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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
THE arULT1pLE STANDARD.

1t would be much more to the pur-
pose were those Of our contemporaries
who are still lamenting the natural
sloughing off process that is going on
in finance. as it has in mechanics, for
instance. and in pretty much every
what has already been accomplished
in the evolutionary movement and
what that movement foreshadows for
the future. We have repeatedly call
ed attention to the very evident and
very natural desire to be relieved of
the burden of metallic money; desire
that has expressed itself in the substi-
tuition of copper or brass for iron. OF
silver for brass. of gold for silver and
of notes, checks, drafts and bills of eX-
change for gold. The silver certificate
is the proof of the unwillingness of the
men who sold silver to take the coin;
the provision for depositing gold and
getting from the treasury gold certifi-
Gates is evidence Of the desire of what
are contemptuously termed the gold
bugs" not to be weighted down with
gold, while the greenback is a stupid
recognition Of the same desire out of
which is growing and will come the
money of the future. No man, goldbug
or silverbug, having $1,000 due him and
having rendered an unquestionably
solvent bank note, fifty double eagles
or 1000 standard dollars in payment,
would decline to take the note. merely
because it carried the same representa-
tive value in the least space with the
least weight.
In whatever form the currency of the
future may develop, there is little ques-
ton that it will be based upon the
theory of the multiple standard, which
recognizes money as but the represent
ative of commodities, and that It
should at no time have a greater or
less purchasing or debt-paying power
than commodities have. Such a cur
rency would equalize present and de-
ferred payments, giving to neither
debtor nor creditor any advantage over
the other. 1t is surprising to learn
that this most just currency was rec
ognized by the state of Massachusetts,
Bay over 100 years ago, and applied to
meet the financial conditions growing
out of the War of the Revolution that
left the continental and all other paper
currency practically worthless. The
state was indebted to it's citizen SOL
diers, among others. who were risking
life and health in securing independ-
ence, and had been paid in depre-
ciated currency, just as the soldiers of
the civil war We're This fuctuated, as
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
SERVICE PENSIONS.

The Grand Army national encamp-
ment recommended again the passage
of a service pension bill by congress,
and it has occasioned much comment
mostly adverse. If it is to be merely
an expansion act bestowing pensions
on those who have kept their names
off the roll either from e feeling that
a pension should moi be asked where
the person is capable Of self-support,
or because they Icould present no pen
sionable disabilities. then there should
be no favor shown it in any disinter-
ested quarter Oriif it is intended to
be cumulative, adding to the pensions
now received, either from service disa-
bilities or the helplessness made pen
sionable by the dependent act, then it
deserves an opposition not limited to
those who did not wear the blue. There
should be emphatic protests from the
veterans themselves.
But, if it be proposed to substitute
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did our own greenbacks; and, being the
only currency, all values were stated
in it. These fluctuations carried with
them unjust losses to some and equally
unjust gains to others. The problem
was how to secure to the creditor Of
the state his just dues. It is pity
that congress, in dealing with a sim
liar condition after 1865, was not as
wise as were the legislators of Massa-
chusetts a century before.
The current Arena has, for a frontis-
piece, a facsimile of a note issued by
the state of Massachusetts Bay" to
which the treasurer of the state, in
its behalf promises to pay Clark e., 240
on or before March 1, 1884, with inter
est at 6 per cent, payable, principal
and interest, in the current money of
the state, but Gin a greater or less sum
according as bushels Of corn, 6S At
pounds Of beef, 10 pounds of Sleeps
wool and 16 pounds Of sole leather shall
then cost more or less than f130 cur
rent money, at the then current prices
of said articles This sum being 321a
times what the same articles would
cost at the prices affixed to them" I'M
der the act of 1777, san act to prevent
monopoly and oppression" In spite of
the act fixing prices they had risen
J.
in the act, and the f13O due the
captain would buy less than 1872 of
these commodities as priced in 1877
The justice of compelling him to take
the latter sum was as manifest to
them as the same injustice of COM
polling the soldiers of 1926 to take
their pay in money that had lost half
it's buying power was imperceptible to
congress.
When the time comes that the JUS
tice of currency thus based becomes
generally admitted there will be a
much more stable and a wider basis
on which to build it. The number of
commodities that are staple is much
larger; the facilities of transportation,
the accessibility of the worlds markets
by telegraph, the extension of COM
merce until it embraces the entire
globe, together with the tables of prices
and their index figures compiled by
Sauerbeck and others, supply the foun-
dation for multiple standard that the
legislators of Massachusetts, did not
money problem of the future, and In
stead of worshiping gold as money i'm
mortal or vainly calling for the restor-
alton of vanishing and discarded sill
yer, it will be wiser and better to give
attention to this proposed solution.
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cost of living was stationary or

