St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-29
OTHER THINGS THEY AGREE ON

UTHER THINGS THEY AGREE ON.
Said a gentleman, the sincerity and
honesty of whose convictions we
nave no reason to suspect, There is
something strange in the fact that the
Democratic and Republican dailypa
pers in the two cities are goId-stand-
ard papers, opposing the free coin
age OF silver. When we see them so
unanimous in this, while they are so
herce in their opposition on other
questions, like the tariff, it raises
Ehe suspicion in our minds that there
is some influence at work. and we
know Of none SO powerful as the
money power"
No casual reader of Populist and
SllVer1te papers, and no listener to
line orators of those movements.
Tails to be aware Of the readiness
with Which everything is attributed
TO the nefarious working of the
money power. There was a time
when the idea was universally prev
Rlent that all Of the sin of the world
was due to an invisible being, with
cloven feet and forked tail. who
roamed up and down the earth
among men and women, inspiring
them to deeds of cruelty and wicked
hess. The money power is to politics
Today what his satanic majesty was
in the theological fields up to the
present generation. 1t is an mag
dnary, malevolent, ever-present.
eVer-active power; greedy, grasp
ang, selfish and cruel. It is an ogre.
feeding on the industries of man.
ITS touch is corrupting, and its pres
ence communicating AS the thl1n-
dering revivalist of the days that
are gone terrified his audience with
the pictures Of hell and it's burning
Jake OF birthstone, so the demagogue
of today alarms the supplemented
with his picture of the money power,
with its tentacles fastening on and
fhrottling the honest yeoman Of the
country.
But our friend, and those who think
with him, reason too specifically.
They make no note of the other things
pn which these papers all agree
There is no difference Of opinion
Rmong them on matters affecting the
public health. They are unanimous
in demanding that our streets should
be kept clean, that the water supply
Should be pure and plentiful, that
Infectious diseases should be quar-
Rntined, that the dangers that arise
put of our social organization shall
be kept at a minimum or, where
possible, entirely removed. On other
Questions there is the same harmony.
There is no contention among them
IN regard to the invariable operation
of the law Of gravity None of
Them contend that water will run
up hill if left fully to the operation of
its own laws. They all admit the ac-
curacy of the law of mechanics
that what is lost in speed is gained
in power. They accept without ques-
fion now the apparent paradox that
the sun is stationary and does not
revolve about the earth. They do
not dispute the equivalency of a
horsepower to the power required
Ito raise $4,000 pounds one foot high
i'm one moment of time. They do not
deny that there is a fixed ratio be-
tween the number Of pounds of
water that can be converted into
steam by a certain number of
pounds of the various kinds of coal.
These things have all passed beyond
the stage of doubt and experimental
fion, and no man today Who regards
his reputation for intelligence will
nlspute or deny them.
In another field there is a similar
and equally suspicious unity. The
day when the theory of microbes
was disputed has passed away. The
germ theory of diseases has be-
come accepted by the daily press. as
Mel rs by tse medical profession.