The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-24
IN THE CAMPAIGN IN IOWA.
SAYS THE WHITE METAL is STILL
AN ISSUE IN POLL
TICS.
MEN MUST BE ON THEIR GUARD.
He Says Its Appearance in the
Hawkeye State Fight Is Due to
Bryan Pressure.

an address at DeS MOineS, To-, last
evening Mr. Smalley is the secretary
of the National Sound Money league,
and the occasion was the convention of
the Polk county league of Republican
clubs. His appearance called forth
storm of applause, and he sustained his
reputation as an orator, in the minds
of his hearers. He said that silver
was still an issue in politics and was
the principal issue in the Iowa state
campaign. Continuing, he said IN
brief:
Now, this has not come about by
accident but it IS the first move in
deeply laid scheme, which looks for
ward to the presidential election OF
1900 You know that the Democratic
leaders in the states hesitated about
taking up their silver question again.
They were persuaded to do so by pres
sure from Bryan and his fellow schem-
ers and by promise of large pecunlary
assistance from national fund lately
replenished by another assessment
upon the owners of silver mines in the
West The plan of the national Silver
leaders is to break down this fall, as
far as possible, the splendid majority
of $4,000 given by Iowa for Mckinley
last year, and the majority of 45,OOo
which Ohio gave. and thus to demon
Etrate that their rotten theory has
still force and vitality before the peo
ple. By considerably reducing the old
,lajorities in Ohio and Iowa, the silver
leaders will be able to say to the con-
servative Democrats of the East, who
want to pitch them ard their theories
overheard and tighten the ship, you
cannot do this thing. Ours is the only
living issue in the West. You must
Soi,, ~,
in order to have any chance of sue
cess.
1.-The next move on the programme
will be to contest all the close con-
gressional districts next year, and to
elect if possible, majority of the
next congress. If this can be accom-
plished, it is hoped by the Silver lead
ers that they can produce such con-
dition of turbulence in Washington
as will.alarm the capital and the busi-
ness interests Of the country. ard thus
turn back the rising tide of prosperity,
so that, by the time the presidential
election comes around in 1860, We
shall be thrown back into the old con-
ditions of low prices, closed factories
and unemployed labor, from which
we are now escaping under the wise
leaders hip of the Republican party.
With hard times again fully estab-
lished, it is believed that the feeling
of discoura cement and distress will
be so great that majority of the vot-
terS of the country can be persuaded
to send Mr.. Bryan to the White house
to debase the currency and put the
Popocrats in power. This, briefly OUT
lined, is. the Democratic scheme. the
first move in which is now being made
in the state of Iowa.
The country is full of smart, recl1-
less men who are dissatisfied because
they cannot loaf in the saloons and talk
politics on the street corners, and at
the same time live in as good houses,
wear as good clothes and eat as good
food as the men who work hard and
faithfully day after day. These men
form dangerous element in the COM
munity. They follow blindly every
blathering demagogue who can spout
about the plutocrats, the corporations
and the money lenders. They would
have no scruple about pulling down
the wonderful fabric of government.
erected by Washington, Jefferson,
Madison and Hamilton, if they thought
they would pick up some profit among
the ruins.
I'm the new struggle which is upon
US. old party names and attachments
will not count for much, we shall see
the forces of conservatism allied
against the forces of destruction.
have to stand together against the men
who have nothing. The Republican
party, as seen by Charles A. Dana on
his deathbed, will represent the intelli-
gence, the conservatism and the prop
erty of the country, and the Demo-
cratic party now fully controlled and
absorbed by the Populists. will repre-
sent the revolutionary spirit which
blirdly seeks change for the sake OF
n - nj w ic tn RIB
all laws and institutions that protect
the right of men to keep and own what
they have earned and saved. The as
sault en- the old order of things is not
confined to the United States 1t is in
progress all over the civilized world.
In the columns of attack are arrayed
everywhere the ignorant, the half edu- /.
Gated, the visionary theorists, the long
haired and wild-eyed agitators and the
crafty dema gogues. All these people
have nothing to lose and everything to
gain from general condition of an
archy We must form our lines to
meet this attack 1t must be hurled
back at the very first assault, or it will
gain enormously in power by recruits
from the multitude of unthinking men,
who are disposed to shout for every
new thing and to fall in lire with every
new movement that promises to win. l
do not wish to be prophet of evil,
but it is wise occasionally for US to
throw aside the optimism which char
acteriZes us as a young nation and
recognize the fact that there are re-
trograde movements in the world, that
dark and dangerous currents are flow
ing around u.s.
Events are working for us all over
the world Since the election last fall
Russia Japan, Costa Rica, Guatemala,
Peru and Bolivia have adopted the
gold standard. Every remaining silver
standard country is seeking to escape
from the burdens and losses imposed
upon it by a currency that is out of
relation with the money of the world.
Is it not amazing that there should be
sane people in the United States, who
claim that we should adopt a system
which semi-civiliZed nations recognize
as an evil? There will be no escape for
our silver men through the door of in
te1national bimetallism. Every Euro
pean nation has said to the Wolcott
commission Thank you, but suppose
you try your medicine first
.Bimetallism is either a barren ideal
ity of impractical theories or a trick
phrase of demagogues. We must have
enc measure of value. A double STAN
dard is an impossibility. 1t means
double dealing and trickery and the
disturbing and injury Of all business
relations We can not do business
with two kinds of yards of different
lengths, or with two kinds Of pounds
of different weights. We must know
what the yard means and. what the
pound means, and we must also know
what the dollar means. If we are to
have two kinds Of legal tender dollars,
one composed of metal worth 100 cents,
and the other Of metal worth 40 or
so cents, the business OF the country
must come to a stop, because no one
could buy or sell with safety. This