The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-22

that hatred Of the legal profession which is
felt by the Farmers Alliance In Kansas and
some other States. Or, perhaps MIR. ERwTNs
gifts as a political orator except him from
the ban. Mr.. ERWIN Is called the Tall
Pine" and no soughed and shook most
unsteady and mclancholously. As the
ave.struck young man OF the 81. Paul Globe
reports 1.-THE Tall Pine seemed to feel him.
self second RoBEsPIERRE, with q rovou-
ton yawning at his feet, and the audience
sat entranced as he poured out In smoothly
flowing platitudes, the story OF the gilt OF
freedom, and how 1t was tramplod under the
feet of corporate power" According to the
Tall Pine, q monster called False Capital
is behaving very badly and the country Is
not WE'LL
"iu tFalso Capitalist clutch 10 on your homes" said
the Tall Pine 1T has snsaved tho miner In Pennsyl'
yAniS and along all the mountains OF the land. "
chains the father and his children before the looms ana
spindes OF New England. II monaces the planter OF
the South There no longer free home In the Vaiey
of the MssisSipp the Ohio or along the busque'
hanna There 10 beneath the very nag Of the republic
no free artisan or tpier who can claim his own All
ferns Of labor arc bound this modern car Of JuERsr
naut Your starry banner OF the free droops In shame
over your Capitols aud SchoohouSsh Your traditions
are tortured The labor OF the republic that heart
and soul OF liberty itself ever struggling In almost
the aEone Of death within the decorating elaws OF this
demon. hydra headed, golden dragon"
Bad as the hydra-headed, golden dragon
ia. Governor MERRIAM is worse. "He was
born In bank" says the Tall Pine severely,
and the Pine adds that MERRIAM is only one
OF "a whole generation OF that new class OF
humanity who have sprung forth from tho
brain of the business and stock boards" 1t
seems that the new class OF humanity is
pretty tough:
"In their disdaln they have some color Of the patr
clan class Of imperial Rome.
I'm their mental construction they all 'busness
They have n different dress from the people They
have n different idiom than the peops'a They must
have servants; and they ape the manners OF the enoo
sons Of the OF England They have never read
of tho struggles Of liberty they aware that the
Constitution was laid in tho hearts of tho people and
csmsntsd BY the martyr blood Of men for aGeA They
know Of one power. one Eod-Monoy. They use that
single power to accomplish all things They are uncon'
scious that such use is bribery. the crime.
Can It be that these are as herd OF swine into
whose bodies the Eroat Con who watches the dos
tneS Of nations has driven the devils Of tie which
aflicted the people'"
From this rebuke OF wicked business men
the orator leaped into the empyrean OF In
pired but bilious song. Mr.. ERWIN Is
poet who hasn't studied Oss1AN and Col.
INGRRsoLL for nothing:
where are your sons to day, oh. you ashsrmen Of
the coming revolutioni Your farms virgin yet and
Heaven, smiling on your land. has blosSomod wheat
and corn with which 10 feed world
when winter bowls lite blizzard from the north zen
will see your wives In calico; your children 90 almost
unwrappod to school The elevator and the road Will
own your toll.
"WhAt will YOU dof
"Why win you not mover II you will DO tres, rouse
yourselves like lions from their lair. Then will the
demon of your neck his fangs unoose. and like
tho dewdrops from the lions name be shook 70 air."
Pausing for moment to admire the giddy
sweep OF the metaphor by which the chill
dren OF the prairies are called fishermen OF
the revolution, let us 60 on to the perihelion
and peroration of the great speech:
And IL you will prevent despair yeu will stand by
the dignity Of labor you wish to preserve the bless
ngs Of priceless heritage liberty peace and union;
IL you would in toarA blot out tho sweetest OF all
words home If you desire Justice to Ill men; II you
revere the fathers of the ropublic You behave tho
Sermon the Mount II vice beginning to stalk your
national corridors 10 hateful to freemen II you wish
20 be free you must by your ballots in united effort
against all opposition appont your officers and iegSa
You must direct them and compel them 70 strike,
with all the energies of constitutional ana statutory
legislation until the ark Of the republic safely restN In
perpetual security, within the temple Of Liberty"
The House OF Representatives.. says tho
still awed reporter, has never reverberated
with louder cheers than those which the
delegates broke out into when Mr.. ERWIN
closed his eloquent effort. Gen. BAKER was
at once on his feet, moving a vote of thanks
to Mr.. ERWIN for the most masterful and
eloquent speech we have heard in Mime
sota' The motion was carried amid re-
newed enthusiasm"
1t was a halcyon and vociferous speech.
Without any prejudice against the Sage
of Nininger, we are compelled to confess
that the Tall Pine waves over his head.
The Man for the Hour is not DoNNEILY,
but ERWIN.