The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-10-20

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with housethieyes, and made that IA
nous assertion:
'Thcy stand for lawlessncss and dis
order, for dishonor and dishonesty, for
license and disaster ut home, and COW
ardly shrinking from duty abroad"
it has made St. Paul the storm center
of the Burchardism of the present CAM
paign, and shows more plainly than
anything else to what desperate straits
the Republican party Of Minnesota
feels itself reduced.
This speech of Gregg's harmonizes
we'll with Roosevelt's famous or rather
Infamous speech here in the Audito-
rum, and the passage in Roosevelt's
book, "Ranch Life and the Hunting
Trail" Century Co. 1890 in which he
accuses the cowboys of drunkenness
and rioting, yet declares that they arc
much better fellows and pleasanter
companions than farmers and farm
hands, and tells the world that the
mechanics and laboring men of great
city are so far beneath those same
cowboys whom he charges with drunk
enness and rioting, that they are not
even to be mentioned in the same
breath. The passage literally reads as
follows:
"WHEN DRUNK ON THE VII
famous WHISKY OF THE FROM
TIER TOWNS THEY CUT MAD
ANTICS, RIDING THEIR HORSES
INTO THE SALOONS, FIRING
THEIR PISTOLS RIGHT AND
LEFT, from boisterous light hearted
ness rather than from viciousness, and
INDUCING too often in deadly shooting
ARRAYS brought on either by the acct
dental contact of the moment or on ac-
count of some long standing grudge,
or perhaps Of bad blood between two
ranches or localities; but except while
on these sprees they are quiet, rather
self-contained men, perfectly frank
and simple, and on their own ground
treat q stranger with the most whole
souled hospitality, doing all IN their
power for him, and scorning to take
any reward in return. Although
prompt to resent an injury, they are
not ut all apt to be rude to outsiders.
treating them with what can almost
be called a grave courtesy. THEY
ARE MUCH BETTER FELLOWS
AND PLEASANTER COMPANIONS
THAN SMALL FARMERS OR AGRI
CULTURAL LABORERS; NOR ARE
THE MECHANICS AND WORKMEN
OF A GREAT CITY TO BE MEN.
TONED IN THE SAME BREATH
Yet this same Roosevelt, after offer
ing such Il gratuitous insult to the la
boring man and farmer, poses rs their
special friend and would-be idol. TO
the same category belong Beveridge's
Nominations telling the people that We
are making a great mistake in setting
Cuba free, as we'll as Mark Hanna S
bumptious assertion, "There are no
| trusts"
These utterances furnish a glarine
commentary on the character of their
leaders, the futility of their logic, the
utter hopelessness of their cause in a
fair and open campaign. They can not
win out on fair means, so they take to
foul, and right here they show the
worst kind of judgment In making
their selections, and the mistakes they
have made in this respect will prove
their ruin.
OF those who had signed the call for
this meeting, some of the most prom
inent were interviewed by represen-
tative of the Press Bureau, and while
they disclaimed any responsibility for
the speeches made there, they endorsed
the call and the resolutions adopted.
However, when any society allows
such utterances to be made and to pass
without rebuke or protest, the public
can not do otherwise than to see in
such utterances an expression of the
sentiments of that society and to hold
the society and it's individual members
responsible for them.
The insolent arrogance of such a
course can not be but condemned in
the strongest and most emphatic terms.
Is it any wonder that the blood of thu.
liberty loving American citizens should
boil with Indignation at such brutal
methods of coercion and intimidation!
If the money powers dare to come out
with such shameless, barefaced brutal.
ity, to force men to vote against their
convictions, it certainly forbodes i'll for
the laboring man and the middle class
es, and everyone realizes that If such
an affront can be offered and pass I'M
needed, our boasted American liberty
will soon be thing Of the past AMI
will be swallowed up by the money
power in rule so rapacious in its
greed, SO absolute in it's disregard of
human rights, that the rule of the Rus
sian czar will seem paternal blessing
in comparison.
The Republicans at this meeting de-
cided to wear as their emblem a yellow