The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-28

Mr., Moreton Frewen is an English
busybody who has been writing letters
to the English and American press for
years past in favor Of the free coinage
of silver. He was one Of the most
ardent advocates, if, indeed, he was
not the inventor Of the beautiful theory
that free coinage, at ratio departing
by 30 per cent from that Of the market,
imposes a bounty equivalent in amount
upon domestic products. He has
not attracted very much attention in
this country, his illusions being, in ad-.
dition to their financial looseness, char
acterized by more than the average
unfamiliarity with American policies
and American modes Of thought and
feeling. Mr.. Frewen has shot beyond
the mark, however, in communication
which he has had published in a recent
number Of the London Times, and
which has been forwarded to the press
of this country for inspection. Either
statement which he makes in this
letter is unauthorized, or there is in
existence in this country not only an
individual, but a spirit so traitorous to
American institutions that the right
eous Indignation of our people may
well be stirred.
Mr.. Frewen goes over the US
ual stuff about the destruction of
the balance Of trade by decentralization,
and then intimates broadly what is as
gross a SANDER as ever was placed
upon a virtuous people. He parrots the
cry Of the more reckless silverites in
this country, that the election is to be
carried in this country for honest
money "by the most reckless and dis
honest means" He says that the plan
is to buy up Democrats by the whole
sale at the primaries" Now, this
man is not only a road-gauge
and thorough-going liar, but he is
an absurdly i'll informed liar as we'll
Who is he, this sprig of financial dis
honesty set in an alien soil, that he
dare cast this reflection upon more than
half the American people? And before
he put his statement into print would
1t not have been well for him to inform
himself first as to what the American
primary means? Evidently, he sup
poses that the contest between Mr..
Mckinley and Mr. Bryan is to be
fought out at some primary" election
to be held in November 1t is at the
primaries that Democrats are to be
bought up by the wholesale. And this
wretched slander-monger does not even
know that the primaries which he talks
about have all been held weeks ago.
He is not content with this, but, fol-
lowing the lead of Bloody Brides"
Waite and others of the raving an
archistic school, he tells US that if the
American people do not get cheap and
dishonest money by the ballot they
will have it by the bayonet. Here is
an extract from his letter: "A Western
Democrat wrote to me recently that
we cannot shell the usurers out of Wall
street, but possibly we can bring Brit
ish gunboats to do the work we can
not do. p" If it were not that this man
had already displayed, in the ridiculous
passage that we have quoted, his utter
disregard for truth, this would con-
stitute the most frightful charge ever
brought against any advocate of
the free silver cause Mr.. Frewen
AYERS that an American citizen has
been found who is willing to write his
name upon that black and polluted
page which is now dedicated solely
to Benedict Arnold He says that
a Western Democrat has taken the
trouble to write to him that II financial
heresy cannot triumph in any other
way it will endeavor to promote a con-
flict with some other nation, and bring
upon this country any series of calam-
tiles necessary, or any fate that trea-
son may plot, in order to compass its
ends.
We believe, for our own part, that.
In this statement, as in those that pre-
ceded it, Mr.. Frewen is simply acting
the part of the accomplished liar. We