St. Paul daily globe., 1894-10-24
sGO cd Help the Surplus.


''And the surplus disappeared amid
profligate, excessive. lavish eXpenGl-
ture-for the purpose of making the
people of the United States believe that
the government should support the peo-
pie. and not that the people should
support the government. Applause.
Back into power they went, and in
Stantly there was enacted, upon the de-
mands or the influences that controlled
their party, that control their party &c.
day, that are trying to govern this
country now, precisely the same meth
odS by which they sought to govern it
then, instantly the demand came
that they should hand over to
the men who led the Republican party,
those powers of the government that
are essential TO its existence; they de-
manded that those powers should he
handed over for private uses, Tor pri-
vate profit. to be divided and parceled,
as though it were the plunder, the spoil
Of capture deity or province.
Into their hanus-tha longest and
greedieSt fingers clutching the largest
Share-passed the tax and power over
this nation. Every man who had a loud
cry. every man with an INSCRIPTIONS
grasp, every man who was promised as
reward for the money he had
furnished to corrupt the votes of
poor men-tO each of these was
handed his share of the punder. And
what was the outcome? Let US describe
it in one word-profiigate-e
had changed the surplus into deficit.
That emptied the treasury and put
it IN debt. and then a bill of
enormous taxation, laid in the
name of protection 70 American in.
dustrieS. The Mckinley tariff bill and
then bill urged on by the same prin-
cipleS by those who owned the miueS of
silver aud were interested in their de-
velopment; the bill which bears the
name of MIR. Sherman-the Sherman
silver purchase bill. My friends, those
measures had been passed
Before the Election
of 1892 Public policies do not always
declare their results quickly. 1t is like
tile habits of a man. Health has no
symptoms. You merely see that the
step is light, that the eve is clear, that
his color is fresh, and y0ik say that the
inan has health. On tile other hand, if
the habit is one fatal TO health, you do
not perceive it at once. but gradually
the evil habit proclaImS itself.
It, tells upon him, but not until his cons
Stitutiun Hlay be undermined do you
pei receive the haggard face, the feeble
step, the CLASSY eye and all the syDp-
toms of i'll health upon that uian. they
do not declare themselves in day, but
declare themselves they will. And so
of a people: so of all those policies OF
trade or currency: they cannot speak
simultaneously. But, my friends. they
will speak i'll time"
MIR Bayard dweit upon the bad
effects Of Republican tariff ard iegisla-
ton. and compared the condition exist
ing i'll 1892 tU that wHicn caused France
to be swept Oh 10 destruction by the
revolution of 1889. Mr. Bayard said:
"'Fhe attitude of President Harrison
and the men whom lie had in his caUi-
net, especially Secretary OF the Treasury
Foster, as he sat there s!airkiig and
rubbing his hands and smiling they
said, This will outlast this a,lministrs-
tlUn and the Democrats shalt shoulder
the rum that our incompeteucy and
cOrruptinn have wrought fiiis is the
Iru;t ;Jtiil, stands written on The SKY; 1t
san il written iUieStr IN history"
MIR. Gayard referred ~ The remarkable