St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-01
DOWN The BARONS.
This Will Be the Cry Of the
Free Silver Men
AND P0PULiSTS AT CHICAGO.
They See Only a Great Con-
spiraey Of English
AND GERMAN GOLD LENDERS,
IND P0PULYTS AT CHICAGO.
AND GERMAN GOLD LENDERS,
Aided and Allotted by Their
Wall Street Vass ais.
4 FEARFUL FIGHT rs DECLARED.


declaration of war tomorrow, and the
signal of hostilities Will be gwen by the
combined convention Of Populists. free
silver men and Greenbackers. The foe
70 be Outlawed will be 1.-The money
power" ana this generalization is so
broad that it is designed to include the
capitalists of Europe as well as the
money barons of Wall street. In the
present depreciation of silver the dele
gates who will assemble in national
convention tomorrow only see a great
conspiracy on the partO of the gOld-lend-
ers of England ami Germany, aided and
abetted by the lesser capitalists, their
Vassals of Wall street. to make gold the
only recognized international coin
metal of the world, and TO subjugate
the United States to the tinan-
cial control of the country
from whom she wrested her
political autonomy 100 years ago-Great
Britain. The scenes following the i'm
position of the tax on tea, that was so
holly contested and Indignantly de-
bounced by the colonial fathers Of l776.
would have been a fitting parallel to
that furnished in the hotel lOhbIes today
DE the popular arraignment of the at
tempt now being made by Great Brit
ain and the mOnO-metalIic mOnarchies
OF Europe to cOerce the American con.
tlnent into financial dependency upon
E.lt of D, 4
The laws Of supply aud demand, the
results of Overproduction, found no
place in their arguments, for every sng-
gestion of this kind was repulSed by a
startling array of statistics and figures
tending to show that the closing of the
hints of India,
The Death Blow
OF free coinage in Europe. and the de-
mand of Wall street for the repeal of
the Sherman bill were but parts of "a
great conspiracy against the silver re-
publics Of the Western hemisphere. IL
is the opinion, too, of the delegates now
assembling that this conspiracy should
be firmly met, and the enemy promptly
routed, and some of them grow hot
enough at times to in innate that if
legislation should be inefficient a re-
course to arms might prove a salutary
remedy.
Those who have expected that the
convention to be assembled at 10 O'Clock
tomorrow morning would go to pieces
on the shoals of partisanship have
underestimate the deep feelings that
actuaLe most OF the delegates who
are to discuss the financial issue
III this assembly. Populist, Green
hacker ahd the free silver
man seem To be united on one pro-
Eramme-tlat the repeal Of the Sherman
purchasing act must be resisted TO the
last unless there be coupled with il an
act for the free coinage Of silver or for
greater volume of currency. The
GreenDackeT and the Popuist, who be-
Iieve that the fiat of the government is
as potent to make a dollar out OF a strip
of green paper as it is to make a dollar
Of seventy cents of silver, are, of course.
not particular whether the legislation to
be substituted for the Sherman act shall
be free coinage or government green
backs, but for the sake of showing
4 Solid front
against the common enemy, the mono
metalliStS, they will unite with the free
coinage men in concerted resistance to !
tile Cleveland policy unless a greater
volume of currency be insured to meet !
the stringency OF the financial situa-
ton.
in this programme are found united |
the Republican Congressman Bartine, |
OF Nevada; the Democratic Silver-Dol- |
lar Warner, of OHIO; the Populist Kolb. !
Of Alabama, and all their respective |
followers. and their name Is legion. 1t |
is apparent even now that the work of |
The convention is not to end with the |
sine die adjournment Wednesday. Az |
greSSiye committees are to be appointed |
to carry the fight to Washington, and |
state committees will be named TO !
work up public sentiment in the |
various states. Then campaign |
committee Is to be named. and 10 this |
committee Is likely to he entrusted |
what Is really the most important work |
Di the free silver crusade. Its work |
will be secret, and it is expected it will |
labor to enlist the assistance of the I'M |
iii plOy GU CfeI ' WHSlG. MASS meetings !
nightly for all the weeks to come dur
Ing the financial crisis are to he held by |
the unemployed and povertv-strieken |
in every city of the land, and resolu-
lions are to be there presented and |
adopted calling upon congress to pass a
tree coinage bill. This is to be followed |
by another important move. The pros !
elytng Of labor leaders, OF labor organi- |
cations, is to follow next, and
The Silver Men
who we'll know how subsequently the |
average political demagogue bends the |
knee 10 the demands of the labor organ
IzatiOns expect the same lawmakers |
who passed the alien labor law and the |
Chinese exclusion bill TO hearken to the
yOice of labor ana increase the volume |
Of circulating medium until the wants |
Of the country are relieved. 1t is to |
be great moral crusade, a Weakening |
Of the masses, until the popular de-
mand becomes so strong that 1.-THE |
voice OF the people will be stronger !
than the voice of gOld." as the Popu. |
list puts it tonight. The men who are |
assembled here are terribly in earnest. |
and their members and the marked per- |
annality and Intelligence of most of |
1lt4ir Leaders friv =