The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-27

above our horizon? We're this country to be
dragged down In financial misery IL credit
now SO shocked, shall be utterly destroyed.
ana our coming years be a struggle between
alarmed creditors and desperate debtors,
while industries lie in paralysis and labor
Tamps In hunger, who can foresee the next
'sfroke OF lipd and furious popular agony.
II IL De. indeed, possibility that the sturdy
conservatism of our Anglo-Saxon character Is
gone and mercurial instability and fitfulness
nave come instead; IL not only convention
VIII forego reason and be ruled by silly
emotional gales. but the great steady Amer
lean mind shall also surrender its common
sense to frenzy, then, surely, we have retro
graded, at least hundred years, and may
nndrthe suggestion of our peril in the bloody
horrors which the wild multitude of France
made hideous the expiring years OF the last
century: II the people of the United States
De capable OF accepting their financial teach
Ing from men who have never had financial
training or experience, defying the accumu-
lated wisdom OF all scientific study and prac-
teal skill: If the fiscal polity OF a 70, 900
by noisy mountebanks, as crack nostrums are
vended TO the gullible; If men who were never
able to own boat an interior pond OF
business snail set the sails and take the helm
OF the snip OF state on the ocean currents of
the great worlds OF finance, who can fax the
Limit OF our capability of folly? Sure as 1
am that no such fate Is ours. l cannot forget
that such has been the doom sometimes fore
told by men who were reckoned wise in their
generation; men who put no faith in the
people. Nor can we fail to that this is
Tree coinage that now brays from the skin of
ttpe democratic lion. Were its rOars to be
taken for portents. there might be
r. FUTURE OF AWFUL PERIL,
which must not, cannot be. But the con-
ndence which warrants its discredit, which
assures us against submersion in folly, and
Will bid this devil to avaunt and quit our
sight lies in such men as gather here today
A minority only? Perhaps so; but if so,
the Saving remnant that has maintained
the race. minority upon which the Demo-
CRATIC party shall be rebuilded; yea, the
chief stone of its corner.
!. VINO that sees conditions, with understand
Ing can doubt the duty Of Democrat now?
Who among us can suppress his intelligence
deny the forecast of his common sense in
the presence of such confronting perils. SUI
pinely crawl to cover when misfortunes are
prepared for the land in which his children
are to live? Shall we not rather take arms
against sea of troubles, and, by opposing
them, end them?'
All cries back, perhaps, some impatient
Democrat But all you dc will be to help
Mckinley and serve McKinleyism." Not So
urement Of affairs too limited. The political
interests of United States will not all be
settled In the present year. Nothing, indeed
will be determined now but the extinguish-
ment Of fiscal folly, which has thrust aside
all other issues by its fanatical insistence We
do not overlook the iniquites of injurious tar
ms In my belief the worst phase of that
harmful system of legislation has been passed.
Even among Republicans, conspicuously with
the broadcast minded, there has come recog-
milton OF its wrongs, its injustice and of the
1mpossibility OF its long imposition on the
awakened intelligence Of Americans. The
stuff about protection which is fed out to
party zealots In campaign speeches, no longer
bespeaks the ruling intelligence of the Re-
publican party. AS 1t was at st. Louis so
will 1t be in Its coming years. That subject
will be, by forces irresistible by any man
subordinated in the immediate future. The
greater exigency is to establish our cur
renew affairs on basis of justice and safety
to all. Too plainly has 1t come to be seen
that Republican injustice and wrong have
evils now besetting. If we have been or
still are menaced with the whirlwind twas
they who sowed the wind.
But whatever the true forecast on this
point we can make no practical opposition
to the vice of protectionism by following the
lead OF the Chicago convention. AS I have al
ready said. they surrendered that fight to
their Republican allies. Free silver and pro-
lection are natural twins. They have wrought
together in the past: they are yoked by prin-
cipie. and defeat of the former will contribute
now to eradicate the latter hereafter. No
we propose NO support to Mckinley, no ad-
hesion to McKinlevsm by the course we pur-
sue Our antagonism to all the iniuuities and
baneful tendencies of his party is but the
better declared by 1t. All our struggle, all
our hopes. are to save the Democratic party
and Derpetuate its benign PRINCIPLES for the
beneht OF our country We shall save the
old party from the ruin of defeat now i'm
pending- and lay defeat alone to them who
have put it to baneful and undemocratic uses
Fellow Democrats the mariner whose bark
has been suddenly swept by terrifying gale
and tossed uncontrolably uron tempestous
seas can discern the signs of its breaking
while the winds howl and the surges roar
So, also, dark and violent as have been the
political conditions for a few weeks past
we may congratulate ourselves and the coun-
try on the better signs today. Though the
storm that rose with such sudden violence
be not vet over. 1t is plain to the practicpd
eye that its subsistence has begun. 1t will
pass away in ordained time and in the purified
air and radiant sunshine, the happiness. pros
per1ty and indstrial vfgor of the great peo-
pie will return with rejoicing in which none
will more worthily share than the true
hearted Democrats who now dare to hazard
for their country's sake their political for
tunes and their sacred honor Esf5 .
CONVENTION ROUTINE.