The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-10-19
MR.. OWENS SPEECH.
Anarchism Defined and the Line
Drawn Between it and Re-
publicaniSm.
The Democratic Party Receives a
Broadcast of RidicuIe on its
Various Honey Posi-
tons


much the same as the one delivered
here by him some weeks ago,
but was much toned down in
some respects. He devoted
considerable time to showing
that the Populists would not do harm
if given power, notwithstanding what
the Pioness Press has said. He en-
deavored to show that the Peoples
Party is not much different from the
others so far as it's individual makeup
is concerned, and said that the eight
hundred delegates to the state con.
vention were a fine looking body OF
men, representing the brain and sinew
of the state.
Mr.. Owen protested against the
loose methods of enforcing or nOn-en-
forcing the laws for years past, and
said that the POpulistS were not an
archists or lawbreakers, and said that
state pride should have prevented the
daily papers of the state from pub
fishing broadcast the SANDER to this
effect, when so large portion of the
people of the state belong to the
party referred to. The speaker was
there to hurl back that SANDER in the
teeth of the men who had circulated
it. Nothing aroused his indignation
so much as the charges of lawlessnesS
and anarchism made against the Pop
ulists. The daily papers won't quote
line of what am now saying. They
don't dare be fair and decent, because
their masters tell them not to. Their
masters are those who fear the en-
forcement of the just laws. We have
been called socialists and anarchists,
but we cannot be both. Anarchy is
no law, socialism is all law. The COM
mon picture of an anarchist is not cor
rect, as anarchiSm is science and
form of government. 1t is believed
that man comes first, and law after
wards, that man is not subordinate to
law. The world is not yet ready to
live without law, and will not be for
many hundred years, unless
it progresses much faster than it has
in the past. The scientific definition
of anarchy is the subordination of law
to the individual and his interests.
We have some who have acquired this
power, as the Pullman Sleeping Car
Co., capitalized at Sol 100000, which
Mr.. Pullman testified represented
real property, and paying taxes on
81, 100000 Your people do not get
such a reduction. The assessor is the
law breaker, and the members of the
sleeping car company are the anar-
chists. The members of the Union
Stock Yards Co., of Chicago, are An
archiStS. Massachusetts mill owners
and railroad presidents are anar-
chiSts. He,upheld the sympathetic
strikers, and said that the country is
not one-half as much damaged by the
anarchy of poverty as by the anarchy
of wealth. He referred to the strike
Ci the money lords of the country at
silver, when it was demonetized.
Mr.. Owen said he was not present
to defend lawlessness or strikes or an
archy. He scored the editor of the
Minneapolis Journal for inSinuating
that he had been making anarchistic
utterances. He said that the Pop
ulists propose to destroy the political
power of monopoly in this country, in
order to do this, it is neceSsaryto
break away entirely from the old
parties. An old party never reformed
anything. We are not as dangerous
as you think we are, and we are not
fools; if you think so, bring on your
men and stand them man to man with
us. We are cranks, because all re-
formers are. SANDER is the argument
of man who has nothing more to Of
fer. We are everlastingly right.
Mr.. Owen referred to the joint de-
bate last Monday night at Window
between L. G. Long and Congressman
McCleary, and said that Mr.. McCleary
refused to debate further with Mr..
Long, who had mopped the floor with
Mr.. McCleary because Mr.. Long was
better posted. 1t was because Mr..
Long was right and Mr.. McCleary
wrong, although Mr.. Long is not as
well educated or as polished as Mr..
McCleary. The latter is using Mr..
Lind's speech on free silver. Mr..
Lind is a good man and the Repub-
licans of the district regretted his
retirement because they liked him
and his principles. Then nominat-
ed a man with directly opposite
views, that of gold standard, one
who out-Herods Herod, and who said
at Fairmont that if elected he would |
do all in his power to prevent the re-
monetezation of silver. The Republi- |
cans nominated this man, elected |
him and have renominated him and |
will probably reflect him.
The Democrats of the Second dis
trict are for free silver; if one of them
crosses over into the Third district he |
haoomac GOLD h1O Tho onlv NOV