The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-29
THE CLOACA CLEANER.
STILL AT HIS DIRTY WOKK.-sPREAD-
ING COMPOST OF LIES TO RAISE

mo A COMPOST OF LIES TO RAISE
CROP OF INIQUfTY.
The St. Paul Globe, Democrat, IN
der the leadership of that ex hepuoil-
can, the salacous Pyle. is vicious
institution, and is rapidly running IT.
self into the ground. The Democrats
of Minnesota are, by an overwhelm-
ing majority, in favor or free-sllVer'
but the Globe keeps piping away on
the little tune it is paid to play. Inc
fact that the free-silverites ana the
Peoples Party are about TO get Cc-
gether, at St. Louis, on July 22I, ana
sweep the country. excites it like
red rag waved in the face of an unrea-
sonable bull. 1t is ludlcrous
thing to see mere hirchng
of the ungodly INDUCING, on De-
half of his owners, in the wrath ana
indignation which betit an honest
man. One would think that the con-
seriousness that their capacities were
all for sale, would have a Quieting In
fuence on these soldiers of fortune
and free-lances OF mend acity.
In its issue of January %, the Globe
says:
The new party, Of which Jones,
Stewart & Co., have laid the Keel 10
their prUnOunciamentO, and which
| they hope to launch successfully In
! St. Louis on July %, assures the
waiting and anxious public that 1.-The
paramount issue at this time in the
United States is between the gold
standard, gold bonds and bank cur
rency on the one hand. and a bimetal-
lie standard, no bonds and nat onal
currency on the other" They might
have stated the issue more accurately
| by saying that it Is a battle between
the gold standard and all that implies,
and d silver standard, with all that
implies: statement or the issue that
would have the merit of accuracy and
of freedom from buncombe. A "bl-
metallic' standard is pure humbug.
1t is thing no country ever has had,
that none have and that none can
haye. A standard is, as it always has
been, one that the commercial
world, the men Of business, and not
governments, have first adopted
Every country on the globe is Under
such system today, whe ther the unit
be gold or silver, one or the other, not
both.
But these men declare that they ap-
prehend danger to our Industries from
the cheap laOor of the Orient. They
pretend TO want their single silver
standard to protect American labor,
to ''prevent our farmers, mechanics,
manufactures and other Industrial
workers. from being reduced to the
wages OF Chinese coolies" And tt
do it, they would put our currency on
the same Level, make it il critically the
same in value, with that OF these
countries where labor is so cheap that
ours cannot compete with it. Tariffs
they assure the gullible wage-earner,
for whom they fish, cannot alone pro
tect them; silver standard must a is(
he adopted, or else they will sink tG
the level of the coolies Of Cnina. Was
there ever logic SO lame or conclusion
50 baseless? The Orient, China ant
Japan, on silver basis. can produce
so cheaply that we cannot hope, eve
under the shelter Of protective tariffs
to compete with them unless we ais
so to silver basis.
The Globe says that ''no countr
has ever had and never can nave a bi
metallic standard" And yet this un
considerable liar knows perfectly wei
that the United States had bi-met
allie, gold and silver standard, fror
, the foundation of the government ur
til 1873, when 100000 of British gol
corrupted Congress to demonetize 81
YER and put this country on a slngl
gold basis.
And observe how, as usual, tn
scamp tries to degrade government o
the whole in the interest of what h
calls "the men Of business" whic
means the Shylocks and money-lent
ers. And yet this persiflaginou
"cuss" knows, if he knows anything
that until the governments OF the worl
united to degrade silver the cuisines
men" of the world united in receivin
it at the governmental STANDARD
Who ever heard of any cuisines
, man. refusing, prior to 1873, to acceI
silver for one hundred cents on til
dollar? In fact it was, when demont
tized. at premium of 3 per cent owe
gold. And even now when silvt
!, bullion has fallen so per cent in I'll
: markets of the world, every ''busine
!, man" in the United States gladly a
. cepts the silver dollar for 100 cen
> instead Of s. cents, because the gorer
n,t7a, mot "the business men') h;
j. made it legal-tender.
And then note his incOnsequenti;
chatter about the low wages of I'll
:. Orient, and the Indebtedness of 81
: ver-standard countries. He knows,
every one knows. that the low wag,
:, of China, Japan and India have pr
:, vailed for five thousand years pas
!, and are due to misgovernment, owe
population and oppression; and not
> the use of silver. And he knows ais
y very we'll, that Mexico, to-day on 8
- YER basis, is a hundred times mo
!, prosperous than the United State
this land Of suicides, on a gold bas
;, A great emigration has set in fro
=, the United States to Mexico, made I
:, our most intelligent and enterprise
: citizens.> While half our railroads a
= in the hands Of receivers the Mexic;
railroad system is prosperous and
being extended in ever direction.
What is the meaning Of all the
misrepresentations: The Globe
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