The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-28
are one people and that our greatness is in

are one people and that our greatness Is in
our oneness.
There no classes, thank God, in this
country. There are no places of power or
wealth to which the humblest boy may not
aspire. Every president since Washington
has come from the ranks, and all our pros
porous business men are of the people, and
have climbed from the bottom. The pre-
tence that 100000 bankers and money lenders
VIII be at each one of the 100000 voting
places influencing or controlling the vote
in prior presidential congressional cleo
tons, Is an assumption mere monstrous than
the destruction of this earth by having swung
around 1t the atmospheric tail of flying
comet.
At Albany Mr.. Bryan spoke sneeringly of
the confidence man. evidently meaning
that the gold Standard man was a confidence
man. and the free coinage of silver at 16
to i industrial and financial prosperity and
happiness. The gold confidence man." who
has been governing this country since the
wal, has paid off most of the national debt, has
more than doubled the mileage of our rail-
ways and telegraphs and nearly doubled the
number OF our states; has furnished homes
ana employment for seventy millions of peo-
pie to live better than thirty millions did
before; has created the new South; has ad
vanced wages and decreased the cost of iv-
ing. What has the free coinage of silver
confidence man" done, simply by the promise
of what he will do? Let the distressed farmer
States answer at the ballot box. Lack of
confidence has destroyed the purchasing
power of the country Destruction of its
purchasing power has ruined it's market
The ruin Of it's market has left the farmers
product unstable on his hands. What the
farmer wants is not more coinage, but more
customers; wnat the wage Garner wants Is
to exchange his labor for the best dollar in
the world, and the opportunity whenever he
wants to, to get that dollar with his labor
Every day receive marked copies of Pop
ul1st papers attacking me of the enc
mics of mankind because of my position as
president of the New York Central railroad,
and of my clients as a lawyer. Their candi-
dates for president and vice president, both
started in life as l did, with no other cap
ital than education and a profession. We
all three hustled for clients. for income and
careers. That the business of one is re-
puted to yield larger returns than that of
the other two it not regarded by law as either
reproach or misfortune. There are 35. 900
OF us on the pay roll of that company, and
we neither want to receive money worth
half as much as that which we get, nor to be
compelled to pay for the necessities of life
twice as much as we pay now.
In debate which Mr.. Bryan had, a few
months before his nomination upon the silver
question with Mr.. Rosewater, the able editor
OF the Omaha Bee, Mr.. Bryan cited the
PROSPERITY OF MEXICO
as proof of the benefits of the free coinage
OF silver | asked a railway official of one
of the Mexican railroads to send me the pay
roll OF his company. | received it this morn
ing. find that the pay Of locomotive en-
glneers, nremen, switchmen, yardmen, con-
ductors. brakemen and skilled mechanics in
the shop average somewhat less than the
same service receives on the New York Cen
tral, put those employees are paid invariably
IN the Mexican silver dollar, which makes
their wages one-half the wages on the New
YORK Central. He sends me also the prices
Oh tne articles which these employees must
Duy Tor the support of themselves and their
iamllles, and l find that those are higher
than they are in the state of New York
Mr. Bryan is loudly calling for our inde-
pendence from Europe; Independence from
borrowing its money for developing our en-
terprises and employing our labor, which
would also mean independence from the vast
trade which is carried on between Europe and
the United States. We cannot close our ports
ana build wall around us and be isolated
from the world. but we may go to a silver
Gaa; pass and @ then establish our relations with
Better nifty years of Europe than a cycle of
Cathay Better ten years of vigorous,
dI1y nead{Iny progressive activity than century of
paralysis Better Chief Justic Russell with
ms magnincent message of peace and interna-
Ilonal friendship and commerce than Lii
hung Ghang and cheap Chinese labor.
MT. Bryan is fond of talking about diving
IN the last ditch and standing in the fore
'front.', and making comparisons with distin-
guished characters in history. Unless reason
ana patriotism have gone from the American
people, after election ne will stand in our
tics. f
We may accept the term. while we renudiate
the relation, that the president of the United
States is the hired man of the people, He
noIds his place for four years the repre-
sentative OF the people. During that time
ne possesses more power than any ruler in
the world, except the autocrat of all the
Russias He can keep the country disturbed
or at rest. He may not be able to create
prosperity but he can destroy it. He can
create Infinite distrust by the measures which
he suggests or the quarrels which he provokes
with foreign countries. The incumbent of
this high office goes almost as far as the
principles behind the candidate. While Mr..
Bryan was practicing law before he entered
Mn1 MnK iTln Law
people in that body. While Mr.. Bryan, in the
legitimate prosecution of his business as
lawyer was foreclosing mortgages on Ne
braska farmers, Maj. Mckinley was prepar-
ing measures and promoting policies which
would enable the farmer to pay off his mort
cages. While Mr. Bryan, as a representative
in congress, was preaching free trade and
reputation, Mckinley. by craftsmanship and
with the measures which would give work,
wages, business, was endeavoring to restore
good times and sustain the national honor,
the national credit and sound money. While
Mr.. Bryan says my experiment of free
trade or all of it I could get, has proved
debased currency. and perhaps that will sue
ceed." Maj. Mckinley says: Let US re-
turn once more to the policies and the prac-
tice and the measures which from Washington
to Harrison made this country the greatest,
the freest the wealthiest, the most proaper-
Gus and the best for its people Of any land
in the world"
In 1892 1 sat one night after the election
upon the rear porch OF the White house
with the then president, talking over the re-
suits of the canvass. He said: 'Mr: Depew,
beyond the Potomac is point upon which
a notch is made every year, showing how
high the tide has risen. Ny administration
has placed the notch of American prosperity
higher than it has ever been before (Ap-
plause.) This Democratic administration
which is coming in must mark a notch high
er than that or it must go out Of power with
the judgment of the American people that
1t has failed in its promises and failed in its
policies, and the demand for the Republican
party. once more to put the notch on the
post
DR.. Depew sat down In a tumult Of
applause as Gen. Harrison stepped to
the front. Gen. Harrison said,