St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-23
PAUL GLOBE SATURDAY NGAUGUsT %
to beat his brains out in the presidential


year.
RESISTANCE TO MoNoPoLIEs.
Inc second issue upon which you are all
agreed is resistance to the unjust claims OF
monopolies.
lie old questions arising out of slavery
ana the civil war are all settled. Upon these
issues there is not hairs breadth of differ
ence to-day between the platforms OF the two
great parties; there is in fact nothing foI
them to differ about.
All men in the United States are now
agreed that slavery was great wrong; that
II has been abolished; that it never can be
re-establshed
All are agreed that the black man has as
many rights as the white man, and no man
proposes to retrench them in single par
ticular.
All are agreed that the war is over and re-
construction finished.
NEW SET OF QUESTIONS.
new set OF questions is coming to the
'front.', but these are yet in chaotic state,
and upon them the lines of demarcation are
rather geographical than political.
In the older settled parts of the country
where great wealth has been developed, dur
Ing several generations of laborers, society
Is divided into two well defined classes
those who have much and those who have
little. The first are gravitating away from
republican institutions towards aristocratic
Ideas, and stronger form of government;
the caste OF their thought is decidedly Euro
pean- The other class, without hope OF
wealth, seeing before them only lives of work,
interspersed with periods of enforced idle
ness and semi-starvation, are drifting tow
ards communism and anarchy. In the west,
on the other hand, society is in more prim-
tive condition, and mo-a nearly represents
the social conditions out of which the repub-
lie arose.
THE REAL QUESTION AT ISSUE.
The real question that will underlie oul
politics for the next fifty years is the posi-.
bility of preserving republican institutions
Ii the nation is governed in the interest OF
capital, it can only be so at the expense Of
the many; and the gulf will annually widen
between the multitude and the
few. spanned only by a totterine
bridge of traditionary love of freedom
and in the first great CONFUSION this will &C
down. One has only to remember the power
OF money in our politics the great swarmlng
masses of under-paid and often under-fet
workmen the great riots which have shaker
with earthquake throes the cities of Pitts burg
and Cincinnati, and he cannot but tremblt
for the future OF his country.
WHAT'S LIBERTY?
We have mighty stake in the preserva-
ton of the republic. Liberty is not merely
name; the flag is not simply an ornament
The destruction of our beautiful, peaceful,
equal form of government means the re
storation of old-world conditions. A ''strons
government" is but another name for a des
potism; an aristocracy of money is but al
untitled nobility. Continue the evolution
which we have witnessed in our eastern
states for fifty years longer, and the worlt
will behold a ruling class as despotic, al
arrogant, as selfish, and as powerful as any
in Europe, anda working and farming elias:
as wretched and poverty-stricken, and as
desperate as the poorest peasantry Of IRELAND
and Russia.
WHAT IS NEEDED.
What is needed to arrest this developm ent
A great political sentiment, representing al
intelligent public opinion, thoroughly de
voted to liberty and justice, conscious tina
when justice dies, liberty sickens) watchfu
for every invasion of popular rights; ready t.
resist every aggression of that bind Samp
son, Monopoly, who, unrestrained, woult
soon pull down the pillars of the temple anC
bury himself in the ruins. Applause.
JEFFERsoN's DOCTRINE.
We need statesmen who above everythin.
else will love liberty, because they love the
human family; who will resist wrong be
cause it means Indebtedness to mankind.
We need people high enough above preju-
dice to cordially and unitedly support suct
men. And we need powerful political or
ganization, filled with the spirit of that mag
nificent utterance of Thomas Jefferson: &c
have sworn undying hostility, on the altar Of
my God, to every form Of oppression of thu
bodies or the souls Of men. Great ap
plause.
POLITICAL CHAOS.
Our politics to-day is in a chaotic state
but it is the chaos that precedes creation
out of it the voice of God will yet be hearC
crying, ''Let there be light" and we shall
see clearly arrayed against each other two
well-defined parties, facing each other lik
warning lions. The one party representa-:
wealth as against manhood, the Old idea:
against the new, the old world against tn
new; representing sordid greed, grasping in
justice, accumulation and concentration, il
liberality and indifference to the rights of tn
humble On the other hand we shall hav
party laying its foundations deep and wild
on the popular heart, filled with the divin
spirit of Him who preached from the noun
charity, justice and brotherhood; solicitor
to preserve liberty because liberty makes pos
sible all things of good to man; solictous t.
hold together the nation because even con
tinent is too little for the working out o.
Gods benevolence to man; solicitous, b.
example and sympathy, to lift up all the op
pressed of the earth, and strike down cruelt
and wrong wherever they may show thei
hideous heads. [Great applause.l
1t is not in the shadow of factories, anC
around the mouths of mining pits, that sucl
a party can be perfected, although factor,
and mine will hail it, as the coming of
| new day; but it is in this great west, this
land of land owners; this land of yeomen
| this land of school houses; that the evolu
ton is to be effected.
MAJOR STRAITS RECORD.
| Now let US ask ourselves whether Major
Strait is fit to be the representative of such
party, or Of any party having similar aims
think his official record will show that he
| has been on ell occasions The consistent at
rocate of the naoa6D5listS and against The people
RAILROAD POOLING.
The constitution of the United States give