The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-04
East Side Turner Hall Crowded to Hear
& Nye's Opponent Tell What He Does
and Does Not Stand For-Devotes
r Most Of Address to Ar:rai gnment of
Trusts aud Tariff. zs i

points of the addresses were applauded
in@ true first ward manner.
Mr. Larrabee spoke at length on va
rious things. He delivered a long pre-
Jude in which he told Of his experiences
at the big republican meetings held in
He went there, he conided to his au-
dience, to learn exactly what the re-
pubicans claim in this campaign, but
after listening to Mayor Jones, A. L.
Cole, W. I. Nolan, Frank ,Nye and Sen
ator A. J.: Beveridge he found that he
was still as ignorant as when he went.
He did not learn anything from his
opponent, Mr.. Nye, excepting that the
American flag is symbolic OF about all
Beverage had only advised everybody
to uphold the hands Of President Roose;-
welt, to admit later in his address that
the republican senate and house OF rep
resentatives had failed in that very
particular. Senator, Beveridge asked
the people to vote for Mr.. Nye} to up
hold the president. but with the ex-
ample of the two Minnesota senators
before him, and that Of other repub-
lican leaders, excepting La Toilette,
the speaker was at a., loss to, discover
much chance for Mr.: Nye doing any
thing in the manipulating business.
comes OF GOOo oCock.
Mr.. Larrabee told the first warders
that his pedigree was standard. His
ancestors had fought in the revolution
and other wars, and in general had
taken the part Of respectable citizens:
All of them, so far as he knew, had
successfully attempted to keep out, OF
jail and the poorhouse. MI. Larrabee
said that h. es Perso5nally same to Min n,
1886. He practiced law in general but
for several years he acted as assistant
general counsel or general counsel of
! the Minneapolis &~St. Louis or the 500
railroads. A change Of management Of
the latter company sent him into gener-
al practice again, and much of his bust
ness, he admitted, has been in prosecut-
ing personal injury cases against the
railroads and other corporations. His
legal. experience proves, he pointed out,
that he can talk as well against a rail-
I gress he would be on the side Of the
Corporations or the people, as the right
seemed to be. --
The speaker could see little difference
in the two parties in some respects: In
II The north theGTepubliean2 partsasis ,domi-
nant and hasSheen eyer since the war.
The WaslrimadeS,the repHblican party and
it wasSthat party which preserved the
union with the help Of loyal democrats
Because the party was successful in the
! war,.most Of the young men in late1
being on. the winning side. In the
south, however, the democrats are al
powerful, and everybody that amounts
!, to anything down there, votes with the
democrats. For those reasons it viii
be found that in congress the trusts arr
represented by northern republicans
and southern democrats. They carr,
different banners, but their aims: ar,
one,' and that aim is generally s;agains
, the people at large. He deplored thi
state Of affairs.
Asks for Reorganization.
: s Oh, that: there might be realignmen
: Of men and that there might be unite.
y today under one banner, in one army
" under one leader all the people of thi
- | country who have the common veal a
;, heart; how short lived would the BATH
= be-. There would be in one army jus
the monopolies and the trusts, which con
/ sst of but few people comparatively, an
q in theI other army there would be tn
:. great majority of the American people
= Every farmer in the United States {
~ America, and shoulder to shoulder wit
- him there would be marching every mar
70 | woman. and child that works in ever
d mine in this country, and with them ther
:. would be every man, woman and chill
e that works in every factory in this gres
It country, ais well as every employee {
- every trust and every monopoly, an
le every man, woman and child that clerk
in every store, and every blacksnft
and every carpenter and every tradesma
l. and artesian Of every kind and descriI
le tion and every retail merchant and ever
IS manufacturer and wholesaler, not in tf
T. trust, and every lawyer and every docto
ID and every preacher and every teacher
r this whole United States of America, bs
e. cause the interests of all. these peop
III are identical. They have common II
lie terest to protect themselves against e.
4 tortion being continually practiced upc
them by the monopolies and trusts OF tn
country. S.FS B s / - s =
" s% Against All Duties.
I'd On the subject Of the tariff, NJ
to Larrabee covered the ground from tt
r. democratict standpoint, with particul;
st emphasis on the stand-pat ideas Of b
TO opponents. He could see little to COZ
Sc mend in raising government FUNDS (
ne duties levied on imports, arguing TIL
T., in the final analysis it is the consume
.. Inc 3COuuuIOus pcop1c, IAoo P"J NV - ~
"The absurdity and the injustice OF t!
e. tariff as a system Of taxation he d
OF O clared, must become apparent to Il
at most stupid by these simple. refe
=, tions.'' The republican doctrine Of
' ue protective tariff appeared especial
n repugnant to Mr.. Larrabee, because
ne tends to foster trusts and renders t
iio efforts Of the common people to ma
a living harder than they should be u
S. der natural conditions. s.
81 Personally. I deny the Justice of a
VI law that helps one class OF people at t
o. expense of other classes of people
r. does injustice instead Of Justice It CT
- ates Inequality instead of equality.
90 But If any law were: to be passed
. - =, the United States government to help Q
!, :, class of people at the expense of 'anotf
class Of people, and the subject were
new one for you to consider, what cls
of people do you think you would dec
that most needed help at the expense
other classes? Would you help those W
nv had at the expense Of those who had ]
his, or would you help those who have not
the expense Of those who have? Wo1
YOU help the producers or the consume
TO go into detail, would YOU help tn,
who have the coal mines in this count
at the expense of everybody who heat
home, or would you help those who h
their homes at the expense of those Y
r.az have the coal nainesf Do the people y