The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-15

/ say "Yes2-a soap trust doesn't hurt
the Democratic party much Qaughter),
but 1t hurts the people generally.
They call us the unWashed, and as
sumo that we never use soap. But, my
friends. all these trusts are bad. Why?
BAD because they control the price Of
a given article. But the money trust
controls the price Of all articles. Tell
me we ought to oppose a particular
trust and favor the money trust? Why.
my friends, the very men who tell us
10 crop our fight on money and fight
the trusts are in with the trusts, and
II they ran the party it would be as
powerless assawas Grover Cleveland's
party or Mr.. g4McKinleys party to do
anything. Applause.) Tell me that
we Will bring the gold Democrats back
Dy nghting the trusts? Why, the gold
Democrats had their chance to fight
the trusts. nc
have never said anything as harsh
against the trusts as Mr.. Cleveland
did All the gold Democrats denounced
the trusts. and yet, during Mr.. Cleve-
LANDS administration what effort did
the gold Democrats make to eXtinguish
the the, trusts? What effort would they
make again If they had the power? Be-
cause the leading gold Democrats are
connected with all the leading trusts
OF the nation. When they talk about
making the fight on trusts, my friends,
1t would be no fight at all. They say
We Will get Republicans If we fight the
trusts. Why, the Republicans have
their chance to fight the trusts now.
They all
TALK AGAINST THE TRUSTS.
If you confine the fight to trusts, you
can't find a party In the United States
that would oppose you. If we held our
convention first and denounced the
trusts, the Republican convention
would then adopt stronger plank than
we would and tell you that it always
! was opposed to trustS-and what would
be the issue?
All, my friends, the trusts don't care
for platforms. What they want is to
elect the fellows on the platform. 1t
Is not the law they object to, it Is the
enforcement of it,. and they know that
While they can control the attorney
general and the judges the people can
write the laws.
Some one has said: LET me write the
songs of nation and I care not who
writes its laws" The trusts might we'll
paraphraSe it and say: Let us appoint
the attorney generals and the judges
and we care not who writes the laws"
My friends, If the Democratic party
IS in earnest, it has got to fight all the
money question now. 1t is because the
other side is emphasizing it now. You
have got to meet things when they
Icome .-..a
Why, my friends. there is bill before
congress now, and this morning Secre-
tary Gage. in an interview, think,
said that they were going to push that
bill through. What does it mean? It
means to make all the debts Of this ma
ton paid in gold-it says so in the
plain, unvarnished bill, to make all the
debts Of the nation payable in gold
Now they are payable in either gold or
silver, and they expect to strike down
one OF the standard moneys and make
| all debts payable in the other. And
what does it mean2 Why, it means to
decrease that with which you can pay
the debt and leave the debt as large as
1t ever was. Say that we can ignore ii?
Why, If they had stopped fighting, they
might have some reason to ask US to
stop, but don't you think 1t is rather
a bad plan to ask, US to stop while they
go on?
BILL BEFORE CONGRESS.
And. not satisfied with making gold
the only standard money they tells us
they are going to retire the greenbacks
and turn over the paper money to the
national banks, and that bill that was
introduced the other day and is now
before congress allows national banks
to issue UP to the par value Of the
bonds and then repeats a provision that
attempted to prevent the, sudden con-
| traction or the currency. They repeal
it, and they would leave the volume Of
paper money entirely in the hands of
the national banks Of this country
They would constitute a. paper money
trust, and every dollar of paper money
of the nation would be issued by these
banks acting in concert But, If YOU
ever dare to do a thing that they don't
want done, they would tell you If you
did it they would contract the currency
and bring on a panic.
Talk about trustsY I say to you, my
friends. that all the trusts that have
been organized and can be organized
pale into insignifcance compared with
! the money trust, whether you consider
it the money trust that there now is
and that they want to make permanent
by this bill. Or the paper money trust
that they expect to create by this bill.
REMEMBER THE PLATFORM.
Now my friends. these matters con-
! front us. We cannot get away from
them if we would. And tell me that
the Democratic party can afford to
stop it's fight on this question while the
others go cn?rq No. my friends. The
Democratic party has taken up this
fight In earnest; and II those men who
talk about trusts are in earnest, they
will come with us and fight them ALL
| and If they are not in earnest they
need not expect us to listen to them
! while they deceive us and take us over
into the Republican party by degrees
(Applause) There Is not room in this
country. my friends, for two Repub-
lican parties. One Republican party
is enough. Our party has taken it's
position, and the Chicago platform is
known today it is remembered by
friend and foe People have forgotten
what the platform was at st. Louis.
People have forgotten even that In
dianapolis platform. Gaughter) But
they have not forgotten the Chicago
platform. (Applause)
Why, we hear people talk as if this
country decided for a gold standard
Think Of it! This country decided to
adopt the gold standard? When? Why,
do you know, my friends, that in all the
history Of the United States, from the
beginning of our national history down
to 1899, there never was a party Of any
name that ever in any national con-
vention declared for a gold standard.
Think Of it! We had the double stand
ard for eighty years, and no party ever
denounced it in a national convention.
And they have had the gold standard
for twenty three years, and no party
ever commended it in a national con-
vention.
Talk about our nation having indors-
ed the gold Standard Why, in 1896 we
didn't indorse the gold standard The
ReDublican marty in 1896 didn't saw the