The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-08

other emergency would there be assembled
IN a city like this on this hot evening of
the dog days such magnificent representa-
tive audience as see assembled before me-
| take it for granted that your being here
means something; I take it for granted as
look over this sea Of intelligent faces that
tnere are before me in this audience people
VINO have American homes and who love to
i've In American homes, and who wish to
s1I STAND upon the policies of government that
,sn WIZ ENABLE tnem to keep and retain Amer
ICaH MONIES ana American opportunities AN
plause) VAp-
ANSWERS CERTAIN QUESTIONS.
In the outset of my address desire to saw
to yod that one of the inimical cranks who
is always brightest in propounIiug conun-
his hiui1ls u.s. mas sent to my address, leaving eff
ms own, series Of quest o1s which he evil
dentiy supposes are nut-cra.Eers for the Re-
publican party, and before proceeding rerU-
Iariy with my address I will for a moment
re1er you to these questions and to their
answers
the coinage in 1872?
l would like to ask the intellipent c,,es
toner, when was it prior to 1873 .hat the
mint Of the United States had last coined
an American silver dolllr? The people of this
country had not for at least twenty years
presented to the mints Of tho United States
what might be termed enough silver b..lli. \
TO buy horses for one conlndny of men and
asked ior that silver a tree coinage. Why,
my countrymen, there have never been coined
In the United States of America from the
time of the Declaration Of Iudepa ldeuce Gown
to 1873 but little over eight millions Of silver
dollars in all those eighty years of American
existence. But l will tell you why the law
OF that day was changed, that lary which was
a dead statute upon our books, which had
brought NO silver to the mint, which had for
coinage no tender Of silver bullion-and | re-
fer for the reason and answer to those two
eminent apostles Of the bon l1za mine uwners
and William Stewart, of rhe state CT Cali
fornia, by way of the burro of Nevada
Applause)
SENATOR JONES QUOTED.
In 1874 Senator John P. Jones, the great
authority of silver in this country speak
ing from his place In that great body, said
II am opposed to any proposition, come
in whatever shape it may, that attempts to
override what God himself has made for
money and attempts to make money a
commodity or to make a commodity money -
l believe there is vast difference between
the functions Of the two. 1 believe that any
departure from this plain truth will punish
the country that so defes. II believe" said
Jones in 1874, 1.-The sooner we get down to a
purely gold standard the better 1t will be
for the country. l believe that when we do
so come down we shall have entered upon an
era of prosperity which will be unbroken for
come down to the gold standard at that time,
and we entered upon an of prosperity
which would have remained unbroken for a
century If the people of this country had not
been led to turn the Republican party and
its policies out of power, and trust to the
promises of those who now ask your suf-
frage for the free coinage of the silver pro-
duct OF the whole universe. prolonged ap-
plause.)
My countrymen, say 1t without fear Of
contradiction. that from 1873, or from 1876
down to 1892 this country advanced further
along the line of accumulated wealth. that it
grew more in all that makes opportunity.
and advantage, and prosperity for its people:
that @that It furnished more employment for men
better IN 4
maintained more certain prices for products
and that it attained to that remarkable de-
gree OF American prosperity which was the
very elimination of the prosperity of the
peoples of the earth.
Senator Thurston then discussed the
central issue of the campaign and the
problem raised by Tillman which was
bound to revive sectional1sm was given
considerable attention by Mr. Thurston
1t was he said matter of considerable
gravity The only hope of the South,
he said, was in the great East and
North, where all the capital of the
nation was centralized The South
could not afford to raise again the sec
tional issues of the dead past, even
through Tillman with his pitchfork was
doing his best to rekindle old aninlosi-
ties. Tfllman, he said, was not of the
new South, but of the old South.
Coming to the claims of Populism
anu OllC oCiiiOSIdCy, OeudLoF 1nurStOn
said the two parties mentioned were
doing all in their power to tear down
the prosperous. the thrifty and the
busy manufacturer
When you make the manufacturer
less prosperous he said, when YOU
tear down his factories by suicidal
legislation. who Is it that lies crushed
under the ruins, is it the manufacturer
only? No, it is the laboring man.
They are appealing to your passions
and prejudices.' said the speaker.
speaking of the Pops and Democrats.
They declare that In q time Of rict.