The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-25

minneapolis Silverite Grew Wildly
PesSimfStic, Too

Prof. T. J. Cation. president of the
eaton Business college. of Minneapolis,
addressed an audience of rather slender
Proportions at Liedertafel hall on the
west side last night. Prof Cations
topic was the money question. His
address. which consumed more than an
hour, was an oratorical denunciation
or the single gold standard, and ar
ralgnment of the money power and a
merry lnvective leveled at the bugaboo
OF the SilverdteS-England When the
meeting opened there were scarcely
twenty-five people present, owing to
an unusual prevalence of ice cream
and strawberry church festivals in the
Sixth ward, .but as the evening wore
en- and Prof Cations voice could be
heard for blocks around the neighbors
began to drop, in and gradually
sWelled the attendance to fair propor-
TONS 90
R. B. Palmer presided. He intro
ouced j. NJ Hawthorne, who spoke
briefly
Mr.. Hawthorne regretted that the audience
was not larger.s That it was so small, en-
pnasIzed the need Of silver newspaper in
st. Paul Mr.. Hawthorne took occasion to
compliment the G 10 b e for its fair treat
winter. z = NJ 5
Prof. Cation was then introduced. Prof.
eaton possesses excellent oratorical ability,
III,
Prof. Cation said that where two or three
are gathered together in the name of humani-
Eon ana - the ~. up6ui,ding of man, there God
there to discuss the long codes of PRINCIPLES
promulgated at Omaha and Chicago, save to
speak or the restoration of the great principle
VI oInletalasm The speaker contended that
the republican party did not stand for the
single gold standard. Prof Cation reviewed
the history of the adoption of the gold stand
ara IN England and diated upon what he
n ha ~ Il.
I;fo tb 70 De the Wrethched conditions of
HE that followed the adoption of the gold
standard, and pictured greater distress await
ing the poor in the future. He would not he
surprised to witness bread riots next winter.
TOW eQuld anybody respect a government
created by and for corporations
referring to the late war the speaker
aanatnematlzed the action of the money power
during that period in. tampering with the
legislative power at Washington in it's efforts
to have an. exception clause stamped on the
government greenbacks. Then it was that
the bankers got $3.50 in greenbacks for 81 in
gold. Then came the "credit strengthening
act OF 1869 which provided for the redenlp.
tion OF the bonds in gold. Prof. Cation also
subjected the 'refunding act', to sarcastic
comment and so led up to what he termed
the butterfly characterization act Of 1873 - The
speaker did not neglect to score John Sher-
man who, he declared, stood before the peo-
pie, damned by the voice of the people for
this infamous financial system"
After reciting the subsequent financial legis-
latlon OF 1876 and 1873 and its denuncation by
OoiiCS IoldlhSes JOHI G. -CdrllSle, Senator
said:
"A gold bug prediction never came to
pass in this word" Naughter)
Prof. Cation grew impassioned as he en-
tered upon the denunciat:on of the single gold
standard and that bugaboo of the silyerites.
England. He condemned the gold system as
curse to mani kind. and called upon the di-
vine power to curse it.
Prof. Cation said that the issue of the hour
was the overthrow of the power of plutocracy.
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speeches directed against the money power
The speaker didn't want to be known as
Republican or Democrat or Populist. but
as an American patriot That was good
enough for him, for American patriot was
a foe to the power Of England which was
damning this country
In conclusion the speaker elouuently de-
scribed the dramatic scenes of the Chicago
convention, which eliminated in the nomina-
ton of w. ]. Bryan. who, he declared was
ca led by God to save the nation Cheers
and applause greeted this outburst
'Were the election held tomorrow" ex-
claimed the speaker, there wouldn't be
grease spot left of the Hannaites in this coun-
try" Uaughter.)
Prof. Cation closed with an exhortation urg-
ing his hearers TO bend all their energies and
exert all their strength to shake off the
shackles of slavery and redeem the land from
its blighting curse. The> hope of this country
lays in PROSECUTING from the ranks of the Re
publican party.
J. B. Starkey, of Minneapolis, followed with
a short address, in which he warned his hear
ers not to be fooled by the Republicans and
Democrats, who were trying to disorganize
the ranks of the silver advocates and get them
to quarreling among themselves.