Morris tribune., 1908-10-17
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Address by Joseph Sauter at Armory
Last Saturday.
written by T. Fl. Mcguire. J

written by T. FL. Maguire.)
| The Democratic meeting held last
Saturday evening at the Opera House
was unique in character in as much as
all the speakers were Of our town and
.neighborhood.
i The meeting was called to order by
| the chairman of the Democratic
county committee, Mr.. T. Ell. Mcguire,
who in few well chosen and stirring
remarks paid tribute to the leaders of
his great party, calling attention OF
the audience to the campaign litera-
ture, so full of argument and sugges-
ton, to be dispensed at the close of
the meeting, urging the Republicans
| to read with hearts open to conviction
and "mend the error of their ways"
The speaker of the evening, Mr..
Joseph Sauter, our friend and neigh
bor of Synnes township was then in
troduced. Mr.. Sauter spoke upon
our national recources and the tariff.
It is not often that the people of a
city like ours are so favored particu-
larly is it not often true in the heat
of a campaign, that the people are
privileged to listen to a plain and
fair statement of facts and conditions
as they are without the bias of part
izanship and the personal attack up
on candidates, that is always the pro-
duct of extreme partizanship and
comes with each presidential cam
paign.
Mr.. Sauter made his hearers feel
that our country is greater than any
political party, made US feel the per-
sonality of our forests, mines, rivers
and harbors, made us feel the thanks
giving of the desert wastes of our
West for which the welcome water
has done SO much, made our natural
resources to cry out to the people
who should be their friends, cry out,
and plead for protection from the.
destroyer. This was more than a
political speech, it was master piece
in literature such only as the people
of Mr.. Sauter's mother country give
utterance uuder great stress of feel
ing.
The speaker further spoke of agri-
cultural needs and the expense in-
volyed in agricultural successes. He.
deplored the conditions that gave to
large trusts and monopolies the pick
of our manhood, whose time was EN-.
ployed during only the ablest and
best years of their lives to be dis
carded when age and need should
come upon them. In his reference
to the ills resulting from high pro-
tective tariff, Mr.. Sauter brought
us right home for example said that
two years ago the millers of this
locality decided they would like high
er prices for their flour than they had
been getting, that the merchant to
meet this demand, looked about, saw
no tariff wall surrounding Morris,
negotiated with other markets with
the result that they have brought to
Morris selling at old prices as good
-four as our state produces and that
the mills of Morris did not close
either. ,--. ....
Previous to the speech by Mr..
Sauter the chair had introduced Miss
Sauter as the youngest campaign in
the state. Miss Sauter gave by special
request the paper on forest reserves
she had given at the county fair a
few weeks ago. 1t was most ex-
cellent paper and considered by a
friend of the forestry movement of
the M. F. W. G. of such splendid
merit that it will be placed on fle in
reciprocity department. of the feder-
ated clubs in the Offices of the State
Library Commission at the Capitol in
st. Paul and from there will be loan
ed out to the various clubs of the
state interested in the forestry
movement, as the work of little girl
of sixteen summers, whose home is
on farm in Stevens Co. We con-
gratulate Miss Sauter. This should
certainly prove an incentive to the
boys and girls of our community.
Literary Club.