The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-21

Sensible people have very properly
ceased to pay any particular attention
to the rawlings of Mr.. Harvey, better
known as the author of Coins Finan-
cial School," His notoriety rests upon
the fact that this little book of his
helped to set rolling the ball that ended
in the capture of the Chicago conven-
ton by the Populists. He did his best,
although it was a poor best, in that
work, and since then his public ap-
pearances have been marked by dete-
rioration. Like all the rest who appear
on that side Of the question, he is not
able to find a stopping place on the
steep decline that leads swiftly down
to the abyss of fiatism and anarchy
There Is no better gauge Of the moral
chaos which the free coinage of silver
involves than this. Men are capture9
by its illusory arguments and yield to
the notion that there may be some
thing in" the free silver position.
whose mental processes are otherwise
we'll regulated and whose attitude on
all moral questions is otherwise admir-
able. 1t is the first symptom of a sure
and progressive decay. 1t is the intro
duction into the system of a species of
intellectual and moral microbe, which
eats away the foundations of char
acter, and causes, one by one, the de-
lenses of justice, right and truth to
fall before it,
Thus. while we could find even in
Mr.. Harvey's original production,
much that was mistaken, still
1t was possible to meet him
as man to man in argument. He
was utterly wrong, but he did not
seem to be deliberately vicious. The
difference between these two marks
the change, that has come over him in
the meantime. 1t is the blight that
falls upon the advocacy Of free coinage
everywhere. 1t is what we have seen
In Mr.. Bryan himself as his campaign
advances 1t is what we see every
where in the change of the Popocrat
plan Of campaign from an argument
for free silver to a demand for revoIu-
ton. The ultimate and necessary goal
of that side seems to be Tillmanism.
Mr.. Harvey's speech in st. Paul, ow-
ing to this, we presume, seems to be
q series of disconnected rayings an5
falsehoods. Think of the ostracism
that is used to close the mouths of
men who will discuss this question. /"
he said. And again, 'The corporations
have made their employees to under
stand they must vote as they demand.
without according those employees the
right to think for themselves" This is
downright, unblushing falsehood. IT
Is the keynote set for every sneaker
on the side of revolution and dishonor
today. Mr.. Bryan himself is ringing all
the changes on it in his campaigning
tour. The lesser lights of his party
echo it. And it is an open. downright
premeditated lie. There is no coercion.
because the Australian ballot is abso-
lutely secret. Therefore, the employer
who should attempt to restrain the free
action of his employe as a voter would
only so prejudice, provoke and ALLEVIATE
him that he would surely lose a vote
Instead of gaining one This is so oh
vious that the accusation of improper
influence over employees implies that
employers are not only criminals bIt
fools. That which they are said TO he
doing would be the worst possible
thing for their own interest. and tbav
must know it. The story is viciouslv
false, and continues to be circulated
only as part of the policy, into which
the Bryanites have now settled. of trv.
ing to win by an appeal to the worst
passions of men. Their hope rests nc
longer in argument but in the blind
rage of men all of whose worse ma.
ture has been stirred by invectiye and
abuse.
AS to the rest OF Mr.. Harvev.s
speech, it is INDEPENDENTLY because
it shows him IS following 4hopath thai
all the others must tread sd1rttes the fina
demand for unlimalt BesfS .i4Esues. not O