The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-06
The Observation-Disclosures.

with the widest delight anything,
in their own ranks, that sticks it's
nose a quarter of an inch above med
iocrity.
Y Last fall they elected professor
of the Mankato Normal school, a
Mr.. McCleary, to congress, and great
things were expected of him; and
they have been realized. The other
day some member of congress was
making speech and trying to prove
that Ernest Seyd, the London bank
er, was bi-metallist, and an advo-
cate Of the free coinage of silver;
and thereupon Mr.. McCleary stuck
his head up out of the swim, long
enough to make an inquiry. And
what was the inquiry? Why the
Professor asked,-''Is that the same
Ernest Seyd whom the populists
charge was the chief instrument
in demonetizing silver in 1892"
And the speaker, he had interrupted,
told him it was. And the cachina-
tions. the delight and the hullabaloo
of the Minnesota republicans was
something tremendous. They had
at last got man who could ask a
question! Minnesota could not COM
pete, of course, with the other states
in debate, that was not to be ex-
pected; but it could, at least, pluck
coat tail now and then and frame
an interrogatory! And such and in
terrogatOry! So wise, so profound,
so pregnant! For if Ernest Seyd
was, at heart, believer in bi-me-
talism he could not have been en-
ployed by the Bank of England to
disburse the $500, 900 of British mon
ey to secure the passage of the act
demonetizing silver! And why not?
Would he have been the first man
who had sold his principles for a
mess of pottage?
Let us suppose case:
A clergyman is lecturing about
the betrayal of Christ. He proceeds
to show that Judas stood high
among the disciples; in fact SO high
that he had been selected by them
to "bear the bag,"-to take charge
of the funds belonging to that group
of poor, but great men; that he was,
like the rest, a Christian, and a firm
believer in Christ.
At this point Professor McCleary
rises from back seat.
"Will you permit me to ask you a
question:"
Certainly"
'Do you mean to tell this congre-
cation that that was the same Judas
who sold Christ for $2.50?"
And the audience shouts with de-
light over McCleary's crushing point!
He has squelched the whole Chris
tian dispensation, with one fell blow.
But the corporations have so
crushed and bullied and trampled
upon the republican party of Min
nesota, for twenty years past; ;-have
so driven every man of spirit out of
it's ranks; that the honest rank and file
may rejoice if the Mankato Normal
School has at last furnished states
man who can make even SO poor a
point as McCleary's.
But it is not even an original point
with the distinguished Minnesota
congressman. AS long ago as 1877
Senator Dawes of Massachusetts
made the same point in the U. S.
Senate; and Senator Beck, of Ken
lucky, now deceased, replied to him.
Here is an extract:
"Mr. Dawes-The. distinguished
EngliShman to whom | referred,
who was charged with having come
over here to do the opposite of what
he did, was Ernest Seyd.
Mr.. Beck-I observe if the gentle
day of April, 1872, when the bill was
aside, and neUer taken atp dQdSn, the
gentleman from Massachusetts Mr..
Hooper, remarked:
| AO Jill WdC pAOPd1N OWO yCd1O dSO,
and has been submitted to careful
and deliberate examinations. 1t has
the approval of nearly all the mint
experts of the country, and the sane
tion of the Secretary of the Treas
ury. Mr.. Ernest Seyd, of London,
a distinguished writer who has given
great attention to the subject of
mints and coinage, after examining
the first draught of the bill, furn-
ished many valuable suggestions
which have been incorporated in the
bill.
suppose he is the same person.
Mr.. Dawes-There is no doubt
about that fact. (See page 125 Con-
gressional Record, December H.,
1879
1t makes no matter whether Ern-
est Seyd was or was not bi-metal-
list; the testimony of Luckenback Of
Denver shows that he came over
from London with 100000 Of bank
of England money, and bought de-
monetization through congress-; and
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