The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
The boy that gets the ladder the boy gets the apple

to go without air. Vote against and
work against every man and every
party that stands for the present sys-
TEN. Nothing could be worse than
that.
The Populist party is accused of be-
ing the party of anarchy, of riot. l
stand for law, for the faithful admins
tration of law, for the punishment of
whoever violates it, rich and poor
alike. The line in the constitution
| marking where state sovereignty be-
gins and national authority leaves off
caused the greatest discussion in the
constitutional convention. There is
nothing that remotely hints that the
president has power to send troops in
to a state without invitation from the
| Legislature or governor. The
act Of 1871 was enacted for
an emergency, the Ku KluX
| trouble. Democrats then denounced
it tooth and nail and called it uncon-
stitutional, as it undoubtedly is. Yet
CleVeland's action is applauded by
every Democrat and Democratic
paper and Republican paper in the
country. Another illustration of how
| parties wander off! | know that there
was no occasion for sending the troops
to Chicago. The newspaper reports
| were exaggerated. There were no
riots. The total summing up of those
awful fights reported was the killing
| Of woman on house tOp,a baby,a boy
and man sitting in front Of his own
| house. Three thieves were killed, as
they ought to be, but no railroad man
was killed. The president accepted
the reports of the plutocratic press
and sent the troops into Chicago
against all law and precedent. We
protest against the interstate COM
merce law being interpreted in
favor of the railroads. | protest
against that kind of administration
of law which takes up and Furnishes
one class Of male factor and lets the
other go. If it brings oblivion upon
me and loses me votes, | shall always
stand for even handed justice. | pro-
test against the administration of the
antitrust law. Whoever heard of an
| Indictment under that law: This
continuation Of the Republican ad-
ministration has picked up the man
Olney to protect the railroads. 1t is
not justice, it is anarchy. Anarchy is
the destruction of law. The scientific
anarchist is peaceful man, who says
man is good enough to live without
law. The real anarchist today is the
man who took the interstate COM
cree law and tore it in two to protect
the railroads. If the burning Of a
| freight car is done by conspiracy of
railroad men, punish them, but | will
consent to this only on one supreme
condition, that you punish every other
conspiracy in the country-the coal
combine, and all the other combines.
Let every one be punished according
| to the extent of his crime. l will
show you farmers where anarchy is.
The price of wool is lower than the
protective duty. Conspirators have
brought the price down, closed fac
tories, and stopped iron mining up
north. These conspirators Of
wealth, not of labor, are run
ming this country. The man
has been dethroned, and the dollar
enthroned. l am in sympathy with
men against the tyranny of the dollar,
the despotism of monopoly, but not
with the law breaker and the anarch-
ist as commonly known. The power
of monopoly has got both old parties
by the throat, the same as it had the
old ante-bellum parties. A new party