St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-14

in the West your mOrtgaged farmer,
your agricultural laborer. how Is it with
him? The denizens of the E ,st side in
New York find money hard t. get. and
change the counters" Surprising in
stead of demonetizing silver. you de-
monetize copper. What difference
would 1t make to the man who
has to work for living? Make
monep easy to get, and 1t will command
just that much less. You men of the
West who are talking about more
money are barking up the wrong tree
There was plenty Of money and II was
easy to get at the time of the old CONT.
mental currency. The Southern COIL
federacy.. too, had plenty of it. DO
away with both gold and silver-make q
money backed by the credit of the whole
people-that is the true money.
"People are poor because they have
to pay for land. The West is coming to
the condition Of Ireland. The farmer
does not get rich by his labor. He does
1t by getting land and renting it. Then
he goes to the village, then to the
great cities and finally to Europe.
We have abolished chattel slav-
cry. but we have instead industrial
slavery. The people of Ireland are
get from 1t miserable living. They
had 10 peg for permission to till their
native soil. 1t is system of slavery.
They get a living. it is true, for even
slaves must be fed. Industrial slavery
Sllll exists and under what we call,
free institutions" Let US make
the declaration of independence liv-
ing reality. We must abolish the
wrong of land ownership in the
hands of few. We must give Ameri-
can citizens something more than the
mockery of the privilege of putting a
piece OF paper in ali election box. We
must secure them the right to earn by
their labor living tor themselves.
There is in reality no strife between
labor and capital. There is no trouble
with the wage system. The funda
mental trouble is that which depriveS a
man of the use of the element without
which he cannot live"
The speaker then briefly took up the
tariff question. urging the same objec-
ton to its agitation as he employed
against silver aud money and mOnopOl-
les. The land question must first be
settled. In conclusion, Mr.. George
spoke in the warmest terms of his
friend, D. L. Erickson. He had known
him for years, and assured the audience
that he was man of ability and prin>
ciple whom it would De safe to trust in
congress.
MIR. EricksOn,s Effort.
Mr.. Erickson's speech was brief, but
to the point. During his discourse he
said:
NO doubt many of you have come
here tonight expecting to see some real
live anarchists. Some of the reports in
circulation would Indicate that l 90
about at night with an assassins dag
ger III my bosom, my breath smelling
of rum and my fingers dripping with
blood. That | carried flag of treason
in one hand and torch of arson in the
other, seeking to burn bankers at the
stake and make sausage out of Elder
Stewart. But why all this talk about
my being all anarchist? Simply because
l take my politics from Thomas Jeffer-
son, and my religion from Henry
George.
''Some of my views are considered
extremely radical, and it is but fair that
you should know them. l belong to the
school of modern Aboiitionists, who
believe that reforms in the future are
not SO much in the line of be it
enacted as in be it re-
pealed.' We believe in the aboli-
ton of all custom houses and the
adoption of system of direct taxation.
The abolition of land speculation and
the passage of such laws as will give all
all equal opportunity to the use of the
earth. The abolition of special privil-
lege. and state control of such enter
pr;seS as are in their nature monopOlies.
The abolition of the United States sem
ate, as now constituted. and the election
of its members by direct vote Of the
people,"
The Next Mayor.
Other speakers of the evening were
Louis r. Than and A. T. Ankeny, both
of whom made rousing speeches replete
With sound Democratic doctrine. Mr..
Than said that it had been stated that he
would not receive the support of the
business men. Hewishea to have 1t known
that he had met .twO-thirds of the busi-
ness men of the city and they had given
him their assurances of hearty sup
port. If elected, he would endeavor to
conduct the affairs of the city so as to
conserve the interests of all and not
pursue policy that might rebound to
the benefit of neigboring city. q