The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-17


this shot, and John Day followed, 1t
with rather sterotyped denunciation
or the gold standard and retired. y
Francis FL. Clark was presented and
boasted that he was a Populist. He
held that the fohnfiers of the republic
were Populists.mC The Populists had
gone to Chicago, he said. and taken
possession OF the Democratic conyen-
ton. The peoples could not get control
pof,- the Republican convention, at st.
Louis. and whennthey found they could
not they walked OUT The silver ques-
ton Is the living issue. to his mind.
and he exhorteds the silver men to be
careful in explaining to the voters Just
what the silver question means. Hold
ing UP q dollar,aale said:@ There is no
5O-cent dollar. Round this UP and the
silver In 1T will sellnfor about 60 cents.
For that you can bury today as much as
you could Tor a gold dollar
20 years ago. The relative commercial
value Of money and products is the
same. Then what has gone UP? The
gold dollar has gone up, and about the
only thing to do is to let the people
understand these facts If that is done,
by the time Mr.. Bryan is elected presi-
dent, all OF the American people will be
for free silver.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Alphonso Barto, OF
81. Cloud. big and jolly, made face
tious address. He said that for two or
three months he had not known where
he was at. When the ST. Louis cOnven-
ton had met and adjourned he had felt
like the man who was hitched to a
bull. The animal ran away, and when
some one shouted, "Say, where are you
going?" the man grasped out, II don't
know: ask the bull" After the laugh
had subsidized, Mr.. Barto became very
earnest. He said:
There is q plank in the St Louis
platform that Just suits me. It's the
protection plank. But when read the
plank in favor Of maintaining the pres
ent gold standard, I asked, Where's
the protection? If we must ask England
about our money, why not ask England
about our protection? Who ever heard
of any other nation making an inter-
national agreement with us on any
ing and credit of nation makes it's
own laws 4yis
These sentences were spoken with
dramatic force, and reused the con-
yention to an ovation. When this had
subsidized, the speaker continued:
There is one plank in the Chicago
platform that just suits me. That's the
planks that I do not like. When they
say that a mob can take possession
of a city IT
voice-"They didn't say it!'
well, they meant it,
mo, no, You're wrong
II can read and understandith the Eng
lish language" Shouted the big man
from st. Cloud in. spirited fashion.
And there are Some other planks in
that platform do not like. do not
even now know just what shall do.
But | can say that am going to vote
for Charley Towfie for congress in the
Sixth district
whats the mattef with John Lind %
He is as good a man as there ever
was in Minnesota and you are all good
fellows. I am neyera found with any
He continued: s"We are paying $780,
10000 of bonds every year to maintain
the gold standard. want to see this
changed, and therefore II believe in
free silver. I will work and vote for my
principles; but i do not know whether
l will support the Democratic ticket
1t will go against the grain to do it.
/ am glad. to, be here, however, and as
sure you that am in sympathy with
the purposes of this convention. - -
Senator Morgan, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, was intro
duced and read the declaration of prin-
cipleS, in these words: ss-s y
'First-Recognizing the deplorable condi-
ton of our producing classes, perceiving the
losses inflicted on employers, and alive to
the distress and suffering of the wage earn
ing classes, caused by failing prices, we seek
the cause Finding that the lepa of falling
prices was inaugurated with the demonetiz-
alton of silver in 1873 and that, as silver
has been gradually discarded as a money
metal, prices have fallen lower and lower,
and convinced that the fall in prices is in
great part due to the increasing value Of gold,
caused by the closing of the minis. to silver
thus throwing upon gold alone the burden
OF effecting the worlds exchanges, we be-
lieve that permanent prosperity cannot be
restored until silver is again restored to its
time honored place as money, sharing equal
ly with gold the money functions.
I'VE are further opposed to the gold; stand
ard because it violates the constitution of
the United States and the teachings of JEFF
ferson and Jackson, Webster, Lincoln and
Blaine. 44-s E.sss
1--WE firmly believe that business depres-
sion, curtailed production, enforced idleness
and lower wages for the wage-earning class
es, with consequent suffering and distress,
are inseparable from an approaching stand
ard of value, and we are convinced that
wealth will rapidly be gcentered in the hands
OF the few; that our social order will crum-
BILE. and that retr9gression will take the
place Of progress If NO steps are taken to
check the appreciation off gold.
zf'Attrtbuting the paralysis of industry to
the appreciation of ogoldl and the resulting
direful and steady rfslly of prices that has
undermining the profits Of industry has de-
stroyed the incentive to production; that
has led to curtailed production, the throw
ing of wage earnersI out of work and lower
wages for ALI, thato has led to the with
drawal of money fremi productive enter
prises, and the censering of money in the
financial eenters. where 1t has been made
creation of trusts and combinations to the
grievous injury Of our people. and that has
placed our producing classes at the mercy
OF the money cliqnesf we declare It to be
this disastrous fall sfn prices by removing
the cause. Recognizing that the divergence
in the value of gold and silver acts as a
gold-using countries. equal, at this time.
to 100 per cent; perceiy1ng that such
bounty enjoyed by the. -agriculturists OF
those countries in which gold is at pre-
MUM has already enabled the producers In
such countries to successfully compete with
our farmers for the European markets, TO
the infinite injury of our producing classes;
seeing, moreover, that this same bounty is
now building up competition for our own
markets in manufactured goods that must
be equally disastrous, and convinced that the
divergence in the value of gold and silver
that has led to this disastrous competltlon
ID due solely to discarding silver as a money
metal we demand on this score that silver oe
remonetized, so that eur producers snail no
longer be at an artificial disadvantage IN
competition with the producers OF silyer-using
countries.
1--WE therefore declare our fixed purpose
to work for the restoration OF silver TO It's
tfme-honored place as money, side by side
with gold, at the ratio Of 16 to 1. Believing,
moreover, that it is Americas place to COM
mand, not to follow, we spurn to walt upon
Great Britain, or any other foreign nation
especially as we see that Great Britain is
ruled by the creditor classes, among whom
one convert to -bimetallism is made only at
the cost of a dozen ruined producers in Amer
lea and other debtor nations.
ITO this end we pledge ourselves to the