the cost of living was stationary or
had fallen.
With the facts thus stated the theory
that the poor are growing poorer fails
fiat. No Juggling with realities can
save it, To borrow Mr.. Wright's il
lustration, if society as It was orga-
nized fifty. years ago be represented by
a pyramid, with the very rich the
pointed apex and the very poor the
broad base, while the one has expand
ed, the other has contracted. Despite
the more rapid widening of the point,
the evolution has tended toward equali-
zation. Labor has grown away from
the Ricardo theory, the so-called iron
law of wages. "The economic man of
Ricardo is gradually developing into
the social man." No longer satisfied
with just sufficient wage to maintain
the greatest degree of physical eff
cheney, labor demands, and rightfulIy
enough, Mr.. Wright contends. "a fair
proportion of even the luxuries of life"
Whether the question of relative prog
ress is one that will adjust itself or,
admitting that it will not. what are
the means by which inequalities are to
be harmonized, the future must tell. In
the meantime the richer rich and poor
er poor epigram has been robbed of its
keenest sting for all who care to look
uDOn social DrOgreSS in tha LIGHT of
logic and not of hysteria.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

for all pensions, except, possibly, cases
of total disability, a pension depend
ent only on having seen service, and
made proportional in amount to the
number of days of service given, then
it commends itself to all for its fair
due those who served more than the
compensation given them while in
service, it presents the only basis Of
computation by which equality Of COM
pensation can be secured. We do not
assent to the proposition that there is
any debt" remaining unpaid, or that
any soldier did anything more than
his duty. By doing that he could not
make himself creditor. But the pen
sion system is too firmly imbedded now
to be considered with any other pur-
pose than that of Kidding it of it's
abuse, its injustice and, more than all,
of it's political or partisan character
Thus regarded, pensions should be
commensurate to length of service and
whether contracted in the service in
line of duty or as a result of misfor-
tune since discharge.
1t is objected that it would largely
increase the annual appropriations
made for pensions. Without exact IN
formation, speaking merely from i'm
pressions gained by personal knowl-
edge and observation, we believe that
the contrary will be the result. The
most eager and successful applicants
for pensions and increases come from
those who entered the service only af-
ter national, state or town bounties, or
all combined, appealed to a cupidity
which counted compensation for per-
forming the highest duty of citizenship
as of first Importance They looked
upon army service then as a money
making job, and they naturally have
ever since so regarded the government
as something out of which money was
to be got. These soldiers have to their
credit very short terms of service and
their pensions, computed on days of
service, would average less than the
minimum under the dependent act The
amount to be gained would be so small
for SO many that application would
not be made
A decided gain would be the removal
of the old soldier from politics. No
party would thereafter open the treas
ury to him to lure his vote. We would
have no more laudations of the Tan
ners because of their disregard of law
in swelling the pension list, nor de-
nunciation of the Lochrens because
they kept within the law A further
gain would be to the pensioners them
selves in the relief from the odium
that now attaches to all because of the
unworthiness of so many who have not
stopped al perjury to force their
names upon the rolls. A service pen
sion would be proof of service given,
while the amount of it would furnish
measurement of it's duration. If it can
be substituted for all present pensions,
with few exceptions, it would be ad-
V9Dta0 aGl1c
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
HIS sUPERFLUENCy SPEAKS

