The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-26

enue or separate the deficit from the redemp-
ton of greenbacks. Had the house revenue
bills OF last session passed congress and be-
come law, the country, with full hope of a
republican administration in the near future,
would then have started upward and onward.
But the condition has been peculiar. We
nave a three-cornered triangular government.
Everybody has been In the minority, and
hence nobody has had any responsibility, and
we nave drifted sailless and rudderless, but,
thank God, with a stout ship, stouter than all
the winds that blow, when next you put that
snip In commission had you Not better have
harmonious captain and crew, all of them
men VINO nave been to sea. l know that the
four gentlemen, Messrs. Bryan and Watson
and Bryan and Sewall have been at sea for
many years. but that is different thing.
RESTORE CONFIDENCE.
We must restore confidence first by putting
anarchy down and all manner of disturbances.
Peace and a stable government are the first
necessity. This is borrowing and lending
world. No amount OF denunciation of money
lenders, no wild talk about Wall street. which
by the way is the greatest money borrower in
the world, will ever put down that fact. En-
terprises are carried on by the united con-
1dence Of men of money and men of brains.
Bring this thing home to yourselves and then
you will understand it. If you had money
or any other capital you had earned yourself
or your father had left to you, or even if you
had won in the luck of lottery, would you
let 1t out to anybody on earth who was liable
to give you back only half of it, and want to
call 1t square? If you were a business man,
would you take things on gold basis and sell
them on credit to people who were trying
basis?
With the defeat Of the Bryan Watson
Sewall combination will come certainty of the
repayment of capital borrowed at home and
abroad, certainty that business enterprises
will have firm foundation and 1897 with its
attendant years Of success will lift to
other height of success which, perhaps an
other set of misguided citizens, forgetful of
the past. will waylay us and we shall have to
beat them again.
Remember that this contest today is not
between bimetallism and monometallism
That subject would bear discussion. This
contest is between silver monometallism which
we have not and gold recommendation which
We have. That subject will not bear candid
discussion. This contest also is not between
the East and the West. There can be no such
contest Our interests identical, with their
growth comes our growth We cannot go on
alone. We have sent our children there. Our
money is there No misfortune can happen
to them that does not happen to us. We here
have full esteem for the pioneers of the
West and rejoice in their prosperity Every
wise agrees that beyond the Mississippi
lies the great wealth of the days to come.
4 In the development of this wealth we are
all interested and we in the East are not
prone to believe that are not concerned in
the progress and future of the West. I'm
founded sectional differences are without ex-
cuse, and it will be woe to those who try to
foment them. The West is too vigorous not
to find out the truth, and it is too valiant
not to follow it when found. What the West
needs is loanable capital which will develop
its resources No part of this Union is so con-
cerned in restoring confidence as the unde-
veloped territory. The South, too, has a
similar interest. But they are busy down
there just now asserting their rights and
keeping down the negro. If they could be
persuaded to look after their interests what
happy country this might be-
In conclusion Mr.. Reed said:
These financial matters are governed by
natural laws and take their course like the
rolling of the round earth or the glitter of
the stars. Suppose man were created full
grown and set upon a solitary earth facing
march of the foundation of light across the
sky the red sunset and the black darkness
came over him what could he make of this
termination of the gorgeous pageantry of the
skies? Nothing but darkness, desolation and
death and wild calling on the unknown gods
earliest boyhood seen the sun disappear into
red West to peep up another day may be
ignorant of Keplars' law and of Galileo's
faith, but he knows no greater certainty on
earth than that day follows night.
A man who has only seen 1893 might well
wonder and call for rescue, but We who have
seen 1873 and have read of 1926 and 1851 in
England and 1897 in America, know that we
shall surely rise again to business and
prosperity as that tomorroW'S sun shall rise.
Be not deceived by false prophets In the
West they tell the people that Maine Is
faltering You and / know she was never
steadfast. Here in the East they tell the
West is blazing with silver crosses and is
crowned with silver thorns, but when the tug
of battle comes the gallant West, peopled by
our children will show to the world that
brothers true and tried who have fought so
many fights, shoulder to shoulder, in the
great conflict of human progress will never
be separated from each other, or from that
great party around which clusters all the
glories of thirty of the most illustrious years
of this country's history.