The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-13

boyhood days. I cannot remember time
that was SO young that did not have sense
to know that when one end of a teeter
board goes up the other goes down. Qaug
teri
The money question is that simple. When
money goes up, property goes down. If ris-
not you understand that the man who owns
dollars will be. interested in having them
rise but that the person who owns property
will be injured by having it fall. To illus
trate: Suppose could imagine ourselves
walled in with just enough of wheat to last
year. and it divided into two piles,
pile owned by another man. One pile would
be burned. The supply would thereby be
cut in haf. Every bushel of wheat remain
ing would bring more money. We have two
destroyed the silver pile and make gold
alone the standard money of the world. Ev-
9 G ooilar OF money would rise in value.
When money rises, given amount Of it
buys more than it did before The strug-
glng masses are the ones who produce the
wealth, and they are the ones who pay the
the struggling masses are the only people
VINO ever did show willingness to sacrifice
gllng masses who produce the wealth and
pay the taxes Of the country are according
TO carlisle, on the one side, and on the other
are the idle holders of idle capital Here
are the three witnesses to point out the very
division in society which 1 pointed out by
loglc ana illustration. Am l wrong to call
etNS4AIiOAA " lIdL ulNlSlOnE IS 1t worse Tor
me to quote the language Of Blaine than for
MN to have used it? Is it worse for me to
quote the language of Sherman than for him
10 nave used it? Is it worse for me to quote
the language of Carlisle than for him to
have used it?
call your attention to the fact that in
thls country, at the very last election 80
per cent Of the people voted for bimetallism,
either independent or International and that
less than one per cent voted for the gold
standard. Within three months after the
election, a convention was held in the CITY
OF indianapolis, attended by men who called
themselves fnanciers, and they adopted reso-
luttons and what did they say. They said
that the gold standard should be maintained.
Nlnety-n1ne per cent of the people voted for
blmetallism and yet in spite of that these
men declared that the gold standard should
be maintained. Well, they say that the great
mass Of the people cannot tell what is good,
ana must be taken care of by their financial
friends That is what happened in this
country. l have called your attention to what
happened in Germany, where the Berlin
chamber of commerce arrayed itself against
the popular masses of Germany. I know
Germans hundreds and thousands of them,
who are not for the gold standard, and l point
the Germans to the fatherland that there, as
mere, It IS contest between the money
power and the common people, and they must
be on the side Of the common people in this
country. In England the bankers protested
against b1me5allism. They did not equal the
number OF laborng men, farmers and manu-
tacturers who petitCned the government.
But they had more influence than those who
were crying out against the gold standard,
and now 1T is said that while 80 per cent of
our people protested against the gold stand
ard, only year ago, that now we must have
the gold standard whether we want it or not
In spite of the fact that 90 per cent of DeO-
pie registered protest against the gold
standard, Notwithstanding the fact that the
president sent a commission to Europe and
still holds out the hope that the commits
sion's work is not ended, the influence Of the
few is respected.