The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
AS USUAL HE is CALLED IN AS
THE LAST DESPERATE
RESORT.
MAKES A DEFENSE OF SILVER,
WHICH is ARRAIGNED BEFORE
THE GREAT BAR OF AMERICAN
PEOPLE
FOR TRIAL AND CONDEMNATION.
Lind and Others Talk to SiIverites-
Olson Sound Money Demon
stratfOn.

A large crowd of SilVeriteS was gath
cred at the Exposition building last
night to listen to the speeches of Lind
and Erwin. The noted ST. Paul GRIM
1nal lawyer was the main speaker Of
the evening. For two hours he worked
upon the feelings of his audience until
he had them aroused to the highest
| pitch Of enthusiasm. The meeting
was presided over by Charles E. Van
derburgh, and the first speaker was
| young man from ST. Paul, who spoke
only a few minutes. He was quite as
strongly in favor of free silver as the
conventional orator, and he put his case
with exceptional vehemence. When he
subsidized Judge Vanderburgh intro
duced C. D. O'Brien, of st. Paul who
spoke only a few minutes, combining
himself to a statement that he had
Travelled the state over in the interest
OF silver for the past two weeks and, If
the cities were as loyal to the cause of
the people as the country they would
win This pleased the audience and
they promised to win.
He concluded his speech by calling
the National Democratic candidate for
vice president an eX-rebel, who sur
rendered to Gen. Grant more troops
| than composed the victorious Union
army, and he charged the Republicans
with stabbing this man in the back
with a circular letter issued the mo-
ment he left the state. He said he
would not speak longer, but would give
way to his more eloquent friend, W. w
Erwin. The audience gave three
cheers for Erwin and then followed it
with the same number Of cheers for
Debs and Erwin.
Mr. Erwin spoke for two hours, and
began his thesis of reputation back
in the days Of slavery, when Christian
ity was born into the world in stable
IN Bethlehem, Judea.
From this time down to the present
the great lawyer traced the gradual de-
Velopment of labor, freeing itself step
by step in it's progress. To William
Penn he gave the credit of developing
the thought of a government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
pie, as he expressed 1t, by the human
conscience.
The next step was the institution of
tine American government formed to
protect the life and the home of every
man who labors, and constructed upon
the theorv that every man should Ia
Dor to support himself But he claimed
that today the laboring men are de-
MED the right to employ themselves,
and he justified the violence Of the
French Revolution, because the peo-
pie at that time had no ballot by which
to declare what was the popular will.
He denied that the silver movement
Is craze any more than the American
Revolution was craze, or the contest
which brought the Magma Charta was
craze. He said that for the past 80
years, they had lost sight Of their liber-
ties gradually slipping away from
them, through their blind devotion to
party. And then he discussed what he
chose to call the honest dollar and the
dishonest dollar He defined honest
capital as money honestly earned by
labor devoted to the production of more
wealth and to the classification of dis
honest money he assigned fiat money
issued by governments or by banks,
and the watered stock of the great cor
porations. Before Mr. Erwin showed
any signs of concluding his remarks,
some few in the audience called out for
Lind" and others went home. Erwin
played out his tune upon the human
violin and when he sat down, John
Lind said it would be sacrilege to de-
stroy the spell which the great defender
of criminals had cast upon his hearers.
He therefore cut his speech short and
the meeting adjourned
The Republicans of the Sixth ward held a
rousing meeting at Dania hall last evening
one Of the best of the campaign. The hall