St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-11
AALL GROWS ELOQUENT.
,fHE MINNESOTA REfRESENTATIlE
MAKES a GREAT ADDRESS.
nas 1T IDlOcN OBJ LUNAeX

of the last Years of tn, Nine
teenth Century? He Says, viii
Be the Mooted Question
Among Historians Home
Thrusts on the Tariff.
Following are the salient points of
the speech OF Hon. o. NJ. hall, OF Min
nesoia. on the bill to repeal the 10 per
cent tax upon state banks:
Mr.. Chairman, to-the hiStor ans of the
latter halt OF the present ceptury it will
always b. mooted question whether
idioey or lunacy has exercised the great
.er influence over Oar financial legisla-
ton during that epoch. Ordinarily. a
good system in finance or economics Is
the result of growth, development and
evolution; but in our case the system OF
finance which we have is nothing but a
mere patchwork of temporary eXpedi-
.encieS, an aggregation of makeShiftS.
AS consequence we have III circula-
ton today SIX different kinds of paper
currency and two kinds of coin. One
coin is only worth one-iialf of the other
in value. Some Of the paper currency
is -redeemable in one coin, soma Ill
another. some in both; while the pres :
ent condition of the treasury warrants
the suspicion that most of it does not
know that its redeemer liveth.
1t is now seriously proposed by the
amendment to the pending bill to add
to its motley currency forty-four more
kinds of paper money. each dependent
for its solvency upon the caprice of the
local legislatures and dependent for its
genuneness upon the Skill of the local
printer and the local engraver.
do net propose to enter into dis
cuSSion of the constitutional points in
volved in this matter, for, as UNDER
stand. the supreme court has decided
them all. About the only valid argu-
ment | have yet heard in support of the
proposition is the fact that during the
heat and excitement of the last Demo-
cratic national convention, when the
tnunderS were roaring and the rain was
pouring through he roof, somebody sur
reptitiously inserted this re peal plank
in the platform. Ordinarily, whatever
is resolved by Democratic convention
ought to have great weight with all
thinking men; but to me l confess l
have never bad a very high regard for
the expressions of political parties in
platforms.
In every campaign which has been
lought III lhls country thefe mas oeeii
one prominent, predominant issue, and
people have divided and aligned them
selves according to their views upon
tiial question: ana iot upon INC sue
issues WHEN H nave peei, patcheo ihto
Tue platform. me lepeai VI tiie oanh
IaA play Gu lio pa III lile laat cd'ii pdis IL,
Many OF as-i was ohe-opeHis ana
frankly fepaalated IL OH Tue stump.
ny, az party pi"tloihiS are necessarily
anu uelloelatt!y e1aslic. DOWN. III AID.
oailia our lIleilas nave GohStruetett a
hiarVeious piatloliii, caliloilc anu ptoau'
upon WHICH every iiiau VINO ID Deiiie-
Gtat, every man WHO lhihNs ne IS a
Deliiocldt anu eFeis liih Wuo Says ne
10 d Deihocl"t, ca,! ota'iu Win ootil leeI
ana support tle aistihsuiSi!ea nominee
VIM lioiloiS thiS iiouse Wy MS presence.
II Is an ''aliiiraoie pidl!oiH.
Out III ola MIasouII thev nave oeeh
Hiahlhg ahotnef platform, master
piece ol tiasticitE' platloiin SO DIoad
Inat even the luminous goldeug from
Maine seems INCLINED to mop upon 1t. |
confess wien read mat platform 1t
seemed 10 me as II new ught nad
ouIst upon the ola STATE OF missouri,
ana thought tilat perhaps MS cohstltu-
ehts had administered kindly correct
I'VE 10 our GENIAL friend VINO went there
10 make Ii.
our heptoiiean friends nave NOT any
thlhg 10 say on thlS question OF adHer-
ence 10 platforms. l remember that i'll
me campaign oi 1888 thev came before
!he country Win solemn declaration
III FAVOR oi oHe-cent postage. Ihey
elected their president, anu from that
time TO THIS neither the president they
erected, nor thelr nlcke!-ln-tie-Slot
postmaster general. nor any member OF
either house OF congress-, SO far as
know, has ever whispered word III
regard 10 one-cent postage. so honors
are even between us.
IL Is SAD, MI. chairman, that II We
repeal ms u per cent tax on state
BANKS there Is no danger of return to
the "wlid-cat' currency which existed
before the war. L WISH L couh be
assured OF that;Out it seems to me there
ever has been all epoch i'll our history
men theories Oh hnance, false theories
N my Judgment, were So numerous as
thGy are DIT me present Tune.
III our fopullstic friends, for in.
stance, shculd happen 10 carry state,
ho!utls lhelr suplfeasufy views, dc
not Know, what Kind OF currency
they would give to us. Now. am no.
IN sympathy with tie existing currency
system or thiS country. Will go as fal
as ne VINO cares go farihtst Ill remodel
ing that system. care not whether yOu
pase your system on national cur
n DIN
hatiohal SUPERVISION. believe that We
heea more currency, and believe thai
we ought 10 supply the country with it
Dut L want every dollar or currency
lufrIv gondNcrod nor omiv IN ~ tio H Gae"y
ily in which it is issued. bnt good II
every other locality in the Uniteo
States. l believe it is possible-not by
inns amendment, but by some Other
wat;n az III. pstnapS io,ioMng IN the
the commirte on l,anil1n@ and So e,r man -