St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18
ECONOMIC EDUCATION
Multitudes of Voters Attend
the Mass Meeting at Mar
ket Hall.
Hon. c. S. barrow, Of Chicago,
Delivers a Speech Equal
to the Occasion.
Demonstrated Facts and Log
zeal Reasoning Against
Falsehood.
A Mastery Analysis OF the
Treaehery OF Protection
lists to the People.

Hon. c. S. Darrow, of Chicago, came
TO st. Paul to speak to a mass meeting
of citizens heralded by the scantiest
kind of notice, yet compared TO the
gathering of the multitudes at Market
hall last night the turnout for the
honor of Republicanism and Michigan's
eX-congressman Monday evening last
was as tame as toothleSs house dog.
The voters of the city began to troop
into the large audience room as sooA rs
the doors were open, and the procession
kept steadily moving in until long after
the orator had begun one Of the great
est speeches ever heard in st.
Paul. President John W. Willis,
of the Central Democratic club.
presided, and seated on the plat
form around him were some of the old
est and best known leaders Of DemOc-
racy in the state, including Judge
Thomas Wilson, Judge G. E. Flaudrau,
Hon. John d. Brisbine and lady, Hon.
Lewis Baker, chairman OF the state
central committee, Congressman Castle,
?. j. Smalley, secretary of the state
central committee, Capt. NJ. J. O'Connor
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the various ward and other Democratic
clubs also had seats on the platform.
banked in solid rows behind the speaker.
In introducing the orator Chairman
Willis spoke of him in fiattering words,
which later along were proved to have
been appropriate in every sense. The
immense audience was keenly in touch
and sympathy with the speaker, and for
two solid hours gave him the closest
kind of attention, interrupted only
by bursts of applause that In
most instances were long continued
Mr.. barrow began by CONCENTRATING
the Democrats of Minnesota on the
bright prospects for victory before
them. He said they also had some
Democratic voters in Illinois This year,
were receiving acquisitions every day
and intended that the electoral vote OF
the Prairie state should be cast Tor
Cleveland and Stevenson. Launching
into the main branch OF his subject, the
eloquent Chicagoan maSsed in a mas
terlY manner plain facts that disprCved
the most cherished theories of protec-
yonlsts; arrayed strong arguments, N
language easily understood, against the
false mask OF patriotism worn by the
promoters of system of indirect taxa
ton that is binding tighter every year
the chains Of Industrial slavery, that is
Increasing every day the hardships en-
tailed by restricted trade and
rongested market. His Illus
trations were fairly alight with
The spirit OF Democracy, and his hear
Frs were quick to feel the inspiration
Of the really magnificent bursts Of ora
tory that held them docle while the
speaker delivered powerful blows at the
conception of the men who had, by the
result Of their UBIQUITOUS work, enriched
IN dangerous degree the monopoly
barons and proprietors of Infant indus
sries" OF hundred years growth. He
said the method adopted by the Repub-
llcan party to perpetuate the industrial
= repression OF the masses was as old as
the days OF the marauding prototypes
D1 the modern naD0bS of commerce;
Mckinley's tariff bill is but continual
lion, more cruet in detail, of the das-
fard1y tribute levied on the serfs of the
middle ages by brutal barons, who beg
cared those too weak too resist that
hey might exist in luxury.
Mr.. Darrow discussed the rise of the
rebellion against unjust and unneces-
'sary taxation, declaring the people, es-
pecially III the Northwest, are becoming
more awake every day. Their present
alertness, he declared, was certain to
lead to the destruction of all conditions
which eXtorted money from one citizen
for the benefit of another. The history
OF the world had shown that up to Ger
tain limit the masses would be patient
under wrong, and scheming men might
fatten on the fruits of their in
fanny. But there always comes
time when the enemies of progress
will be swept from its path: when the
men who ignore the great truth that all
must rise together, will perish in their
Sin, and the welfare of the people will
be fertiliZed by the blood of the oppres-
BOrS.
In the last campaign, said the speak
er. one of the issues was the surplus;
now the surplus has vanished under
Republican management and they have
quietly let the matter drop. He quoted
the half-profane remark of an
Dld-time statesman that it would
be as sensible to attempt TO run pow.
der house in hell as to expect greedy
politicians to conduct an honest govern
ment on full treasury; and called at
tentlon TO the fact that Republican ad-
miniStrationS had never been troubled
by such plethora of national funds as
had worried Grover Cleveland and his
advisers.
Mr.. barrow was peculiarly happy In
his Illustrations, and insisted that the
common people would see the insidiOus
danger OF protection if they would but
stop to think what it meant to sell their
labor IN open competition with the
world and be compelled to buy
the necessities Of life under
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