The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-25
in the United States. Higher than the Me-

| In the United States. Higher than the Me-
Kinley bill.
| The Seth day of June last ended the first
| twelve months in which the Dingley bill had
Deen law. The revenues of the government
had fallen more than forty million dollars
snort OF the expenditures, in spite of the fact
that there were collected into the treasury
more than eighteen million dollars from the
Union Pacific railroad. thirty-one and three
| Iourths In December, more than eight and a
rail millions in January. three million six
hundred and fifty-one thousand from the
! Kansas Pacific in March. and two million six
hundred and fffty-one thousand in April A
total Of about sixty millions Of dollars COL
| iected from the railroads. and yet the Diag-
| ley Dill was more than forty million dollars
| behind the expenses OF the government. Is
that the prosperity that the men who made
the cartoon thought I was afraid Of? Great
| applause.)
Now, again, certainly they cannot say that
| Republican politicians and the Dingley bill
had brought prosperity to the treasury. Have
| they brought it to the people? Short crops
| for time brought universal stimulus to the
! price Of wheat, and they Immediately attrib-
| uted increase in the price Of wheat to the Re-
publican party. By the grace of God great
| crop has been guaranteed for this year, and
| now we are told that the Republican PARTY
Is responsible for this, and that prosperity is
| hnding its way among the people, but 1t
hasn't found 1t. Falling prices continue. This
| Is felt in every home and every section of the
| country.
| Where, then is the prosperity? Who re-
ceiyed the benefit Of the great prosperity
S'uocu ny pushing Inc DiuSIey Dill! Inc
| 40 while the Dingley bill was passing; it
is the same with al the other organizations
of capital. They got the benefit. while the
people bear the burden. Is that the kind of
| prosperity that the people Of this country
want? Is that the kind of prosperity for
with power in 1896? I don't believe the peo-
PIE. of the country are satisfied or will be
satisfied with it.
I received letter today from man who
discussed the conditions existing and one ex-
preston struck me with great force. Il am
confronted, by. the. reflection that the world
wants to do right" l believe Inc this. l be-
lieve that the great body of the people Of
the world want to do right, and by the help
condition Of affairs, brought about by legis-
lation, will not be permitted to continue al
ways
Men were asked in 1896 to vote against
| their consciences. Men have vo.ed against
their consciences and afterwards have asked
themselves if they did right. I believe shat
the power at least lies in the hand of the
people. They may be cajoled in one cleo
| ton into voting against what is right, but
when the party fails, as the Republican party
has failed, to discharge the obligations which
people, composing the greater number Of
intelligent common people, will cast their
verdict again. I have no doubt that when it
comes before them the next time they VIII
cast it on the other side Great apclausa)
| Senator Jones then discussed at length the
campaign of 1895. and, continuing, he said:
| / nave showed you CQaL Lne DlQRlSy FIJI
run one hundred million dollars behind the
revenues, but they collected sixty millions
| from the railroads. and that came wi hin
forty millions of defraying the expenses.
| What is going to happen next year? Where
| are you going to get the balance Of the
| money? This last session Of congress passed
bill which provided for the Issue Of four
| hundred million dollars Of bonds at the dis
erection Of the secretary of the treasury TO
| pay war expenses only. Then they levied
taxes on tobacco and beer and almost every
thing conceivable Is to be stamped to raise
two hundred million dollars. Now Rspub-
| lican prosperity saddles a tax by the way of
stamps to help the Dingley bill out, and
! this they tell us is prosperity. Simply that
stocks have gone up, while the prices OF
| every commodity have been going down all
| the time. That bill as passed Is law, and
| stays a law until 1t 1s repealed. How long
| will 1t be law?
But thereOwas a condition that they might
issue S1e0,o 600 Of certificates, payable in
men in the army. The average expense Of
keeping a man in the late war was about
$1,000 a year. That would take s274, COO eco
for twelve months. The law provides that
none of this money was to be used except
to pay the expenses of the war. The ink was
scarcely dry on the bill when 5000, coo, 900
worth of the bonds had been sod, and at a
| time when there was no proof that the war
might not cose before they got the bonds.
| Gentlemen, expect to hear good reports
| from Minnesota this year. expect to hear
that Lind has carried Minnesota Great ap.
plause.) Everybody will understand what
| that will mean in 1900.
| William Jennings Bryan will be nominated
on the same platform on which he ran be-
| fore. reasserting the principles Of Democracy,
and the verdict will be rendered in his favor,
and this question will be settled-for the good
of everybody. for the good Of the common
| people, bondholders, money lenders and all
| classes. and will then have prosperity,
and not prosperity such as the Republican
party have given us within the last two
| years. (Cheers)
In introducing c.. A Towne, Mr.
O'Brien evoked great burst of ap-
| plause. Mr.. Towne spoke to the toast
| John Lind"