The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-23
NEVER AGAIN.

The majority of Republican news
the lead Of Boss Hanna in saying, now
that the campaign is over, that our
currency system will do very we'll; that
revision of the tariff is a much more
important matter; and that, save for
some undertaking with an interna-
tional monetary conference, the whole
currency question would better be left
alone. So the New York Tribune comes
tirement of the greenbaeks. So the
Baltimore American says that the
country wants a rest, and that our
monetary system will do very well as
it is This is likely to be the popular
view with the Republican congress and
administration. The politicians know
perfectly well that the reform of our
currency is a most difficult and hazard
Gus work, and that attempts on that
line will involve Mr.. McKinley's ad-
ministration in controversies that will
last during the greater part of the
next four years. 1t is natural and quite
in keeping with the average political
policy that the mere politician should
shrink from this necessity and talk
tariff or reciprocity or Cuba or any
thing else that comes handy and that
he thinks will fool the dear people.
1t cannot be said too often that the
future of the Republican party as a
political organization, as we'll as the
welfare of the country, is to be deter
mined by the events Of the next four
years. To let the currency alone is not
only treason to our business interests.
but it is the worst kind of politics
To man who is neither holding nor
seeking office the situation is too plain
to be mistaken. The Republican party
has received its opportunity 1t will
never have such another. Above all
other issues in the last campaign stood
this of currency reform The successful
party was obligated by the events of
that great struggle not merely to re-
fuse assent to the free coinage of sill
T yer, but to so reconstitute our none
tary system that free coinage could
: never again become an issue. If our
currency remains as it is, free silver
VIII be the issue and it will win. 1t
was not the Republicans of the United
States who carried the country in No
Vember. 1t was the sound money men
1t was the men of all parties who con-
sented, for the time being, to Law
aside their opinions and desires on
other subjects and unite for the estab-
hshment in this country of a thorough
ly sound, wise and scientifically correct
monetary system. They did this once
They will never do it again. Under no
possible combination of circumstances
can the union of forces that was ac-
= complished in 1896 be made a reality
in 1900 or any other year.
Above even the necessity of sound
money is the profound conviction in the
public mind that we must have cur
rency reform. The men who voted for
that will be, in a sense, beyond recon
Citation If this duty is not performed
They will not be caught with chaff a.
second time. They will choose, if such
choice must needs be made, to take all
the hazards involved in the support of
a free silver party, which promises
also to check the iniquity Of high pro-
tective tariffs, to restrain monopoly and
to protect the rights of the people,
rather than to support a party which,
after being put into power, devotes
itself to feeding protective monopoIies
from the pockets of the people, and,
like coward, concludes that the
money question is better left alone
This is no funeral Of ours We have
no love for the Mckinley administra-
ton, and precious little faith in it.
The G o e opposed the election of
Mr.. Mckinley and stood for the only
party which, in its opinion, represented
sound principles and presented candi-
dates who meant what they said and
would have done what they promised
AS far as the party itself is concerned
IT would not cost us a pang to see the
Republican party run upon the rocks
toward which captain and crew are
apparently determined to steer. But