St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
NO MORE PHILANDERING.

NO MORE PHILANDERING.
There are men who cannot learn
even in that FOOLS school, eX-
perience. All it's hard lessons are
lost on them The Democratic par
ty, Just now, is making census OF
the number of this kind of men it
has in its ranks. 1t is not difficult
to take it. They are all tagged.
Each wears a little silver disc. bear
ing the legend: Free coinage at
16 to IL
And they actually propose to have
the old party go philandering again
with that meretrio.ous creature,
tricked out in all her gairish and
catchy finery, do they? They're
dead in love with Cheap Money,
and want the party Of 'tOld Bullion"
Ito go to the altar with her, do they?
And they don't remember that fell
lows like them led the party to the
same altar years ago and found that
it was halter when they got there.
And the party didn't get that halter
off it's head until Sam Tilden made
lit get back to it's first love, Honest
Money, in 1876, and then it won, if
it was cheated out of it's victory.
They are improving in their tastes,
however, and for this Indication of
moral advance let us be grateful. 1t
is encoura ging. Time was when
they were in love with Cheap Money,
though she was dressed only in rags
converted into paper. Now that she
is tricked out in silver she looks
better, is a bit more respectable in
appearance, but she is the same
drab under it that she always was.
Tdlden scourged most of these fel-
lows out, but contingent re-
mained; dissolute fellows, with low
tastes, habitues of the purlieus of
respectability, with a chronic pre-
disposition to get into low company
when occasion came.
1T is we'll worth while at this time,
when these fellows are fancying that
Hard Times has disposed the peo-
pie to be a little more charitable in
their judgment of the character and
reputation of Cheap Money, to re-
call the previous experience of the
party when it went philandering
with that disreputabqe damsel. 1t
never did it before the war came
with its paper to vitiaite the public
conception Of money. Jackson, Van
Buren and "Old Bullion" Benton
lashed and scourged the men of their
l,oxy to 1,.ox ~
to do with the deceptive creature.
Democracy in those days was i'm
bued with the hard common sense Of
the German who answered Patrick
Henry's f1ne-spun arguments for pa
per money, made a century ago, with
the solid truth that paper is paper,
but money is money"
Have these silvery Democrats for
gotten the experience of the party
in 1868, and the subsequent years
when the greenback lunacy affected
SO many? Have they forgotten how
many smart AleckS in the party
then thought it was the issue that
was going to furnish them with
seats at the pie counter and tickets
for the pie? Don't they remember
how even that old Roman, Thur
man, prctesltingly bowed his head
to the dictate of his state party,
then as now disposed to run off after
any strange god that bid to be the
coming deity of politics? And what
did the party gain by it? Isn't the
lesson of those years of humiliation,
defeat and disgrace enough in one
century?
| The Greenback party talked just
as these admirers of Cheap Money
do now. There isn't an argument in
duplicated by one from the green
back arsenal. Is there no instruc-
| Ition for Democrats today in the ex-
perience Of that iridescent dream of
folly? When Tilden cleared the
temple of Democracy of these money
changers they focked off by them
selves and made their separate and
distinct appeal to the voters of this
nation in 1884, to join them in their
debauch with Cheap Money. She
fiaunted her attractions in the face
of the voters, and they turned from
her in disgust. OF the ten million
but $4,000 yielded to her fascina-
'tions. Only that beggarly squad of
| ragged F'algtaffians followed the be-
draggled plume of Ben Butler In his
campaign of dishonor and dishon-
esty.
Populism for four years has been
declaring that the bedizened jade
was the embodiment of virtue. En-
throne her and all good things would
come to the country and it's people.
Poverty would vanish; hard times
would soften; industry would cease
eating the bread of idleness; fapua,
ness would sit again at the hearth
stone. All the kingdoms of the
earth were to be the inheritance O,
those who bowed down and wor.
SHIPPED her. And where Is Populsm
even in it's strongholds? Is there
| nothing in these lessons Of ex.