St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06


thought with great names and illustrious
services. lCheers.l And now, that
il shall not be said that I am
partial: or that am the representative of
anybody. Loud laughter. l desire to say
another kind word for another of your can.
didates, that gallant young gentleman, Will
1am-eh-eh-Merriam [Cheers and laugh
Ter. We canEot forget we farmers, i'll the
last legislature that when the time came and
the dill for the reduction of the usurious
interest, which brushes the life out of so
many of our people, was at stake, Mr..
Merriam left the speakers chair, and, for the
first and only time during the session, he
took the floor in advocacy of that bill.
he acted as man from the first to the last
hour OF that session. And then you have my
other good friend to choose from, my old
friend, Charlie Gilman. -[Cheersl They
say that when Charlie came into the world
the physician found his right hand clutching
a roll of wire [laughter], and Charlie has
been hanging on to that wire from that day
to this. Renewed laughter.l But apart
from these jokes, he is an excellent, capable,
and honorable gentleman. [Cheers.l Well,
and 1t may be thought that out OF this galaxy
OF great men you cannot be satisfied with
any, and you would be pleased with
either dear cbarmer if the others were only
away ana III that event-aS know you want
my advice will advise you to indorse the
Labor ticket. Terrific cheers and laughter.]
DO thBt, and then you can adjourn in blaze
OF fireworks. You can go home to be greeted
with bonfires and Examinations, and we will
sweep the state together. Laughter and
cheers. If it were not profane l would say
from hell to base, or in other words. from
Duluth to George F. Potter. Loud laughter
And why should you not? You stand by
labor. Sc do We While we desire and ask
that taxation shall be cut down to the lowest
limit the Labor party of this state is not in
favor of that kind of free trade which the
Contederacy the Southern Confederacy-
tod hon fyNfA N1orf n.r,1
that there never should be Il tariff upon any
production. Loud cheers. We are not in
favor of that kind of free trade that eonsigns
the Workingmen of America to be the mon
grelS OF society. We demand reduction of
all surplus and unnecessary taxation. but we
ask in the same breath that whatever taxa
ton is left shall be so applied as to keep out
the work of the starving and swarming
myTiads of Europe. [Cheers.] 1 tell you,
and | have Just returned from England,
there is more interest in England to-day in
the pending contest in America than there
is in America. [Cheers loud and prolonged.
And | tell you that while we must do justice
to the agricultural population, while we
must take OF of their shoulders every I'M
necessary burden, we must interpose wall
or protection against the underpaid, the
starving labor of the old world. [Cheers]
/ nave lately come from London, where, out
OF 100000 population, their own statistl-
cions tells us that there are 100000. not
who are poor, not who are laboring for daily
bread, but that there are 1,000,0 900 that are
below the level of sufficient sustenance to
maintain human life; and they, in turn, are
suffering from the competition of the races
of Eastern Europe, borne down by the weight
of despotism and established armies. 1t is
battle OF higher civilization against a lower
civilization [cheers], and l should be false
to the promptings of my own heart if l did
not say that which my own eyes have seen,
and my own observation has taught me.
Renewed cheers. Go on with your work
act wisely. If you don't act wisely, why the
Labor party proposes to bury you.
thy-l, at least, have no sympathy
with that kind of civil service reform which
we have been treated to. lCheers] We saw
four years ago the declaration of both parties
that office should not be the reward of mere
political service. We have beheld in this
state committee consisting really Of James
j. Hill, Patrick Ii. Kelly and Michael DOran
Laughter and cheers issuing the proclama-
ton to all whom it may concern, and we
have seen the patronage Of this state reduced
TO the vilest kind of a scramble. We people
who represent the labor element have no
sympathy with that; neither have we any
sympathy, we men who in the old time
fought to preserve the greenback currency
circulation and preserve silver as part of the
currency of this cOuntry-we have no SYM
pathy with president who. before taking
his seat as president, addresses communi-
cation to congress commanding them to wipe
double the purchasing power of the gold
dollar, to double the value of the mortgage
and add to the value of the farm-we
have no interest in that; and L
think in this point we cordially
and thoroughly agree with you. 1 would
further say in conclusion, that the Labor
party, the great and chief object for them in
this state is to see the legislature elected that
will take up the unfinished reforms that were
defeated two years ago in the legislature by
bribery and corruption, and will carry them
forward to success. If you cannot act with
us in all respects, my friends, when you go
back to your homes look to 1t TO get upon
legislative tickets men who will not be
bought, who will not be the hacks of those
who offer the highest price for them, but
who will give to the people of this state-the
farmers and the workingmen-the reforms
which they demand. In the name of the
iaboring people of the state, whose unwilling
representative have become, thank you
for the honor you have paid me in this call,
listened to me. loud cheering.]