St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-25
A MONTANA CORRESPONDENT
TALKS VEHEMENTLY FOR
THE WHITE METAL.
ATTACKS THE MONEY BAGS
SAYS THE LATTER WILL WIN
but 1T WILL BE A PHYSICAL
VICTORY.
ECHO OF OPINION AT BUTTE
Parting Shot at Bankers, Brokers
Editors, JObbbers and the
President. ~

Special to the Globe.
BUTTE, Mont, Sept. 24.-Butte is
the most prosperous city in America.
1t has not much of outward pomp
and show, but it's 10000 people are
solidly well-to-do. The Butte dis
trict will furnish $3O,O00,OO of copper
to the United States this year, and
its gold and silver and lead add near
ly $40, 0,000 900 more. And the mines of
Butte bid fair to do that and more
for a generation to come. Moons
may come and moons may go, and
panics may rise and die, but Butte
will proceed on its wave of pros
perity long into the next century.
It's copper output is increasing and
this district is adding to the worlds
wealth as rapidly as the famous
South African mines about which
! Europe is now so crazy.
A wave of reform has swept over
this city since I was here before
The gambling houses are closed and
hundreds of thousands that formerly
went to the desperate and the para
site, to the saloonkeeper and the
gambler, find their way into more
useful and benevolent channels
Thousands of families are better and
happier by the closing of the gam
bling hells. And business men of
all kinds tell me that collections are
easier, sales better, and the miner
and his family a thousand times hap
pier since the glare and fascination
of the gambling table ceased to be
| an institution.
The city government is now in the
| hands of the A. P. A. And that is
not by any means a misfortune. All
that an institution of that kind
| needs is rope enough to
HANG ITSELF.
Butte has had disreputable city
! governments, but this one beats the
| record. So, at least, Independent
parties tell me. Like all lorganiza-
tions founded on fraud or fanaticism,
it is rapidly going the way of all
flesh, and will perish in due time,
in this city at least, without tear
cleus and strength Of A. P. A.-ism is
not American, but foreign. The
| Canadian, the Cornish and the Swede
are it's backbone. Some Americans
! join it, but rarely except for politi-
| cal purposes. Politics are wofully
| mixed. Democracy. in Montana is
a thing of the past, and a yellow
\ &c
| election to a state office than a Dem
| ocratic nominee. 1t is idle to go
| into the why's and wherefores-this
| is the cold bald fact. The jugglery
| that took place on the tariff, Cleve-
| lands financial policy and disputes
| between the leaders have all done
their work. But with all that Mon
| tana is not Republican.
Nowhere is the silver question more
| thoroughly understood in its manifold
bearings than in Montana. Tariff is
/ not an issue here; silver is. Nor is it
a selfish issue, for the price of silver
| cuts little figure in the mining indus
! try of Butte. These people look at it
| from a national and not local stand
! point. The low price of silver causes
! the mine owners to get ,0O0 less
| for their product than they otherwise
| would, but the wool, the wheat, the
| cotton producers lose $500, 600, 900 year
| by the demonetization of silver. Nine
hundred million people are working
for and producing cotton, wheat, wool
/ and other farm products with
SILVER-PAID LABOR.
Our labor is paid in gold. 1t is thus
utterly and absolutely impossible for
| American farmers to compete with
| farmers producing on silver basis.
| The farmers of Germany, France and
England know all this perfectly well.
They must go to the level of prices of
South America and Asia. And in the
latter countries production is being
| stimulated to the ruin of the American
and European farmer. The silver is
sue is then a farmers and not a min
| ers' question. The dullest intelligence
| should see this. Moreover, it is a man
| ufacturers' question, too. Japan is
moving ahead by leaps and bounds
as a manufacturing country, and a
dozen years of gold monometallism
will transform the manufacturing CEN
| ters of the world. BY that time Asia
will build the worlds ships and run
the worlds looms. The New England
manufacturer will need protection,
! not against England, but against Jap
an and China, and the commerce of
this United States will be transferred
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
These are the views of Montana
men, and they are the views of men
as enlightened, as broad and as capa-
BILE as any living. Mr.. Cleveland may
write platitudes and sophisms about
sound money; he is supremely honest.
and sincere about the matter, but
greater minds than his know but too
well that gold mopometallism means
periodic panic and perhaps ruin for
this republic. Ultimately England
will herself. be compelled to go into
international bimetallism. The million
who hold the gold
BONDS OF THE WORLD
will not always be able to cheat and
defraud the thirteen hundred millions
who sweat and toll. The United States
has to give twice the quantity of wheat
and cotton and corn to pay the inter-
est on bonds that it did thirty years
ago. Bimetallism would save to the
republic $500, 100000 year. The bimet-
allist Is the friend of humanity and the
foe of fraud and chicanery. But If
America goes it alone gold will dis
appear out of the United States, say
the monometallists. But it is going
now. and when the competition of the.
silver countries increases our gold Will
go faster still. America cannot keep
it and our gold will soon have van
ished;. 1t may take ten years to do Il,