St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-16

that CluS.ereu ~HIOut ti1O tWo HOiuiSo
in the center of the open space at the
intersection of the two avenues.
The crowd grew as the band an
E. 0. Lift, president of the coach COM
pany, took his stand on top of the herdic
for tile opening remarks.
In few words he told how the coach
line had grown up from the strike, and
| the numerous meetings consequent to
it. "The object of the meeting," he
said, "is to present the coach to the
people," am quite confident there can
be but one opinion of them after inSpec-
| ton. l am quite confident too, that
| there will be no more strikes or black
lists or wrangling about the pay OF
the employees of the line. There
will be no more necessity for people to
walk or else suffer the humiliation OF
riding as no good American should de,
especially good Minneapolitans:
Rounds of applause and shouts OF
"We wont ride that way again" etc,
Iliff introduced Hon. Thomas Lucas to
an audience well prepared to listen to
him.
"Whenever there is any matters OF
Importance in the city," began MIR.
Lucas, "the proper place to take it is to
the people. We have something i'm
pOrtant to bring before you tonight,
and. knowing there was no hall in the
city to hold our sympathiZerS, we have
a mass meeting here" After devOting
some time to theories of labor and capt.
tai in general, the orator arrived at the
vital point by speaking of Mr.. Lowry's
new proposition for cable line.
"Tom Lowry has been so very kind
and considerate as to propose, with his
usual magnanimity. that if the citizens
would bear the bulk of the expense and
guarantee that he should in no way be
stopped or hindered in his bleeding of
the people, that he would put in cable
line. On the city's refusal to accept he
goes so far in his kindness to
the people as to offer to put
in the line himself if the
city would grant him the streets.
1t was so good chance to benefit the
people that he could not afford to let
the opportunity pass. The question
here to consider is whether or not the
citizens want this cable of Mr..
Lowry's." After considerable
condemnation of Mr.. Lowry, and
liberal expression of hatred toward him
from the crowd, Mr.. Clark spoke of the
new proposition by Anderson, Douglas
& Co.
''Do you want another company to
come in here and rob you as Tom Lowry
has done?"
mo! No! Nor" from the crowd.
They tell you that they will bring in
capital and furnish labor and give us
good transportation. Don'tyou believe
them. In the first place, do rich men
ever put their money in for anything
but to make more out of it?'
Mr.. Clark went off into the economics
of the case again to show that more
local labor would not be employed; that
no capital would be brought into the
city. He went back into the old strike
topics. roasting Mr.. Lowry profoundly
and receiving much applause in cOnSe-
Quence. He said that it the city had
been wise it would have never granted
franchise to Lowry.
''Is it not time for us to put a stop to
this granting OF franchises? Mr.. Lowry
is not content with Minneapolis. He
He has reached out into st. Paul with
his lines, into Duluth and all the neigh
boring towns. and pretty soon he Will
have the whole state cornered and you
will be his slaves. He is like the
man who killed the goose who layed
the golden egg. He is crushing you to
the EARTH" ~
''Do not grant any more franchises to
any one. The herdlcs are here to fur
niSh you with excellent transportation
till the time when we can force Tom
Lowry to sell his line to the city, not
for the millions, but for the original
S1S.O00 he put into it."
He closed with an appeal to buy
stock in the company and pay for it.
j. L. Flenner, the secretary of the
II lirt0 do c1, y, iv,6 RI a0f
appeal
"Do you like the coaches of this COM
any?"
Eyes! yes! yes! yes!" from the crowd.
will you support this company%'
"Yes! yes! yes!' -
"Wiil you who have purchased stock
In this company pay it up?'
"Yes! yes!'
"Will you buy stock who have not?"
"Yesv' family.
81. B. Martin was the next speaker,
and he made long and rousing speech.
1T was said by man of this city
who IS we'll known to you all that the
city council should take into cOnsidera-
ton only the wishes of the citizens who
own property in building this cable
line, and pay no attention to those who
own no property, and to men who would
uCSUIOy PAOpCltys AAO Woo IooUihS q
slur On the meeting here last Monday
night. and the men who took part in
that meeting.
81 would say that the men who meet
here tonight and those who met here
last Monday night are the men who
have the good of the city most at heart.
l would have that man and the news
papers to understand that the streets of
this city belong to us all jointly, and we
are all entitled to our beliefs. He
should know that when a man OF
a company asks us to make him
present of the streets of the city
we are going to think twice before
we give them to it. In bringing these
herdics to the city we are trying to ad-
vance the good of the city. 1t is men
of this kind and not men like Mr..
Blethen who are looking to the inter-
ests of Minneapolis. They are
the men who are forming an
alliance with the street railway COM
panies and such monopolies to bleed
the people. Let US not De distracted by
any Col. Sellers cable that promises to
bring us millions. 1t won't do it." Mr..
Martin devoted much time to condemn
ing the cable line propositions of out
side parties. He branded them as
bloated monopolists and scheming
swindlers. These men were coming
like the advance guard of a great
army from the East that would
conquer the West, make a second Ire
land or Poland Of it. He would give
warning before the franchise stealing
the streets was given. The horse was
still in the stable. Beware of the thief
who would steal it. ''Go and lock your
stable door while you can. 1t is there,
the door of the council cham
Der. You will find there a man
Goodrich: beware of him. He is there
advising the council. These men who
have been elected for aldermen may not