The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-12
A CANDID AVOWAL.

fusal of the G l o b to support the
platform eructated at Chicago and the
nominees placed upon it is that the
proposition to coin silver into dollars at
the ratio Of sixteen to one is distinc-
lively and essentially a protective
degree to the Allison and Sherman
silver purchase acts, and springs from
the same root. 1t was the perception
Of the nature Of free coinage that at
the Bland bill in 1878 and the subse-
quent purchase acts. He is as quick
to recognize the spirit of protection in
any measure as mother is to recog-
niZe her child It is this coinage pro-
lection that has stimulated manufact-
ures in Mexico, and it was the percep-
ton Of it's effects that started those
Pennsylvania manufacturers under the
lead of Wharton Barker, to urge the
Republicans in congress to support free
coinage 1t protects the mine owner by
increasing by legislation the price of his
product, and it protects the manufac-
turer by doubling, through the rise in
exchange, the price of imports.
That the silver miners so understand
1t is made plain by the publication of
circular addressed by Thomas G.
Merrill, Of Salt Lake City, to the silver
mine owners, asking them to con-
firth ia To ha "A +oI1
mittee, money to be used in aid of Mr..
Bryan's campaign. So frank was this
that, when first published, we suspect
ed its authenticity but no denial of it
having been made, it can be accepted
as genuine. His statements are de-
serving the attention of those Demo-
Gratis who have been deluded by the
sophistries with which the naked
greed of the movement is craftily
cloaked. He assures them that 1.-THE
election of Bryan means the Immediate
restoration of silver to its place as a
full legal-tender money at q ratio Of
Is to l with gold, and the immediate
return Of silver to It's former price of
$1.29 an ounce"
I'm view of these facts" he asks the
owners of certain named mines if they
can afford not to contribute at least
the additional profit they would re-
ce1ve for their own silver product for
one month to the educational work Of
the present campaign" Growing more
earnest he names certain owners and
asks them to figure up the average
monthly silver product from their
mines and multiply the product of one
month in ounces by GA cents, which is
the additional price they will receive
for their production, all of which will
be profit, and at once have the amount
contributed and placed in the hands
of the treasurer of the timetable forces
to assist Mr. Bryan in the wonderful
campaign he is making almost unaid-
ed. If we can secure the additional
profits of one months product of West
ern silver-producing mines 1t will in
sure success in the election on Nov. g."
This is, we say, very candid avowaI
of the real purpose behind the silver
movement We hear nothing of II
from its promoters save as some con-
fidertial circular like this escapes
privacy. They have taken their cue
from those other protectionists. the
wards of Mckinley, who say nothing of
the gain for themselves, but pirate in.
cessantly of their kind interest in their
Eoor workingmen and the poor farmer
for whom they only wish to provide
high wages and home market for
produce. How any Democrat, retain
ing any sense OF Democracy, can vote
TO thus extend the operation OF the
policy of protection passes our com
prehens;ol. AS well nisht g. Repub-
iican in 1850 have voted for the ex-
tension ef slavery into the territories.
It was the votes Of their representatives.
that passed the Mckinley bill, and
hey are now but asking the extension
az Industrial slavery into their terri
tories. They viii be protection:sts
after this nigh. In over and will Join
:ne Republicans In restoring Mckinley
ism. With Democracy committed TO
the extipat.on of protection, what
;:ladr ass IL 10 fer Democrats to be aid
Ing 81 its s1,ensson, madness rarai-
'elc. -. ths Inconsistency CT 2spa.,.:-