Hats OH to Mr.. Hobart, Hobart, OF
New Jersey, Hon. Carrot A. Hobart,
if the name happens to have slipped
your memory Most wonderful of dis
coverers. future generations of vice
presidents will rise up to call him
blessed. Honor to him wherever he
may be. Turn out the guard and let
standard from the castle walls. The
unexpected has happened, and Mr.. Ho-
bart has eclipsed the flights of those
who have sought the philosophers
stone, perpetual motion and other i'm
possible things The vice president of
the United States has responsible du-
ties. Mr. Hobart has found them;
again hats off to him. At the annual
meeting of the New York, Susquehanna
& Western Railroad company, Mr. Ho-
bart was not reelected as a director,
because he informed his colleagues. in
writing, that his official duties would
not permit him to give any of his time
to the road. The very paper on which
the note was written rustled with in
the committee room shook with laugh
ter and yet it does not appear that the
honorable gentlemen even smiled. They
asked no questions and were not even
startled, but the public will insist on a
bill of particulars. Mr.. Hobart will not
be allowed to hide his light. Those
wonderful responsibilities must be put
on show. Each one under a powerful
compound microscope will be gaped at
by the passing crowd. When at night
they are carefully packed away in a
pin hole, soldiers in martial array will
stand on guard to see that none are
spirited away.
1t is a pitiful spectacle that Mr. Ho-
bart presents, weighed down by the
crushing responsibility of appointing
one private secretary and two mes
isengers, while the fate of a nation
hangs on the wisdom of his choice And
when the fateful decision has been
mace, II Tree institutions survive the
stress of such a time of peril, there is
no rest for the weary head weighed
down by the vice presidential crown.
With the morning. when congress is
in session, still shaken and weak from
the exhaustion of the previous day,
Hobart, the Honorable Carrot A. Ho-
bart, must nerve himself for a new
task While sixty millions of people
gasp and tremble in an agony of ap-
prehension, the fateful words, "the
senate will be in order" must, by a
supreme effort Of the will, be forced
from his quivering lips. Mr.. Hobart
has no time to run a railroad with such
weight on his official shoulders. If
fate had made the New Jersey states
man chairman of the town board of
Armougok, VT, he would have been
compelled to resign from his wife and
family AS member of the city council
of Podunk, Mr.. Hobart doubtless
would do his breathing by proxy and
have his meals served to him in bed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

The city papers are now coming down as
gracefully as possible, but their line of bat
tie is uncovered, and the press of the First
district will wheel it's great siege guns into
position prepared to defend our nervy con-
gresham when the thunder of the mud
batteries at the head of navigation is again
heard in the land-Rushford Star.
And if the ''great siege guns" of the First
districts press take to the woods as expe-
ditiously as did their "nervy congressman"
when he got the rebound of his Times
Herald article, their thunder will not break
con the bosom of the palpitating air. very
hard. All the same, this "nervy" backing
of the nervous congressman should be re-
warded with something equally good
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

The idea of charging Congressman Tawney
with the authorship of the now famous sec
ton % in the tariff bill is absolutely ridicu-
Ious. If the section does what Is claimed
for it, discriminates against the Northern
railroads, Tawney would be fool for father
ing such a measure, as no state would be
injured more than his own. And Jim is not
a fool-not by hundred and sixty rods
Preston Times.
If Tawney would be q fool for fathering'
it, just how much of a fool was he for
voting for it, whether he knew it was there
or not?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
These Were Acquitted.

