The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-30
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

OulCdSO LILIES I1eFdlu U1c following
article:
The speeches made by Mr.. Bryan
and George A. Groot. Of Cleveland,
Ohio, chairman Of the notification
committee OF the silver party, and Ig-
natius Donnelly, in this city, in con-
nectiOn with the recent ceremony of
notification, were not acceptable to
great many of Mr.. Bryan's supporters,
and the revolutionary tone OF those
utterances has not made Mr.. Bryan's
cause any stronger in this state. Mr..
Groot in his address in this city said.
in the presence Of Mr.. Bryan: John
Sherman is the chief conspirator in
league with the money changers Of
Wall street. I would like to know
how he came into possession Of ST.
100000 or $S,00O,000, when his only
known income was the salary Of $4,000
and $S, 0OO per year which he received
from the government. l would not
have John Sherman buried in the
same grave with Benedict Arnold, for
that would be disgrace to Arnold"
Then Mr.. Groot went after Secretary
Carlisle. He accused him of violat-
ing the law in issuing bonds to main
tain the gold reserve, and said: II
the gold reserve and the men who
have mainta ned it hung to the near
est telegraph pole" He took up
bankers, saying: Where is the money?
Have you got it? Bankers tell us it is
in hiding, but [ say it is in Wall
street. The bankers have their hooks
in our craws. When are you going to
get out OF their clutches? Now is a
good time to commence, and if we
don't get out next November by the
ballot we will do something else" Mr..
Gruot did not say what the "Some-
thing would be. but fire flashed from
his eye, and the word "bayonet" was
~
Ignatius Donnelly followed Groot
and went farther. In the course Of
his speech he said: "If Andrew Jack
son were alive he would hang half the
brokers in Wall street, and when Mr..
BrJ an gets in the White House hope
he will do it," Then came a story
about a man with his mouth full Of
fish bones. Now said Mr.. Donnelly,
"if those men OF the money power
continue as they have they will find
themselves stuck fuller Of bayonets
than that fellow was of fish bones.'
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This kind Of argument to show why
voters should support Bryan and the
cause OF free and unlimited coinage
Of silver,at the ratio Of 16 to WAS not
convincing, and these speeches have
been generally condemned. Mr.. Bryan
sat on the platform, and he had no
word of protest against the inflamma
tory utteranceS.
w. Morton Smith.
While this article gives somthing of
what we said, in a garbled shape, it
does not give all, and it thus leaves
false impression upon the mind Of the
reader.
We were discussing the declarations
made by Clews and others. that il the
American people elected VIM. j.
Bryan president the money-changers
of Wall street would precipitate upon
this country panic more deadly and
desperate than anything known in
the history of the past. We have no
doubt that they have the power to do
this, for the banks control the whole
money supply Of the country, and can
at any time contract or expand it. II
they expand it prosperity follows; if
they contract it ruin is the result to
millions. We don't think these men
ought to possess any such desperate
and deadly power over their fellow
citizens. If they bring upon this
country the panic which they threat
en-, they will send thousands to sui
cides' graves; reduce hundreds of
thousands from wealth to poverty;
paralyze the business Of the country
that will be simply indescrib-
able. To say that the nation
should stand idly by and see
the people slaughtered in this way
is absurd. We don't believe it would
do it. The men who would be guilty
Of such horrible crime against the
whole people should be punished in
side the law, if that be possible; and
if not, they should be made ans wer-
able outside the law. Therefore we
expressed the belief that Andrew
jackson, if he we're alive and presi.
dent would under such circumstances,
bring these monsters to justice, and
we stated that Mr.. Bryan, if elected,
would, we believed, do the same thing.
Laws are made for the good OF the
whole people, and they are made by
the people. To pretend that the
regulations, instituted for universal
justice and happiness, should be used
for the protection of men who are
striving to bring millions of our coun-
trymen to death or ruin is nonsensfcal.
We have had some startling evil
dences in this country of what the PEG.
pie can do when driven to the last des-
perate resort.
When corruption had taken posses
sion Of the courts Of Cincinnati, to
the extent that no man could be pun.
ished for any crime who had money
enough to hire able counsel, large
part Of the people rose up in an i'm
mense instruction; destroyed mil
lions of dollars worth of property:
executed some Of the lawyers, and
made the rest hunt their holes like
rats. The proceedings were irregular,
but no one can pretend that they were
not justified.
We have another instance of this
kind in the case of the Malta, the or
ganization of Italian assassins in New