The Saint Paul globe., 1896-09-16
SONS OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN
OFFER HIM PECULIAR FIELD
FOR THE EXERCISE OF HIS
ABILITY.
HE HAS HOSTS OF ADMIRERS
And They Are Being Warmed up
Daily by the Globe-Trottfng
Paul.

OcdAulHdVldn IrlenUS call hlm) is q
visitor in St Paul after an extended
tour of the Dalzotas, Minnesota and
Iowa. Du Chaillu combines the ability
OF the campaign orator with the quail
ties that make a successful explorer
and writer, and his northwestern tour
has been in the interest of sound
money. Il want more money" he saws.
but | want it good? For fear some one
might tender me payment for my work
IN debased dollars, I have been con-
tr1buting my mite to the flood of cam
paign oratory that has been poured
on the people during the past few
weeks"
BY which facetious observation M.
Du Chaillu means that he has been a
guest of many friends in many parts
OF the states mentioned for the last
month, and as his ability as a speaker,
and his sympathy with the sound
money movement are well known, he
has been kept pretty busy making
speeches in communities where he went
to visit and to enjoy himself 1t is a
ract that the national campaign COM
mittee made the noted F'renchman an
offer for his services in the campaign,
but he chose to be free to speak where
and at such times as he pleased
M. Du Chaillu bound himself to the
Scandinavians with fetters Of steel
when he wrote his Land of the Mid
night Sum- He visited the countries
OF the north and learned the languages
that are so dear to the Norseman, who
Is resident in the United States.
Wherever Norsemen are, there is Du-
Chaillu honored, and 1t was too these
friends Of his friends in the old coun-
try and the admirers of his books that
q n fO no1
currency.
1t is just month ago that l came
to Minnesota from Chicago" said the
traveller, ''and went to Alexandria as a
guest of my friend Senator Nelson. I
had no fixed purpose of addressing
audiences, but thought If occasion
should arise I might tell the Scandi-
navians my views on the subject Of
sound money There is no question
that missionary work was needed. and
that more is yet necessary to quench
the fires that the free silver craze has
set. l went with Senator Nelson on a
tour through the northern part of the
state, through the White Earth reser-
walton, and into the Dakotas before I
returned. / was the guest of some
private individuals and in this way was
able at all times to do some missionary
work, that the average stump speaker
in his hasty tours is not able to ac-
complish. But in returning over some
of the ground I traversed earlier in my
trip, l was able to see the distinct
change in sentiment in communities
that had before been almost solid for
free silver. The work of the sound
money committees has been and is be-
ing well done. Every where I have been
the farmers are reading for themselves.
In fact they seem to prefer literature
to oratory Your average political
speaker is too long-winded; he knows
too much and wants to tell it ALL
Therefore he repeats himself and wea-
ries his audience. No wonder the
farmer or business man prefers a short,
well written pamphlet.
Il am personally interested in this
campaign, for, like every other man,
l have few dollars at stake and l
don't want their purchasing power les
sened. 1 tell my audiences one of my
personal experiences with inflated
money that I think serves as an illus
tration of the evils we may expect
If free coinage should prevail | was
in Africa during the war, and when {
came to America shortly after the
close Of the rebellion, l supposed that
my little stock of money would be of
as much value to me as it would have
been In Europe. Shortly after my ar
rival / purchased some clothing. An
overcoat cost me $40, trousers SIS, waist
coat SIS, top coat $40. / paid for these
articles with money that was not
worth its face In gold, though it was
printed by the government. Now |
think free coinage would give US such
an abundance of cheap money that my
wartime experience would be repeated.
I want dollar that is good for its
face in gold wherever / 60 So does
every other man. Now [ can take
S. bill and go to Sweden and receive
eighteen kroner in exchange; IN Ger
many / will receive twenty marks In
France twenty-five francs, but in Lon
don a pound note and little more.
But II I go to Russia, because they
have debased currency, l shall be
given more than the worth Of the note
in silver roubles, and In Mexico l
will receive almost double the amount
called for in silver.
mo man wants money that is not
worth as much in one place as another
Such currency is debased, and the na-
ton that issues it is not in accord
with other nations on the most I'M
portant of all international questions
finance.
II have been asked why / do not
talk on the tariff What is the use of
talking tariff if we haven't a sound
currency? When this silver question
is disposed of then there will be time
to take up the less important issues.
The campaign has thus far been one
of education, and the farmers and
working people are beginning to doubt
the sophistries and platitudes of the |
stump speakers who see the millennium
in an era of free silver When you
create a doubt in a mans mind, you
have made voter. No man will vote |
for free silver who has doubt as to |
the advisability of disturbing the |
financial policy of the nation. En- |
ployers cannot accomplish among their |
workmen the good that one workman !;
can do in the same locality More |
than ever, men are fearful that their |
liberties are then threatened, that |
their privileges as voters are being I
curtailed, that suggestion may in /
reality mean coercion. voters are not |
being driven this year They are be- I
ing won by good literature, by argu-
ments that are unanswerable, and not |
by threats or fine phrases. / know of |
my own knowledge that the sound |
money sentiment is growing in the |
Northwest I believe firmly that the |
result in November will be in favor of |
sound money. And to help bring about |
that happy result, l am going back |
into North Dakota to tell the farm
ers in that state what they must do |
to be saved from the demagogical doc |
trines that threaten them with ruin. /
Early in October I shall return to st. |
Paul and will deliver an address be- !
fore the Sound Money club BY that |
time / expect the current of popular
opinion to have so changed in the in
terest of sound money that my efforts
will not be needed to keep the people |
of ST. Paul in line
CLOUGH IS CAUTIOUS.