St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-30
A TALK BY Mr.. DONNELLY.
The Sage Of NiniBger Defines the La
Dor Party's Mission.
NEED OF POLITICAL HONESTY
The Key Note to His Address---Mc-
Gaughey and Judge WEIGH
Also Speak.

north, was well filled with representa-
tives of the Farm and Labor party last
evening, when Hon. Ignatius Donnelly
made an address. Thomas Lucas pre-
sided. On the stage were seated Mr..
Donnelly, ]. P. McGaughey, Judge Will
liam Welch and others. The meeting
was called to order at s o'clock and j.
p. McGaughey was the first speaker.
He talked for half an hour and declared
that both parties had done all in their
power to defeat the will of the labOring
man, aud that the time had come tor
the wage-wOrkers and the farmers TO
assert their independence. He did
not believe that the tariff was RESPONSE
BILE for the woes of the poor people, but
held the present system of land owner
ship as the one cause on which all
misery rested. Judge William Welch,
candidate for attorney general on the
Farm and Labor ticket, followed with a
short address, in which he paid high
compliment to Hon. Ignatius DOnnelly
and j. p. McGaughey, and held that If
the labOring men and the farmers would
stand solidly together at the coming
election they could elect their ticket.
At the conclusion of this address NJ.
Baker sang one of his political cam
paign ballads, after which Hon.
INGATIUS DONNELLY
was introduced. He was roundly
cheerd as he stepped forward. l pro-
pose, said he. to preach you a sermon;
] shall not make you a speech. And as
every sermon must have text, L shall
select for that purpose an utteTance of
that really great man, Abraham Lincoln.
at was not the mere matter of
separation Of the colonies from
the mother land, but that sentiment
IN the Declaration of Independence
which gave liberty, not alone to the
people of the country, but l hope to the
world for all future time. 1t was that
which gave promise thatin due time the
weight would be lifted from the Shout
deTS of all men. This is the sentiment
embodied in the Declaration of indie
pendence. Now, my friends, can the
country be saved on this basis?
But if this country can't be saved with
out giving up that principle,I was about
to say | would sooner be aSSaSSinated on
this spot than surrender it." Society is
like
GREAT HOTEL
where the divine host has furnished ala
abundance for all the guests; but few
bold, INSCRIPTIONS and cunning men
have taken possession of the dining
room; gOrged themselves with all they
can eat, and destroyed much of what
they could not consume, and left the
rest of the bOarders to starve. And
when the swarming horde batter at the
doors and clamOr for food, the thieves
admit a few whom they feed
and arm, to keep out the rest.
The condition Of the great body of the
people in Europe is hOpeless-hOpeDes
as those Dante saw in the internal re-
giOnS. Because America sleeps beside
leper; and every year steam and cleo
tricity are drawing them into a more
deadly embrace. We measure distance
now not by miles. but by hours. Either
we must cure Europe of her leprosy, or
we must die of it. For generations we
have stood still and listened to the
shrieks from across the way, when
lnurder was being done, and we have
I'D this is none of my concern" and
have shrugged our shoulders, and
id our prayers and thanked God for
blindness. But now our public
Ids are virtually gone; our pOpula-
ION is Increasing with fearful rapidity:
ID our shores swarm with the sub
rs of kingcraft and aristOcracy: rag
/, starving, wTetched: victims Of a
.ousand years of crueltyand oppression.
nd who are to blame? Primarily the
9pTesSiYe government of Europe. The
=. Orkingman of America is impOver-
iShed because the newcomer from
Europe is ready to work at half his
wages. And why is the newcomer
ready to work at half his wages? Be
cause he comes from country where
labor has been degraded. chained
down and for generations starved.
Our very institutions are endangered:
for a republic can not exist where a ma
iority of the people have not enough to
eat. but are ready to sell out their votes
to the highest bidder. Can you build a
republic out the stuff that is turned back
at Castle Garden? Can you maintain it
among a people reduced to the same
level? What then are the remedies?
A NEW LIFE IN RELIGION;
that it shall cease its SQuabbleS over the
Interpretation of texts and addresses
itself to the lifting up of mankind, for
if religion. like the Sabbath. was made
for man, the happiness Of man shall be
the chief end of religion. Let the
creeds start out upon an endless cOmpe-
titiOn and see which can do most to
make the lives of man pleasant and
beautiful. The parent of vice is pov-
erty; it lowers the whole stand
ard of the race; it leaves the
wretched more open to temptation: it
young women to the streets. the old peO-
pie to the poor houses. Let the churches
band together to attack every device
that rObs and lmpOveriSheS men. The
powers of the law was. in the old DAYS,
invoked to restrain the brutality and
selfishnesS of mankind, and hence arose
all our laws against murder. theft.
arson, etc. Now let them be invoked
against the cunning and the greed of
men.
THE BARON OF OLD
has gone; he is represented to-day by
the train rObber of the SOuthweSt-a
bold, brutal, muscular, shallow fellow.
But man adaptS himself to his environ
ment. A new beast has arisen, more
terrible than anything shown in the
apocalypse horned, crowned beast
with more cunning in his brain and more
weapons in his armory than the baron
of old ever dreamed of. Front lie
Beauf has disappeared; Jay Gould has
come. He daren't enSlave men: he sim
ply robs them. He doesn't make them
serfs attached to the land; he quietly
sells it from under their feet. He doesn't
rob the train, but the train robS the
passt myers. He doesn't harry the poor
man with fire and sword; he simply
takes the meat out of his plate
and the clothes off his back;
he doesn't violate law, he
corrupts the lawmakers; he steals the
money of the people and with it buys
up the representatives of the people: he
brings Self-gOVernment to naught and
makes liberty a laughing stock. To
crafty his own vanity, to fill his safe
with 100000 900, which he can neither
eat nor use, he is ready to tear down
the magnificent structure of nationality
which hundreds of thousands of men
died to establish and maintain.
We must purge these gigantic spleens.
As the laws against robbery and murder
were made IN the old time to place re-
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