The representative., 1893-09-27
Senator. Day on Silver Coinage.


Hon. Frank day of Fairmont, the
very able representative of the 9Th
district in the upper branch of the
last state legislature, makes the
following scorching answer in his
paper, the Martin County Sentinel,
to the criticism of local newspaper.
Our good friends. the Princeton Union
and Farimont Sentinel, are very positive
in their assertions that all the daily pa
pers in the Twin Cities have been cor
rupted by somebody to preach against
the free coinage Of silver. and their ut
sincere. Just who is putting out enOr-
nous sums of money in this foolish man
ner is not very clear, but there is no
and other papers Of their way of think
ing. they make no bones of publicly as
serting as a positive fact charges i'm
reputable newspapers without advanc-
ing particle of proof to sustain their
charges. This is the DOnnelly style of
cal to emanate from such bright and In
telligent men as Dunn and Day.-Elk Riv-
er Star-News.
So far as the Sentinel is concerned
it emphatically disavows having
written syllable that impugns the
virtue or honesty of any of the twin
city papers. They correctly echo
the sentiment of the boards of trade
and the chambers of commerce Of
the great financial centers. But
what those gambling and CONNER
cial concerns want, the labOring and
producing classes as rule do not
want and the same is true of the
gold bugs of Wall street and their
allies and cO-cOnSpiratOrs, the ma
tiOnal banks and other heavy money
institutions OF the large cities.
The repeal Of the Sherman act,
without any supplementary legisla-
tiOn favorable to the white metal,
means that the doors of the govern
ment mints are forever barred to
silver; that silver will be used only
as subsidiary coin; that nearly one
half of the circulating medium of
the country is debased and by de-
grees will be driven from the chan
nels of trade. This is what Wall
street wants. The less money in
the country the greater the power of
the Goulds and Vanderbilts. De-
monetize silver, establish gold
mOnOmetalic standard and the Shy
locks can precipitate panic at their
will, and in times of panic the rich
vampires grow fat and fatter while
the poor-God have mercy on them!
The gold bugs and their servile
tools scattered throughout the
country have raised great hue and
cry over the Sherman act, wildly
clamoring for it's repeal and attri-
buting to it the disaster and ruin
and misery that has Overtaken the
country. Sensible people all over
the land are beginning to open their
eyes and do a little thinking for
themselves and they have reached
the conclusion that the Sherman
act had nothing whatever to do with
bringing on the panic, except as it
was used by the Wall street gamblers
to hoodoo the people.
We should like to see Senators
Davis and Washburn break away
from the plutocratic grasp of the
twin cities, put their ear to the
ground and boldly come out as
champions of silver. Let them join
with that noble and patriotic band
Of western senators in refusing to
consummate the closing act in
most Infamous conspiracy, con-
spiracy to demonetize silver, con.
ceived in fraud twenty years ago,
and carried on in corruption and dis
honor to the present day. Place sill
yer where it belongs, on a parity
with gold, and open the mints to it's
coinage, at least to a limited EXTENT
Unless this is done the men who
voted for the unconditional repeal
of the Sherman act, and failed to
pass any subsequent legislation on
the Subject-thOse men will hear
something drop!
Boen is the only Minnesotian in
congress who has been true to
the people in this matter. His six
republican colleagues and their two
democratic allies, voted solidly for
plutocracy. 1t is unfortunate for
the people of Minnesota that the
republicans should have left the
brains, the humanity, and the pa
triOtism of their party at home and