Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-06

of capital, party of rascality,
a party of robbery, party of the
wolves as against the sheep, as against the
great mass of mankind. [Applause.t
There was Scotchman once who in his
travels stopped at a country tavern, ard he
was put to, bed in bed that
was hive of insect activity
[great laughter !, and when he came down
to breakfast the next morning the landlord
asked him how he slept. ''Well," said he
mot very we'll, but good deal better than
the bugs" Continued laughter. "A
great deal better than the bugs, for divil
a one of them closed an eye the whole
night" Laughter
New, my friends those who live upon the
great mass of mankind, who, by their in
genuity turn aside into their own
pockets the honest industry of
the masses (who, while they make $3.50 a
year for themselves, make $500 for their
employers) these scamps who carry on
these practices under cover of the law,
hold just the same relation to the great
masses of mankind that those bugs did to
the Scotchman. They prey upon him;
live upon him; eat his substance.
MONOPOLIEs ARE THE COVERS
under which these practices are carried on
and by which the thrifty man gets some
thing out of nothing. One of the judges
of our United States court, in case that
came before him, in ILLUSTRATE On of propo-
sition which he was propounding, said a
thrifty fellow found himself dead broke
upon the levee at st. Louis, and was sitting
there looking at the river, turning over in
his mind how he could make raise. he
saw number of negroes sitting there,
basking in the sun, idle. He went
up to them, and says he, ''Do
you want job?" ooh, yes,'' they
wanted job. "Now," says he, ''you see
that river there is full of driftwood? ~
EYES," they saw it was. "Well, you get
boats and canoes and go out and bring in
that drift wood and pile it up on the bank
of this river and 1 will give you one half of
all you collect" Great laughter. And the
darkies rejoiced at the opportunity and
went to work and collected the driftwood.
and you bet this capitalist staid there and
received his share; and when he got
through he started national bank.
Laughter. And so we have one of them
here.
Gentlemen, it is monopolizing our mar
ket, because it says to US: You shall buy
at our price. They build wall between
you and the external world. Why, friends,
that is just what in the old ages of 1776
John Bull proposed to us. John Bull said
to US when parliament passed what they
called navigation laws: You shall not deal
except with England; you shall not ship to
any foreign country; you shall not have
manufactures in your country. He said:
You shall buy what you want from US in
England" And the American people of
that day saw that if their market was
monopolized in that way they would be-
come lot of poverty-stricken serfs, and
they. went to work and fought for six
long years and broke it down and obtained
their liberty; but no sooner had they done
that, than set of sharp fellows rose up
on the Atlantic coast and said: "We pro-
pose to do just what you said John Bull
should not do" New England takes
THE PLACE OF OLD ENGLAND.
And they said, eve must have the monop-
oily of your market"
Then, in our own state, they have got
another ring and monopoly. Our main
product in this state is wheat, upon which
depends all our prosperity, Your whole
sale merchants depend for the collection
of their bills upon the wheat sold in the
town where the retail customer resides, and
the customer depends upon the wheat to
meet and pay those bills. Gentlemen,
We have got another monopoly in every
town in this northwestern country. You
will find in all these towns, where these
poor farmers have to sell their wheat,
no competition, but monopolizing mar
ket, no man to bid against another for
what the farmer has to sell, but the price
FIXED BY A RING,
having their center in the city of Mime
apolis, and of which ring Mr.. W. D. Wash
burn is distinguished member.
I could take you out, my friends,
to the western frontiers to
day and in spite of all these boasting news
papers, for have been farming in that
country, and know whereof I speak,
could show you counties where this last
year there were tens and tens of thousands
of acres of land lying idle. could show
you that the wheat area of this great state
has decreased 25 per cent. in one year.
and could point you to the fact that our
Wholesale merchants, mistaken by this
Dragging in the newspapers,
have been disappointed by the returns
which have come in from their customers,
and your banks have been recently cramped
for want of money; the money they ex-
pected to flow from the country did not
come. Why not? Why is it? Because the
whole country is crippled; the entire peo-
pie are led and controlled by gigantic
rings. The one monopolizing what they
have to buy, the other monopolizing what
they have to sell. The country is tied by
them hand and foot. Why, my friends,
this is no better than slavery. Slave
ry, when you come to analyze it
was simply monopoly of the labor of
the black man; the white man owned it.
If the slave made him So day the monop-
oily man put S1.75 in his pocket and spent
twenty five cents in feeding and clothing
the negro. They monopolized American
labor. The people argued against it. They
had a gigantic war. And it is to the hon
or of the Republican party that they OPP
posed that monopoly as they did. But
that same Republican party will stand
by and say nothing and see the people
of this whole country bound hand and foot
Witness the wretchedness upon our from
tier; for God knows, q man who braves the
billiards. of that country well earns every
thing he gets, and he gets but little.
read the other day the name of a party
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