The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-10-19

ing to take silver bullion when
they can get gold coin? tt has
been SAID that the treasury ought
to pay these notes in silver coin,
as no particular coin is specified.
Well if the secretary Of the treas.
ury should refuse to pay gold for
any kind of currency when it was
presented and gold demanded gold
would at once go to a premium
and disappear and the panic we
have been through would be small
compared to what would follow.
There is no way to maintain all
klnds of currency at par unless
there is enough Of each kind to
meet the demands made upon it
for exchange. If it were not a
fact that all the great nations of
the earth recognize gold as the.
basis of the medium Of exchange
then it would not have to be the
basis in this country of the stand
ard Of value. People are not
necessarily opposed to silver be-
cause they do not want to pur-
chase any more bullion to store in
the vaults Of the treasury. 4
For the most part the debate on
the elections bill has been very
dreary in the house. Some very
good points were brought out, but
there was SO much repetition that
even; the good points became tire
some after while. It resulted in
showing the old States rights idea
Of the Democratic party, and the
desire the party had. to maintain
control Of the Offices by crooked
work of some kind at the ballot
box. It. was also shown that the
old southern idea Of teaching that
secession was right is we'll
grounded in the text books of the
South. The Democrats had
deal to say about ''home rule''
during the debate, but were often
called down by the Republicans
who pointed out that while they
were making great professions of
home rule in regard to elections
that the president was sending In
dian agents into the western states
and territories in defiance of the
Democratic platform on that point.
This impels me to ask how our
Democratic friends of Minnesota
Liz to have an Illinois man sent to
the White Earth agency, taking
with him all his appointees, the
onl y ground for such action being
that it is impossible to find honest
Democrats in Minnesota for Indian
agents?
What a pink of an appointment
that Of Van Allen was! And all to
pay a campaign debt, a contribu-
ton Of $4,000 to the corruption
fund for the Democratic president.
There are perhaps worse snobs in
the world than Van Allen, but
they have not been seen on this
side Of the Atlantic Ocean. There
is nothing to say against the man
because he is rich. We would all
be rich if we could; but his hatred
of everything American, his osten-
tatious and vulgar display of his
wealth are things that make the
appointment far from pleasing to
the true American.
The way the present administra-
ton has nullifed existing laws will
be shown up pretty we'll before
the debate on the Chinese bill is
over. In a house so overwhelm-
ingly Democratic as that of the
last congress, the present Geary
law was forced upon the statute
books. The Democratic admins
tration refused to enforce it. The
supreme court said it was constitu-
tional still it was not enforced.
Now they are trying to have the
Democratic administration en-
dorsed or vindicated in the present
congress, and the way the Demo
cratic congress has obeyed Cleve-
land in the past it is probable that
it will obey him in this particular.
Gen. Grant said the way to get rid
of a bad law was to enforce it. 1t
might be we'll for the Democratic
administration to try it in the case
of this law which many people be-
lieve to be far from good exclu-
sion law, and very harsh in its
provisions.
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Every Minnesotlan no doubt