The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-24

the legal tender value given it by law, be
cause it enables the. miner to pass his 80
cent dollar on those to whom he owes debts.
ONLY GOOD FOR NINE OWNERS.
Now I want TO know of you gentlemen who
have been advocating this so loudly and per-
sistenty, how much silver have you got to
take to the mint to be coined for your bene-
fit at the expense of other people?
A VOice-Not a dollar.
Not a dollar; and how you going to
Another Woodwork for it.
Are the silver miners going to give 1t to
you? The dollars are theirs. 1t does not
belong TO the government. When they bring
the silver they have it coined at your
pense, and double the nominal amount of
value given to it. They are not going to
give it to you. Who ever heard of a sill
yer miner doing an act of patriotism pure
and simple of itself disinterested in char
acter? What have they done through their
representatives in the senate Of the United
States? Because some Of these silver miners
have obtained positions there, and they are
voting in their interests against the inter
ests of the people. You find them in the
senate willing to trade and compromise with
any party to support any measure, however
injurious 1t may be to the interests of the
people, provided that the senator's will vote
to protect them, as they call it. in their
interests-in other words, to assist them in
robbing the people of the United States.
(Applause.)
But we are told by these gentlemen, Mr..
at the ratio of sixteen to one-though il is
dishonest now and palms off upon the peo-
pie 50-cent dollar for hundred cents
Work-Still, after awhile this system of
free coinage may bring the dollar up to the
full value of the gold dollar. That shows
that these advocates themselves recognize
gold as the standard of measure because
the best hope and claim they have is that
by free coinage they will after awhile make
them attain the full value of the gold dol
lar (Applause.) They acknowledge that at
al Of will 4hyo1r +T
country into commercial disaster, involving
ruin on all our industries. Their candidate
Tor president comedies that. President An
drews, of Brown university one of the
most learned of their men and a sincere ad-
vocate of free coinage with the consent of
other nations, by agreement with them says
that if We attempt it alone it will bring
about a commercial CONFUSION such as this
country has never had, from it's foundation
to the present time. Senator Teller. also
one OF the advocates of this system. tells
US that it will bring temporary ruin upon
the country. But, like that physician Of whom
you have all heard, whose capacity was linn
tied to the cure of single disease and
when his patients came to him with any
other. his rule always was to administer
potion which would throw the patients into
Hts. because (if the ladies will excuse mel he
said he was hell on fits and could cure
them, though nothing else So Senator Tel
Ter and others insist that by giving you
THIS experiment of free silver il will throw
you into financial fits for a long time, but
begin to improve under the operation of
the medicine that he gives you daughter
Now that is the best hope that they give
US. 10 you wish to GO. through an ex-
pertinent OF quaoI medicine? And whilst
even the doctor himself thinks this is go
ing to afiict you in this manner for twenty
years before you have any hope of relief
and then he don't know whether YOU will
receive it or not, but he hopes that you may
BEST is A PROMISE.
But the best they offer is maybe after
while under this system they will make the
s sine collar lar equal to the gold dollar. But
There Is silver dollar exhibiting American
silver dollar to the audence) You all know
tna6 today that silver dollar in the markets
lar in gold. And why? Because the gov
eminent, though there are but fifty cents
worth of silver in that bought that silver in
the markets of the United States from the
lowest bidder, they passed it through the
minis put the stamp of the government mon
II; they bought the silver with the money of
the people; that, therefore is a dollar of the
people, bought with their money and when
the government stamped it and paid it out for
the debts of the people which the government
owed, they by law said: 1--WE guarantee
| that the credit of this government is pledged
to make that dollar worth a dollar in gold. .
| for Bryan.)
That's right. gentlemen, call for the man
that represents your ideas of dishonesty
| that's right.
applause by the sound money menl
Free country yet, and will be until YOU get
control, and then you'll do what you want to.
(Applause.)
As said, the utmost that they propose is,
that, in about twenty years time, after ali
the disasters to which it will bring you. NAV
be. we will get to the point we are already
enjoying. Uaughter.)
Now is that wise? AS I say that the silver