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Show IMMENSE RALLY. The Scandinavians Enthused With Democracy. A Paltry and Dishonest Trick by the Ro publican Editor Thoroughly Exposed by the Speaker. Froui Frioay's Daily. The Scandinavian meeting held in the ThirdWard schoolhouse last night was we! attended ly a most intelligent gathering of ladies and gentlemen. The meeting was called to order by Mr. E. C. llenrichsen, who read the call. Uu motion Air. iiennensen was elected chairman, and O. II. Berg was elected secretary. Mr. Tlieo. M. Samuelsen was the first speaker. lie said the Liberal party was organized mostly of men who had left the Mormon church ami were lull of hate and bitterness to their former friends whom they sought to rob of every vestige of their political rights. As a defender against this monster the People's party was organized, and had done a noble work while it existed. Hut under changed conditions the People's party had been dissolved and the people left free to join eii her of the two great national parties. We are now approaching an election, and we thought it but right to call you together and speak t you on the situation. We have two gentlemen gen-tlemen here to-night who have come from Salt Lake City to Epeak to us and 1 will not detain vou. The chairman then introduced Mr. Fernstrone, the editor of Seenska Jlar-oldcn. Jlar-oldcn. The speaker made a telling f-peech on the tariff question, in which he portrayed the fallacy of the idea that protection was a benefit to the laboring classes. Labor like any other commodity' was governed by supply and demand. He showed how protection pro-tection helped the old established industries in-dustries to crush those young and struggling. He referred to the hard road the soap industry had to travel here in Utah, because trusts and railroad rail-road corporations combined to crush the life out of it, Applause. The secretary then read the Democratic Demo-cratic platform. Mr. E. C. llenrichsen said he thought it was due to the Scandinavians and our visiting speakers from Salt Lak city to explain to them the peculiar conduct of John C. Graham, the editor of the Republican sheet here. He published pub-lished the call for this meeiing in his paper and he accosted the speaker on the street and inquired if the call was for a religious meeting; he was informed in-formed that it was tu be a political "meeting. When Mr. Graham heard this he said "You had better postpone post-pone that, for we wish to hold a Republican Rep-ublican rally for the Scandinavians in the Opera House that evening. The speaker declined to accede to this proposition, pro-position, seeing that we were in the lield first, "but if you will appoint yours some other night, I, for one, will come and hear what you have to say. Matters Mat-ters were left thus to-day, when Mr. Graham wrote a call and tried to get i some Scandinavians to siiija the same;, " -r)- f-'''ufr t,y fin, mor than one who was willing to toYlo-w the call, tlie ! peheme was dropped. But, perhaps, through some remorse ovor his peculiar 'conduct, be sent the Republicav drum corp3 out to march around the block where our meeting was to bp, and thus do honor to the meeting and the speakers, for which he has our thanks. We feel to sympathise with the two respectable re-spectable gentlemen whom he duped to come down here to speak to a Scandinavian Scandi-navian audience of half a dozen persons; per-sons; when, if he had acted as a Ren-tleman Ren-tleman in the matter they could have had a respectful hearing from the majority ma-jority of t lie Scandinavians here. Mr. F. Johnson was the next speaker. He contrasted the conditions under which men could exercise the sufferage here and in Sweden, where a man had to be the owner of a .1600 kranar to elect a justice of the peace; but the Republican party was not in favor of the people here hav- lnc the franchise, and we had more here of a nionarchial than a rrpub-1 lican form of government. The king of Sweden could not kill a law by vetoing it like our governors here have done over and over again. The speaker then traced the historv of both parties, and 6howed that the Democratic party had always encouraged self-government while the Republican party had sought to arrogate to itself what justly belonged be-longed to the people. The meeting was an enthusiastic one, and a vote of thanks was tendered to the speakers. |