St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-14

opportunity lOT llttio UuStueoS
sense, a little of that wholesome
wisdom which we put into the affairs Of
ord nary life. let us then commence
with frank admission that the action
of the Democratic party and its COM
plete failure in the art OF governing
this country was perfectly natural, and
that as individuals the Democrats
are not responsible therefor. Nor
can We venture TO say that we
were prophets whose predictions were
being fulfilled, for | am persuaded that
no man i'll our side dared to foreshadow
half OF what has happened, most of us
not tithc. Naturally enough, If we
who are their enemies aid not propheSy
this measure OF calamity the ordinary
Democratic voter could not have
dreamed of it, and therefore did not
have 1t III his heart.
1t is because am sure from outward
and visible signs, notably from the elec-
tionS in Vermont and Name, that men
are laying aside their partisanShip and
are willing to do their share towards
saving the country, that l am willing to
lay aside mine and discuss on reason-
able terms what is best to do here
and now for the common in
tereStS. Whenever the principals
in Mr.. Evarts' lawsuit lay
aside their grudges. their lawyers eau
lay down their weapons. 50, when i'll
pOltIcS great mistake has been made.
SO great that all men can see it, parti-
SanShip can De laid aside and the case
can be stated without eXaggeratlon of
the merits OF your own side OF abuse OF
the other, Of course. no man ever
IN
OF the river OF death, for pre-
possessions and life associations can
neytr be entirely overcome, out there
are times when men vino nave never
before acted together can think alike.
These times are shown by the actions
OF men and not by their speech.
Maine is a state Wnere Democracy
is rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun.
ana yet III Maine the Democracy so
expressed themselves that the total
majority of 27.00O given years ago when
the deepest depression, the result OF the
war, rested Oh the Democratic party.
was exceeded by LOCO. do not think
you realize what that majority means.
ii New York state were to give
100000 it would hardly exceed it;
$4,000 would represent only the
increases. None OF us expected such
majority. There was no special organ
lzativn. The Demo did it them
selves. Many OF them voted with us,
and very many more staid at home, de-
termined by OutSpOken action or
by silence tO show their ap.
probation of the results OF
party government which they saw about
them on every hand. Was this sensi-
bic course of action we'll founded, and
one which ought 10 be followed by their
t,rl fl,v1.t, in t,,ll
Union? What is the present condition
OF things and
What Ought We.
as sensible men, to want?
The past eighteen months have been
months Of suffering III the homes of the
people. Not starvation. not deprivation
OF the absolute necessities OF life, for
this country has accumulated too much
OF this worlds goods the past thirty
years that utter want should paraltZe
and kill, but that want which is
the great unhappiness of civiliZa-
ton, the want of comforts to which we
have been accustomed. l will draw no
picture of idle mills. silent machinery,
men without work, money without
employment, capital unused, and labor
wasted and lost with each days
setting sun. That picture is too
familiar 10 you all. Nobody can
charge this fairly to the terms of
the tariff which now exists any more
than they can to the tariff which used TO
exist. What caused all this disaster
everybody knows who has any business
sense. 1t was the utter uncertainty,
the appalling doubt as to what would
happen to us. Who could build on
shifting sand? During all the
time that the so-called house bill
was pending, men could only fear the
worst, for the house bill was about the
worst thing which the uuwisdom of
man ever devised in these late years of
Christian civilization. This bill went to
the senate, many a Democrat voting for
it. not because he believed In it, but be-
cause the senate would make it nearer
decencY and fitness.
II is the fashion among Democratic
conventions now adays, l notice, to de-
nOunce the Democratic senators. and to
demand that they shall be relegated to
private life. This is absolutely inhu
man ingratitude. Notwithstanding all
the bad actions of the senate,
the Democratic party from annihiIa-
ton. why do you suppose these sena-
tors, these Democratic senators, made
$50 amendments to the house bill? Was
it out OF pure premeditated wicked
ness? Or was il on the demand of
their constituents? Did the junior
senator from New York hang out
for collars and cuffs by the direct in
stigation of the devil or because he lived
in Troy? Did Senator Smith rescue
some OF the manufactures of New Jer-
sey because the liend whispered into
his ear, or because he heard the human
voices of his constituents?