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

| Qaughter) The German says: II came
to this country because believe in lib
erty. came here because 1 believe that
| 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
him on the shoulder and says: Never
mind liberty, never mind self-govern-
ment, never mind anything but the dol
lar" OaUghter.)
We are not responsible for the injection
OF f,t1iis this question into politics. If the Re-
publlcan party had not brought these
! questions into existence we might have
fought this presidential campaign on do
! meSuc and economic questions.
If a laboring man says that he does not
Ike the menace Of a large army, if he
says that he does not like imperialism,
what is the Republican answer to him?
1t IS not the gold standard it is the gold
d3nner pail Iaughter) If a man says:
L have ideas in my head,'' the Republi-
can can party says: What do you talk
about your head for if your stomach is
FUR The full dinner pail argument is
not helpful to the man who is complain
ing that there are forces at work which
mean his destruction and the overthrow
! OF the government he loves.
But the dinner paff is not always full
! Laughter) ! read in this mornings pa
| per-a republican paper down at Chicago,
| an article which describes a threatened
! strike in the anthracite region, and
find the figures given by a member of the
national board of the United Mine Work
dianapolis: l find the average daily wages
received by miners is 81 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 question
| whether theNmen would StarVe to death at
work or starve in tdleuess. (Applause.)
! Ninety cents a day for their work at the
mine. Six days In the week-six mines, fiji
| 'ty-four-think of it, my friends, $40
week for a man to support a family on;
It glves no chance for a man to rise in
this world
Take the statistics furnished by Dun's
reports and you will find that every week
the number of failures this week is a
year, and that every month Of this year
has shown more failures than the same
month of last year. You will find that
even the prosperity that the Republican
party has boasted 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
! REDUCTION OF THE WAGES j.
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 Republican
and not being willing to admit the cause
said he did it for fear / 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
Did the Republican party discover gold
IN the klondike? There is nothing said
IN IN the platform about 1t Haughter), al
though we might know that if the Re
publican party expected to discover god
anywhere it would do 1t in British pos
sessions. They had famine in Europe
and we sold them breadstuffs at high
price and got in some money. Did the
Republican party cause the famine? The
republican party is coming silver and
| coming it at 16 to l OJaughter) and thar
money increases the circulation. 1t was
the opponents of the Republican party
who forced them to put in a bill passed
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
party has offset also the benefits that
/ the laboring man has received by all
lowing the trusts to extort from him
! when he comes to buy what he has to
buy (Applause). Let the laboring man
! spend his money for something that he
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 all
! of them.
The wars for liberty have been fouehf
! by men who would rather die for liberty
! than live fat under slavery and bondage
! (Applause). And as many have said and
as said at Columbus the other day, The
slave has plenty to eat full dinner pail
Ihe men who own the labor of the United
states are not under any obligation to See
! whether they have anything to eat or
! not (ApplauSe). The trust question is w at
! the laboring man must consider
! We charge that the Republican party
today stands for a large military estab-
hshment, and what answer do they
make? They say that four soldiers out Of
/ 1000 cannot hurt anybody But before
this Spanish war broke out, when the
PRESIDENT was elected, we only had one
! fourth of the army they now consider
| to be necessary. twenty-five thousa nd
soldiers We're enough when the repubIic
rested on the @ consent of the governed,
! but 1t takes 100000 when the government
rests on the doctrine of prute force for
| that is the foundation of an empire (Ap-
! plause).
OUR STANDING ARMY.
It only took about $25,OOO,OOO to sup
port our standing army in 1896. 1t will
! take about 900 to support an army
of 100000. Do you think there is no OBJ
lection to the increase of the expense
OF the army! The purpose of a large
! standing army? 1t can have but two
purposes. The first is to carry on 1he
wars in other countries for the benetit
! OF those whom we exploit with thair
| lands, and the second is to suppress nv
force in this country the discomfort that
ought to be ceased by legislation And
the Republican party ought to meet the
army question. But if we are going 10
have wars abroad, If we are gong to
cross the ocean and search out inferior.
peoples, as the Republican party now
speaks of them, if 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 necS
large army to keep them from making
| faces at us, while they swallow benev0-
lent assimilation. Gaughter.) If we
need an army of 100000 now to annex
( S,O00e0O of people in the Philippine ISL
ands, the same spirit that carries 1Is
there in violation of the traditions ~
our government Will carry us to Other.
parts of the world, and we will need fo
increase the army to hold other people in
subsection. -
The supreme question for this hour is
whether this nation shall enter upon the
European doctrine of force and CON
quest, or stand upon American ground
and recognize The right of these people
to govern themselves, as well as the
right of our people to govern themselves.
(Applause.) The Republicans talk about
expansion. Why don't they defend i'm
perialism? There is q difference be-
tweens expansion and Imperialism. We
have had expansion, We have had nc
imperialism Heretofore whenever we
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