The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-28

AS a very important source of
strength and security, cherish public
credit. One method of preserving
1T is to use 1t as sparingly as pos
sibIe, avoiding occasions of expense
by cuItfvating peace, but remembers
ing also that timely disbursements
to prepare for danger frequently
prevent much greater disburse-
ments to repel 1T, avoiding likewise
by stunning occasions of expense,
but by vigorous exertiOns I'm time
of peace to discharge the debts
which unavoidable wars have Oc-
casioned, not ungenerOusly throw
ing upon posterity the burthen
These are the simple words of man
honest in every fiber. Preserve the
public credit pay the public debt; seek
not to avoid. at any ones expense. an
obligation which you have incurred.
Just prior to this declaration Washing
ton had laid stress upon the necessity
of founding any free government on
virtue and morality. AS a fitting cor
ollary to this, and springing directly
from 1t, he emphasizes the maintenance
of the public credit. Once more we
may leave the great first president to
answer the diatribes of the unworthy
aspirant to that high office in our time.
From the beginning of the campaign
the attempt has been made to disparage
the gold standard because it is the
standard of Great Britain AS in other
campaigns British free trade" was
the bugaboo which enraged the ig-
norant voter so in this one it is the
British bondholder'' who is used as an
instrument to play upon hatred Once
more hear what Washington has to say
upon this appeal to low and unworthy
motives:
In the execution of such a plan
nothing is more essential than that
permanent, inveterate antipathfes
against particular nations and pas
siOnate attachments for others
should be excluded, and that in
place of them just and amicabIe
feelings toward all should be Guilt
toward another an habituaI hatred
Or an habitual fOndness is in some
degree a slave. 1t is q slave to it's
animOsity or to it's affection, either
of which is sufficient to lead 1T
astray from it's duty and it's inter-
est.
The Bryan platform declares. i'm
pliedly, and with the express under
standing of those who adopted it,
against the execution Of federal law by
federal authority. It declares that the
nation is helpless against outbreaks Of
mob violence such as occurred at Chi
cago in 1894. Here is what George
Washington said with regard to the
maintenance and due execution of our
laws
All distractions to the execution
of the laws, all combinations and
associations, under whatever pIausi-
bic character, with the real design
to direct. control, counteract, or
awe the regular deIiberatiOn and
action of the constituted authori-
ties, are destructive of this funda-
mental principle and of fatal tend
ency.
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the dominant issue In this campaign:
the attempt made, for the first time on
a large scale in the United States. to
array class against class, to destroy
the homogeneity of interest that has
been our pride and our safeguard, and
to introduce the spirit Of social dis
cord and the political vendetta. OF
all works ever attempted to be wrought
among us, this is the most evil. That
such might be eventually the product
Of fierce party spirit, Washington fore
saw. Again, let US listen to the voice
Of the great first president in answer
to the appeal to agrarian discomfort to-
day:
faction over another, sharpened by
the spirit of revenge natural to
party dissensiOns, which in different
ages and countries has perpetrateS
the most hOrrid enormities, lis itself
fr1ghtfuI despotism. But this
leads mt length to u more formal
and permanent despOtism. The dis
orders and miseries which resuIt
gradually incline the minds of man
to seek security and repose i'm the
absolute power of an indiyiduaIand
sooner or later the chief of some
prevailing faction. more abJe mr.
more fortunate than his comnetitor.
turns this disposition to the pur-
poses of his own elevation ON the
ruins of public liberty. Without
looking forward to an extremity ne
this kind (Which nevertheless oupbt
not TO be entirely out of sight, the
common and continual mfscbfefs ~
the spirit of party are sufficient TO
make 1T the interest and dutv Of +.
wise people to discourare and 70
strain lit. 1t serves always to dis
tract the public councils and am
feeble the public administration +.
agitates the community with i'll
founded jea1ousies and false aIarns.
kindles the luminosity of one part
against another; foments OCCASION
ally riot and fnsurrecfaon