St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-01
DOWN The BARONS.
This Will Be the Cry of the
Free Silver Men
AND P0PULiSTS AT CHICAGO.
They See Only a Great Con-
spiraey Of English
AND GERMAN GOLD LENDERS,
Aided and Allotted by Their
Wall Street Vass ais.
AND GERMAN GOLD LENDERS,
4 FEARFUL FIGHT rs DECLARED.

CHICAGO, July 31.-There will be
declaration of war tomorrow, and the
signal of hostilities Will be gwen by the
combined convention Of Populists, free
silver men and GreenbackerS. The foe
10 be Outlawed will be 1.-The money
power" and this generalization is so
broad that it is designed to include the
capitalists of Europe as well as the
money barOns of Wall street. In the
present depreciation of silver the dele
gates who will assemble in national
convention tomorrow only see a great
conspiracy on the part of the gOld-lend-
ers of England and Germany, aided and
abetted by the lesser capitalists, their
Yassals of Wall street, to make gold the
only recognized international coin
metal Of the world, and TO subjugate
the United States to the fnan-
cial control Of the country
from whom she wreSted her
political autonomy 100 years ago-Grcat
Britain. The scenes following the i'm
position of the tax on tea, that was so
hOtly contested and Indignantly de-
nOunced by the colonial fathers of 1776.
would have been a fitting parallel to
that furnished in the hotel lObbIes today
DN the popular arraignment of the at
tempt now being made 10y Great Brit
ain and the mOnO-metallic monarchies
of Europe to coerce the American con
tIhent into financial dependency upon
the fats of the mints of the Old world.
The laws of supply aud demand, the
results of OverprOductiOn, found no
place in their arguments, for every sng-
gestion of this kind was repulsed by
startling array of statistics and figures
tending to show that the closing of the
inintS of India,
The Death Blow
OF free coinage in Europe. and the de-
mand OF Wall street for the repeal of
the fisherman bill were but parts of "a
great conspiracy" against the silver re-
publics of the Western hemisphere. 1t
is the opinion, too, of the delegates now
assembling that this conspiracy should
be firmly met and the enemy promptly
routed, and some of them grow hot
enough at times to in ntlmate that if
legislation should be inefficient a re-
course to arms might prove salutary
remedy.
Those who have expected that the
convention to De assembled at 10 O'Clock
tomorrow morning would go to pieces
on the shoals of partisanship have
underestimate the deep feelings that
actuaLe most OF the delegates who
are to discuss the financial issue
IN this assembly. PUpuiist, Green
hacker and the free silver
man seem to be united on one pro-
gfamme-that the repeal Of the Sherman
purchasing act must be resisted to the
last unless there be coupled with it an
net for the free coinage of silver or for
Il greater volume of currency. The
GreenDackeI and the POpulist, who be-
lieYe that the fiat of the government is
as potent to make dollar out OF a strip
of green paper as it is to make a dollar
OF seventy cents of silver, of course,
not particular whether the legislation to
be substituted for the Sherman act shall
be free coinage or government " reen-
backs. but for the sake of showing
A Solid front
against the common enemy, the mono
metallistS, they will unite with the free
coinage men in concerted resistance to
the Cleveland policy unless a greater
volume of currency be insured to meet
the stringency OF the financial situa-
ton.
in this programme are found united
the Republican Congressman Bartine,
of Nevada; the Democratic Silver-Dol-
lar Warner, of OHIO; the Populist Kolb,
of Alabama, and all their respective
followers, and their name Is legion. 1t
is apparent even now that the work of
the convention is not to end with the
sine die adjournment Wednesday. Ag-
gTeSsiYe committees are to be appointed
TO carry the fight to Washington, and
state committees will be named to
work up public sentiment in the
various states. Then campaign
COMMITTEES is to be named. and 10 this
committee is likely to he entrusted
what Is really the most important work
DI the free silver crusade. Its work
wiz DC SCSANts anu II 10 GApeClGu ii Will
labor to enlist the assistance of the un-
Employed everywhere. Mass meetings
nightly for all the weeks to come dur
Ing the financial crisis are TO he held by
the unemployed and poverty-stricken
III every city of the land, and resolu-
lions are to be there presented and
adopted calling upon congress to pass a
tree coinage bill. This is to be followed
by another important move. The pros
elytlng Of labor leaders. OF labor organi-
cations, is to follow next, and
The Silver Men
who we'll know how subsequently the
average political demagogue bends the
knee 10 the demands of the labor organ
IZatiOns expect the same lawmakers
who passed the alien labor law and the
Chinese exclusion bill TO hearken to the
voice of labor ana increase the volume
Of circulating medium until the wants
Of the country are relieved. 1t is to
be 4 great moral crusade, Wakening
Of the masses, until the popular de-
mand becomes so strong that "the
voice OF the people will be stronger
than the voice of gOld." as the Popu-
list puts it tonight. The men who are
assembled here are terribly in earnest,
and their members and the marked per-
snnality and intelligence of most of
Lon. Il