The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-27
AND ARE WLIFYINe HIM
IN ORDER TO HELP THEMSELVES.
OUT OF THEIR TERRIBLE
STRAITS.
HE IS CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS
And Promises That the Coming,
Legislative Session Shall Show
Beneficent Changes


the best man in the market He said
that he was a farmer by instinct and
was not used to talking to a city aud
ience, forgetting to tell, or being too
modest to tell how his voice had been
heard at times in the halls of congress.
The hall was filled with laboring men
of the Popocrat faith and noisy per-
suas1on. Besides the Honorable j. Lind.
gUbernatorial candidate, there was lis
understudy, Maj. ]. NJ. Bowler. candi-
GATE for lieutenant governor, John Ar
nold Keyes, candidate for attorney gen
eral, stan Donnelly, who wants to be.
county attorney, and a few others.
The Lind enthusiasm was noisy and
1T found frequent vent.
Mr. Lind opened his sixty-minute
talk with an arraignment of the sound
money press which, he said. had
descended into campaign of
unWarranted vilification and abuse
OF the opposing candidates
The speaker thought this indi.
cateo the straits to which the RepubIi.
cans were driven. Mr.. Lind entered
into an elaborate defense of Rrvan
taxing up quarter of an hour with
MS encomiums. The speaker also de-
aendeo Aitgeld from the charge Of an.
a. 1ty' Inc speaker said the reason the
party managers of the sound money
ranks mad instituted a campaign ot
vLiIlcatlon was because thew Uere
driven to the last ditch.
MI. Lind said the country had IN.
creased Just as much in popula tion on5
Meaith before 1893 as it has since thai
te' improved machinery, he said
i iiao NOT reduced wages, in fact tbe
LABOR saving devices had been q hIess
ing because they brought down nriosc
OF materials and gave emplovmen+ -
nuhoreds OF men. The money mower
ne sdld' old not like stable prices hl1t.
rather dollar which grows in its MIR
CHASING power. Mr.. Lind charged tbat.
ever since the demonetization Of siIye,
tMenty-nve years ago, values had de-
preciated a. full half on everything ex-
ceptlng perhaps real estate.
coming down to the farmers of the.
northwest, Mr.: Lind said they were
living IN the most favored portion of
tne slope, yet they were earning barely
enough to make ends meet T,hev
should by every right have a surnli,s
put many OF them were in debt and
living on naertgaged- lands. Mr.. Lind
quoted from a speech by. Maj, McKin-
icy, IN which the latter said II woI,ld
be wiser to open the mills instesd Of
the mints. Mr.. Lind asked if the sun-
ply OF merchandise was not already
large enough. What was needed more
than anything else was a demand for
the goods already manufactured and
the money to buy with. There were in
the country 100000 of farmers who
were waiting for an opportunity ]. to
tsa.lze a profit on their products. Give
them this. and the mills would take
care of themselves. The opening of the
mllls before the mintS was putting the
cart before the horse.
MI Lind was very sarcastic in his
illusions to sound money. He said
tnat all the people heard of it now
adays was the sound. The speaker.
sald the American nature was natural
~ honest and upright and he did NOT
think it was patriotic to charge the
nee silver voters with being repudi
ators. He cited the men who borrowed
$lO Tor term Of years at legal interest.
but when the obligation was due the
loaner demanded $25 or $50 extra. This
was, he said, the same effect the gold
standard was having, but the laws had
peen enacted In such a roundabout way
that no one caught on for long time.
Mr.. Lind declared that the United
states did not have to ask England.s.
permission to do anything There was
a time in the history Of the Republican
party when the lions tail was twisted
on the slightest provocation and Eng
land was defied at every opportunity
DO they challenge and defy now, asked,
the speaker Mr.. Lind said the pres
ent attitude of the Republican party
was humiliating and unpatriotic. The
Republican platform admitted that the
country might gain prosperity under q
1ree coinage system, but declared thar
1t could not be obtained without the.
consent Of foreign nation.
Coming to labor matters, Mr.. Lind,
said that the interests of the laborer
and the consumer were identical. The
speaker declared that wages in gold
standard countries were no higher than,
they were in any others. That which
determines the price of labor was the,
value Of products and the organization.
OF labor. The speaker thought or
ganized labor was doing more to main
tain wages than anything else. Mr.
Lind'S reference to Mark Hanna's in
terest in the working man was decided
ly sarcastic.
do you think Hanna would paw the
wages he does If 1t were not for or
ganized labor?" asked the speaker, and
he received the answer he planned on
He declared that the greatest enemy
Of high wages and the greatest enemy
of organized labor was the army Of un-
ShPAoyC GU Llcu WHO are hanging around
the fringes of industrial activity, look
ing for work. Give man wages, said,
the speaker, and the labor question will
largely settle itself. He declared that
the Introduction of silver would near
more money, better prices, better
basis of credit, larger consumption, etc
Mr.. Lind devoted a portion of his ad-
dress to state issues. He said that
ever since the state was formed the
laws had given capital the legal right to
combine and pool issues. Mr. Lind ad-.
mitted that 1t was all we'll and good,
and for the best interests of society
Organized labor did not have equal
rights in court with organized capital
He believed that one was as much en-
titled to a day in court as another.
ognized in the courts was when the
firm or corporation was in the hands
Of receiver. Mr.. Lind promised some
new laws.
Senator Nelson's letter to friend in
Little Falls about the present state
campaign and Lind came in for a hot
shot from the speaker In the letter
Senator Nelson had stated that IT,
Lind was elected that the state would
receive the greatest black eye 1t ever
say and that Minnesota would be
looked upon as the abode Of long hair
ed Populigts" Mr.. Lind came right
back with another letter which the
senator wrote him in 1892 when he
wanted Lind to take a position on the
state railway and warehouse commits
sion which body was losing its In