The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-16
cause silver dollars and every other form of
United States money are redeemable in gold.
QUESTION OF VALUES.

United States money are redeemable in gold
QUESTION OF VALUES.
saw that they were selling Mexican dollars
on the streets today. and l thought / would
like to see them. do not want to palm any
OF them on on anybody, but sent down and
There are two Mexican dollars (exhibiting
same). bought them for one United States
silver dollar dollar; There are six grains more of
than there Is In this one United States silver
dollar. These Mexican dollars down In Mex
leo are legal tenders They are worth down
IN Mexico. where they are legal tender, just
what they are worth up here in the United
States You can buy in the City of Mexico
with one OF our silver dollars. two Mexican
collars or practically that-a few cents diff
ference. Why is it? Is It because the Mex
lean dollars are legal tender? No 1t is be-
cause the Mexican dollar has no redeemer
Nsreat laughter and applause.) When you
gel the Mexican dollar you are at the end
OF your business transaction. That is money
That Is the highest money they have In cir
c1ia Al But when you get the silver dollar
on the United States you find 1t worth q dol
lar In gold, because IL you want the gold
all you have to do is to ask for II. That is
all you ever had to do under Republican
Now, Ny fellow citizens, has 1t or has it
not been wise that we have pursued this
polieyg Have not you been proud of the cur
fency OF the United States during all these
past years? Has not it been the pride Of
every patriotic Ameiean that as our gold
would travel around the globe, So too would
every dollar OF our paper money being re-
aeemaDie In gold, travel everywhere and be
everywhere honored at It's face? We have had
q stable currency. AS Senator Sherman has
pointed out we have had an abundant cur
rency. There has not been any trouble with
IL until during the last two or three years:
until Mr. Cleveland came into power the sec
ono time, you did not hear any complaint
ABOUT our money, did you9 You did not
near OF any trouble with the gold reserve
Al lnls trouble has arisen since then. Why?
SIMPLY because. as every intelligent man
KNOWS, they adopted g policy of free trade
as cohtradistlnguished to protective tariff
poilcy, and the first result Yves the paFaIy-
sis OF business and the second result was de-
nclent revenues to the government. When
people see that a government takes in less
money than 1t has to pay out, they begin to
get distrustfal of It.
When the creditors Of this nation saw the
democratic party in power and saw the kind
OIL policy 1T had entered upon and saw its
results they got uneasy; they commenced
demanding payment and then you heard for
the nfst time that there was a gold reserve
and, as the singer said a while ago it was
tumbling down. and soon bonds had to be
issued.
Now, my fellow citizens, the best remedy
Tor this whole trouble is to put the Repub-
Acan party back into power; restore the
policy OF a protective tariff; re-inaugurate the
lean people an economic administration under
which the government would have enough
revenues to live on and everybody engage in
business In this country and every laborer in
the country finds something to do. pro
longed APPLAUSE