The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-23
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LAW':S0Nl['S REFUGE.
Bostonian's Speech Not Delivered
-Bede Wins Many
Laughs.

IeOIldS LII, IeD. lo.-After travel
cept an Invitation to speak at the Creve
Occur club banquet last night as chief
speaker Of the evening, Thomas w.
Lawson of Boston was overcome by
the length of the program ahead Of
him and surrendered to the lateness OF
the hour.
He apologized gracefully to an au-
dience which had packed the Coliseum
| mainly to hear him, but which showed
evidence Of needing sleep at midnight,
and referred them to tho newspapers
for the messages he had come to deliver.
It was sn midnight ga befG fore M NJ IL Lawson
ness of the hour, the speaker announced
| that he would not deliver his speech,
but leave the audience to read it in the
| newspapers. J.. sG
Mr.. Lawson, Admiral Schley, A. B:
Stickney and congressman Bede and
ers; Eight hundred persons sat down
to the tables, while fully $500 crowded
| the galleries.
> MI. Bede kept the audience con-
vulsed with laughter for full hour,
speaking of civilization and the pursuit
o. happiness. He said millionaires are
not happy. He had known several of
ninety days in the ."wilds of Dakota,
looking for it, and the courts would not
i let them have it..
He struck serious strain with refer
ence to the railroad rate bill, and was
/ vigorously applauded when he asserted
that the people need not hope for per-
| feet law this winter, nor next, nor in
but that each successive action of con-
gress will show step toward perfec-
ton. ....., -.
Mr.. Lawson's speech was prepared in
part as follows: r.. :, 80.
/ "Chicago voters surprised the world
by turning out the organized grafters
and political parties, and proclaiming
itself for municipal ownership. II it
had not been municipal ownership it
would have been something else. Their
action meant that they had begun to
feel the letters. -., Ii s--.. .-....
/ Next came Philadelphia. where the
people arose between night and morn
ing and marchd the streets in law -abid-
ing mobs, drove out of their strongholds
the most snugly entrenched band of po-
litical grafters: this country has ever
seen-drove them into exile and dis
grace. ~;.r.~ ...
'i"Soon came the overturn in Florida,
VIGOROUSLY boss-ridden by the Flaglers
and Standard Oil clique, when one man,
fearless citizen, Napoleon B. Brow
ard, rose out of the ranks Of the peo-
pie and in his begrin1ed tugboat over:
alls stumped the state and was elected
governor for four years. ..s~
/ Gin New York the fearless Jerome
s turned down by each and all the diff
J. ferent political parties, was elected
i with thousands of votes to spare. 81.
Z Gin Wisconsin you know what La
Toilette is doing with the people at hif
: back. 49,, : %.@y 81, s>Ge
'tThese are buts@a few instances OF
} how, during the past twenty-one
! months, the people have shown the
9 spirit that's in them. I could go on
thru the country citing other happen:
! take up another series Of even more sig
nifcant incide emit y
I, "In Kansas, ene Devlin controlled 3
}. stringsof banks inswhich theSpeopl haC
deposited their savin gs. He had beer
u specializing with these funds for TIT
purpose Of acquiring q great fortune
One day he studied his toe, and M
: banks went down like a row of bricks
The net result was the people lost mil
: lions. If he had been successful h
: would have made millions for himsel.
: perfect example Of the 'heads I win
! tails you LOSE game Of the system
"In Milwaukee it was Bigelow, banl
president and system representa-
+ tive. He used $3,0OO,OOO of the PEG
ple's trust money. His was a grail
speculation. If he had not stubbed hi
toe, grain would have advanced il
prices and the peoples -four woul(
! have cost 20 to 80 per cent more, .bu
they would have had their saving
, and per cent interest thereon, Will
Bigelow would have made millions owe
{ night. But since he stubbed his toe
: the people lost their savings
f case of Heads 7 win, tails you lose
t In this wise Mr.. Lawson led up t
1 his financial views, which are fami]
7 lar to the reading public. =