The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-09

| system IHdI taxes ln0 pest years OF a
an army" and the Republican leader
slaps him on the shoulder and SAYS:
Never mind your boys provided you
have. got a dollar in your pocket"
| Oaughter) The German says: 81 came
to this country because I believe IN lib
| the people are the source of power I am
| here because I want the individual to
| have.
HIS RIGHTS RESPECTED
and his participation in the government
protected; and the Republican leader pats
mind liberty, never mind self-govern-
ment, never mind anything but the dol
! lar Oaughter.)
we are not responsible for the injection
OF this question into politics. If the Re-
publican party had not brought these
questions into existence we might have
| Fought this presidential campaign on do
mesdc and economic questions.
II a laborlng man says that he does not
| like the menace Of a large army, if he
says that he does not like Imperialism,
what is the Republican answer to- him?
II IS not the gold standard, it is the gold
G t pail Laughtero If a man says:
can have nagt IDEAS in my head" the Repub
about your head for if your stomach Is
full The full dinner pail argument is
not helpfQI to the man who is complain
mean his destruction and the overthrow
Of the government he loves.
But the dinner paff is not always full
Qaugnter) / read in this mornings pa
per-a republican paper down at Chicago,
an article which describes a threa tened
strike in the anthracite region, and I
ind the figures given by a member of the
national board of the United Mine Work
ers of America, now in session at In
dianapOl1S: l find the average daily wages
received by miners is $1.35. The average
wages today of men at the mines is 80
cents, and one of the men, Fred Bilsch-
Ter, of Ohio, it was stated, spoke for all
when he said, it is merely a question
whether the>men would starve to death at
work or starve in fdleness. (Applause)
Ninety cents a day for their work at the
mrne. Six days In the Week-six mines, fiji
ty-four-think of it, my friends, $40 a
week for a man to support a family on;
| it gives no chance for a man to rise in
| this world
Take the statistics furnished by Duu's
reports and you will find that every week
the number of failures this week is a
| little larger than the same week last
| year, and that every month of this year
! has shown more failures than the same
| even the prosperity that the Republican
party has boosted of has not reached
all the, people, and even that we have
is on the decline. You will find if you
will read the Iron Age that last month
| the decline in the production OF iron
amounted to more than 5000 tons. You
will find that down in Massachusetts the
operators were discussing the
| Of the employees in cotton mills 10 per
cent and this mornings paper announced
that man in New Haven has dis
charged 100 men, and being a Republican
and not being willing to admit the cause
said he did it for fear I was going TO be
elected and he could not take them back
until the danger was over. But what
/ did the Republican party promise In the
way of more money? Nothing. And
| what we get we get not because of the
Republicans, but without regard to them
in the Klondike? There is nothing said
in the platform about it GaughteT), al
though we might know that if the Re
publican party expected to discover god
anywhere it would do it in British pos
sessions. They had a famine in Europe
and We sold them breadstuffs at a high
price and got in some money. Did the
Republican party cause the famine? The
Republican party is coming silver and
coming it at Is to l Iaughter), and that
money increases the circulation. 1t was
who forced them to put in a bill passed
during the Spanish war that provis: on
for the coinage of this money.
But. suppose the Republican party was
responsible for everything that has hap
pened that gave any benefit for those
who worked for wages, the Republican
party has offset also the benefits that
the laboring man has received by al
lowing the trusts to extort from him
when he comes to buy what he has to
buy (Aipplause). Let the laboring man
needs and then he will find whom the
Republican party has been looking after
He Will know that the trusts have raised
the cost of what he has to buy more
rapidly than any Republican legislation
has raised the amount of his income
You will find that the laboring man, the
ordinary business man, has no share in
these trusts, and yet he suffers from al
of them.
The wars for liberty have been tough,
by men who would rather die for liberty
| than live fat Under Sl9 nd g7oo
! (Applause). And as many have said, and
as said at Columbus the other day, The
slave has plenty to eat full dinner pail
The men who own the labor of the United
States are not under any obligation to See
whether they have anything to eat OF
not (Applause). The trust question is q,
the laborng man must consider
We charge that the Republican party
today stands for a large military estab.
lishmen t., and what answer do they
make? They say that four soldiers out Of
1900 cannot hurt anybody But before
this Spanish war broke out when the
president was elected, we only had one.
to be necessary Twenty-Five thousand
, soldiers were enough when the repubIiC
rested on the consent of the governed
but it takes 100, 900 when the government
rests on the doctrine of prute force 70,
, that is the foundation of an empire Gap.
; plause).
OUR STANDING ARMY.
It only took about $25,OOO,OOO to sup.
. port our standing army in 1896. 1t will
take about 100000, 600 to support an army
OF 100000. Do you think there is no OBJ
9ecuon to the increase of the expense
!, of the army? The purpose of a large
standing army? 1t can have hut two
purposes. The first is to carry on The
wars in other countries for the benetit
, OF those whom we exploit with their
lands, and the second is to suppress nv
force in this country the discomfort thai
! ought to be ceased by legislation And
the Republican party ought to meet the
, army question. But if we are going Ia
have wars abroad, if we are gong t.
i cross the ocean and search out inferior
! peoples, as the Republican party now
: speaks OF them II we are going to drive
them under our flag and then notify
them that they are not to share in The
doctrines of this country, we will nefx
a large army TO keep them from making
faces at us, while they swallow benevo,
: need an army Of 100000 now to anne,
100000 of people IN the Philippine isl
: ands, the same spirit that carries II,
there in viola ton of the traditions a
our government, Will carry us to Other
increase the army to hold other people II
. subsection. =
The supreme question for this hour /,
whether this nation shall enter upon tn,
quest, or stand upon American groun,
and recognize The right of these peopl
to govern themselves, as well as tn
= right of our people to govern themselves
expansion. Why don't they defend i'm
: perialism? There is difference be
E tween. expansion and imperialism w
have had expansion, we have had n
4 imperialism Heretofore whenever W
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