St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-28
To Entitle 1t to the Gratitude
Of the American Peo-
pie.
WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE
Tersely Told by Representa-
tive Hall, of the Third
Minnesota.
HAS RES ToRED CONFIDENCE,
Made Elections Free and Shat
tered Protected Trusts Of
MeKinleyism.

Special to the Globe.
w AsIIINGToN, Aug. 27.-"What has
the Fifty-thIrd congress done"
1t has made all money equally taxa
bic. - -f9 5as So
lthas restored confidence in our cur
reney and finances.
1t has given to all our people the OPP
pertunity of living cheaper and better.
1t has shattered the protected trusts
of Mckinleyism.
1t has placed the burden Of taxation
upon the rich mans surplus as we'll as
upon every mans needs.
1t has restored the freedom of cleo
TONS lH
1t has placed the transactions of the
government and its methods of account
ing upon business basis.
Ii has greatly reduced the eXpendi-
lures of the government.
For one solid year 1T has maintained
all unrelenting fight against the trusts
and monopolies which protection had
created.
I'VE a0e a Hit
With the above significant and able
summary Congressman Hall. of the
Third district, concluded his speech in
the debate that preceded the final
passage of the tariff bill. The speech.
for the Information it contains and on
account of the way it Is to be placed
before the people, has attracted great
l,a In
circulated by the Democratic con-
gressional committee during che next
two months. Beginning early last fall
the Republican managers commenced
the distribution of little book filled
with blank pages.
On the Outside Cover
of which was printed i'll large letters
"What the Fifty-third Congress Has
Done" In this way the people were
given 10 understand that the Demo
Gratis have accomplished nothing during
the past year. But this document APP
peared too soon. and it is now like many
Republican platform and speeches
considerably out of joint and likely to
prove stumbling block during the
campaign. Taking this same subject as
his topic Congressman Hall has told
what this congress has done for the
relief of the people, and he has just had
it printed in little book just the size of
the Republican document and bearing
the same title in large letters, "What
the Fifty-third Congress Has Done"
How we'll the eloquent and able MEN,
Der from the Third Minnesota acquitted
himself is best shown by resume of
his address. He said:
What 1t Has Bone.
[ hold in my hand little book, ex-'
tensively circulated. by Republicans,
entitled what the Fifty-third Congress
| Has Done" 1t is all ingenious cam
paIgn document, cunningly devised and
! adroltly distributed. It's pages are
| blank, but they are white and spotless,
You could not thus publish the story of
what the Fifty-frst congress (he Reed
| and Mckinley cOngress) did.
| | purpose now to fill the pages of this
| book with a condensed resume of the
most important work done by this cell
| greSS.
For one solid year we have been in
| almost continuous session. When we
first met we found the nation struggling
with business depression and financial
! panic. The treasury was bankrupt;
the great surplus of SS4, 100000 which
Mr.. Cleveland had passed over to Mr..
Harrison in 1889 had DISAPPEARED, the
revenues of the government under the
| Mckinley law were not sufficient to
| meet its expenditures under the apprO-
priations made by the billion-doiiar
congress; the people of other lands had
los. confidence i'll our finances and w. re
| drawing away the great investments of
capital which they had loaned to US.
On every hand depression, distress ard
panic prevailed.
The business depression, the hard
times existed everywhere else as we'll
as in this country, and was chiefly due
to the excessive speculation prevailing
throughout the world during the past
few years. The panic, the lack of con-
fdence in our money and in our mon
eyed institutions. the SQuanderDg of
our treasury surplus, the inadequacy of
our revenues, the excessive appropria-
tons, and impending national bank
ruptay were all local and the direct re-
suit of the vicious legislation OF the
fifty first Mckinley congress.
Ii is obvious that the first thing to be
done by the tifty-third congress was to
undo the bad work of the flfty-firSt con-
gress. To remedy the disease which
had Frustrated the business of our peo-
pie 1t was fist necessary to remove the
causes which produced the disease.
TO do this was no easy matter, for Nc
kinleyism was stroug in the support of
the allied trusts and monOpOlieS which
it had created. A war against the bad
legislation Of the Fifty-tirst congress
became a war against the enriched
bencficiaries of the special privileges
Il I,x,t
The Sherman silver Law
was passed at the same time as the Nc
kinley tariff. and Was, in fact, part of
the same tran saction. The millionaire
| silver mine owners believed that il they
could induce the government to buy the
entire product of their mines, thereby
relieving the worlds market from the
competition os American silver. the
effect would be to increase the price of
silver to their great profit. This was
the form of "pTotectiOn" they wanted.
Therefore the silver senators refused to
vote for the Mckinley tariff bill unless
the Mckinley senators would vote for a
silver purchase law. The bargain was
made. and both laws passed.
The congress which gave six-tenths
cents per pound protection on refined
sugar TO the trust and two cents bounty
to sugar producers also gave special
market to the silver miners. The tariff,
the bounty ana the purchase were each
different phase of the common system
of protection" The silver purchased
by the government was not coined, but
was paid for in paper money redeemable
in 'coin;" that is, i'll gold or silver. The
great increase in this paper money and
the decrease in the value of silver IRE
sulting from Overproduction) created a
fear that our government could not keep
lis gold. silver and paper money at a
parity, and that the gold would dis