The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-26
OPENED IT In CHISAGO
JUDGE WILLIS AND CHAIRMAN
ROSING WAKE THE ENTHU-
SIASM OF VOTERS
ISSUES CLEARLY DEFINED

rarity Sh1bDOIeths - For Loyal
Citizens, Not for Bank Wreck
ers and Inefficient Bank Exam
liners.
LINDSTROM, Mimi, Sept. 25.-(Spe-
cial)-Hon. John w. Willis, Democratic
candidate for congress, who is spend
ing his vacation here with his family
and a few friends, and Hon. L. A. Ros-
ing, chairman Of the Democratic state
central committee, spoke to an enthusi-
astic audience here last night. A band
was present, and everybody had an
enjoyable time. Judge Willis spoke as
follows:
'I imagine if the Republican candi-
date for governor had been present
while my friend Rosing was talking,
he would have been about as angry
as Albert Berg was at the Chisago
county fair when Dar Reese said Berg
used to go clamping around Chisago
county with wooden shoes, and Berg
said that if he had wooden shoes he
would feel like using them on some
body's wooden head.
''Mr. Rosing said so many good
things that very little is left for me
to say, and do not wish to make a
Democratic speech, although / am a
Democratic candidate for congress.
would rather stand here and be asked
some question which I will answer the
best I can. You know when a scholar
is to be promoted the schoolmaster and
teacher ask him questions to find out
whether he should be promoted, and
when a man is going to be changed
from a sober-minded judge into a poll
tician it is proper for people, who are
to be his teachers, to catechise him and
see whether he is proper man to go
to congress, and, if you have any ques-
tions to ask, hope you will ask them
I expect to go throughout this coun-
try and meet the people and talk these
matters over.
II said I was not going to make a
speech, but I do not refrain from max
ing a speech because the Republican
state central committee has sent a re-
porter up here to take down what I
say.
"Now, those who founded our gov
ernment founded it upon the rule of
the people; they imposed upon the peo-
pie in addition to their regular busi-
ness the business Of governing the
country, and that requires thought.
You can conduct no business properly
without thought, much less a govern
ment, and 1T Is of the utmost impor-
tance that these questions should be
thought out by the people. We need
not only thought, but independent
thought, and yet I would much rather
one man did my thinking than to have
society or convention of men doing
it, because when a society does your
thinking they can shift responsibility
from one to the other, and you can
never fix the responsibility upon any
one. Therefore independent thought is
the thing. Let every man think by
himself; let him not refer it to any
body else, but think it out for himself.
Now, what is a political party? A
political party is simply an instrument
in the hands of the people, as a spade,
shovel, a rake, a hoe or a threshing
machine is an instrument in the hands
Of the farmer. When the instrument
wears out it simply goes out of use;
it is thrown away; he don't go on using
Is the party greater than the people,
or the people greater than the party ?
The people made the party, conse-
quently they are greater than any
party. The government is founded
upon the proposition that the people
are pre-eminent, and if they cling to
party when it does not serve the
people, then the people are not indie
pendent; they are making themselves
servants to a party organization or
party name. 1 ask for independent
thinking. l ask for solution and de-
cfsiOn of the case which comes before
the people by the people themselves
and l ask that that thinking be done
conscientiOusly. If a man has a bad
case-something he cannot defend-he
will refer 1t to some society or organi-
Zation, and say: "Oh, my party; be-
lieve in that; hurrah for the G. o, p
or something of that kind. But. if he
is able to defend his case, then he de-
fends it on it's merits; he takes time
| to give it consideration on it's merits
| Now, the party issues to be laid before
the people at the present time are
! these:
Whether the taxing powers of the
| government shall be used to build ur
certain interests at the expense of the
whole people. Years ago they said a
protective tariff was the proper thing
! and by that means you can build ur
manufactures. They said, of course
| the American manufacturers would
| compete among themselves, and that
would bring down the price, but in.
stead Of competing they organized
| themselves into trusts and combines
| now they make price for the Amer
| lean consumer which is far more than
the goods are worth. How do 1 prove
that? If you will take any manufac-
tured article that is sold anywhere in
Chisago county and then go to Glas-
gov, Scotland, or Budapest or the
City of Mexico or Australia and INQUIRE
the price of the same article made In
the United States, what do you find?
You find they sell 1t there for two
thirds Of what they sell 1t for in Chi
sago county. They charge a far less
price to the foreigner than to our own
people. What is the result? The re-
suit is the accumulation of millions
and millions of wealth in the hands of
these manufacturing companies and
those associated with them.
There is no reason for objecting to
man making money, if he makes It
legitimately. Certainly not The more
man makes by saving and foresight,
the better. Everybody says God
speed" but when there is an arrange
ment to use the taxing power of the
government in such a way as to charge
the people more for their goods through