The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-10-13

gress in this Gistricg, Frank D. Larra-
bee. was the principal speaker at the
big Democratic mass meeting held in
the East Side Turner hall on the ev-
ening of the 81 inst. j. II. Smith pre-
sided. and besides Mr.. Larrabee J. II.
Sorter, Senator j. r. MCGOWAN, Nj. ].
Sullivan. James Donohue and Alderman
Nj. a. Gerber of the First ward ad-
dressed the meeting. Many telling
points made by Mr.. Larrabee during
the delivery III his ADDRESS were most
enthusiastically received by the large
audience. He spoke at lcngth and
in a short prelude referred to the fact
that his ancestors lad fought in the
revolution and in other wars and in
general had taken the part Of respect
able citizens.
Mr., 1arrabee said that he, PERSONAL
lX.s came to Minnesota in 1882. and to
Minneapolis III 1856. He practiced law
in general, but for several years he
acted as assistant general counsel or
general counsel of tine Minneapolis e.
st. Louis or the 500 railroads. A
change Of management of tho latter
company sent him into general practice
again, and much of his business, he
admitted, has been in prosecuting per-
sonal injury cases against the rail-
roads and other corporations. His le-
gal experience proves, he pointed out.
that he can talk as well against a rail-
road as for it, and if he were in con-
gress he would be on the side of the
corporations or the people, as the right
seemed to be.
The speaker could sec little difference
in the two parties in some respects. In
the north the Republican party is DOM
inant and has been ever since the war.
The war made the Republican party
and 1t was that party which preserved
the union with the help of loyal Demo-
Gratis Because the rarty was success
full in the war, most Of the young men
in later years Joined it, merely for the
sake Of being on the winning side. In
the south, however the Democrats are
all powerful, and everybody that
amounts to anything down there, votes
with the Democrats. For those reasons
it will be found that in congress the
trusts are represented by northern Re-
publicans and southern Democrats.
They carry different banners. but their
aims are one, and that aim is general-
ly against the people at large. He de-
plored this state of affairs.
Asks for Reorganization.
! Oh, that there might be a realign-
ment of men and that there might be
united today under one banner, in one
army, under one leader, all the people
of this country avho have the common
veal at heart: how short lived would
the battle be. There would be in one
army just the nlonopolies and the
trusts. which consist of but few peo-
pie comparatively, and in the other
army there. would lie the great ma
jority Of the American people. Every
farmer in the United States of Amer
lea, and shoulder to shoulder with him
there would be marching every man,
woman and child that works in every
mine in this country. and with theln
there would be every man, woman and
child that works in every factory in
this great country. as we'll as every
| employe Of every trust and every mon-
opoly, and every man, woman and
child that clerks in every store, and
every blacksmith and every carpenter
and every tradesman and artisan Of
every kind ana description, and every
retail merchant and every manufac-
turer and wholesaler. not in the trust,
and every lawyer and every doctor and
every preache, and every teacher in
this whole United States of America,