys appeal 1 like ahat made by his coave convention antion at t richmond in behalf of the condemned chicago anarchists is to that element in our midst which looks not with emulation but with hatred and en envy vy upon the acquirements acquire ments and possessions ot ol others aud and would force foice a division of property at the expense of law by pillaging plundering and destroying henry george is a gifted man 1 in a many respects so is powderly Pow deily both are comparatively masters of rhetoric and know the influence which high sounding and emphatic sentences ha have ve upon the unthinking multitudes ot of over c crowded eded cities but there is so little itt e gt that is practical in what they do or practicable in what they say that their public utterances may as well be set down as worse than demagoguery ery we have no sympathy for men who get and hoard money tor lor the mere lust of gain whoSe god is golden and whose conscience is adamant we have bave every sympathy heartfelt und and sincere for foi their victims bat poverty is s many maily removes from aiom being a disgrace until those upon whom it is inflicted make it so those who toil are entitled to a reasonable share shaie proportioned portioned pio to their worth and efforts ot the gains which their labor produces it can directly and indirectly legislate can convene and petition tor for redress can arbitrate can even agitate but it cannot rightfully rob nor burn nor noi kill let it be conservative and ua earn est and progressive educated and dig lifted and above all let it be honest the election ol of george means the attempted enforcement ot a system which was recently put forth in a too vigorous manner in ift chicago and tor engaging in which six able bodied intelligent men will be gibbeted to death like dogs after thirty days more moie have passed such buch results as are within the range of anticipation should mr george be elected are after all the natural outcome ot the thac tyranny of capital in its dealings with labor the working element of the country is beginning to feel the power which it holds and which has long lain dormant it proposes to pay back the class whom it las iab its enemies with the same weapons that have so long been used against itself the conflict broadens and deepens and h he e is a wise man who can see the end thereof A house divided against itself cannot stand so with a nation whose two distinct classes are arrayed against each other in bitter and aad unrelenting hostility the contest will continue and matters go from bad to worse until the giant arms of the conflict embrace the entire country |