St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-18


weeks began to believe it myself. and
now am ready to say that it appears
to be very likely that will be elected"
Continuing, he said he haa been living
In an Interesting suburb of the city fol
ten years.and had made many speeches.
This being the first time he had ST.
Paul audience at his mercy. he proposed
to settle up all old score.
Being asked why he belonged TO
party of anarchists, and why he did not
go over to some other party. his answer
was that he had helped to form another
party thlrty-four years ago and had
stayed by it until it had forsaken the
policy of honor, and now he wanted to
help build up a new party that will
break away from the tyranny set up
over the country. The audience
was asked to remember that
their forefathers had oyerthrown
king craft. But" said he, "the time
came when the cry has gone up again,
Long live the kingp This is the
crowned king of party" Mr.. Owen
wanted it understood that God never
made political party, and if He had
lie would have drowned it as He did
primitive man. The people should not
worship party because it was created
by man. He wanted people to use party
only as means to an end. Use it as
you would jack plane, hammer or
an anvil; and when done with it throw ID
into the scrap pile. A party makes fools
and slaves OF men,
he said there are thousands of men In
the state who would like to vote for
him. and said they wished he had been
nominated by the Democratic party SO
they could vote for him. Mr.. Owen
declared that his nomination by the
Democrats would not have made him
any better, but night have hurt him.
de accused men of being too bgoted to
see that the old parties are changing
their policies.
In discussing the financial question
ne danominated one of the old parties as
oeing gold bug party or manufact- +
urers' party. He illustrated the leader
sup of par ties as being like that of the
herd of swine led by blind pig. He
found the old parties following the long.
tailed coat of Thomas jefferson or
Abraham Lincoln, Notwithstanding the
TACT that the wearers and the coats have
long since mouldered In the grave.
In speaking OF the tariff Mr.. Owen
illustrated the plentifulness of iron ore
In Minnesota, that can be shoveled into
cars with steam shovels, while in En-
gland they take iron ore from away
down i'll the bowels of the earth by the
mere spoonful at great expense. and
still there are people In this country
who are fools enough to believe that the
hnest bessemer iron in the world needs
protection from the inferior iron Of
England. He declared that the people
in this country are now suffering from
Too SEuch Pamperfng,
too much protection. His view is that
with our resources would have
a much greater lever with which to
move the world. and woald not ask
protection with which to do it. 1t is no
longer denied that few people of this
country own more than half of its
wealth. While not finding fault with
the accumulat ION of wealth. he COLI
demned the absorbing OF immense
wealth without using any genius; the
of wealth so as 10 produce
poverty and starvation.
Mr.. Owen said he had been studying
statecratt lately and found out that in
1900 wealth was about as evenly divided
as could be expected. About one
fourth of the people then owned one
half of the wealth. Now about 100000
own one-half of the wealth, SO that the
few have increased their wealth 1850
times. He also observed that the pur.
chasing power Of money had increased
in very small ratio. The reason we
DO not have more factories, more work,
is because the people have permitted
the few to centralze the wealth. Let
the voters look over the situation and
then register an oath that these in
fluences shall be smothered out. This
is not talking against men or capital,
but is condemnation of the tyranny
and abuses of individuals and capital.
"lr is a protest against paying tribute
to fictitious capital. Every mile Of
railroad is capitalized at S6S.000 per
mile, when it could be bought for sos, 900
per mile. They still bind you tighte
and you allow them TO do so.'
Speaking of silver, he attributed
much of the hard times 10 its demoneti-
zation.
1--WE are all in debt. The state of
Minnesota is in debt today $3.50. 100000.
The price of gold is going up and every
thing else is going down. Agriculture
is the base of everything. Destroy
farming and all else will crumble and
fall. Talk about tariff. How is
high or low tariff going to help the price
of labor?
"The remedy proposed for over-pro-
duction by some is better farming. The
farm products are the basis OF wealth.
They say Over-productlon makes prod
uce cheap. Then we have too much
much. 1t is because we have an un.
even distribution.
"There Is Not Enough Work.
"Thousauds of men are willing ia
work for something to eat and to wear.
Don't try to fool us
with that. We have lived too long. No.
Those low prices are not due to low
The cause is making this
yellow metal the basis of circulation. Tho
purchasing power of the gold dollar has
grown larger,or 1t taxes more products
to buy the dollar,
In speaking of being before the
United States senate committee on the
charge of being disturber,h he admitted
that it was right to be disturber
rather than become tied up tighter.
Mr.. Owen declared that yearly the
find that it takes more
labor to buy a dollar.
II want to see our financial legisla-
lion i'm congress enacted by the two
Clarks whom we are running for con-
yress, and not by the English parlia.
ment. We are debtor and England
creditor nation. We are a producing
md hers manufacturing nation, and
Shall we permit England TO make
our laws? IT England had our con-
Iitions she would soon declare policy
suitable to her needs. and would not be
ashamed of it either. There is no danger
If flooding the country with silver. We
nave great quantities of silver, and the .
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