The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-14

1t is queer how sensitive sovereignty
is on some of it's sides and how insensi-
BILE it is on others. Here we are, a
great nation Of 10000 900 people, fiaring
up and getting our war paint on when
the Monroe doctrine is questioned or
the proposition denied that Bering
sea is not a mare clausem, or when
our fishermen are not let fish for
bait within the Observation-Disclosures
line in Canadian waters We have
poked our nose into the boundary dis
pute between England and Venezuela
because it may involve the venerable
doctrine of Secretary Adams and Presi
dent Monroe, while goodly number of
our people think we should have gone
to war with England when she seized
on Corinto to compel Nicaragua to
make reparation for an insult to her
sovereignty, through indignities to an
English representative Others there
were who thought that President Har-
rlson submitted too tamely to the snub
Chill administered the august sover-
eighty of the United States, and that
the affront should have been an
sWered with shot and shell. If there
is anything we are jealous of it is the
respect due this sovereign nation, on
some Sides
On others we are as callous as a poll
tlc1an's conscience. Our sovereign
power. in it's highest expression is
houted at and jeered and discounted
and denied, and we are as Indifferent
to 1t as Mckinley is to common sense
or Bryan to the facts of history. What
is more expressive of the dignity of
TINS nation than its silver dollar with
It's majestic head Of Liberty, encircled
with the thirteen stars and 'sE Pluri-
bus Unum" on one side, and that fam
boyant, soaring eagle on the other. an
nouncing to a doubling world that if
is I'm God We Trust?" What mora
distinct and imperative notice to all
the nations of the world can a SOW
erelgn make than the fiat on that dol
lar that it is zone Dollar?" What does
1t mean but a proclamation. in affact
that we, the sovereign people of the
United States of America, do decree
that this coin is One Dollar: that we
expect all nations to recognize If as
such, and we warn them that any
treatment of it by their subjects that
snail intimate doubt that it is not
One Dollar will be taken by this ma
ton as an indication of unfriendIiness
and an act inimical to our peace and
dignity.
what more grievous insult is there to
be offered to any business man than to
doubt the solvency of his paper? What
is the standing in any community of
a man when his note of hand is thrown
out at the bank as no good or sinh
jected to a heavy shave? And among
nations, what is the standing of that
one whose paper is banded about the
bourse at discount? Russia, with her
deprecated roubles and all her power.
does not stand as high as little HoJ-
lana with her granite-based currency.
Sovereignty and solvency are syno-
nyms. and the nation whose money is
not respected among nations has its
sovereignty also deprecated. To dis
count its coin is the keenest Insult
that can be offered it.
And yet here we are, seventy mil
lions of proud and sensitive Ameri-
cans constituting this sovereign ma
ton, permitting the money chapgars
of other nations, without a word of
protest, to not only doubt our i'm
perial fat, but to deny it. Here is this
dollar, the emblem of our power. loyal-
ly taken by US for what it says it is.
but when that eagle takes the flight
he is ever on the point of making. and
crosses the Canadian border, carrying
to Canucks the fiat that the coin he
carries is. by the high and mighty de-