The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-16
A SILVERY LETTER.
Repeal Bill Passed at the Be
hest of English Shy
III. locks. I, vi

A Party Without Policy and
Devoid Of Princi-
I'll pies. +
s.. 49,. WASHINGTON, Nov. IL, 1893.
.. The vacuous viscera of that s'innocu-
GUS desuetude,'' known as the Demo-
cratic party, are s'busted." The extra
ordinary sessions of congress, the rebel
claims in congress, the cheating OF old
soldiers by shutting off their monthly
stipends, the monometallic gold bug
theories Of the administration, the
tariff monkeying and State bank tax
issue tinkering have punctured the
balloon as evidenced by the State cleo
tions, and the storm Of stencil emitted
has left the sorry remnants in a heap
south of Mason and Dixon's line where
Democratic stenches are as the ottar of
roses to the nostrils of the southern
aristocracy. Virginia and Maryland
are yet Democratic. The South is still
solid although traitors to their prin-
ciples as free silverites. -
Let me narrate story setting forth
the true inwardness of the treatment
OF silver by the administration which
was put in power upon platform es-
sentially bimetallic. It seems that
Grover Cleveland was bound from the
very first to put the silver people of
the country in such a position that it
would be utterly impossible for them
to demand compromise either in this
country or before the world. It is we'll
known to every reader that the BIZ
metallic congress which convened in
BRUSSELS to devise plan to place sill
yer upon an equal footing with gold as
the money Of the world adjourned with
the intention to meet again in time to
perform the duties assigned to them
before congress met this fall. Instead
OF that, however, the administration
never convened the bimetallic congress
but upon the other hand did convene
the special or extraordinary session so
as to. make it utterly impossible, pro
yided that the Tsbime tallic congress is
again assembled, on account Of the &C.
ton OF the United States ongress, for
the advocates of silver to ask any COM
promise whatever. The man who is
whipped or the army which is defeated
is scarcely in position to ask any COM
promise from the victor. It is the
general opinion in Washington among
bimetallists that no measures will now
be taken to restore silver to it's place
or to permanently increase it's volume
or extend its scope as a medium of ex-
change. The creditor class has won
its victory increasing thereby the
value of their gold holdings and in the
long run increasing the burdens of the
debtor class. It now remains to be
seen what this wise and practical ad-
ministration is going to do about it.,
anyhow. There is, however, more
than look of suspicion about this
move of Growers when one considers
the fact that his ''stroke of state'' fol-
lowed closely upon the move of the
English money-loaning sharks which
knocked silver out in India Thus, out
side OF few insignificant American
republics, silver has scarcely foot
hold in the world to-day. Another
thing makes it doubly suspicious, and
that is the fact that the contraction
OF the currency of the world would en-
rich the money sharks and money
loaners to an incalculable amount. ="
The. extraordinary session was an
extraordinary battle, one which will
go down to history as extending over
a period of ninety days about seventy
OF which were consumed in debate.
There was continuous session in the
senate of fourteen days before the final
vote was taken. About 20,O00,0OO
words were spoken which if put into
cold type would. reach from the statute
of liberty enlightening the world
across the continent to the Rocky
mountains. Yet with all its fuss and
feathers, it only established the fact
that the. Democratic party's sins as
usual are greater by omission than by
commission, and that the party in the
history of the world was never known
to have a settled policy in which well
established majority concurred. Reed
put the thing forcibly when he said:
."Well, I'll vote for your repeal bill to
help you but know it will push you
deeper into the mire, for you never
were known to have a policy Of your
own
3 But there are other policies of the
Demo cratic party outlined as yet in the
dim and uncertain distance which I'M