The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-16
SOUND MONEY is SALVATION.
WOULD IMPRESS ON HIS
HEARERS.
And InvOkes Divine Wrath ON the
Authors of the Plank Concern
Ing Riot and InsurrectiOn.

can campaign went booming over the
city last evening in tremendous mass
meeting at Market hall The gunner
was Congressman Ben Butterworth, of
Ohio. and his workmanship appeared
to be telling and sure, judging from
the wildness of the cheering and APP
plause.
The hall was packed and damned
clean to the roof, and what noise the
thousands failed to make was supplied
by a very enthusiastic brass band.
Congressman A r. Kiefer performed
the ceremonies of chairman of the
meeting, and opened his preliminary
remarks by asking the vast audience if
they had heard anything drop from
the rugged shores of Maine, to which
there came chorus of shouts, 'How
about that $4,000 for sound money!
Ben Butterworth combines. the elo-
quence of his speech and the telling
weight of his logic with an acrobatic
exhibition of physical energy He is
one of the most enterprising men in
the matter Of gestures and muscular
demonstration. He adds, however, a
great power to his already powerful
words by the quaintness and violence
of his muscular punctuation. He
Frances from one end of the stage to
the other, throws his body the half
of circle, and uses his arms after the
manner of old-fashioned fails. But his
arguments are convincing and his elo-
quence uplifting. There is solemn
earnestness in his voice when he
speaks about the perils which threaten
my country" as he always patriotic
ally puts it. His address occupied the
better portion Of two hours, during
which he held the vast audience in
rapt attention. He said in substance:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens
of Minnesota: There occur in the lives
Of nations, as well as individuals, perils
and grave vicissitudes, and it becomes
a nation, as we'll as the individual,
to treat them with the same careful
elaboration and courage, and to put
as far away as possible the evils which
threaten. Grover Cleveland once said
that it is condition and not a theory
which confronts US. but today, my
friends, we are confronted with plenty
OF theories. Gaughter.)
Today we find our Industries large
~ paralyzed, and we all are suffering
from the existing conditions. A great
many learned men pass their time In
dwelling yociferously upon the condi-
tions, and not what produced them or
what can mend them. This is not the
kind OF study we need The condi-
ions we must face squarely 1t does
no good to sit down and make faces.
But, my friends, the great problems
which confront us will be settled long
before the Sd of November. They wifi
be settled at the f1reside and hearth
stone, where the great American peo-
pie do their thinking. You little un-
derstand, my friends, the potentiality
OF the ballot. One ballot once brought
a war between the United States and
a sister republic. A ballot has been
known to elect United States senator
or carry some measure of grave i'm
portance- So let us each do our duty
with those little pieces of paper upon
Nov. 8.
1T Is a very dull man who does not
know that the legislation which vexes
North Dakota or Minnesota will also
vex Ohio, or New York, or any other
of the states Of the Union. We are
49,
actually. So We must see that that
which is OF Importance and benefit to
one of us, is of Importance to the whole
nation. That which we will receive
In November will either bless or curse
the entire nation. And that which we
do bring about is the individual re-
sponsibility of each of us.
I want to say to my Populist friend
that L do not want any veal to come
TO my hearthstone which does not
come TO MS. There is only one way in
which we can bring about a proper
solution of the questions, and that is
by free, fair and honest discussion
after which, the discharge of our duty
as God gives us to see it. If we go to
the polls consciously dishonest. con-
sciously corrupt, we can not right the
wrong we have made except through
revolution and bloodshed. 1t Is better
to be wrong and honest than wrong
ana corrupt, for We can correct an
honest error
The two sides of this great problem
before us represent the very antipodes
OF the situation, although both parties
promise to WOO back prosperity and
obliterate the industrial paralysis.
The Republican party, strong in its
faith and courageous in the memory
OF It's past history, spreads out It's
promises In its platform. On the other
hand, the other party also promises
what 1t will do and the way it will do
1T. Now choose We which We will have.
One of them will bring back the pros
perity of four years ago. say to nv
Populistic friend, If your creed Is bet
ter than mine, I wish you godspeed.
(Cheers.) And if mine is better than
yours, 1 shall demand that you rally
to my standard
z I beg to call your attention to one
Or two facts. | shall not force upon
you tables of statistics l do not like
figures. Perhaps figures do not lie.
but liars do figure sometimes. Gaugh
teri In my opinion there are certain
obvious facts and underlying principles
upon which we can reach an honest
just and patriotic conclusion. Four
years ago the American people voted
that the Republican party with all it
promised should be mustered out of
the balance of power, in order to admit
a newer era of prosperity Bowling its
head to the mandate of the people, the
Republican party marched out. and
with 1t my cOuntrymen, the prosperity
of the nation. AS the Republican party
was lost in the distance, in walked
Grover Cleveland. and with him strobe
adversely and reverses, strife and dis
sension. We have them all with us
yet. Is this not fact, an unchalIenped
truth? You say that Grover was not
at fault. Well some one was. You
charge 1t to the delinquency of the
government, but who constitutes the
government but the voice of the people.
say it was your plan, your govern
ment. Your administration, and It was
Numerically opposed to ours. You
tried it and the whole world knows
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