St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-11
LAbOR'S Big OUT Ing.
A Large Attendance at the
Industrial Picnic Yester-
day.
The People Listen to Politi-
cal Sermons The
Games.
Rev. Mr.. Boxers Sermon
Based Upon His Slum-
ming Tour.
The Feast Of st. Dominic at
Holy Rosary--Sunday
Sermons.

tree tops, their heat pleasantly tenn
pered by the breeze which wept from
off the lake and laughed as it tossed the
stray locks on the head of the working
! mans daughter or gave sigh of SYM
pathy when it met the pale cheek of some
poor working girl who all summer long
has been confined to close, Stuf fly work
room, toiling to assist her parents in
eking out an existence, while her health
slowly gave way under the strain. The
young workingman, with his wife of
six months, perhaps year, was there,
too, to snatch brief respite from the
cares attendant upon building up a
home. They were reinforced by the
father and mother, who had come out
SelveS-there were no picnicS in their
day: nothing but unremitting toll from
day to day, week to week. month TO
month, year to year. And all these
people brought their families and their
friends, until the crowd which
swarmed over the grounds surround
ing the Lake Park hotel wandered
off through the leafy pathways, prom
enaded the lake shore, danced in the
pavilion, rode on the lake and did
everything in which pleasure could be
found, numbered several thousands.
1t seemed that every man, woman and
child within the city of Minneapolis
who can be classed among the working
people were there, but they were not
not half of them-fOr, even in so pros
porous city as Minneapolis, many
there be to whom even Sunday eXcur-
sion to the lake is forbidden luxury.
But there was, nevertheless, great
concourse of labor's representatives on
the grounds, and they enjoyed to the
full the pleasures which had been pro-
vided for them.
To begin with, more perfect pic
mic day could scarcely be i'm
agined. In the second place, the
committees, under the supervision of
whom all arrangements were made. dld
their work thoroughly. Last OF all, no.
body went out that did not 90 for good
time. Under such propitious circum-
stan ces the picnic could not have been
other than what it was, all unqualified
success. The Lake Park picnic grounds
are uneXcelled by any portion of the
territory around Minnetonka. The
transportation facilities were sufficient
and the crowd was we'll handled. There
was good music in attendance to incite
the picnicers to pleaSure-seeking; there
was dancing for all inclined toward that
form of amusement. Games and ath-
letic contests were provided for those
who delight to look upon feats
of muscle and science. Boats
and steamers were at hand
for the lovers of the water. Provided
for those who ever seek to- combine
pleasure with profit were the addresses
made by chosen representatives of the
three leading parties of Minnesota. Not
a drop of intoxicating liquors was sold
on the grounds, which fact contributed
not little to the orderliness of the day.
Several police officers were present, but
they were not needed. The merry fakir
did not make his appearance, but three
men with two dancing bears did, and
amused large crowd for short time
how the picnic could have been more
successful.
Several loaded trains went out in the
morning, but the real business of the
day did not begin until after o'clock.
George E. Ledgerwood presided on the
end of the hotel porch, where the speak
ing took place.
The Speeches.
Thomas A. Clark made the opening
address, one of welcome to the laboring
people, to the friends of labor and to the
outsiders who attended the labor picnic
out of curiosity, but who scarcely failed
to form better opinion of the laboring
man as represented at Lake Park. <.
w. Huffcut followed with an address on
dustrial Conditions" Mr.. Hutfcut'S eff
fort was an excellent and eloquent one,
delivered to an audience which was
rather cool toward him, although it was
scarcely a truthful exposition of Repub-
llcanism. The material for his discourse
was drawn mainly from the
questions of prison labor, Chinese labor
and contract labor imported from Eu
rope-on all of which questions, Mr..
Huffcut declared, the Republican party
had legislated in favor of the labOring
man. He touched but lightly on the
tariff question, what he did say being in
support of the Blaineupolicy. He
said that the tariff laws were to
relieve the American laborer from
competition with the pauper labor of
Europe by barring out the results of
that labor, as the European pauper
laborerS themselves are barred out by
the contract labor law. He commended
Blaine's South American reciprocity
scheme. but said never word of the
Mckinley bill, being evidently afraid of
that most dangerous boomerang. He
painted in glowing colorS the possible
realization of the cooperation advo-
Gates ideal-the governmental owner
ship of railroads, telegraph lines and
all valuable franchises-but inconsiSt-
emily claimed that all those results
would be brought about-by the Repub-
lican party.
most able address on .'Democ
racy-Its Relations to Labor"
which prohibited these speeches becom-
ticular attention to the arguments of
the preceding speaker, but his expo
sition of his subject showed up most of
the weak points of the former. He
asserted that labor could expect no
more from the Republican party than
thirty years of broken promises would
lead one to expect. the present unSatis-
factory condition of the laboring classes
being the result of thirty years of
legislation for the moneyed classes
and the Republican party. He dis
cussed the birth of trusts. with all their
attendant evils, and their dependence
upon what the Republican party had
done, and passed OH to the history of
tnaI party, WHICH cdiHo W Hlt SURELY
through circumstances. The people,
he said, went to war and the politicians
stayed at home, preparing for recon-
struction and the division of the spoils,
not among the soldiers, but among the
| politicians. Whenever the people be-
come FESTIVE, he declared, the Republic
can politicians wave the bloody shirt,
fall upon the neck of the laborer and
tell him how they have protected him,
the result of the protection being that,
while he cannot purchase his neces-
saries of life in the cheapest market,
he had to compete with European
pauper labor il mines and workshops.
"The Republican party told YOU" said
! the speaker, THAT you could not COM
pete with them in Europe, but you
could starve with them at home" Com
| ing down to the Democratic party's
position, the speaker continued: 1.-The
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