St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-12


connected with the case, and, even if
Colon is never tried again, some one
else may be OH these same notes.
LAW AND LABOR.
Rev. Joseph Jumps on the Repub-
Iican Party With Emphasis.
Rev. Joseph Cook, the heavy-vOiced
orator from Boston. appeared last even
ing in all the grandeur of his $50 pounds
and broad eXpanse of brow before
large audience at the Plymouth church.
His lecture upon claw and Labor was
well delivered, in spite of severe cold,
and was frequently interrupted by out
bursts of applause. Said he: 1.-The
very rich live in. day OF no Judgment
in regard to the very poor, and the
very poor in day OF no Judgment
to the very rich, still in spite of all
that I believe that this day of no judg-
ment may bring out day of Judgment.
especially in the great ceDters OF the
misgoverned cities" He reviewed the
Ills that beset the question OF labor and
capital. and told of the number OF
children that were at present working
in the factories of the East. He said
that one great reason why enough
attention was not paid to the present
ills connected with the subject, was bei'
cause there was such wide chance for
change in conditions. The rich should
pay some attention to the cry of the
poor. 1t might be a fact that their
children did not have to work Nm
the mines. but their grandchildren
might. The children of tine rich do not
dwell in sealed houses, but their
daughters might, therefore the poor
mans cause should be every mans
cause, People should adopt the golden
rule, and do unto others as they would
be done by; not do others, or they will
do you. als T
He referred in lengthy manner to
the Southern states, in which he said
the freed man was not the free man.
There we're wide regions in the South:
where the freed mans vote was not
counted. The colored race, in
what is known as the black
belt we've only used as stepping
block from which to vault into the sad
die of office. There was no slavery in
this country now. but there was some
thing like peonage. Unless the North
and the New South took some decisive
action this peonage would increase. He
averred that the legions about the
Tropic of Cancer were made for the use
of the black and bronze races. The
white man never could labor in such
sections, nor do the same amount of
work as the black.
In the South there would always be
question of caste, because the white
mans rule of social supremacy was
that no manual labor should be done
because it was degrading. They even
went so far toward keeping the black
man down as TO teach him the seventh
commandment to read, Thou shalt
never strive to become a gentleman"
He roasted the Democratic party mildly
for it's abuse of the colOred race, and
then jumped on the Republican party
with all of his $50 pounds for not en-
forcing the 18th and 18th amendments,
though it has been in an almost unlnter-
rupted term of Office.
He believed that laws should be made
to prevent women and children from
working in factories, and said that the
great evil that menaced the United
States was the rapidly increasing evil
of illiteracy. He stated that the ten
dency toward the concentration of power
was rapidly increasing. as the large
cities were rapidly assuming mammoth
proportions. and when the agricultural
districts were filled up, as they soon
would be, the tide would turn back
upon the cities. and soon the same state
of affairs would be found in the United
States as in the old country, where the
manufacturing industries exceeded the
agricultural, and the poorer classes
would be reduced to the condition of
corporation slavery.
He jumped on the Democratic party
once more for its fear of the whisky
class, but thanked it for what it had
done for the cause of prohibition, and
then started upon an eulogy of the Re-
publican party, which he termed the
party of great moral ideas, until every
Republican in the church wore broad
smile, and then wheeled upon it and
abused it for its mild action on the
whisky question. He thought that high
license was sin. "LOw license" he
said, tasks for your son. but high license.
asks for your daughter. May my right
hand drop from its body, and my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth if | ever
do an act to legalize the saloon and the.
brOthel." He advised his hearers to CUT
loose from both parties.and reflect upon
what each had to offer, supporting.
neither if they did not set their face
against the whisky rings.
LIE IOdSltu SC COl pOluLlUIIS dIlu
syndicates, and showed how the larger
the factory or industry under one NAM
agement. the larger would be the profits.
After citing the ills in the present sys-
TEN of labor and capital he took up the
subject of remedy, which he inaugu-,
rated by description of Edward Bella
my's plan for Nationalist party. He
gave an outline of the scheme and then
ridiculed it thoroughly. sYou cannot
divide these great powers by wave Of
the glove" said he, NOR bridge the
chasm with a thrust of the bayonet, or
the curve of bomb. The golden rule
is the only remedy"
He believed that if few men should
begin to run the railroads, then the gov 1
eminent should take it in hand. If a;
few men run any one industry to the
exclusion of all others, then the govern
ment should take that in hand and run
i. as it does the postoffice. Here there
was great applause from large number
of Nationalist in the audience, and
Mr.. Cook took a considerable length OF
time in telling them he was not Ma
tionaliSt, and that Nationalist were a
mild set of fools.
His plan would be to pay no man less
than tWice-the amount it required to
feed his family. Then to allow perfect
freedom of contract between the en-
] ployer and the laborer. The skilled