The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-10-12
GROWERS VETOES AND THE
SURPLUS.
Mr.. Blaine Shows Up the Iniquity
OF the Administration Treat
ment of Both

Mr.. Blaine's speech at Detroit Wed.
nesday contained many scorching in
dictments of the Democratic policy. The
extracts which we give below put two
matters in such clear and unmistakable
light they should be read and consid-
cred by every voter:
In the first forty years of the national gov
ernment, from Washington to Adams, the
veto power was used six times. Then came
into oince the great leader of the present
Democratic party, as 1t has been organized
In the succeeding forty years the veto power
was used sixty times, and of those sixty We
toes over fifty were by Democrats. So that
Democratic has been uniformly the one which
resorted TO the one-man power to defeat the
popular will. Up to March 4, 1885, when the
present president of the United States was in
augurated, the veto power had been used in
all about seventy-fve times, that is, from 1888
10 lS85-one hundred years lacking four. Now,
Mr. Cleveland in three years and half has
had when left New York day before yesier:
day how many times since then do not
know. OF these vetoes two hundred have
month. of IS month, and a few, / believe, of
Sl2 month, to worn down and starving sol.
diers of the United States. He is the first
president of the United States who ever We
exposed his body on the field of battle TO bull
lets and shells of the enemy in defense OF his
country. wish 1 had those veto messages
here and had time to read them to you. They
have all been issued in pamphlet, and, as af-
fording succinct expression of the differ
ence between the Republican and Democratic
as one of the best in print. am not going to
dwell any longer upon that subject and only
introduce ii to place 1t Wis a Wis with another
and the other is the great surplus in the
q rf nj xuh ial, ,;s.l,s
have gone to that poor man without endan-
gering the stability Of the government-that
surplus which the president has been accumu-
lating with so much industry for nearly or
more than year and half; refusing to apply
it to a reduction of the public debt-that su r
plus in which he finds such great
DANGER TO THE REPUBLIC.
He has sought, or his secretary of the tree ury
more than sixty millions of it on q loan, with.
out interest, to some national banks scattered
over the country. This, bear in mind-your
money and mine, the money Of every citizen
of the United States to the amount OF more
than $50. 000, 000-is loaned, without penny of
interest to certain national banks of this
country, and, as contend (although I have
not time at present to go into that, without a
shadow of substantial right under the law
That sixty millions is secured to the govern
ment by the men who borrow it depositing
bonds of the United States. They are allowed
to collect the interest on the coupons of those
bonds and to retain this money without pay
ing penny of interest on it. Allowing it to
be worth per cent. land do not think you
can get much of it for less from those bank
ers) there is three millions of dollars, gratu-
ity, given away by the secretary of the treas
ury. Did you. my friend, get any of it? Did
any of you? Suppose that you had $1,000 of
government bonds and that you wrote to the
secretary of the treasury that you would like
to have him loan you $1,000 without interest,
to have him take your bonds and keep them
for you, and to send the coupons pack when
due. do not know Of any more profitable
business in the world for man than that of
having the government loan him money on
which he pays no interest, while he collects
all the interest he can get for the use of that
money and puts it in bis pocket. Why, any
fellow can get rich in that way. The presi-
dent of the United States has now to answer
before the people; and the people of Michigan
and the people of Maine, who are going to pull
together in this great national contest, have
to decide whether the surplus money of the
United States had not better go for the relief
of the poor, the loyal, the suffering and the
starving among the Union soldiers than to the
rich Democratic bankers in Wall street, who
feed and fatten upon your money and mine