St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-06
rIrNRyCHsEN,s GREAT HEAD.

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is secretary Of state for Illinois, and
also chairman of the Democratic
committee of that state, has a great
head. He knows precisely what is
|. the matter with the Democratic
party, and the one remedy and the
exact dose it must be forced to take
to restore it to that robust condi-
tion it was in two years ago. While
others have been puttering and di-
agnosing and studying and watching
and feeling the pulse of the patient
and taking its temperature, Hinrich-
sen has been quietly making up the
mind that dwells in his great head
as to what was the matter and what
is the medicine.
And having reached a decision he
moves with Napoleonic CELEBRITY and
decision. He convenes the state CEN
trail committee, or, more accurately,
the proxy committee, and it sum-
mons the state Democracy in gen.
eral council to ratify the decision of
the gifted chairman that his is the
only possible remedy for the COM
plant that affiicts the party which
must be injected into the body of
the national Democracy, hypoder-
mically, Of course, willy-niliy. Then
to a reporter the chairman unfolds
his diagnosis and remedy. The De-
mocracy must take the silver cure.
It has the financial tremens, and
the gold cure is innocuous. Not only
must it take the silver cure, but the
dose is prescribed. 1t is precisely 16
to 1, nothing more, nothing less.
Others may shake their heads,
but no doubt troubles the mind of
Eiinrichsen. So, far from this driv-
ing gold out Of circulation, it is the
very thing that will drive it in. That
is the purpose of his plan of cam
paign. It is as plain as day-to Hin
| richsen. Just as soon as his dag
nosis is ratified and the remedy is
| being compounded, the holders OF
| gold will begin buying silver billion
! with it. Free coinage will make sill
yer worth $1.29 an ounce before 1S9
| that is now worth but SO cents; 412H
| grains Of it, now worth SO cents, viii
| then be worth 81. Here is profit O.
40 per cent in less than two years
| There will be a universal rush o
| gold TO this inviting feast. A yellow
tide will set in upon us from al
| quarters of the globe to be converted
into the white metal. Under thi
impact it's price will rise unit
parity is reached.
And there you have it. What {
| marvel it is that so simple a thins
as this was never thought of befor
| by any one. What have all on
| financiers, our students Of money
our economists been thinking o
that they have not discovered thi
| plain, simple and most efffcaciou
remedy? What a great head VIII
| lam Henry has to be sure. An(
what honor is due hin1-if it works
| The titular saints of the party, JEFF
| ferson and Jackson, will have to ad
| nit a third into their exalted com
pany. Henceforth it will be .Sainr
| Thomas, Saint Andrew and Sam
| William Henry. Future Democrat
clubs will be observing William
Henry's natal day as they now ven
crate the lucky days that gave the
two older saints to the world and
Democracy.
We know there are those who will
carp at this discovery just as Koch
and Behring and Pasteur had their
envious detractors. There will be
those stupid enough to claim that
men with gold will do no such a
thing, imagining they see a better
thing in the premium on gold which
the wiseacres predict will come.
They may p"ofer to convert the sill
yer cel tic les, the Shermans and
the greenback. into silver bullion
rather than part with their gold.
But whenever did a great man come
up from obscurity to propose the
betterment of his race that there
were not those to decry him and
persecute him, and insist that he
and his plan didn't amount to
shucks? Send the GROWERS to the
rear; clear the way for Hinrichseu.
and let the oppressed of the land
proclaim him their .deliverer and
oenefaetor. Hurrah for Hinrichsen.