The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-12

me comparative strength Of the parties,
which is attended with some excitement and
oscillation of estimates. Both sides have q
motive for eoncealing the truth. The weaker
party finds 1T prudent to encourage list sup
p port ,, oy extravagant assurances Of sue
much as the possibility of encouraging laxity
OF efforts among its friends by too conf
gent assumption that its victory is inevita-
pie: Inus the attitude and professions of
p0th sides are calculated to put observers
on their scent az to the actual political Sem
1ment. Wall street Is very sensitive to in
Huenees OF this kind, and this tickle factor
Is likely to influence prices more than any
other cause for the next three weeks
Estimates of the election chances Of the
respective parties overlook very generals
the important fact that free coinage is not the
only great question calculated to influence
the VOTE Even allowing that there is @
large mass Of our people Who from Ig-
norance or other causes fail to understand
the widespread dangers of depreciating the
standard OF our money system, yet is 1t rea-
sonable to assume that these same people win
pc insensible to the essential disloyalty,
the revolution and the anarchism openly
sanctioned in other panks Of the Chicago
platform? 1t seems impossible to conceda
this much Of any really serious portion OF
the American people, without casting upon
them stigma OF unntness for citizenship
which nothing In our political history so far
warrants. These aspects Of the canvass have
hitherto been held in allegiance by the heal
OF the discussion the money question;
but 1t Is to be presumed that during the re-.
mainder Of the campaign, these neglected
questions may receive fuller attention tha
effect OF which could not fail to swell the
ma1orities on the conservative side. 1t Ia
especially to be hoped that an express effort
may be made to stay the dvisfve and dam
gerous attempts to foster sectional hostjl-
tiles and class animosities.
The spirit of jealousy displayed against
the East In many of the new states In the
far west because of the disparity In wealth
which exists Is simply absurd. The people
who cherish that luminosity forget the fact
that the Eastern people have had over a hum
dred years start in the accumulation %
wealth. The remoter new states occupy u
position towards the Eastern more wealthy
states similar to that which some young
men just commencing life hold towards old
men VINO have accumulated their fortunes.
such starters In life easily become dig
satisfied because they have to cope with pow
erful competitors. In taking this attitude
they do not take into account that the older
men have given three score or more OF
years of hard work to the accumulation OF
their wealth. and that they have the same
opportunities to accomplish all that the older
ones have done in acquiring riches, provld-
Ing they apply themselves to effort with equal
diligence. With the equality of opportunities
in this country that all men possess, why
should there be any feeling Of envy simply
because one part of the country has had
!OO OF more years start over Others and has
become rich by comparison? England was
rich, through the accumulations of many CEN
turtles. before the United States came into
existence. Did the people of the United
States feel any animosity toward the English
people because they had the start of them
In money making by many generations? Take
all the great fortunes in this country at the
present time-they were founded by men on
the common level of all the people without
any money backing. This applies TO the
Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Goelets, the
Mills, the Huntingtons, the Pullmans, the
Rockefellers, the Carnegies and all other
rich men. What haz boon accomplished by
them can be accomplished by others in the
future. There will be Just as good an op-
portunity to make money in the coming gem
Grafton as there has been in the past in q
country like this, where the resources are so
vast and the opportunities go great, IL people
will knuckle down to the work for which
they are adapted and apply themselves close
ly to It.