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"Those attending the protest mass-meeting of the Wheatland hop-pickers were singing the I.W.W. song 'Mr. Block, when the sheriff's posse came up in its automobiles. The crowd had been harangued by an experienced I.W.W. orator 'Blackie' Ford.
The heel of the rich man grinding the poor to the earth." Mr. Tomlin hesitated. "It's entirely a meeting of Union men. No violence advocated. A mass-meeting to discuss appointing committees to demand work."
Shall we take any newspaper men with us, or shall I wait until I get back and be interviewed? What do you think?" "I would wait until my return," Arkwright answered, his eyes glowing with the hope the senator's words had inspired, "and then speak to a mass-meeting here and in Boston and in Chicago. Three speeches will be enough.
Then they gathered themselves together in a great mass-meeting at Krugersdorp, talked their troubles over, and resolved to fight for their deliverance from the British yoke. They proclaimed martial law and the re-establishment of their Republic. They organized their forces and sent them forward to intercept the British battalions.
Altogether, the day's work had netted them two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, and as soon as she could escape Mary Louise rushed home to report their success to her grandfather. "In one day, Gran'pa Jim!" she cried exultantly, and the old colonel's eyes sparkled as he replied: "That makes our great mass-meeting look pretty small; doesn't it, my dear? I consider it wonderful!
He took his place at a table where the overworked waiter found time to cut up his meat and put everything in easy reach of his right hand. "Well," Fulkerson resumed, "they took me round everywhere in Moffitt, and showed me their big wells lit 'em up for a private view, and let me hear them purr with the soft accents of a mass-meeting of locomotives.
Some had shouted as loud as the rest, but had been missed by the police; some had thought it wiser to run away and live to shout another day; some wanted to start that very night to print a leaflet and call another mass-meeting.
Largely through the efforts of Brooks and Douglass, the Democrats of Jacksonville were persuaded to call a mass-meeting of all good Democrats in the county. It was on this occasion, very soon after his arrival in town, that Douglass made his début on the political stage. It is said that accident brought the young lawyer into prominence at this meeting.
He took his place at a table where the overworked waiter found time to cut up his meat and put everything in easy reach of his right hand. "Well," Fulkerson resumed, "they took me round everywhere in Moffitt, and showed me their big wells lit 'em up for a private view, and let me hear them purr with the soft accents of a mass-meeting of locomotives.
The Northern Convention concluded its proceedings on the third day with a mass-meeting larger than any that had ever assembled in Philadelphia. The Southern Convention remained in session full five days. The interest was sustained from beginning to end, and besides the delegates present, a vast assemblage of people thronged the streets of Philadelphia during all the sessions of the conventions.
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