The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-08-06

and with my right hand would hurl
from the platform the individual that
uttered the censure, for they are Ameri-
can citizens. [Appleuse.] But the party
OF 1850, the party Of Greeley, Lincoln
and Sumner, is in our day the political
machine of Quay and Andrew Carnegie.
TCheers.l The great party of human
liberty that in 1850 and the years fol
lowing marched to the acknowledgment
of the black men is to-day in the hands
of corrupt political ring, who crack the
shareholders whip over the Republican
rank and file and lay their lashes upon
the backs Of 65,OOO,OOO of American citi-
zens. A protective tariff system, which
the people of America generously granted
in 1852 to keep the flag flying at the head
of our armies, we find to-day, in a time
of profound peace, higher than 1t was
during the darkest days of the War of
the Rebellion. Five years ago the great
est OF the presidents since Abraham
Lincoln. mindful of his high Office, tore
the mask from the protective tariff and
disclosed the grinning features OF mon
opoly and corruption. His hand was the
hand and his voice the voice of the great
est living American, the next president
OF the United States. Loud cheers
Since Grover Cleveland spoke the peo-
pie have studied and pondered. They
have found that the fleets which covered
the bosom of the ocean in the days of
low tariff, have, under the exercise OF
the present protective tariff system, been
swept from the waters all over tbs seas,
and to-day the stars aud stripes at the
mast head of an American vessel 10 for.
eign lands are regarded with critical IN
terest, It is fonnd that, while the far
mer is paying extortionate and unneces-
sary taxes upon every article that he
needs in the working of his farm and
maintenance of his family, when he sells
his products there is no government Off
cial standing by to artifcially increase
the price, but that the price is fixed by
the markets OF Liverpool, the markets OF
the world. The American laborer no
longer believes that the protective tariff
is the cause of high wages in America.
In the days OF the past our Republican
friends prated about home market;
about protection 10 home industries;
about the dignity and acknowledgment
Of the American home; and within the
last few weeks, almost as If by judg~
ment of Almighty God, the conditions
made possible by protective system
broke out at Homestead in this saddeet
and most awful chapter that has ever
been written in American history. This
is not the time, neither is it the place,
to discuss in deiail state issues; but the
people of Minnesota, intelligent, patri-
otto and honest, can well afford to trust
the management of this state to a party
which believes in the principles Of Gro
yer Cleveland and the Democratic plat
form. [Cheers.] It has we'll been stated
that this is to be an educational CAM
paign-an educational campaign not
only in those great Democratic coun"
ties; not alone in the Democratic county
of Ramsey-and it will be Democratic
when the ides of November come,-but
in the banner magnificent Democratic
county OF Hennepin and the state at
at large. It was in this way that the
banner of Democracy would be carried
to victory and b. planted on the state
house in November. [Cheers.] One word
more, my fellow citizens. II elected to
this high office, and I firmly believe that
your entire state ticket will be elected
If elected to this high Office I have but
one promise to make, and that is this:
shall be no mans man and shall wear nc
mans collar. Loud cheers. But in the
light of Democratic principles, in the
sunshine of mans conscience, and with
the guidance of Almighty God, shall
attempt to faithfully and honestly dis.
charge all the duties of that high office
in the interests of the people Of Mime
sofa. }Loud and continued cheers.
BRAVE IRISH SOLDIERS. r.