Kate Brennan, the former laundress 81 the
of stealing quantity Of linen, was discharged
by Judge Twohy yesterday. The young wo-
man claims that the property taken from her
trunk belonged to her and not to the man
ager of the Colonnade. The evidence OF the
prosecution failed to establish otherwise and
the court ordered Miss Brennans release.
Louis Nash and John Alchwanck the two
West side youths accused of stealing a wagon
umbrella were discharged in the municipal
court yesterday.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

Moral If there is anything in luck, so
called, let us have. of course, that particu-
lar brand of it that brings industrial &C
tiyity and good times. The Mckinley brand,
like that Of Harrison before, appears to be
just the thing to restore confidence and set
the wheels of industry in motion.-Winona
Republican.
Agreed. And save US from the Grant brand,
burned in in 1873; the Arthur brand, ap-
piled in 1884, and the other Harrison brand
that scorched US in 1890. From plague, pesti-
lence, famine and all such brands, good
Lord deliver us
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer 20 49, mean temperature, 81;
relative humidity, IS; weather, partly cloudy
maximum temperature, 80; minimum temper e
tation in last twenty-four hours, trace.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
ond elevation. p. F. Lyons, Observer
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

E. E. Mcdonald, who is supposed
to represent the crystallzed sentiment
OF the Sixth ward voters, says it is as
good as settled. The head of the tick
ct, according to Mr.. Mcdonald, will
be DOran for mayor, F. S. Bryant for
comptroller and Edward Feldhauser
for treasurer. The friends of Mayor
Doran, and he still has some who
claim he has made the best Republi-
can mayor st. Paul ever had, are not
doing much talking, but are pulling
the wire hard for denomination In
this they are ably assisted by the
mayor himself, who carefully weighs
his every official act with the sole view
of strengthening his fences and fore
Ing denomination, whether the rank
and file of the party wish it or not
Kiefer, according to the plan of the
Doranites, can be kept out of the way
either by promising him the congress
S1onal nomination or selecting some
other plum which will pay reasona-
bly, good salary Right here it may be
said that Col. Kiefer is not so green
as some of the members of his party
may regard him. A friend of the ex-
congressman said the other day that
Col. Kiefer would not accept the
mayoralty nomination, if it was hand
ed him. The colonel, the gentleman
said, realized that the present admin
istration had not satisfied the people,
and, in the nature of things political,
there would be no chance for a Re-
publican next spring. For this rea-
son Col. Kiefer's friend said, he would
not take the nomination, although he
was not foolish enough to repel over
lures which might be made to hand
him good thing for his keeping OUT
of the race
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

Those fellows who are constantly repeating
the assertion that the Republican party Is
not responsible for returning prosperity will
have uphill work trying to make the in
telligent citizen indorse their views.-Wheat-
on Reporter.
We give up all hope of getting the editor
of the Reporter to Endorse their views"
and will restrict our efforts to citizens.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

Mention is made in conversation
daily of a score of persons who would
accept the nomination on the Demo-
cratic side for mayor. One of the most
prominent politicians in the Demo-
cratic ranks in conversation yesterday
quite electrified those he was talking
to by saying after all the candidates
had been sized UP and considered, that
Robert A. Smith was the only logical
candidate for the party to nominate
next spring. No one, he said. had
made better mayor than Smith. and
the people, after the exhibition of the
past fourteen months in the manage
ment of city affairs, were beginning
to realize that a man familiar with
city affairs and having the best in
terests of the city and all the citizens
at heart was needed for mayor. This.
he said, was why Robert A. Smith
was the right man for mayor, and, if
the Democrats nominated him next
spring, his election would be assured
without doubt. Other people, how
ever, are strongly talking of l.. L.
May, DR.. E. H. Whitcomb, ]. ]. Park
er and Pierce Butler
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roDAY,s WEATHER.

da MIN Minnesota1 Generally fair; cooler in
southerly portion; variable winds.
Wisconsin-Fair; warmer in eastern pof-
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North Dakota-Generally falr' westerly
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

