The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-06
AT A MEETING OF THE FIRST
METHODIST CHURCH PARISH
ID LEAGUE. aes NSsT~s
ORIGIN OF IN THE PRESENT aUEsTIo,
=, 70 f,yf 81 aEs astt-ls fNnE
Mining States Gut "a Big Figure In
the senate-What They Hope to
Accomplish.


or concert programmes and reading
courses was forgotten in a discussion
or the political issues of the day. The
orator OF the occasion was T. B. Walk
er. OF Minneapolis. Mr.. Walker, in his
argument, defended sound money and
held up the advocates of free silver to
der1sion and contumely. The audience.
IL 1T had been a concert affair might
properly be called large and fashion
able; but as 1t was the occasion OF a
lecture the audience was numerous and
lntenlgent, not to say enthusiastic
when the speaker made q good noipt
There were more ladies than gentle
men present, but the applause was
Just as hearty though not SO voeiferous
as that Of the voters assembled at q
ward sound money meeting a few
docks distant. The lecture room of the
church was decorated, for the occasion.
Flags entwined the pillars and hanks
OF autumn leaves were about the plat
form and upon the walls. To vary the
programme Miss Mcintyre PLAYED
piano solo, and Miss Jessise Turner
sang selection. John Rule, of Min
neapolis, entertained the audience with
whistling solo, and then Mr.. Walker
was introduced by the president of the
league. Mr.. Walker said in mart.
There has never been a political barasv
Sl1l ING upon the people of this country that
mas temporarily deceived SO many of them
Tba a, =. ehe proposed free coinage of silver
IN, nc success OF the free traders in 1892 was
ene result or wears Of agitation for cheap for
elen goods and large and profitable exnnrts
. n a., eaectlon having resulted in furnishing
debt for this country that opened I'm and an
largea All the factories of Europe and closed
naosI OF those IN our country; that furnished
employment for European workmen and left
ours IN fdleness and want; that wasted HIM
oreds OF millions of property In the financial
ana industrial collapse and depression that
borrowed. was sufficient evidence to the ma
1or1ty OF voters in this country that q great
mistake had been made in turning down tae
Repuoiican party. determination to REIN
state protection and sound Republican noIirv
prevailed with a great majority Of the 6mar,
lean people. The free traders. knowing that
their chances! for reelection were entirely
ciples, hit upon the desperate expedient OF
and hold the government P0p against fa tSe
Re e. fre party s,,v through the agency
while it became evident that the majority Of
the sound, Ievel-headed Democrats who W.T.
60 Tor Cleveland would not swallow the cheap
money doctrines Of the silver mine renre-
sentatiVes. yet It was hoped that possibly
enough Republicans could be induced to
vote TOT the catchy silver donna that when
4
carry the elections in November They pro
claimed that a great crime had been com
mitted IN 1873. under which silver had been
demonetzed and a great contraction OF the
currency had resulted from it. That This
mac peen the result OF a great plot on the part
OIL OIL Ehgiand ard the money power of this coun-
Try to make money dear and scarce
Ignoring all these special efforts made for
the protecfion OF silver, other protec-
Ton OF INDUSTRY has ever been ATTEMPTED in
THIS country. the imperative demand has been
made THAT the next step shall be free coin
age and claiming that other industries ere
projected, and silver must be also But the
demand Tor protection of other commodities
has not reached the point OF demandfnp fhaf
price shall be fixed at which the com
moo1ty shall be purchased and sold The
protective tariff that shuts out nlan1,fact,,red
goods or materials that can be nurctaead
cheaper elsewhere. and where unlimited i'm
ports cripple the industry here is not a
parallel case to q, demand for free coinaee
Nor Is paying a bounty a parallel case Tn
fact, the latter would be far more reason-
aDie demand from the silver-producing states
than the demand for the free COINAGE
bounty might make some actual avaiiab1a
returns for the money so expended while
rree coinage VIII bring Generalization tn ali
other interests and under the present condi
IONS and unlimited caDacity for fba me-
duction OF silver will end in still greater rec
o crt IN the price of silver bullion and the
constant disturbance, fluctuations and a.
moral1zation OF the business conditions of
the country. 80 ------ "a
During the last session of congress. when #
that bill to increase revenues mnst he
passed or still more evil times spread over
tne. country, an act to increase the tariff
rates on certain articles was passed Inv tho /
houFe promptly, ard came to the senate This
BODY, the composition Of which gives to fhe
mining states an extraordinary proportional
representation above their population. In fact q
fourteen times as great as that Of New yorL
or Pennsylvania, gained control of the BODY
through the agency Of the South and It is
ever ready to join against the North and East
and through this majority the passage q;
the bill was INSTRUCTED unless free coinage
measure was carried through. The reason for
this, refusal was that It would bring an en-
larged revenue to the government, it would
check to some extent the Importation OF for
eign goods, re-eetablsh greater confidence
and bring better times This would 5emnn
strate clearly that free silver coinage ia net
necessary to the prosperity OF this country
Id TACT the very reverse is true. A high degree
or prosperity in this country cannot take place
by substituting deprecated currency for
the sound gold standard which we now have
Their refusal to pass this act clearly demon
strated their knowledge Of the fact that free
coinage is not essential to the prosperity of
this country. because, II 1t is. then an In
creased tariff could not produce improved
of the bill would show this, then 1t would op-
crate to demonstrate their silver theory by
passing the law, while on the contrary II
would fully disprove It II the reverse should
take place and degree of prosperity returned
Knowing well that this latter would be the
result, they stood solidly against the passage
of the act until the end of the season. And
when such sectional interest places itself
across the pathway of the prosperity of the
country. 1t seems rather strange that any
approval of such methods prevail with any
voters in the states north Of Mason and Dix
on's line and east of the mountain states.
The passage of these silver laws was de-
manded as an equitable concession to the
mining interests, insIwhieh the United States
would receive full value. and the people
an enlarged circulation. 1t was. at the pas
these increased purchases would bring the