St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-25

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reservation only during the occupancy
of the fort. Big Bear is legally right,
and his claims would doubtless be sus-
tained by the courts if carried before
them. 1t is creditable to his shrewd-
ness, also, that he is avoiding all en-
tanglements with white settlers by
means of which the rights of his tribe
may be compromised. He is manifestly
shrewd Indian, and may yet cause his
white brethren considerable trouble.
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
When Simon Bolivar Buckner, conf
handing Fort Donelson, proposed to
surrender on terms, Gen. Grant replied
that lie would accept nothing but un-
conditional surrender, and informed the
Confederate general that al propose to
move on your works Immediately"
When Robert E. Lee. at Appomattox.
surrendered what was left of the armies
of the Confederacy to Gen. Grant, the
latter permitted the soldiers to retain
their animals and take them home with
them. because they would need them in
raising the crops to which they must
now turn their hands.
For years. ever since 1873, this nation
has been engaged in a struggle for
sound money, as momentous in its finan
cial consequences, at least, as was the
struggle in which Grant came to the
front as leader. There have been de-
featS as diScouraging as those which at
tended our armies during the first two
years of the war. The Bland act was a
cowardly retreat. The Sherman act
was shameful surrender. The nation
again needed a Grant. 1t got one in
Cleveland. He had not only the open
enemy to contend with, but the COW
ards, the dodgers, the weaklings in his
own party. Some openly opposed him.
Others played the part of peacemakerS.
They talked compromise. They busted
themselves in connecting pleasant doses
for the opposition, which they could
take and smile.
One thing was wanting. In the
White house was man whose name
must be set to any measure of compro-
mise a recreant congress might pass.
Undisturbed by the din and conflict
ana divisions. his sole reply was: 81
demand an unconditional surrender"
From the wayerers in his own ranks he
demanded obedience to the command of
the national party. The strong, coura-
geouS, honest and tenacious man has
won in Washington as Grant won at
Donelson. The waverers and compro-
misers fall into line. The opposition,
deprived OF their allies, surrender. The
fight is won. Honest money triumphs.
For this the country is indebted to
Grover Cleveland. 1t will not forget
that Hayes was oyerrIdden by the fat
lists in 1878. 1t will not forget that
Harrison surrendered to them under
guise of compromise in 1890. A weak
man would have been dismayed by the
divisions in his own ranks. and have
yielded. The offer to stop purchases
after year was seductive: it could not
work much harm; it would have let our
people down easily. 1t took backbone
to say no, and Cleveland has that in
abundance.
1t will take few days to complete
the details of surrender; troops are to
be listed and paroled, and arms to be
gathered up and stored. The repeal
bill will pass. What then? What will
be the effect? We venture the predic-
ton that the same result will come that
followed resumption of specie payments
in 1878. For ten years prior to that the
fever of fiatism ragged over the country.
Its victims formed state and national
party. Democrats, who did not know
what Democracy is, joined them. Their
glittering sophisms caught the unthink-
ing by the thousand. Then came re-
sumption; the greenback dollar was the
equivalent of the gold or silver dollar.
The Greenback party faded away; it
became only ''putrid "reminiscences. :"
The same thing will occur now. Tha
silver dollar will be maintained at par.
ity with gold. The paper money will
float at the gold level. Every dollar
which labor earns will keep its full pur-
chasing value. to be enhanced when an
other repeal bill shall have passed, re-
moving hindrances to exchange which
increase cost. Not dollar of silver
will be demonetized. The bubbles of
the fiatists will collapse; the silver fever
will have run its course; convalescence
will return. Trade will resume its
wonted channels. Capital, now timidly
hiding. will seek investments; conf
dence will return. The silverites' clamor
will no longer be heard in the land. Its
echoes will fade away into that sile nee
into which the yawps of theGree nbacker
sunk fifteen years ago.
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