St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-25
LET US BE DEMOCRATS.
The Hutchinson Democrat saws:

The hutchinson Democrat SAYS:
''Will the st. Paul GLOBE, which has
become furious anti-Silver advocate,
inform US when the Democratic party
declared that it was opposed to the coin
age and circulation of silver side by
side with gold2 Where does that paper
get its Democratic authority for declar-
ing the advocates of silver circulation
TO be outside of the Democratic fold?
We have been student of political his
tory for great many years, and an adj
Vocate of Democratic principles for some
time since Noah's flood, but we cannot
feel that we are any less Democrat be-
cause we are opposed to the single gold
standard; and we find that we are in
company with about half the Democratic
United States senator's"
The Democratic party has never made
any such declaration, because the
present conditions never before existed
10 present the question to it. 1t made a
tentative declaration in 1892 for the par
ity of gold and silver, which the advo-
Gates of free coinage at the ratio of six
teen to one claim to support their posi-
ton. The party has always been
bimetallic party-that is, it has favored
the use of both metals as money. We
are not aware of any change in its posi-
ton; and certainly. if the Democrat had
been at all careful reader of the
GLOBE, it would know that that is its
position now. We are not opposing
free coinage, but we are fighting, and
and as long as the question remains
unsettled we will continue to fight the
tree coinage" demanded by the silver
ties; and we do it because we are Dem
ocratic. If we were paternaliStic.
either in the mild form of Republican
ism or the advanced form of Popullsm,
we would advocate the BLAND free
coinage, because that is exactly in line
with the ground principles of both of
| those parties. the use of government TO
| favor class.
| We believe that the Democrat wishes
to be right in this matter; we know that
we do. We believe that every Demo
Graf, when new questions come up for
solution, should measure them by Dem
ocratic principles and accept or reject
them as those principles adjudge the
measure to be good or bad. We know
| of no other course which is safe. They
are to the party its compass and its
chart.
1t is one of the first and most vital of
those principles that the government
shall not use its power to favor any
class. Equal rights for all; special
privilege to none" WeoppoSe pro-
tective tariff because it gives special
| privileges to some at the cost of all. 1t
is intended to permit some to get more
for their products than they could get
without it.
Silver and gold are commodities Just
as wheat is. They are none the less
commodities, the product OF labor, be-
cause a portion of each is utilized as
money. Like wheat, their value is de.
termined by the supply and demand,
ana nothing else. For money use the
government long ago ascertained that
one part of gold was, in the then cur.
rent markets of the world, worth nearly
sixteen parts of silver. Since then the
value of silver has fallen so that its
owners can get in any market in the
world but one part of gold for every
twenty-eight parts of their silver.
If the bullion owner can now take his
silver to the mint and have it coined
into standard dollars, which the law
makes legal tender. it is giving him by
legal compulsion 81. 90 an ounce for his
silver, for which he could get but 70
cents in the market today. Does the
Democrat approve of that? Are silver
miners any better than the farmers OF
other producers? Would it advocate the
purchase at dollar a bushel of the