The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-10
SOUND MONEY HOST
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the confederate factory, arc not, therefore.
neophytes in the philosophy of money and
science or exchange. Their consummate skill
IN raising revenues and creating currency
values in the Southern confederacy attests
their qualities and abilities as good citizens
TO whom patriotic political economy is an
INSPIRATION. The fact that very many of
the leaders Of the confederate 16 to i doctrine
were present, dominant and triumphant at
the Chicago convention and were also among
the prime architects of the wonderfully ex-
pansive and successful monetary system Of
the confederacy is cause for congratulation.
instinct taught those practical men in the
Gays OF their confederate fame that honest
money OF unfuctuating purchasing power
was the creature Of law. But experience sub
sequently gave them lesson which illustrated
the folly of being governed in affairs of
nnance by either instinct, emotion or oratory
Then they found that the laws of confeder-
aey conferred no value upon either silver or
paper, but that the gold bullion of the United
States which the confederacy appropriated to
Its own use and minted at New Orleans and
at Dahionega, Ca. into eagles and double
eagles, continue. though In law counterfets
OF as much purchasing power as those of the
same weight and fneness coined by the United
States on yesterday.
The free and unlimited coinage of 41a1h
grain, legal tender silver dollars in the United
force bill. 1t would place the inferior in
power expatriate the superior, and leave sill
yer. the sole measure of value and mediator
Of exchanges in the United States. And all
ity' who are perpetually hysterieal about the
condition Of the plain people," the poor
and the weak" the "toiling Masses and
others, upon whom they lavish their beneyoI-
ence. They generalize they deindividualize
these classes and appeal to the emotions on
their account, proposing aid by legislation
and a change of national finance in their be-
half. Money is, by law, to be transferred
from those who have money to those who do
not have money. And massed capitaI-wth-
out which civilization cannot advance or
nvjo f fC 10 he
distributed. Thus the wages reservoirs OF in
dustry, are to be destroyed. Thus capital
which employs and sustains labor is to be
assassinated and the sole source Of Industrial
sustenance destroyed. And all this not for
the majority, which is solvent and prosper
Gus, but for comparatively insignificant
minority, whose self-constituted attorneys de-
clare them insolvent and distressed.
For generations thoughtful parents have
taught their sons industry temperance and
economy. That teaching has resulted in
capital ard capitalists. And the smoke of
every factory, the fires of every engine. the
harvests in every field, are the sequence of
the sound instruction in economics which
every good father and mother IN the United
States have been imparting during the most
wonderful hundred years of mans civilized
career. That hundred years which notwith-
standing the course Of the gold standard
have developed on this continent a republic
which, in mental strength, moral worth and
money value and honor and honesty is
miracle among the nations. And no COM
muD1SC can mere Hihh0 1tlulN1uuHl prosperity
an offense capital a crime and capitalists
malefactors by melting wage-earners to hate
and destroy the men who pay them. Here
the laborer of today may be the capitalist of
tomorrow. Chicago and all the Northwest
are alive and energized with enterprises, the
capital of which belongs to the laborer OF
yesterday. And in the vicissitudes of affairs
the capitalist Of today may tomorrow become
a day laborer. And IL much money-large
capitalize a crime. where will these de-
Chalmers against the public peace and the
contentment Of the country mark the limit
of innocent accumulation? How much money
may a man corporation be allowed to
possess? What amount Is crime? How little
Is virtue2
II inventive genius could compass the con-
struction OF a phonograph of the centuries
and impress upon its cylinders all Of human
finance since the Florentines began the Coin
age Of gold and silver the voice Of CONNER
ciaI experience for more than twelve centuries
would appeal to you for honest money, stable
currency and national integrity. They are
the faithful conservators Of national unity and
prosperity. IL all the languages of the civil
lied world, that photograph, vocalizing the
financial experiences OF a thousand years,
would admonish the people of our great re-
public, whose homes and wives and children
stand firmly for the least nuctuating measure
of value, and therefore to hold fast to the
gold standard and a subsidiary coinage of
silver. Remember that honesty Of trade
which is taught by holy writ.
The day after the great IRE In Chicago.
twenty-five years ago, labor lent Its muscle
skill and energy to the rebuilding OF the city.
And every day since labor has been the credi-
tor and capital the debtor in this controlling