St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-13
AFTER THE BATTLE.
What Produced the Revolution,
and What Is Now TO Be
Expected.
Judge Brisbin Moralizes on the
Late National Up
heaVal.

Judge j. B. Brisbin yesterday summed
up the political situation thus interest
ingly: The "Olympic DUST has settled,
and 1t Is not inoppOrtune to make, what
is now possible, a survey of the late field
of battle and the field Of grounded
arms" By general consent it has been
one of the most important political con-
troversles in the history of our republic
its Issues most decisive and in de-
gree inexplicable to each of the con-
testing parties.
During the fervidity of the battle and
since it has ended, the wonder of par
tisans has been that great revolution
has progressed and ended without the
customary noise and "sound of loud
timbrels" A paramountreason for the
absence of these vulgar concOmitants of
popular elections is found in the leaders
of both of the great parties. Each of
the candidates had been submitted to
the crucial test of a term of adminiStra-
ton and each had redeemed his pledges
to the party and the PUBLIC which nomi-
mated and elected him. The industry
of malice could find nothing to objurgate
against the private character OF either.
We must therefore seek the causes in
something below the superficialities and
accidents which too often domineer and
control the most important results. They
lie near the surface. There we're but
two points of contention. The so-called
Mckinley bill and the force bill.
There has never been full discus
sion of the tariff-the transcendant eco
nomical question. since the epoch of
Silas Wright and Daniel Webster, when
giants were with giants engaged-until
the late political contention.
''Silent leges inter arma." The cat
astrophe of civil war demanded abnor-
NAL legislation, continuation of which
was indispensable until the day OF com
plete restoration arrived. 1.-THE reason
ceasing, the law ceases" 1t came, but
with it did not come attention to the
absolute needs of the masses of the
people.
A great party, which had battened to
repletiOn upon the misfortunes of the
couutry-a pestilent brood of monopo-
lies which had been fostered into life
required what has been called pater-
nal government. The government be-
came paternal. and reciprocity" made
the leeches fiial, hence it was logical
that the affairs Of the nation should be
administered on behalf of one set OF
principles and In the interests Of one
class of men. The power and the
money resided in the same citadel, which
appeared to be impregnable.
1t was the Patrician against the PIE
bsian. In republican Rome, when the
tyranny of the aristocracy became in
tolerable, the people retreated to "MOns
Sacer, the sacred mountain, and COM
PEELED the creation of the tribunation
office and the election of uiDunes of the
people. In 1884 the American people,
fired with a similar frenzy, elected to
the chief magistracy tribune of the
people-Groyer Cleveland. How we'll
he administered the great Office his
tory has written, and the people of the
United States have spoken. vide cleo
ton returns of Nov. 8, 1892.
President Cleveland's pronunciamentos
on the tariff and free coinage of sill
yer, although sound in principle and In
strict accord with unchallenged Demo
cratic dogmak were by many of his
friends pronounced to be premature
announcements at the time. The char
acterstics of Mr.. Cleveland prevailed
they are honesty, courage and wisdom