The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-23

skill The combination of money Is answered
by the combination of muscle.
But the question is of still greater i'm
portance to a large middle class that is suf-
fering from all this even more than the la
borer. The power Ito start in business to
make a career has been taken away from our
educated young men. The boy comes from
the district school, the high school or the uni
yersity. Quick-witted. able, competent, and
seeks employment. What does he find? That
he must choose between farming, trade, a
profession or q clerkship for some corpora
ton.
TRUSTS IN CONTROL
The mercantile world it was years ago,
no longer exists. Ability does not count in
these corporations. When they are supplied
the boy must go to farming or go into poll
ties and maybe turn political strikers" Or
perhaps they may lose their self-respect
through ideness and drop into vile-and may
fall into criminal practices-possibly become
lobbyists.
The corporation jobs. professional, mechan-
zeal and clerical, given first to the sons
OF the stockholders and directors. Any small
jobs left oyer are given. with more or less
show CT generosity, to young men who are
permitted to do the work for which some Of
the Iavorites referred to get the pay.
Brains. ability. power in the young man
without capital will eventually bring, if his
life is spared to maturity fair living sal
ary-no more-unless. as sometimes happens,
an unusually bright man comes to know too
much to be put OH with only a salary.
The young men | have been speaking OF,
and their fathers. too, are beginning to ask
why these things sou Business. you
all know is at present in the control OF very
few men. The growth OF corporate power
has been rapid. 1t is now well nigh com
plete.
But this is republic and republic of
intelligent men, and they cannot be deceived
much longer. The ballot is mightier than
money and an aroused public sentiment will
make short work with every combination
that stands in the way of Justice.
REPUBLICAN PARTY WARNED.
1t is good and timely advice to party
to suggest that 1t send to the rear the lead
ers who insist that the government shall be
conducted with eye solely to the COM
mercial interests. Those interests are i'm
portant and should be considered, but the
Republican party will not hold it's following
II 1t IS much longer dominated by the mar
rowness and selffshness which always go
hand in hand with money getting.
The rank and file will not stay with the
Republican party unless we choose our lead
ers hereafter without consulting those who
control the corporations, trusts and COM
bines of the country, their attorneys. agents
and servants. Our leaders must be men
who are proof against all corrupting influ-
ences. and the temptations which come with
political ambition.
l plead for a return to the early motives
and principles of the Republican party. l
urge you to give the subject earnest thought.
If you do. and if your deliberations result in
action, there need be no fear for the future
OF the Republican party or of the country.
The time has now come when the Republican
party must check the influences which are
controlling it. If it shows disposition to
do this, have no fear but that it will retain
the allegiance of the people.
Hon. James Wilson. secretary Of ag-
riculture. was warmly greeted when he
arose to respond to the toast Our ag-
ricultural interests
The two poles of political policy"
was responded to by Hon. Frank Low
den, of Chicago.
An address by Frank s. Monet attor-
ney general of Ohio, whose subject was
The states control over corporation "
followed
President Mckinley sent regrets. as
did Hon. John S. Wise and others.
Patriotic songs We're interspersed
throughout the program.