The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-09-22

was. Cdpitdl Iudy Ue dL Tile udtiou
| head; the home is at the nations
heart" Advising young men he
said: Get your home; get it in
Minnesota; get it in Stearns county;
get it now"
Mr.. Gray paid a fine tribute to his
mother, dear old lady of nearly 80
summers who is living with him in
Minneapolis. She brought him to
Minneapolis, he said, when he was a
boy, and had to work for living He
got a job in Minneapolis mill. His
mother wanted him to enter the state
university, SO he took the entrance
examinations, but went home down
cast, as he thought he had failed.
Next morning, after he had gone to
his work in the mill, his mother called
on President Fowler at the state
university and ascertained that her
James had passed with credit to him.
self. When he got home that night
his mother broke the glad news to
him, adding; "Now, James, you'll
graduate at the state university if
l have to take your job at the mill. >
All that he had accomplished since,
Mr.. Gray said, he owed to his mother
He followed this up with a fine trib-
ute to woman, and took occasion to
declare himself in favor of woman
suffrage.
From this point Mr.. Gray's address
was of a seni-political nature, based
en- the demand to Restore the rights
of the people" The people, he aver
red, are in state of unrest. eve
have the constitution" he asserted,
"but we have mislaid our president"
This sally evoked laughter and ap-
plause. He followed it up with: ''In
fact, we seem to have two presidents,
one at Washington and one at Oyster
Bay and the one at Oyster Bay looks
like the real one Vociferous ap-
plause here interrupted MIN. The
next thing he did was to eulogiZe
Theodore Roosevelt by name as
man who is honest and who fights
the battles of the eople. He thank
ed God that there is such a man in
American politics. More enthusias-
tic applause followed.
He referred to recent events in
Kansas and in Maine, saying relative
to the latter states experience: at
was not democratic victory; it was
a defeat OF ruling oligarchy, a re-
turn to representative government"
And again they cheered
What shall we in Minnesota do"
he inquired, then proceeded: Con
gressmen now have two kinds of con-
stituents, the kind that elects them
and whom they fool; and the other
kind which supports them and whom
they serve"
Then came a sharp jab ct the
trusts, part of which may be a point
er as to Mr. Gray's ideas relative to
county option: I'VE must smash the
unholy combination, whether it he a
railroad trust or brewery trust; if
we do not smash them they will
u.s.
The trusts, he said, do not want
the people to own land: they prefer
to have them lease land and rent
houses from them, as then they can
the more easily round them up. But
he thought it full time now for the
people to round the trusts W..
Mr.. Gray referred to Revolutionary
days when the British redcoats were
abroad. There are now, he said,
other enemies masquerading in our
uniform and carrying cur flag, and
shouted: "Cannonism is a redcoat,
fire upon it; Ballinger is a redcoat,
fire upon it; Aldrichism is redcoat,
fire upon it; Tammanyism is red
coat, fire upon it," Tremendous
cheering greeted this sally. Mr.
Gray said the government was found
ed on the principle that the nan, not
the dollar, is to rule: that money is
the servant, not the master. In clos.
ing Mr.. Gray insisted that the only
platform upon which We can stand
in this country is that of equal rights
to all and special privileges to none.
Mr.. Gray made good impression
and after his speech met most of the
people on the fair grounds and view
ed the exhibits. He rested at the
hotel the rest of the afternoon and
was guest at six o'clock dinner at
the home of nr. Du Bots. In the
evening in company with DR.. Du
Rois and other gentlemen, Mr.. Gray
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