St. Paul daily globe., 1895-05-05

| hidden in cost. 1t was the old story
| of a contest for the general good
against organized private greed; the
people disorganized, their cause
! fundless, appealing to a sense OF
| right, fighting great moneyed inter
| ests threatened with loss of plunder
There was dire need of education.
| A generation had passed away since
| the tariff was party issue Mill
| lions of our citizens had come to us
from foreign countries, predisposed to
| accept whatever they found here as
an essential of liberty. Editors were
discussing the question more or less
intelligently, generally less. The pao-
pie were befogged by the predictions
and assertions of the prctectionistS,
and dazed by the audacity of their
claims that the nations prosperity
was due to protection, just as now
they are daZzled by the talk of these
silver protectionists about the SYM
pathetic fall of prices with that Of
silver, and how prosperity can only
come through it's free coinage at a
false ratio which will give them a
1t was then that the Reform club
began its work, the good effect of
which no man can estimate. Week
after week it sent out it's publica-
tions, in each of which some phase of
the question was intelligently dis
cussed. Editors were engaged to fur
nish papers with information and
discussions. Supplements were print
ed and sent out to those who would
use them. Speakers were engaged
and sent out on the rostrums to
meet the advocates of plunder. When
defeat came in 1883 simply because
the people had not got to thinking
right, because they had not become
fully educated on a subject vitally af-
fecting their interests, the Reform
club, undismayed, began the fight
anew, and redoubled it's efforts. The
Minnesota Democratic association was
gratuitously supplied by the club
with the thousands of documents it
sent out to the voters of the state in
1892
What motive was behind this effort
Of the club that could excite any
mans suspicion? In what way were
its members making or to make profit
by their labors? Whence came the
money that paid for all this work?
Did our genial brother Of the Monitor
then suspect some fell design Of self
ish interest behind the club in that
work? 1t gathered its means wholly
from the voluntary contributions Of
those men-let the country be thank
full that such men do exist in it-Who
saw the robbery of the people, and
whose sense of right and justice
and patriotism rebelled against it, and
who gave freely Of their means to be
used by the men who gave their
time to the cause without hope or
thought of other recompense than
that of duty doing and of seeing an
enormous wrong righted.
And it is the same men today,
acting from precisely the same high
motives, gathering their means for
work from exactly the same source,
Who are behind the sound currency
committee OIL the same reform cIuD,
caring only to avert disaster beside
which protective tariff is but the
blow of baby. No personal gain
can come to them that all will not
share, and the loss, if it comes, will
affect them no more than it will the
least of us all. They have no ak to
grind, no selfish interest to serve, and
their "bias" is now as it was in the
tariff fight, for what they sincerely
and honestly believe is the right. We
are confident that when our friend
of the Monitor and those who have
acted with him realize that our old
friends in the Tariff fight are asking
his aid in this greater struggle that he
will drop his unjust suspicious and
lend a hand.