Tawney says he didn't know anything about
it. but he don't explain why in thunder he
didn't Who looks after our interests, any
ow?-Anoka Herald.
That depends on whose "our'' interests
are. If they are lumber, Tawney does. If
they are chicory, Tawney does. If they are
eggs TaEney does. If they are Tawney's.
Tawney. does. If they are just US common
folks. no one does.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

w. T. Kirke. of the Seventh ward, az
present member of the assembly, is
mentioned as a candidate for the po-
sition of comptroller. This was the
statement made by a Republican of
the Seventh ward yesterday, who said
that while there had been no concert
ed action taken, there was a POSSIBLE
lty that the ward might go to the con-
Ventlon pledged to Kirke for comp
troller. The Seventh warder laughed
at the proposition Of Freddie Bryant
standing any show to get the nomina-
tlon Tor comptroller. Assemblyman
k1rke was, he said, a good accountant
and qualified to fill the position.
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City Gomptroller-M. w. Fitzgerald.
City Treasurer-O. H. Arosin.

with the city ticket headed by this
trlo the friends of Col. Kiefer think
the grand old party could win again
IN the spring. With the present execu-
tive at the head of the ticket. whole
lot of prominent Republicans saw that
victory is impossible. and for this
I I any plan or scheme which will
throw the Sixth ward statesman down
meets with favor. If, as some of the
wise ones claim, Col Kiefer would
rather take his chances for congress
III the Iall than to make the race for
mayor IN the spring, then there is a
chance for William r. Johnson, recent
~ elected to the assembly in place of
ernest l.. Mabon, who was given a
pace on the board of public works
Johnson, the night he assumed the no.
sltlon OF assemblyman, announced that
ne was not candidate for any political
honors, but he threw out a life line nv
saying that IF the people of the CITY
should ever get insane enough to elect
me mayor, l have no doubt but what
could I'LL the office as well as some of
the persons who have been elected to
the office" Whether the Eighth ward
politician had an idea, at the time
that there might possibly be a chance
FOR him to get the nomination. is a
question, but there are any number of
persons who are, as he expressed n
insane enough to make a talk about
giving him the mayoralty nomination
Ihose who are making the talk do NOT
stop at this easy method, but are ac-
tiVely at work booming johnson for
the race.
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REPUBLICANS ANXIOUS FOR THE
TIME WHEN THEY CAN GET AT
DORIAN.
ACTIVITY IN THE EIGHTH WARD
PLANS LAID FOR A TICKET COM
POSED OF KIEFER, FITZGER-
AID AND AROsIN.
W. r.. JOHNSON TO CUT SOME ICE.
Democratic Sentiment Has Not Vet
Begun to CrystaIixe In Favor of
Any One Man.

The Republicans of the Eighth ward
nave commenced to hold precinct
meetings in order to arrange for the
spring election. There seems to be a.
Ieenng among the voters of the ward
mat the present administration has
Hot given the ward the proper recogni-
.Ion que 1t considering the showing
made at the last election. The Ger.
man American voters are particularly
sore sore oyer the treatment. and it is in
TINS ward that the Kiefer boom is be-
ing worked the strongest. The ticket
whicn the friends of Kiefer are talk
ing about reads like this:
Mayor-A. R. Kiefer
Sty Gomptroller-M. w. Fitzgerald.
City Treasurer-o. H Arosin. '''N'
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

NO matter who gets the nomination
Tor mayor there promises to be a very
warm tight for comptroller. Capt. Nc
Cardy is now doing his third term
ana the majority of the Republican
politicians, and by that is meant the
ones who do the hustling at the can
cuses and the polls, are saying that
while the watch dog of the treasury"
Is perhaps all right, there are others
VINO could do Just as well and are
more entitled to the place The friends
or Z. l.. Horst, the present city treas
urer, who is a candidate for re-elec-
ton. claim that McCardy, at the time
OF the recent investigation of the city
treasurer's office, endeavored to give
Horst the worst of it, in order to
shield himself, Horst's friends point
10 the manner in which McCardy
threw Conrad Miller overheard, and
insist that they will attend to Nc
Cardy when the time comes
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

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