St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-09

Beltord's Monthly and Democratic
Review, Bedford Il Co., New York.
Table Talk. Table Talk Publishing
company, Philadelphia.
VIEWS OF THE REVIEWS.
The North American: DR.. Adler,
chief rabbi of the British empire. con-
tinueS the discussion of the Russo-Jew-
ish question. He rejects with indigna-
ton the suggestion that truths and facts
should be veiled, opinions silenced and
honeyed expOStulation be used in fight
ing this or any other wrong. He insists
that the facts, without eXaggeration or
coloring, be given. and the outrage on
humanity be denounced in fitting terms.
1t is not alone Jewish question. The
Russian movement roots in an intense
Panslavism and religious intolerance.
The recent invasion of the authorities
IN the local government of the German
communities, the deportation of the
Uniates, Catholics who use the Slav
liturgy, show that Russia is deter
mined that her dOminions shall
contain none but Slavs and wor-
shippers of the Greek church. Other
nations have tried this experiment, but
never yet with a degree of success that
warrants Russia In feeling certain that
she can succeed. DR.. Adler evidently
hopes little for reversal of this policy
so long as the present prOcurator holds
his place and influence with the cZar.
One of the penalties which the re-
viewer DESTROYS OF doing his work COLI
scientiously has to pay is the necessity
of laboriously plodding through the
mass of assumption and assertion which
Senator Voorhees, has massed under the
title of "a Plea for Free Silver" When
there are so many who are able to pre-
sent so much better the arguments for
the free coinage of silver il is a marvel
that the North American should have
accepted or asked for, and wasted so
much good space on, this article,
Its only value is the use which the Re
publican papers have been prompt in
putting to. They have given it ample
space and comment as the expression of
orthodox Democratic opinion. Demo
Gratis, however, will recall the faulty of
the senator TO get on the undemOcratic
side of most public questions. He was
an advocate of the rag baby" hereSy of
the '70S; he took especial pains in the
convention of 1884 to avOw his sympathy
with and support of Buffers protec-
zionist plank, and he was one of those
senators to whom the party IS indebted
for the free coinage diversion, because
they were willing TO compromise the
party 10 defeat the force bill-men who
have not yet learned the latest lesson in
politics, that the best politics is the
open, frank, honest adherence to princi-
pies.
He betrays the mental kink which
probably accounts for his vagaries in
his opening sentences when he charac-
teriZeS the opposition to his kind of free
coinage as movement to degrade sill
yer to a commodity such as pork, iron,
corn and wheat. Even the fact which
he states later. that for many years our
silver dollar had higher par value
than gold, during which it was too waltz
able as commodity to be used for coin
age, and, as a commodity, was used for
other purposes. does not seem TO have
made HIM realize that it is never any,
thing else than commodity from the
mine to the mint's melting pot.
jefferson is lugged in as the paternal
ancestor of the silver dollar. and made
to give again his reasons for adopting
the decimal system OF coinage Instead
of Morris hybrid scheme, though the
connection is very obscure: but for what
other purpose does not appear, unless it
be his desire to connect the name hon
Ored Of Democrats with a coinage yagary
which that statesman would be quick to
reject were he living. From this he
glideS into magnlOquent description
of the services the silver dollar has
rendered. 1t was the war coin that re-
h..
brUnt of active use when cOwardly gold
skunk away and hid for speculation. In
the wars of 1912, with Mexico,
and for the Union it, more than
gold, won our victories; it opened
and improved the vast agricultural
areas: it is the money of the labOring
millions, while gold is that of the
wealthy few: it built the railroads that
interlace the states and the cities which
dot the plains. How Incorporate is this
assertion becomes measurable when we
recall that from the first coinage in 1892
to 1873. covering the period of these
wars and this commercial development.
there were coined but S,045. S3S standard
dollars. If further comment were called
for than that simple fact affords. it
might be said that, if the eight million
standards accomplished so much. then
the 359,000.000 coined since 1879 are
ample for the needs of the country for
indefinite centuries to come, without the
addition of another dollar.
ilarlyintemDeratei is his UnfOunded
assumption that those who oppose his
scheme OF free coinage are "moDeyed
classes" who are merely seeking to
make money scarce and to enslave those
i'll debt and those who toll. Ii is posi-
bic that the senator believes what he
writes: il is certain that there are no
inconsiderable number of people who
also believe it, but the latter are en-
titled to charitable consideration for
their misinfOrmatiOn-a consideration
from which his position excludes the
senator.
Are French novels faithful to life?"
is answered by Madam Adam-and
with all emphatic No" She sup
ports her conclusion by an analysis of
the development of the French novelist,
tracing him from the country, where he
was born, but with whose people he had
little touch, to the great city to which his
ambition impelled him and whose OppOr-
tunties attracted him. Repealed by the
dizziness of the country, he cared moth
ing for what it could teach him, aside
from the lessons OF nature. In the city
ne found themes exhausted, and to gain
the notice. popularity, fame and wealth
he craved, he turned to exploit vice.
..IIe writes books with the magic of a
style which makes his reputation, and
purfies it by the dissolution OF
art Later he takes the eX-
ceptiOnaI. the anomalous, the abnormal.
lie sees in Partisan life and makes