The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-09
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A WORTHY PARALLEL.

A WORTHY PARALLEL.
We extract the following from an ar
ticle in the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat, one of the principal supporters of
silver monometallism in the South
The gold bug position now is that, because
few Fasteners have practically all the
money and most of the education of the coun-
try. the illiterate and pauper West and South
have nothing to do but to accept the lot that
the cultured and affluent East pleases to as
sign to them.
We would not have made this parallel
ourselves because we think it is unwor-
thy and slanderous, but we accept it at
the hands of an ardent silverite, be-
cause it suggests an exceedingly happy
comparison, two Of them, in fact. In
the first place the statement that the
East has monopoly of wealth is just
as false as that ii has a monopoly of
education and culture. 1t has been
used diligently by the circuit riders of
the gospel of hate throughout the
South and West. The people of those
sections have been told day and night
that they were poor, and that they
Envy, and hatred growing out of envy,
being passions easiest of all to raise this
has affected very large number of peo-
pie, and drawn them into the maelstrom
of financial folly To-day the West
Is incomparably richer than the East
Its resources are so far superior that
no ordinary comparison will hold. The
same amount of industry applied in
the West to the development of any Of
the cOuntry's natural resources will
bring far greater return than at the
East. AS to the matter of education
and culture, we need to do no more
than to refer to the census statistics:
where a Western state has long held
the banner for the lowest percentage
or 1llfteracy, and the record of almost
all the states in that section Is good.
Ii the showing in the South is less
credltable, 1t is because of the exist
ence there Of the negro problem, which
has required the sudden provision of
immense educational facilities nracti-
cally out of nothing, to deal with a
Whole race thrust upon the public con-
science and the public charge. So far.
we defend the West and the South
against one of the befoulers of their
nests.
But, accepting now the posit;on &c
the Tlmes-Democrat has stated it. and
remembering that the hate to which if
appeals Of section against section is
powerful, let us see how beautifully
the parallel that it indicates works out
1t says that the South and West arc
poor "hlle the East is rich Therefore
let US make more money by law in or
der to even things up. How. the South
which does not produce an ounce ~
silver bullion, is going to get its share
Is left as dark a matter RI tbo a,,o 20
1alth as how the gluttonous East is
TO De prevented from absorbing If all
but' laying that aside, the nature Of
0ne remedy for it is clear. Since tho
one section is at a disadvantage as
compared with the other, It Is NOT m
accept the lot" which that Other
pleases to assign to it, but is to create
wealth for itself by appropriate leeis-
lation
Now, the facility with which +bis
may be done is powerfully indicated
IN coupling the alleged differences in
education with the alleged differences
In fortune. If the West and South are
also illiterate and uncultured as com
pared with the East, why not eoualize.
matters in that direction by the san3e
means that are proposed for leveling
up and leveling down financial ir.eouaI-
tiles? If an act of congress can make
the people of the East less wealthy and
those Of the South and West more an
merely by the great fiat of law. wbv
not make the same prescription in tbe
matter OF education? Unquestionably.
the convention that declares that 81 is
the same as Is, and that congress shall
pass a law declaring it to be so. ought
also to demand in its platform that con-
gress enact a law setting forth In Main
terms that there shall be Just as MANY
cultured and educated men in the
South and West as in the East. Tn
fact, to do exact justice we think that
culture and education should be an-
portioned among the several states on
the basis Of their population, just as
political representation now is; with
the further proviso that each commu-
nifty should contain at least sixteen
wise mel for every chump.
Since we have got into the ethereal
reign of almighty fiat, let us have fiat
enough to go around. Require congress
20 establish an absolute equality in edu-
ration and culture, as well as in wealth,
and little later on we may be able to
FIX it by law so that all individuals
shall be exactly equal in moral fiber
aud physical stature, and even to orr