The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-09

IL raises prices for what they have to buy
as well as for what they have to sell. and
Is apt to raise the former first and highest
The grocer raises his figures long before the
day laborer can have his wages advanced
the
INEVITABLE CRASH
comes and both tumble together. Cheap
money money never did cheaper the necessities of
lie, but 1t cheapens the men. Look at
Mexico, and China and India Silver men
can be made TO see, too, that making more
money does not put it in their pockets The
puiilon owner may get hundred times
more silver than now stamped into dollars
but he will not be any more willing to give
the wheat raiser single one of them with
out getting round hundred cents worth of
wheat for it. An ignorant voter thinks
that when more metal is stamped at the
mint he can somehow get a dollar for less
cents in value. The real authors Of this
movement have further views. What they
want is to find some way Of paying some
thing for nothing. It is merely the old
unlimited greenback fat money craze in a
new form. 1t has been tried at one time or
another by nearly every nation, and has
always led to ruin. 1t met its first great
defeat with US in an Ohio campaign. led
by an Ohio soldier whom the campaign
made president. This time. it will he finally
crushed, under another soldier. who will be-
come president by the largest popular ma
Jority of this generation. Vermont points
tho way.
Next to the attack on the eighth com
mandment in formidity, is the attack by our
opponents on the constitution and courts OF
the United States. The protest against the
use of constitutional power for the suppress
sion of riot the proposal to packDthe SUI
preme court the attempt to destroy the
validity OF contracts-these are NOT mere
demagogism, or even intelligent commun-
ism; they are the formal naturalization in
the United States of Russian anarchy. Little
better is the demand that every thrifty, eco
nomscal and prosperous citizen shall be dis
eliminated against and taxed, not merely
once, like other people, but twice-hrst on
what he has and then on what 1t earns. Let
us be as considerate as you please Of our
erring countrymen, who have been honestly
misied but let US indulge in no disguise as
to the unpatriotic, un-American and revo-
lutionary character of this whole programme.
There has been an ill-considered appeal to
Republicans to keep our distinctive principles
out of sight, in view OF the national danger
from these monstrous proposals. But we
cannot If we would. The government is
without revenue for it's current expenses.
1t must raise more Ii 1t would not go into
bankruptcy. One way of raising 1t is by
tariff, and there is no other except by d.
rect taxation or more borrowing. Would
the emn who beg us to let the tariff alone
favor either? And yet the tariff they are
afraid we may touch is the very tariff Mr..
Cleveland considered discreditable that he
would not sign 1t. We cannot seek the SUI
frage of the American people under any dis
guises. The patriotic Democrats who rise
above party in this national peril, as they
did In 1861, ought not to ask us to lower
our flag on the eve Of battle because they
are going to bring us some reinforcements
They could not respect US If we did, and what
is more thousands of the voters we have
now would desert us.
Forgive these crude hints about our edi-
torial work in this campaign. You know I
should not have ventured upon them ex-
cept at your renewed request, and that I
certainly should not have addressed them to
you who need them so little. The campaign
you are already making gives assurance of
the happy result in November. And yet
the party are making this campaign. The
plain people in their homes are thinking It
out for themselves. Even the best speeches
are not those made the stump. They
are coming from the porch of little two
story wooden cottage in Canton. and they
make us as proud, in this crisis, Of our
leader as we are of our cause.