St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-23
AWFUL ARRklGNMENT
T. Strickland Fisk Makes
Mineemeat Out Of Repub-
lieans at Kasson.
Protection but a Hypoeritieal
Game of Speculation Fol-
lowed by Robbery.
The Wheat Ring Denounced
as a HeaPtleSs, Infamous
Band of Robbers.
Knute Nelson Speaks at st.
James Without Touching
State Issues.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
kAssoN, MIMI, Sept. 22.-Alliance
day at the Dodge county fair was
great success. Three Thousand people
listened TO the eloquent address of Hon.
7. Strickland Fisk for over two hours.
He held the vast audience spellbound,
only broken by laughter and applause
After poking fur at Knute Nelson, Jim
HIPS attorney, Mr.. Strickland said:
Now let us look one moment at the
Republican party's pet hobby, that in
famous delusion and steal called high
protective tariff. To the average we'll
informed and Intelligent mind the claim
Of protection TO American labor and
American industry is one OF the most
gauZy and hypocritical games of specu-
lation and robbery ever practiced and
perpetrated upon an unSuSpectIng and
patient people. In the name of pro-
lection to AmericOn industry millions
and millions of stolen wealth have been
put into palatial mansions and homes in
New England. In the name of protec-
ton to American labor. billions of dol
lars have been piled into colossal fort
unes, thousands of American operatives
thrown out of employment and driven
into the streets to tramp and beg, while
their places in the factories, shops and
mines are filed with the
Imported Slums
of the ''free-trade' pauper labor Of
European and Asiatic nations. Such,
my friends, is Republican protection TO
American labor"
Here the speaker discussed the tariff
at considerable length and with great
force. closing with an appropriate story
which elected roars of laughter and ap-
plause. Closing ne spoke in the fol-
lowing eloquent strain:
This great Alliance and Peoples
part movement is one of the grandest
reforms ever inaugurated by wronged
and enSlaved people. i believe the great
hand Of OmnipOtence, IN all his wisdom
and mercy. is behind this wonderful
movement. l believe He Will guide
and direct our great leaders until vie
tory will be our triumph, and until we
make of this A nation Of the people. by
The people and for the people. l
have faitn in the principles, faith in
the strength and wisdom of the great
common people. With unwavering
confidence in the ultimate and final tri-
umDh of truth and Justice, | impeach
The plutocratic element of The Republi-
can party of high crimes and mlsde-
meaDOrS.
II impeach them in the name OF good
government dIlU OilC nCIOES vi 1tfO.
i impeach them in the name of the
American Union itself, whose national
fame thev have dishonored and whose
laws they have usurped and subverted.
Il impeach them i'll the name of the
IoiIing millions, whose confidence they
have betrayed, and whose rights and
privileges they have cruelty outraged
and trampled under foot.
Il inpeach them in the name of
hungry,
Poverfy-Stricke en- Humanity.
whose homes they have made desolate
and wretched, and whose comforts and
necessaries of life they have confscated
and stolen by and through their internal
and infamous system OF taxation, plum
der and robbery.
My friends, when / contemplate the
great danger and wrong in the further
continuance of the present reign OF Re-
publican rule, when look out upon the
gigantic forms of capital and the count
less millions il the great army OF toll
and labor, and, as a result of the Op-
presSiye system of class legislation, see
the coal kings and lumber barOns In
their paiatial homes and marble fronts,
built, paid for, furnished and made gor-
geous by the labor and toll OF the
brawny arm in the forest and IN the
mine; when ] see the great ironmasters
and railroad magnates, as their yearly
income runs higher and higher
into the millions, cutting lower and
lower as the years roll by the wages Of
their already slaves and Serfs. when |
. behold the vast army of men, women
aud children today EMPLOYED in the
great New England manufacturing
establishments, who ~receive as their
wages less than one-third OF what their
labor is worth net to their employers:
when look down upon the rich fields,
the fertile valleys, and into the teeming