The Dickinson press., 1912-03-16
MAMMALIAN WAS ELOQUENT
GOOD ROOSEVELT ADDRESS

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Friday evening some one hundred and
fifty to two hundred people gathered at
the opera house to listen to James Man.
ahan. a La Toilette campaign speaker,
and lawyer of note from Minneapolis.
Mr.. Manahan began his address with
out introduction saying he had lost the
committee or they him. Mr.. Manahan
is an orator and for more than two
hours held his audience while he dis
cussed features of the great coming
election which he characterized as the
selection of a lawyer to plead the cause
of the soul of the people against greed
and avarice. The address was a can
did discussion of existing conditions.
The average voter does not realize the
importance of politics. but corporations
and railroads do and make it their bust
ness to control legislation. Practical
politics is the most important partner
of every mans business. Men labor
for food. clothing and shelter. The
cost of living is too high. It is be-
cause of taxation-the taxation of
freight rates which is one half the cost,
averaging in 1911 SIS per month for
each family in the U. S. No wonder
the railroads are anxious to control
legislation! Cutting down the excess
sive profits of the railroads for carrying
commodities would not lower en-
p)oyees' wages which are fixed by
labor's laws of supply and demand.
A very unequal distribution of wealth
has come about in our country. 1t has
come about by manipulation of law and
is no credit 10 our statesmauship.
The only one to trust in these matters
is the composite man or the voice of
all the people. Monoplies are hot new.
Pharaoh capitalized a dream, and
formed the first elevator trust with
Joseph as the first corporation lawyer.
Then came the insurgent Moses who led
the people out of Egypt, the few lousy
Israelites who remained to wander upon
the banks of the Nile, being the stand
patters.
Unless a Moses leeds our people out
from monopoly-the wealth of the few
and the poverty of the many-ou1
government will 60 down or the country
suffer the horrors of bloody revolution.
We must think. Let no party own you,
but do what is right and fair. lap
plause]. The ballot is q duty and be-
longs equally to woman. Let men who
say woman is not capable of voting
furnish me proof that men have shown
any great ability to use. the ballot
rightly. [Applause]
The struggle is between money and
men--whether the seat of government
shall longer be Wall street. The remedy
is the initiative. referendum and recall,
declared the speaker.
Speaking of men who admire Taft
br~illiancy and judicial mind, Nh. Mana
han said Taft can not see ahead while
Roosevelt and La Toilette can, and
brought down the house by giving the
boys verse:
The lightning bug is brilliant
But hasn't any mind:
1t blunders on through life
With it's headlight on behind.
He said Taft has eliminated him
self by his record, by the men he has
around him, by putting on the supreme
bench corporation lawyers and appoint
ing on the commission court railroad
attorneys who make of no effect the
work of the interstate commerce COM
mission on behalf of the people. He
mentioned the income tax and 2.cent
a mile railroad fare i'm Minnesota. now
dead letters, as instances of the corrupt
practice of the courts. Mr.. Manahan
spoke highly of Roosevelt but a little
more highly of La Toilette. whom he
thought had made a record without a