The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-26

absorbing demand that the financial
carefully that it would never rise again
to throw business into confusion and
plunge political parties into demerali-
cation and dismay.
Full power to realize this desire was
committed to the Republican party. 1t
could, last March, have forced through
congress any measure of financial re-
form that it chose When the new ad-
ministration came into office, with all
the tremendous power that it held at
command it was master of the field.
Mr.. Mckinley had to do what Mr..
Cleveland did four years before, when
he compelled the repeal of the Sher-
man act, to assure currency reform.
If the committees of the two houses
had been engaged, during the winter
on the framing of a currency bill, and
if that had been urged forward by the
same means employed to pass the
Dingley bill, it would now be law, and
we should hear no more of the silver
question. The task set Mr.. Mckinley
did not, approach in difficulty that
which Mr.. Cleveland performed. The
opposition in his own party in the SEN
ate would not have been as great And
when we observe the ease with which
Mr.. Hanna was able to secure, from
hostile senators, a majority for the
new tariff bill, we know that he could
have passed a monetary reform bill
with equal ease. The Republican
party made it's choice. It elected to
pass the most monstrous tariff bill
ever conceived, and to throw cur
rency reform to -One side. When it
agreed upon that course, it demanded
that the financial issue be fought over
again; but this time with the handicap
of that indignant resentment which
naturally fills the~hearts of those who
find that they have. been deceived and
duped
We have another and as positive a
proof that this is the work of Republi-
can hands and brains. In the recent
contest in New York city it was pro-
posed that the municipal election
should be fought upon purely local is
sues. 1t was agreed by the best
thought and character in the Republi-
can party that this was wise. 1t was
doubly so. IT was wise as a matter of
patriotism to-. sink everything else in
the effort to secure good local govern
ment. 1t was wise in the larger view,
as refusing to raise again the issues
of 1896 and give to the cause then
defeated the dangerous inspiration of
a possible victory. 1t was Senator
Plat who decided that this should not
be. 1t was he who ordered the Repub-
lican machine to trOt out its candidate
and to hang out a placard that the is
sue before the voters was not clean
and honest government for Greater
New York, but Organism and free sill
YER" For him good government was
sacrificed. At his command that issue
whose resurrection Mr. Dingley affects
to deplore was made the central figure
in the contest. Mr. Mckinley sent his
secretary of the interior to bestow the
benediction of the administration upon
the plan. The question which Tam
many as we'll as the Citizens union,
had sought to~stide was forced to the
front. And Plat lost, the administra-
ton lost, the Republican party lost,
and the cause of mistaken and disas-
trous financial measures received a re
prieve. Again the work of last No
vember was undone, and it was by Re
publican hands.
The words of evil omen which Mr.
Dingley has inspired are all too truly
spoken. Men drunk with a little brief
authority and stated with the gratifica-
ton of their desires and designs upon
the industry of the country, men whose
greedy hands are full of the plumber
of the Dingley bill, are at last awake
to the menace of that retribution which
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unfaithful. They have had their day.
they have thrown away their opportu-
nifty. Now ineXorabie fate demands
that they go to meet their punishment.
Well may they tremble before the on
coming vengeance. Yet, after all, the
consequences that it carries for them
and for their party are but small COM
pensation for the EVIL which they have
wrought. Whatever trouble there may
be in store, through whatever depths
of loss and of humiliation this country
may have to pass in the evil time when
men seek the fall of their betrayers,
no matter at what cost, we can point
to every Republican who failed to de-
nounce the work of his party in the
last eight months, leading certainly
and necessarily to the conditions that
MI. Dingley and others now see with
terror, and repeat the old crushing
words of condemnation, Thou art the
man."
THE CURE FOR DEFICITS.
We assure our amiable contemporary,