The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-10-01

ulnal doctrine OF honesty in public az
fairs and honesty in the expenditures
Of the money which is taken from a
heaVilyta taxed people.
WOULD NOT HANDICAP UNIvER-
SITY.
AS to the state university and the
normal schools want to say that it
was never intended that the board of
control should have more than financial
jurisdiction over them. The educa-
tional institutions should not be re-
strlcted iii any way in the good work
they are doing. and the educational
policy and methods should lie wholly
Within the authority OF those in charge.
and to that end believe there should
be no change III the law as it now ex-
/ lists. l do not and would not favor any
change to a board OF control for the
! university.
Our great university, which stands
among the great educational institu-
tons of the world. is the pride of all
our people: he would be untrue to the
state and its youth who would do aught
to hinder or hamper it in even the
slightest degree in the fruition of its
| purpose and the endeavor OF those car
rying on the great work. The state is
great in its people and its wealth, gem
crosby should be and is extended to-
wards education. but the generosity so
extended should not encourage prod
tgality.
| Every dollar devoted to education
should be honestly applied to educa-
| ton and not be diverted to the polit-
'cal advantage o. anyone. no one has
| higher regard for our educators than
| myself and far be il from me, a citi-
| zen or public official to say or to do
| kught to lower the standard. Our cit
| Zenship is due to education and il
elected governor of this state 1 shall
| Encourage it. Without fear of the mo-
| 1--WE being misunderstood ] say: God
| ,peed to the splendid president of our
| University and every other teacher in
| he state, from that magnificent insti-
ution to the humblest of our public
] chools.
| The people who generously give of
| heir earnings are not less interested
han those in authority, and that every
! means be employed to the upbuilding
# our system for learning, let it be
understood now and forever that those
In authority will do nothing to lessen
the desire of the people to continue
the generosity and loyalty.
| Let educators manage educational in
| stitutions; let only men known for
their strength of character. their abil-
' ity and worth be appointed on the
, board of regents and other boards and
let our schools be divorced entirely
from partizan politics. A separate
| board of control for the educational in
| situations would, it seems to me, work
no good for society; it would reach to
the high school, the college of the COM
mon people. and might endanger the
! well-being of our educational system
In other words, let us let we'll enough
alone.
THE RIGHTS OF LABOR.
The platform on which stand de-
clares for the rights of American labor
to organize and condemns as I'M
American any denial of that right.
Labor in every sphere is the real foun-
dation of the nation; the right of or
ganization belongs to labor naturally
and the state and nation which recog-
nizes the corporate right of capital
should protect labor in it's right; no
one of sound mind would argue in ia
vor of the abuse of that right, nor in
the abuse of any other right.
| go further than that and say that in
a nation which boasts of it's prosperity,
labor has a right to be we'll paid for a
days work. Labor has the right to
enjoy the privilege of wearing good
clothes, having plenty of food and a
, comfortable home which does not bear
more than a Just proportion of the
taxes of the state.
LABOR DOES NOT GET IT'S SHARE
From this platform some years ago
George, declared that labor asked no
favors; all labor asked was fair
chance" and by a fair chance is
meant reasonable hours of toll at Just
compensation. Labor has the right to
ask for justice and Justice means that
he shall have fair proportion of the
earnings of the sweat of his own brow
rnd the products of his own Drawn
The right of organization to secure his
| own rights must not and cannot be
denied him.
1t must not be denied him in Min
rcsota, Pennsylvania or Colorado; and
the denial of that right means the abb
scnce o: human liberty. In the great
and indusputable doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none. labor must not dwell in poverty
while capital rolls in the luxury which
wealth may bring. What constitutes a
nation? Surely not bars of gold and
| only exist when those who work sue
coed and this nation with seventy mil
lions of prosperous and happy toilers
will be greater than though labor grow
eled in poverty and ignorance.
| NON-PARTIZAN JUDICIARY.
The democracy in it's late convention
took advanced ground looking to the
ultimate divorce of the judiciary from
politics. 1 am not of those who be-
lieve that judicial tribunals are infal-
lible. But 1 am of those who think
that the judiciary Of our own state is
being dragged through the mire OF
partizan politics to the disgrace and
disgust of the people. The spectacle of
judicial nomination being held up
to barter and trade has recently been
emphasized in our state and In a man.
ner that calls for the most severe de-
nunciation and condemnation.
The courts Of our state should be
above reproach and men should be
chosen for the bench because of their
learning in the law, of their known In
tegrity, and the purity of their lives
To this end the party which l repre-
sent tonight has not only declared for
a non-partizan judiciary, but has
shown its good faith by suiting the
appeal to the reason of intelligent men
and must be followed eventually by
the dominant party for the reason that
people believing in high ideals will
in power must be rebuked to bring
about that end.
If judicial nominations can be made
goods for the bargain counter, it will
follow that the judge will be open to
barter and sale himself. The supreme
court of the land is the highest pro-
lection of the people and when we can
no longer point to our judges as men
beyond the slightest question Of re-
preach, the rights of the people are no
longer safe.
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.
In the speech accepting the nomfna-
ton offered me l expressed hope that
4, the time would speedily come when our
country would remove the barrier to
free trade relations between Canadian
Americans and United States Amer