St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-08
ABSOLUTELY PURE

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niiicant in mental or moral qualities
that all of the leaders of the old parties
have been compelled to overlook him.
He must have Self-love sufficient fto
inform him OF this fact. and spirit isuf-
ficieut to be mad about it. He must
possess. innately, large amount Of
bitterness, a reasonable :
SUFFICIENCY OF SENTIMENT,
just 4 tincture of common honesty. a
superiluman capacity for gab. and ad
libitum gall. The gentleman who con-
cealS these qualities about his person
may hope to succeed As popular leader
that is. to succeed for that brief mo.
ment while the masses are content to
stand still and listen to him with re-
spect. Men acquainted with the pecul.
iarities of the Populists fully realize
that 1t is a physical iinpOSSibiiity for
them to stand still very long on any
account.
Now, the Coxey army is rapidly APP.
preaching Washington, and there is no
reason to doubt that as it advances it is
increased in size. if not i'll goodness,
cleanliness and responsibility. just
what it proposes to do when it comes is
past finding out. In this unheSitatlng
Indebtedness Of purpose the army is
purely populistic. If 1t has ideas. they
partake of the vague and aerial. 1t
knows one thing. and that is that IL Is
moneyieSS, and seems to have some sort
OF an idea that congress has the power
TO open up vast mine Of wealth in
some mysterious way, where every man
can secure Il share of this worlds goods
at moderate expenditure of muscular
force.
Senator Peffer, of Kansas. has intro
duced the Coxey bills. These, as is
known, are embryonic measures, form
uiated to compel the national govern
ment TO vote Il great many hundreds of
millions of dollars (Which it has not got
and cannot get) to create. construct and
improve the public highways of the
land (Which 1t does not own and cannot
obtain the right to purcha3e). These
bills provide for the building of these
public roads, not because there is any
pressing public necessity for them. but
merely to give
WORK TO THE UNEMPLOYED
millions of the country. In other words,
the nation is to be compelled by law to
open a great national pOorhouse, which,
un Ger existing laws. would become in
ternatiOnai, SO far as its inmates were
concerned, while the United States
would pay the freight Single.handrd.
Senator Kyle is not in favor of these
measures. He has too much good sense
to be in favor OF them, aud too much
rectitude to pretend to advocate them.
AS above remarked, his instincts
are Democratic, and hence hel
is only i'll favor OF that gentler form of
paternaliSn which demands the govern
ment ownership Of railways. teIegraphs
and telephones, and possibly the issu-1
ance of more money to the people than.
the business of the country could read.
lily absorb and assimilate tbs seila9
tors education is being rapidly pushed
He is occupying much wider platform
before the world than even his most
sangulne dreams pictured as possible.
He is assOciating on intimate terms
with men trained by long public life to.
comprehend large public questions, and /
his evolution is constantly upward to-
ward the light. - 4
There is the making of most inteHi-
gent and excellent public man out of
Senator Kyle if he will continue to sit
at the feet of the wise Democratic CAM
aliels and absorb the mental heat they
are perpetuallv throwing off. ~
9, FRANK j. MEAD.