The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-07-11
M1gIEA SHOWN
The Minnesota Congress stnan is Hand
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Gloves. II.
OF ais GOLD pRarlHG'
Every Position He Has Assumed is
arlere Piece Of Trick
The Peoria journal Of a recent date

says:
During the last few days the city of
Peoria has been deluged With copies OF
months ago by James 7. McCieary, OF
Minnesota It is confessedly a. reply to
another speech previously delivered by
Congressman ToWne, OF the same state.
1t is worth noting that pamphlet copies
of Mr.. TONNES address, which is in favor
OF bi1netallism are not to be seen, while
than OF Mr. McCleary in favor OF gold
recommendation is mailed even to Peoria
widows whose names are on the pension
list at Washington, and who never before
received a congressional document in
their lives It is proper to direct atten-
ton to this fact because on page 81 Of his
pamphlet the fnancier from Minnesota
goes out of his way to cast slurs at those
who differ from him by insidious allu-
sions to a silver lobby in Washington"
maintained by the "silyer barons.
Inasmuch as every newspaper IN the
United States is importuned to use boil
er-pIate sophistry in favor OF gold mono
n1etallism free of cost; inasmuch as not
q. week passes without the. issuing OF
circulars directed ON Wall street and
passing through the mails in which
are embodied treason as black as that
of the traitor who fired the first gun at
Fort Sumter; inasmnch as the use Of
and deliberate suppression Of cardinal
truths inasmuch as all these things are,
and have been for many years. the Weap-
ons of the money brokers' OF whom this
man McCreary is one Of the congressional
stool pigeons the less mud he sings at
honest efforts to present VITA truth TO
these on whom his masters are slowly
faft nF mo m.
DIV the better it will be for the doomed
cause which will shortly carry him down
to his ruin.
He who i1uputes to his fellow citizens a
desire to ''debase'' the coinage of the
republic, as the Minnesota savant does
on page 40 of his publication, when no
man on any side of the question has
ever yet proposed directly or indirectly
to lessen the amount of fine metal in
the standard silver dollar of the United
States, would had he the common
sense which should be the first quail
itication OF member of congress, be
the last man on earth to charge Others
with misuse Of terms. It has taken
the people Of this congressional dis
trict some time to study and find out
that the term basement has no
proper place in coinage discussion until
It is proposed to alter the relation of the
precious meals to the alloy in the coins
Of the republic.
It has taken them some time to dis
cover that the honest dollar" which
dollar, the purchasing power Of which
has been doubled III the past quarter Of
a century by the honest legislation OF
which James T. McCleary is 3 con gress-
siona1 advocate but the fact that they
have found it out is certainly an 1ndi-
cation that enlightenment will finally
reach Minnesota, and when 1t does there
Will be one eX-congress;nan at least, who
will curse the leading strings that bind
him to a system Of money lending en-
hancement especially designed to perpet-
uate the class distinctions which make
European aristocracy q stencil in the nos
trirs q patriotic Americans. The Nc
Cleary address is lengthy and compli-
Gated, and it is not possible to review it
in the enforced limits of newspaper
space.
There are, nevertheless, a few radical
scphisms, the reasoning of which may
we'll, in the interests of truth, be per-
forateG. The main theory of the speak
err seems to be that supply and demand
and the cost Of productions are respon-
sible for falling prices, the fall in the
rfico of the staples, and silver particu-
lasly; and that the volume Of money
has nothing TO Go with it.
In the course Of his speech the Mime
sofa wise man has 81 good deaf to say
about Republican doctrine and the ex-
tension Of charity to those who do not
know any better than to differ from him.
1t is we'll for Mr. McCleary, of Mime
sofa, that he does not represent the
Fourteenth district of Illinois. It would
take more than charity to save him from
the falsities Of his own misleading logic
were his course IT special interest to the
voters her. Applying his supply and de-
r,anIi doctrine to wheat, Mr.. McCleary
gives figures to show. that its production
has increased enormously, while the cost
of producing has been materially lessened
by the application OF improved naachin-
cry. He also states in -relation to the: de-
mand: II may be pardoned for renark-
ing that the chief cause for the lower
prices during the, last three years is
that the people have been eating less and
poorer food.'' Those who have copies
of the speech will find these words on
! page Is Of the pamphlet, and on page II
they will find emphatic statemenst to the
effect that wages have increased IS per
cent In money and ~ per cent.tn purchas-
NnEa e.a t.s %sp S-,s IN ~ ksss "a ~ tk n.