The Irish standard., 1902-11-01

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suspended by organized monopolies
buttressed by excessive tariffs. Com
petition both at home and from abroad
has been destroyed under Republican
legislation, and there is no remedy for
the people until that legislation is
changed. The Republicans will not
change it, and hence It is that the peo-
pie Of the whole country are sending
such men as John Lind to Congress.
1t is fortunate for the people of this
city and county that they will be rep
resented in Congress by John Lind.
While he served as Congressman from
the second district Of Minnesota he &C.
complished more for the city of Minue-
apolis in six years than Loren Fletcher
has accomplished in ten. 1t was John
Lind who secured the federal court
, over which Judge Lochren presides; it
was he who made Minneapolis a port
of entry; it was he who passed a bill
in the interest of Minneapolis millers
; who ship their flour to Europe; and it
was he who with the cooperation of
Ex-Congressman Snyder and Ex-Sen-
ator Washburn obtained the first ap-
preparation for the Mississippi dam be-
low Franklin bridge. When he is
elected Congressman for the city Of
Minneapolis and Hennepin county. he
will obtain a new postofice common
surate with the size and commercial
Importance Of the Minnesota metrop-
oils within two years. This city will
have leader in the national councils
for whom nobody need apologize, and
one of whom the entire Northwest
will be proud.
The Irish-American citizens of Min
neapolis and Hennepin county VIII
have representative who can elo-
quently plead for human liberty on
the floor of Congress, whether it is for
the oppressed people of Ireland, of
South Africa, or of the Philippines.
He wants no Anglo-American alliance,
for he believes that this majestic re-
public can go on it's own hook in the
future as in the past without entering
into entangling alliances with Euro
pean nations.
: When the matter of an appropria-
tion for monument to John Barry,
the first commodore of the American
navy, at the nations capital, comes up
in Congress, John Lind can be de-
pended on to speak convincingly in
favor of honoring the memory of a
famous Irishman. Loren Fletcher
knows nothing Of Barry and is utterly
incompetent to speak on the floor Of
Congress on any question of national
Importance.
Do you suppose that Loren Fletcher
could hold the floor for twenty hours
in Congress as John Lind did on the
automatic coupler bill in the interest
Of railroad employees? He never spoke
longer than twenty minutes to our
knowledge and that was when he
wanted the pine on the Chippewa res
ervation sold by public auction for the
benefit of Minnesota lumbermen,
whose special agent he has been at
Washington for ten years.
Loren Fletcher appeals to Irish Dem
ocrats to save him from defeat. His
henchmen boast of his numerous Irish
supporters. Who are they? Can the
advocate of an Anglo-American alli-
ance and colonial Imperialism expect
the support of any citizen Of Irish
birth or descent who believes in the
Declaration of Independence and the
principles of Jeffersonian democracy?
The Celtic citizens have candidate
of their own and will support him EN-
Enthusiastically. Half Of his own party
repudiated Fletcher in the primary
election and half that number will
vote for Lind on Tuesday because he
favors reciprocity and opposes the
trusts.
Every genuine Democrat Of every
nationality will vote for Lind on
Tuesday. Why should the Irish vot-
ers desert him? Fletcher is not enti-
tied to their votes. What has he ever
done for the Irish at any cost to him
self to place them under obligations
to him at this crisis in the country's
history? Irishmen! fall into line and
help to give John Lind such a major
ity as will entitle him to become the
next speaker Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives.
Two years ago John Lind was de-
feated for governor by despicable
trick, yet Van SAINTS plurality was on.
~ 1890. Tams Bixby was Van SAINTS
campaign manager. He got Tom LII
cas- to run under the name Of social
democrat" for governor, and BLOOD
votes were cast for him and Lind for
the same office and not counted. Had