The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
67 AND 90 EAST SEVENTH STREET

and didn't believe there was many of them
Tor free coinage. Uaughter)
L am delighted at the sound money senti-
ment of the Democratic party through all
these states through which l have travelled
and especially through the state Of Mime
sofa, and II they call you "bolters" fellow
Democrats, let me say to you that you can
well stand It, / believe you are the seed
OF the church, and believe that from you will
spring all that is worthy Of being kept Of
principle or OF party in the Democratic party
of the future.
l am reminded, when, they say that you
must leave the Democratic party forever of
the story told of the old Universalist doctor
VINO hadn't done much, but met with church
trial. and to his surprise they brought him
In guilty and scratched his name off from
the book. AS he went out the door he said:
You can scratch my name off of your church
book, but you can't blot it out of the Lambs
BOOK OF Life; you may go to hell; I'm a
laughter and applause.) We prefer to be reg
ular with our principles rather than to fol-
low at the tail of the band wagon of William
J.. Bryan or Ellen Lease or Llewllyn or any Of
that class OF people, in Kansas or Nebraska
VINO md 1t particularly pleasant work to
make mortgages to sell to Eastern capitalists
Qaugnter.) Minnesota is not that kind of a
state she can raise crop every year. there
never was year that all of her crops were
total failure These theories that they
PROFOUND are only built and only made by
necessity; men who are hungry dream OF a
good dinner; men who are poor as poverty
VIII dream of gold; and these theories of
|
they put corn, wheat, cotton tobacco and
| rice as five crops that the general government
shall build warehouse for, and issue so per
| cent OF greenbacks, thus extending the cur
rency $1,000, 900, and every month take off
| one-twelfth OF 1t so that the fellow at the
last end OF it may God have mercy
| on his souP'-he sells his crop for penny
Those are the fellows that are melting and
abetting
THESE NEW-FANGLED NOTIONS
of currency. Why, Patrick Henry once said:
| Il have but one lamp by which my feet are
| guided and that is the lamp of experiences
| Take the whole line of Democracy from
| Thomas Jefferson down, and where did YOU
| hear those theories? Take the whole line of
Republicans and Wings, from the foundation
| OF this government, and where have you
| heard Of this kind of Populist theories that
| they have produced?
Why, 1 was in congress when that bill
| was presented to issue 81 900, COO 600 of green
backs on these crops. The people of my
state raised moro hay than any other crop,
and a. l asked them to put that in. They said
plause.l They raised 60OO0,00O of butter and
100 100000 Of butter and cheese; said l, put
that in" but they said, That's perishabIei"
! Said l, Put in lumber for Minnesota, for the
farmers have got lumber orchards timber
| orchards, all through in Florida" Oh no;
that wouldn't do; wait until we get this in;
wait until we make you rich; then we will
| I'LL the country in-you bide your time-that
is the kind of theories they. have got! Who
! ever heard Of them before? No sane man
|
or who is trying to be dishonest, or has got
so that he is inventing something that he
wants some of the fellows to try. hope they
wouldn't do it.
Why, there is no farmer in my state that
dare today do anything else only after he has
plowed and put in corn year. will put in
oats the next, and so on, just as his grand
father did. Your people out in Iowa and
Southern Minnesota dare raise crops on your
/ virgin soil year after year and attest nature,
but we dare not do it. our farmers dare moi
try experiments. Still they talk to me that
| all you Western farmers, all the business
men and everybody else, were just crying
thought I would come out here and see what
kind Of people you were. 1 am agreeably
disappointed, because you are the same kind
| of audiences that / would meet anywhere in
| the state of New York, and any farmer audi
ence in the state Of New York that talked
this nonsense to would laugh me off the stage.
| daughter and applause.)
Ny friends, this is great issue, or 1 would
not be here The declaration of Independence
created all p1en free and equal and endowed
with certain rights of liberty and property
| and the pursuit of happiness. For seven
years We fought the battle to free ourselves
| from Great Britain. and when we won it.
man for the first time in any government In
the world. stood erect with nothing between
him and his Maker. No crowned heads no
potentate who was the ruler, and he had a
right to elect every officer over him. and
| every officer was his servant; he was ac-
countable to the common people, to all the
people OF this republic Oh, what a stride
the musket and took up the ak and the pillow
and he felled the trees and he built the
| bridges, and when our forests were down he
smote the earth and out came iron He
smote again, and 300 coo square miles of coal
more than all the world besides were opened
to him. He smote again and rivers of OIL
when our whale fisheries were gone-came
| to light the world; aye, he smote again and
gas came from the forge and to light the
cities and villages. Oh, this is wonderful
| country Of ours. We have never called upon
| Mother Earth but what she has responded
fourfold in anything we wanted. We never
called upon the people of this republic but
| what they have responded in true American
| style for the preservation of this republic
| (Applause) We have grown from 100000
| of people, scattered along the Atlantic coast
to 100000 of people. Our farmers began
! their furrow in the Atlantic and turned 1t
into the Pacific. Oh. this is a great people
| and a great country. Unlike foreign coun-
| tries it is based on love of government, not
pinned together by bayonts; not by force but
by the simple proposition that each man in
| this republic that understands 1t must him
self maintain law and order.
NEED OF STRONG GOVERNMENT.
When that is done by each individual. then
| this republic is safe and goes on its course
1t went on it's course until 1851 and until
| when? Until Abraham Lincoln was elected
| president of the United States. Then we felt
the need of @ strong government We thought
| the government was so light that nothing but
| postof1ces and custom houses greeted our
future; no taxation; everything peaceful. But