St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-16

A POLITICAL COL MN.
Analysis Of Some Of ''Uncle
Loren" Fletcher's Explain
atory Boastfulness.
Aid. Potter in the Role of
the Long-Eared Beast of
Burden.
Prof. o. v. Tousley Causes an
Audience to Long for
Moisture.
Preparations for a Big Meet
ing for Senator Mills in
Minneapolis.

Loren Fletcher has never yet denied
the charge that during his service as
member of the house of representatives
he at all times either openly opposed or
violently ignored the rights of the la
boring man whenever measures affect
ing his interests were pending as sub
jects of legislation. His only response
ill this connection is:
II have done great deal to build up
Minneapolis.
that i'll those days-only eighteen and
twenty years ago-the labor question
was not agitated. Nobody thought
of those matters then. We
were all trying to build up
our city from little village TO its pres
ent magnificent proportions. and his
whole energies were eXerted in that di-
rection to the entire ignorance OF the
sweating wage Garner who was heWing
the wood, carrying the mortar. laying
the bricks and driving the nails that
transformed the little village" into the
great metropolis of the Northwest. Now
1t transpireS upon all examination of
modern history that when Loren
Fletcher wasfirSt member of the legis-
lature Minneapolis had reached the
magnitude of a fiourishing city OF 1900
people. This was rather a large village
and must have necessarily been crowd
ed with people who were in that
most highly respected and most COM
mon class known as laboring men. 1t
is somewhat strange that this large
body of tOilers who were building up
railroads leading to Minneapolis and
making the city itself should have been
lost sight of in the great shuttle which
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Il was always lii favor of corpora
TONS" says Mr.. Fletcher. They were
more essential, according to his under
standing, than the tools, the laboIing
men, they used in building the city.
When the wisdom of creating and SuS-
tanning vast aggregatiOns of wealth thgt
they may become the iron rulers of
the populace is seriously considered it is
somewhat doubtful if Jefferson's theory
OF government, OF, for and by the people
was not chimerical. Certainly Mr..
Fletcher must so have reasoned, else
why could he be so oblivious of the
claims and demands of his fellow men
hot his associates indeed-when he
occupied the high position of law
giver! He cOnfesSeS that his theory of
prosperity is to aid the rich, sustain the
wealth of the community, without ref
erence to the rights of individuals, and
1t will take care of the Door. Mr.
Fletcher would be popular candidate
for the house of parliament as the re-
preventative of tOryISm if he were in
Great Britain. His ideas of government
are in perfect conformity with the En-
glish school of nobility, who have
kept the tOiling millions OF the British
Islands in poverty for centuries, and who
today are struggling against the spirit
Freedom of no frtn l,o
Maintain strong government by cen
trallzatlon of power and protect the
capital of the nation--that is Fletcher'S
doctrine. Such has been his practice
and all i'll accord with the assumption
that the laborer will be cared Tor by
his master.
In view of the conditions which over
wheim all other questions as subjects of
legislation in America today-a condi-
ton which has had its origin and which
is the bitter fruit of system of legisla-
ton lnaugurated and carried to its ex-
IRENE ends by party whose aim is to
paternallZe the government; in view of
the threatening clouds pOrtentOus of do
mestic disturbances which, in several in
stances during the last summer. have
broken forth in furious storms, to the
destruction OF life and properly, all hav-
ing their origin in that political policy
which has foisted upon the people a sys-
TEN of laws recognizing the capital of
the nation as against the laboriug
classes, Is it not most serious question
with the bone and Sinew Of the country
whether they will assist in a continual
ton of that policy by filling the legiS-
tive halls with men who are pro-
nouncedly in favor of corporations as
against the people, the wage-earner and
the farmer?