St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-08
THE WAY PREPARED.

1t is an ill wind that blows 10 good.
MiSfortunes bring with them compen-
sations which soften their hardness and
reconcile US to their blows. The finan-
clal gale which sweeps the country is
not an unmiXed evil. Good follows 1t
with her balm.
There were those of us who chafed be-
cause this wave of silver lunaey swept
across the path of our progress towards
freer trade. We were indignant that
attention should be for a moment drawn
OF from the great end we, were striving
to gain. We grew indignant when
MILLS, our leader, was defeated for
speaker; we waXed wroth when the
tariff was sent to the rear and silver put
to the front in the house of the Fifty-sec-
Ond congress. We felt as if sacred
cause was being made the sport of tri-
flers.
1.-The best laid plans o. man an mice
gang aft agley." The Fifty-frst con-
gress thought to buttress protection
with another administration pledged to
protection. Its Republican majority
fiirted with the silverites to get their
electoral votes. 1t agreed to buy their
silver and pay them in good gold. so that
their future candidate for the presidency
might be saved from vetoing a free
coinage bill and thus give them mortal
otfense. Emboldened by the cowardly
compromise, they grew more defiant.
They refused HARRISON their electoral
votes. The quick poison of the
SHERMAN act entered the arteries of
trade and commerce. destroying conf
dence. The financial gale arose and
swept the country.
Money went into hiding places.
Credit withdrew her helping hand. Con-
sumption was checked. The strange
phrase, II can't afford it, was heard
again on mems lips. Purchases Stacked
! OFF. Manufacturers. unable to get bank
| accommodations. checked their output.
Cautious merchants cancelled their Or
ders. Production halted in her course.
| The nation took In sail.
Thus have our anniversaries made easy
our path. That which they built to
obstruct us helps us. Mr.. SHERMAN
| and his fellow-plotters have rendered
| possible the conditions for all Immediate
return to purely revenue basis of tax
| alton. When such bill is framed and
| ready for operation it will find the man.
nfactures of the country in good shape
| for it. Stocks will have been reduced
to the barest needs. There will be no
great accumulations pleading for con-
| sideration. The hard lessons of econo-
my will have been learned. Men will
| have learned the futility of relying on
the government or anything but them
selves. 1t could not save them from
the financial gales; it cannot save them
| from anything.
Mr.. SHERMAN has done for US what
we could not have done for ourselves.
He has put the country in the best of
conditions to begin to build anew on a
sound and solvent basis. The silver
lunatics have aided us well. They
| have taught the people that a
! government cannot create values
it can only disturb them. They
have helped to teach the country that
"Money is money and paper is paper"
Now give our manufacturers free
material for their shops. Give our
people chance TO buy what
they need cheapened by a competi-
ton hindered only by the necessi-
ties of government. Then will our shops
and our mills join hands with our farm
ers in filling the holds of our ships with
the wares the world needs, and new
shops and mills will spriug up to sup.
plement the old ones, unable to fill the
demand, and the army of tramps will
be mustered out and enlisted in the
army of industry, and we will look back
on this fearful reign of protection as Oh
a hldeous nightmare.