St. Paul daily globe., 1895-07-01

to understand. When a nation lays
by the sword and takes up the plow
it begins to build up new social
structures and orders. On the fourth
point he said: No nation ever squan-
dered its resources with more wan
ton hand. We have crossed the con-
tinent and the reflex tide of emf
grafton is making it's power felt.
Privileges have produced conditions
which have reached the danger
point. These are the telegraph, the
railroads, the mining industries.
The men called into the country to
starve will give us yet great trou-
BILE
The many reforms should be spe-
officially classified. They are propor-
tional representation, popular cleo
tiOns of United States senators,
election of postmasters, the referen-
dunn, woman's suffrage, a new money
system, transportation, land, taxa
ton. And these reforms fall into
two great classes, those to secure
the well being of the people and
those to destroy monopoly. 1 be-
lieve in the liberty of the common
man, said the speaker, and that
means equal rights to AZ. And
more specifically it means no more
special privileges to gas, railroad,
telegraph, street railway or other
corporations. 1t means the destruc-
ton Of the patent rights system.
What we should all stand for is
equal freedom, liberty, equality of
chance. If any one does think that
THE COMMON MAN
will bring confusion. he is mistaken
Within the next ten years there will
come the most gigantic assertion of the
rights OF the common man ever known
In the world. / cannot understand the
men who still hold tenaciously to their
special privileges. America is intended
to be land of the free, not of the
spread eagle style, but in the broadest
sense. Then the well worn expression
equal rights to alP' will have a mean
ing. L believe the creator of the uni
verse desires to see all human beings
happy. The final utterance, is not
charity, but justice. Poverty you will
not have with you for all time. Strug-
giles will exist, but some victories will
be won. Each victory will bring
another and after every defeat there
will come triumph. Liberty and equal
ity are the goal of the human race.
If a party could be formed with that
sentence for a platform, it would
challenge the world for honor. No
man will set himself against that prin-
ciple. 1 never lose my faith in liberty.
In the midst of this our troublesome
time, 1 still say liberty and equality"
1 do not want special privileges under
the government. l shall fight against
these at all times. 1 want every human
being in this world to have the same
rights as myself. / want to see the
favors of this government equally dis
tributed. 1 do not want patent rights.
copyrights, or rights to exclusive own
ership, except make full return to the
whole people. These things must come.
They are involved in the whole ire
sistible swing of the age All that
smacks of the army, the convent, the
barracks, is of the past. Military So
cialism is impossible in America This
is to be the land of individual homes,
of cooperation, and not the home OF
socialism, which assumes to organize
armies and to regulate the private life
of its citizens.
am an individualist, for l stand for
the largest liberty of the individual
consistent with the equal freedom of
every other man. Liberty is not license.
When man transgresses the law of
equal freedom, he becomes a male
| factor, but liberty is not thereby i'm
| peached. 1 am an optimist. 1 see the
world growing wiser I'D more peace
| full. The storm of t present will
| clear the air and when it has passed
| it will leave the skies bluer, the grass
sweeter, and the flowers more beautiful
! than before.
| The artist and the literary man have
| their part to play. Today art and lit
erature aim at more than to merely
amuse. In everything they do they
aim at raising the standard of the hui
man race and bring about the consum-
nation Of the much sought for boon OF
| humanity