The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-08
TURN OUT SENATOR DAVIS.

TURN CUT SENATOR DAVIS.
| In his spread-aagle defamation to tho
Republicans the other evening in st.
Paul. William Henry Eustis. plutocratic
nominee for governor, took occasion to
compliment Senator c. X. Davis, who is
now in Paris as one Of the peace commits
sioners. and who, in his speech on the
Campania, while crossing the Atlantic,
declared that "l25 millions of people
speaking the English language and
standing together in thought and Dur
pose. will do more for peace than anv
war ever waged." William Henry is Il
great admirer of C. X. Davis and wants
to have him reelected to the United
States senate. Before leaving for E,l-
rope the senatorial lingo delivered a po-
lltlcal address in this city and spoke Of
William Henry in fulsome llattery as
=! being the proper person for governor,
and so the eloquent William returns the
favor by saying in dulcet tones, tremu-
lous with emotion: Can it be possible
that in Minnesota when her gifted and
| patriotic son is giving lofty conceptions
to the question of our new boundaries,
our citizens will, by lethargy on their
part permit the election of a legislature
| that will choose some other senator in
his place? The people of Minnesota are
not ungrateful, as such suggestion
would imply"
Nobody questions the ability Of Sen
ator Davis. He is both gifted aud pa
triotic." but as to whether he is the right
man to represent this state in the ma
| tiona senate is another thing. which our
citizens ought to seriously consider dur
ing the present campaign. The Irish
| Standard is acquainted with the political
career of MIR. Davis and is strongly op-
posed to his reelection for many rea
! sons He is the willing tool of corporate
power and employs his splendid talents
in the cause of syndicates and corpora
| tons. IT. was not always thus. A quar-
ter of a century ago he was the advocate
| of the peoples interests and delivered a
famous address on Modern Feudalism"
from which these striking passages are
taken:
Fc,lulsm has ceased to exist as 4 power
hut its spirit is not dead 1t has passed
into new and more subtle forms. 1t is
not so much concentrated cmbodtmcnt,
as /, diffuscd evil. 1t is In the modern cor
pur:,lion. This is the institution which
changes the relation of things. until the
statr--thc nation--:s but ITS slave The
spirit OF fcudalism walks on the earth and
h:,unts the Institutions Of today in the
great money and railroad corporations
with their control of all our finances and
If the national highways: their occupation
of great domains: their power to tax: their
cynical contempt for law: their sorcery to
tlehasc most gifted men to the capacity or
splendid slaves: their pollution OF the err
nine of the judge and the robe OF the
senator: their aggregation is one Min of
wealth enormous as To make crocSus
seem II p,upcr; their picked, paid and skill
full rettinrrS. who are summoned by the
messengers of electricity and appear upon
the wings of steam. These corporations
today have II controlling hand In all the
great business and political affairs of this
nation. Every business enterprise and
every city. great or small. exist ut their
mercy and by their Sufrrancc. Legislators
ar" bought and sold. TN" vulgar lobbyist
controls legislation. the law makers hcing
hut his puppets. fa-!iirnins statutes; TO suit
his desires. lsnt tn" courts remain. All.
yes! From their wallis look down the serene
faces of Kent. of Storey aud of Marshall.
There are the tribunals. there SIT tho
Judges, SUCCESSORS tn an ancestry longer
and proudcr than that of kings Upon
what :, scene do they look DOWN? Tho
Judge sits there with tn" power of law in
his band. and his decision Is dictated In
advance by the sui,or who clEtrtS Il part
III This tragic comedy.
The man who uttered the foregoing
words entertains different views today.
He no longer speaks in that strain. He
has nothing but praise for the corpora
tons. though he knows too we'll that they
buy and sell legislators and "pollute the
crmine of the judges" He himself is i'll
their employ. Against tho interests of
his own constituents he advocated the
| consolidation of the Great Northern and
the Northern Pacific railways. He has
been appointed on the peace commission
as the representative Of selfish concerns
| expect to make millions out of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. He is
| owned body and soul by the same feudal
bHrons whom he denounced so eloquently
| twenty-five years ago. His warmest ell
| logists cannot deny it. William Henry
Eustis dare not defend his record before
the citizens whose suffrage he asks to
| keep him in Washington.
The Irish Standard considers c. X.
Davis one of the most dangerous men
in this American republic, for he is
thoroughly INSCRIPTIONS and unprin-
ciplcA and would hesitate at nothing to
carry out the instructions of Hanna Ell
kins Depew, Hill, Rockefeller and men
of that type. He is heartily i'll favor of
| an Anglo American alliance and affec-
| tionately refers to the pirate of the ma
| tons as "the mother country. He
would govern the Philippines as England
! is governing India-by military despot-
ism. He would destroy the republic es-
tablishcd by Washington and build an
empire upon it's ruins if the policy of
the olgarchy was carried into effect.
Nothing would restrain him from carry
ing out the behests of the plutocrats, for
he is their obedient servant.
1t is therefore the bOundan dutv of tho