The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-03
IN CLOSING THE CAMPAIGN.
SIX THOUSAND FRIENDS OF SOUND
MONEY LISTEN TO THE FINAL
ADDRESS.
WORK OF THE sALvATIoNIsTs.
BOoth-Tucker Points Out the Good
That Has Been Done-Minne-
polls Matters.

! months, last evening saw the close Of
| the campaign on the part of the Re-
! publicans of Minneapolis. Senator
knute Nelson was the attraction of
the evening, and his concluding words
were most appropriate in which to
! end what has proved to be the most
intense and exciting political contest
in the history of the American repub-
I1c NOW, boys, up and at them" Last
nights meeting proved in many re-
/ spects the best held in Minneapolis on
the part of the sound money advo-
Gates. Mr.. Nelson's speech was a SIM
pie and yet conclusive discussion Of
the money question. 1t had been ex-
pected that his address would be di-
rected especially toward voters Of his
own nationality. In fact he made no
! reference whatever to nationality, and
the only statement having any relation
| Whatever to nationality was a COM
parlson OF the money systems of Euro
pean nations, in which he referred to
Norway, Sweden and Denmark as be-
ing upon single gold standard and
| unlike the system of the United States.
nc say that Senator Nelson was we'll
received by Minneapolis Republicans
would be but mildly stating the fact.
he was welcomed with open arms. His
| appearance upon the platform was the
| slshal Tor an outburst of applause
| WHICH continued for several minutes
| 50 louu that 1T made the walls of the
oiu oullolng tremble. When he arose
" speak ne received a second ovation
wHlch concluded with three cheers for
Nelson. III
oo ne audience numbered no less than
1OVV people, packing the floor of the
m la ana nearly filling the galleries
Inc audience was a noisy one. from
me TACT that large number of uni
1Slty poyS had provided themselves
with tin horns of various degrees Of
Ioudness and discord, their combined
resuLt reminding one strongly of a
DoSpipe. Music was furnished by the
rlrsI regiment band and the Temple
L. S. Eastman was the first sneaker.
VINO was announced as a laborine man
OF the city. He was to speak of the
money question in relation to the
Worklngman: After introducing his
Topic, ne asked of the Iaboring men
present the pertinent question. Have
any of you ever heard a single reason
assigned Why the laborer should vote
LOT the free and unlimited coinage of
silver! He continued: Il have heard
good and sufficient reason why the
siIver mine owner should vote that
ticket, and a plausible reason is
given why the farmer should vote for
silver. 1t is that the price Of his nrod
ucts will be raised. But how are the
Wage-earners to be benefited? 1t is
admitted that the free coinage plan
VIII raise the price Of all necessities
Whlch we must buy, as we'll from the
farm as from the manufacturer and
merchant. But what assurance have
we mat wages will be advanced to
kee~ pace with the advanced cost of
nvlng! In fact, it is the law that
wages are the slowest to rise. In
that case we are doing ourselves a
positive INJURY. The speaker told
a pig story, which was to illustrate the
condition of the silver men on the
proposition that free coinag e would
raise the bullion value of silver to the
coinage value. An Irishman killed a
hog, and when asked how much 1t
weighed dressed, replied. "Begorrv. #
didn't weigh as much as I expected,
and [ never believed it would In
conclusion, the speaker said that the
laboring people of the United States
are an intelligent class Of men, not to
be led astray by fallacious theories.
and he believed that they would
march to the polls and to a man cast
their vote for Mckinley and sound
money
SENATOR NELSON
n,U Gu the mali during the speech
Of Mr.. Eastman. He was loudly
cheered as he began his address. His
voice at the opening was low, and cries
of louder" louder" from various parts
of the room disturbed him, but he was
soon able to make himself heard
throughout the vast audience. He told
OF q meeting he recently held in a small
town on the Northern Pacific road.
where two years ago there were onlv
Populfsts. This year they were for Nc
Kinley and the Republican party. The
speaker said: Never since the days
OF the great war, when l with many of
you, shouldered my musket as a bow
and marched to the front, have I felt
as much interest in any political strug-
gle as now. I was then partisan, now
l am only one of Uncle Sans boys.
anxious alone for the welfare of the
country, and to do my duty In 1892
the Democratic party came to me with
promises of tariff reform We have
had four years Of starvation as q result
They didn't dare come to us again with
that plea, and now offer as the panacea
OF all our ills the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver at a ratio of is to /,
they say we have too little money to
90 the business of the country, and that
what we have is too high priced They
say all this was caused by the demon
etization of silver in '73, and that where
legislation has injured legislation can
cure. 1t is true that in 1873 silver was
GemonetiZed by legislative act. Five
years later, or 1873, an act was passed
remonetizing silver, and ever since the
latter date silver has been legal tender
for the payment of all debts public or
private. That law is still in force.
The so-called Bland bill makes silver
legal tender for all obligations unless
otherwise stated in the contract. There
is no legal reason why the government
| could not pay every dollar of its debt
in silver if it saw fit, but there is an
other duty of the government. and that
is to redeem its promise to maintain
the parity Of the two metals used as
coin. For as soon as the government
| should begin to diScredit either of its
money coins, so soon would that coin
fall in price and become the sole coin
of the nation. 1t would at once drive out
of circulation the better coin. Now. al
though technically silver is a primary
money, still the government is Obliged
to forego its right to pay its obliga-
ticns in silver, and to pay all it's debts
in gold. But what about the gold
element in contracts? It must be re-
membered that we are a young nation,
that we haven't as yet acquired the
wealth of the older European nations
Most Of our railroads, for examples.
have been built of money borrowed
from European capitalists. If we had
depended upon the money lenders of
our own country, the railroads would
tie Norway. a gold standard country.
noted for its rocks and fijords, with
less tillable lands than my own county
of Douglas in Minnesota There we,
can borrow money at 8 per cent inter-
est, the only condition being that we
are to pay interest and principal in
money which is just as good as that re-
| a hi l.