St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-15
A REPUBLICAN SILVER DIFF
FICULTY."


stalwart Republicans, says that 1.-The
Republicans have repeatedly shown an
indisposition in and out of congress to
help the Democracy out of their silver
and other difficulties" We find in other
papers, less intelligently edited than is
that of the Field Marshal, a similar
disposition to unload upon the Demo-
Gratis the responsibility for the present
depression in finances so far as the same
is attributable to the silver purchase act
OF Senator SHERMAN. Even our fairer
contemporary, the Pioneer Press, able
to trace causes accurately, if occasion
ally unwilling to. is depressed with
the awful incapacity of the Democrats
to eXtricate the country from the situa-
tion in which many years of Republican
legislation have left it. TO its mind, no
good can come out of the Nazareth of
Democracy.
The Democracy Indignantly repudi-
ate the charge or insinuation that they
are responsible for the situation in
any sense whatever. So far as it is due
to the tariff there is no need of denial
of liability, for the Republicans have
not yet reached the point where they
deny the paternity of that, though the
time is fast coming when they will not
point to that offspring with any pride.
But we reject with scorn the effort to
saddle us with the putative paternity
of the SHERMAN act. 1t was passed by
Republican senate and house, and APP
proved by Republican president. Not
only that, but that fact was the proud
boast of our own Senator DAVIS in the
campaign of 1890, when he and Gov.
MERRIAM were enlightening the state
as to the Intelligent craftsmanship of
their party, and the benlghted and SIN
full state of the Democrats.
The GLOBE has Stenographic report
of the speech made by Senator DAVIS
at Crookston, in October, 1890. After
assuring his audience that they had the
right to expect from any public officer
like himself or the governor "a truthful
statement and fairness of argument"
and pledging himself to make it, he said,
after little preliminary pirouetting
and skirt-dancing: Now, fellow citi-
zens, to business matters. The last
congress probably passed more impor-
tant legislation than any congress since
1872, except the congress during which
we began the war. We mark the word
we passed the silver bill. Since 1872
that instrumeutality of finance, that
right arm Of every monetary system
which had existed in efficacy through
all the ages since and before the time
when ABRAHAM paid 800 shekelS of
silver for the cave in which to bury his
dead, that great function of civilization
was restored and made legal tender,
and from the moment it was poured
into the veins of circulation prices
increased, universal sense of pros
perity was felt and the country
began to move forward upon a career
of prosperity of which l assure you, my
fellow citizens, we do not begin to ap-
preciate even its beginning. MI. Don
NELLY will please make note of this.
1t is quite Ill bis line. We mot the
Democrats. mind youl, we raised it from
its discredited and disturbed condition,
and we gave it as money the purchas-
ing power Of gold. The price of silver
before the bill was passed was 90 cents,
and S1.20 after the bill was passed, the
nominal price being S1.29. And what
followed Immediately upon the passage
of the bill? Prices rose throughout the
country on the cereals, on corn and bar
ley. That work for the farmer was done
by the Republican party. | tell you,
gentlemen, that the passage of that sill
yer bill was ten thousand times more
beneficial to the people of Minnesota
and of the Union than any tariff bill
your reforlLers could possibly DEVISE"
There! That settles it. "We," the
"Republican party" passed that silver
act. Senator CUsH said so; the con-
gressional records say so. Now let us
have surcease OF these efforts to pass off
your il!egiIimate bantling on us, Demo-
Gratis