The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-23

j. I'll. Block. Of st. Peter. who has
been In the Sixth district of late, says
| he made 1t point to converse with
| farmers ON the political issues of the
campaign. Il expected to find them all
Populists," said Mr.. Block, shut If the
| change continues which Is now going
/ on. silver bugs will be scafeef up there
than prairie chickens are now. They
tell me that many who were for silver
little while ago have changed their
| minds and are now in favor of sound
money. The people feel that they have
been deluded long enough, and are now
anxious to understand the issues as
| they are
! Tonight there will be a sound money
meeting at North st. Paul The speak
.ers will be F. C. Stevens, candidate for
| congress from this district and Gen.
Moses E. Clapp.
| M. L. Countryman addressed the en-
| ployes in the st. Paul & Duluth railroad
! shops during the noon hour Yesterday
A number of questions asked by the men
were satisfactorily answered by the
speaker.
Last night a large and enthusiastic
Bear village. F. c. Stevens and S. A.
Anderson were the speakers
sound money meeting will be held
tonight in the club rooms of the Ninth
Ward North Side Republican club, cor
ner of Case and Cortland streets
James Morrow will be one of the
speakers.
Timothy E. Byrnes, the Minneapolis
orator, addressed an audience which
! packed to the doors a store building
at Arcade and Case streets last even
/ ing. 1t was distinctiVely a gathering
OF workingmen who listened with close
attention to the words of the speaker
Mr.. Byrnes in plain and unvarnished
words presented the problem of the
money question, stripping the discus
sion Of all technical verblage. Among
other matters he explained in simple
! language was the Is to 1 proposition
ut does not mean that there will
| be 16 times as much silver money as
there is gold, or that you will have Is
times as much cash in the future as
| you have now. 1t means that there
shall be 16 times as much silver in a
silver dollar as there is gold in a gold
| dollar.
1.-The free and unlimited coinage OF
| silver does not mean that when you
| are dead broke you can go to the coun-
| ty treasurer and get all the money. It
means that any of you who have sill
yer bullion in your trunks can take it
| to the government minis and have 1t
coined into dollars, which will be turn
ed over to you without cost. 1t means
that the government will take the bull
! lion, shave off a certain amount, and
place it's stamp upon it, making it a
dollar.
But this my friends will not enhance
the value of silver although Mr. Bryan
says it will You can not legislate one
commodity into a higher ratio of value
than the law of supply and demand has
fixed for it. Why, during the war.
whenever the government bought a
| horse, it placed a stamp upon the hind
! quarter Of the animal signifying that
Uncle Sam had placed a price upon
the horse, had paid it, and that the
animal was it's property. But the
stamp did not enhance the value Of the
animal.
NOW none of you men here have
| bars of silver to be made into dollars,
50 what are you to do with free coin
| age 1t will only benefit the mine
owners and the silver barons. Let's
suppose one of you gentlemen actually
! has a big bar Of silver which he wants
| to take to the government and have
made into silver dollars. Well, when
/ he takes the silver to the mint, it is
worth only it's bullion price, and the
silver in a dollar is valued at only 81
! cents. But because the government
| puts it's stamp upon the dollar, it has
purchasing power of 100 cents, but
the value of the metal is not raised in
| the least
is The speaker compared the Mexican
with the American currency system
and proved conclusively that the free
and unlimited coinage of silver in the
former country had been a curse.
The Scandinavian Bryan and Lind
club, an organization which holds
weekly meetings in various parts of the
city, assembled last night at Vega hall
to hear some anti-sound money doc
trine. J. c.. Clark, of the Eighth
ward, presided over the meeting. There
were three speakers on hand to ex-
pound the free silver gospel. They were
Charles Peterson, j. c. !5eattie and
Benn Davis. Mr.. Beattie set the pace
with a speech that voiced the seIti-
ments of his hearers, judging icy the
frequency Of the applause which
greeted the expressions Of the speakers
free silver convictions and his belief in
the wisdom and patriotism Of the free
silver standardbearer, William jen-
nings Bryan.
Then Mr.. Peterson was given an OPP
portunity to arraign the advocates CT
sound money before the assembiage.
Mr.. Peterson is the legislative oan1i-
date of the First ward Bryan and Lind
men, He is q fluent talker, this Mr.
Peterson, with several effective tricks
of oratory at his command Mr.. Peter
son selected for his denunciation The
annual address delivered by Presi lent
Phllen yesterday before the American
Bankers association in st. Louis. lie
took issue with Mr.. Philemon several
counts: He scored the national hanks
mercilessly and denied that the banks
rallied to the support OF the govern
ment" during the civil war. Instead
Of that they robbed the government.
How they did it the impartial historian
had told, and in support OF his assef-
TONS Mr.. Peterson read passages from
| Redpath's article on the bond and the
dollar Refining to Mr.. Pulien's ad-
dress, Mr.. Peterson read this passage:
Dishonest money because 1t Is dis
honest, attracts the disorderiy. lawless
| and revolutionary elelnents-the socia--
list, the Popuiist, and the anarchist
Il would like to know on which side
the anarchists are arrayeds" proceeded
Mr.. Peterson. 'Who by the way Is the
leader OF the anarchists in this coun-
try?"
Herr Most responded several
voices.
And where is Herr Most to be
found? ?" querfed the speaker. and In an
swer to his own question MIR. Peterson
read a newspaper clipping setting forth
a correspondence between a Colorado
man ana Herr Most in which Herr
Most, in reply to the other mans letter.
declared himself to be in favor Of a
single gold standard.
Mr.. Peterson grew sarcastic at the
expense of the bankers. quoting again
from the address Of Mr.. Pullen the as
sertion that the very existence of