St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-24
THE SPEAKERS FUND.

The Minneapolis Tribune calculates
that if every man, woman and child of
the Democratic faith in the state of
Minnesota should contribute on the av-
erage a dollar apiece to the Speakers
Fund, the state central committee would
have at its command S430,0OO to be used
i'll the education of the people.
Would it not be glorious if this OF any
thing like it could be realized? What
an ennobling flood of enthusiasm could
be spread over the commonwealth.
How vigorously, fully, and convincingly
the truth could be told in every corner
of Minnesota.
The Democracy's battle and the peO-
pies battle are the same at this hour.
But how are the people to be made to
see this? In all ages the vast body of
average men have been content to sub
nit TO oppression until its burden be-
came intolerable. or until some power
full personality has reused them to
sense of their danger. Custom, habit,
routine control the action of the average
man.
In all ages eloquence has been the
bugle note which sounds the alarm.
The alarm has never been sounded in
Minnesota. 1t is the Democracy's mis-
sion to blow blast which shall be
heard OH the remotest prairie, in the
mining camps of the north, in the fac
tories and shops of the cities.
The Democracy wants to hold great
mass meetings i'll all the centers of the
states population, and to hold them at
such times Of the day that the farmers
and their wives and young sons may at
tend with convenience and comfort. 1t
wants to make them attractive and i'll
viting by the presence of orators OF
strength and reputation.
The Democracy hopes by these agen-
cies to influence the minds of voters.
1t believes that the ~ of GROVER
CLEvELAND's career, his bravery, his
daring devotion to his honest cOnvic-
tons, his love of his country, If fairly
told, will touch the hearts of right
thinking men and fill them with con-
fidence in the Demoeracy's great leader.
II believes that proper presentation of
the sins of prOtectionism will lnfame a
popular adherence of the existing sys-
TEN. 10 take the fruit of one mans
toll and give it to another is to make
the one man the others slave. Our
fathers fought to secure liberty. Let
their sons understand that its integrity
is at stake, and if they are patriotic
they will vote to preserve it.
The GLOBE has made and is making
Straightforward appeal for funds that
the party may be equal to these respon-
sibilities. 1t has told the methods
which it proposes to. employ for this
purpose. They are entirely legitimate
and honorable. No one but a eur, in
capable of approaching high motives,
would question the sincerity and disin-
tefestednesS of the promoters Of such a
campaign. Every man who is satisfied
that the Democracy is right ought to
contribute that the cause may triumph.
Every man who is in doubt and who is
open to persuasion ought to contribute
in order that he may hear what there is
to be said on the Democracy's side. The
Democratic press of the state should
take up the project and push it with
energy. The Republican press of the
state should speak respectfully of it. If
it has faith IN its party's doctrines it
should welcome a free discussion of
them and that is all it is proposed to
make. Every subscriber to the Speak
er's Fund is helping to elevate Mime
sota's political methods and to secure
for our people chance to learn what
there is to be taught. The Speakers
Fund is an educational fluid in the best
sense, and in education rests the hope
of the republic.