New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-09
The Bimetallic Convention.

AAC plOSCCuluSS VI tLc ANdtlOldi Ol-
Convention which begins it's
sessions in Chicago to-day. will be fol-
lowed with unusual interest by the gen.
eral public. It is proper to say however
that the reputation which many OF the
delegates who aspire to be prominent in
its discussions and influential in it's de-
liberations have made for themselves bv
recent utterances does not encourage the
hope that anything either practical or
wise will result from the meeting. It is
doubtless true. Notwithstanding, that
these very utterances, the violent temper
exhibited, the Incorporate thrests and in
sane ravlngs which have attracted such
such wide attention, have been
of actual service in clearing up the
whole situation. The vast majority of
our citizens in the West and South as we'll
as in the East are reasonable and reason
ing beings. The wild threats and utter
ly senseless rant of the demagogues who
have been talking about confscation and
redistribution. and s.hlaod to the bridles'
have not merely amazed them by their
audacity. but have opened their eyes to
the meaning and the motives of the agi-
tators, their recklessness and temeritv
and the inevitable tendency Of their
teachings. Few men are so bli..d as not
to see that the logic Of all the wild talk
Of these people is bald anarchy. They
have done some good in disclosing them
selves. The country has been slowly
finding out the real disposition of the
demagogues, who for the last eight or
ten years have been cracking whips over
the heads of the whole people. When
these fellows reach til, point where they
boast that they have '.scared the East to
DEATH they have come to the end of their
tether.
~, The convention that assemblies in Chi
cago to-day will probably contain some
delegates who realize that the whole
business has been overdone; that the
leaders who chuckle over having scared
the East to DEATH have not only made
sublime asses of themselves, but have
brought the cause in which they are en-
gagged into disrepute, ridicule and dis
grace. 1t will be the effort of this sens
ible minority to retrieve the situation bv
disavowing and disclaiming all the rid
iculous raut and nonsense of the fellows
who haze made themselves laughing
stocks for the last month or two. We
do not think they will succeed. The
reasonable bimetallists who have sincere
desire to maintain the parity between
gold and silver, and who believe thatit
can be done without disaster to business
and credit. will be in a helpless minority
and the fanatical crew, who make living
by flux of empty speech and who don't
care the toss of a copper what happens
so they get an audience and notoriety
will ride over them.
1t may be a disappoint to them. But
they should remember that these demon
STATIONS of violence, these foolish threats
and all the recklessness manifested by
the red mouthed orators are the leoiti
mate crop of what the free silver men
nave been sowing for years. The most
conservative of them have not hesitateG
% charge upon those who differed with
heir comm: ance in a great conspiracy
md crime; the most moderate of them
rave indulged in epithets of the most of
ensive character, and all of them have
United in threatening that unless their
,wn notions of finance and currency were /
:egarded they would break up parties
md prevent any legislation on the sub |
ect by the United States Congress. When
senator Stewart of Nevada, said inWash- !,
ngton last winter that there should be |
10 legislation on the silver question ex- |
,ept such as he and the silver Senators |
we're agreed upon, even # they had to |
ak the session out, he simply set the
keynote for all the blatherskites who
rave been making the we1kn ring with
;hreats ever since. It is bad business for
] minority to set up its dictum in this
country and say that nothing shall be |
lone except what it approves. And it Is
1ery bad business when : Senator from I