The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-10
o0MMENDABLE FRANKNEss.

We commend the frankness of the
mine owner who has arranged to pay
Mr.. Bryan's expenses for the next
four years while he goes touring over
the country educating people in the
beauties of silver monometalliSm. We
are of the opinion that it would ad-
vantage Mr.. Bryan much more to &C
cept the offer made to him by a New
York mercantile firm to take charge
of its legal department. But that is
his affair. The interest attaching to
the other proposition is it's frank ayew-
al of the forces and interests which
actually underlie the free silver move
ment. Mr.. Jones and all the smaller
fry down have told us that in this
campaign they had all the trusts and
monopolies against them. They had
good many, beyond question,
which are identified with the high
protective system. But there was one
trust, in some respects the greatest Of
all, that contributed unfailingly to Mr..
Bryan's campaign. This is the silver
trust, the syndicate of mine owners
who, through their representatives in
the senate, conspired to compel the peo-
pie Of this country to purchase their
product at twice it's market value.
This trust has been the foundation and
body of Mr.. Bryan's campaign. Aided
by few INSCRIPTIONS adventures
like Tillman and .Altgeld, it laid sue
cessful plot and captured the Demo-
cratic organization. Jones and Teller
understood each other thoroughly, and
the silver-producing interest under
stood them still better.
1t was denied vigorously, but the
facts come out plainly enough now. 1t
is the mine-owning syndicate that puts
in a demand for continued agitation
of free silver. Sit. is the producers of
silver who propose to turn Mr. Bryan
into a commercial traveller for their
concern in this country, and befool the
people of the United States into pur-
chasing wares for twice what they are
worth. No sound money man can. have
of Mr.. Bryan upon the drummer's vo-
cation. Measured by his work in the
campaign just closed, the gold stand
ard people might, fndeed, contribute q
little to the miners fund For wher-
ever Mr.. Bryan Travelled majorities
have gone beyond ailrreeedent against
him. New York might not have re-
corded over 100000 majority for Nc
Kinley If Bryan had not raised it:
and his devotion of the last. days Of
was effectual to the extent of about
$50, 900 there. At this rate of progress
four years of work on Mr.. Bryan's
part would not leave any state with a
majority of less than $4,000 votes for
sound money.
We welcome, in the broadcast and
sincerest way, investigation of every
economic issue, including this one The
more the people study the money ques-
ton impartially and thoroughly, the
more certain is their conviction on the
sound money side. We have a right
to object to the continuance of such
agitation as Mr.. Bryan proposes, after
the single issue that he represents
has been submitted once to the people,
and passed upon by them so decisively.
The main point, after all, however, is
the final uncoveying Of the forces at
work behind this campaign and the
frank avowal by the mining people
themselves that Mr.. Bryan is the rep
resentative of their special interest,
and that they desire to keep him on the
road.