The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-19

doubtless now convinced that the only
way to accomplish bmetalliSm is
through the action of the Democratic
party. The great effort to stop the fall
| of prices-the shrinking of values
and to relieve the distress of business
| resulting from these great evils, with
| out doing injustice or injury to any
class or business, is being more and
| more understood and commands the re-
| spect OF honest and fair men always
| when understood, and another cam
| paign of ridicule and abuse such as
! that of 1S96-whether dictated by ig-
l1orance or venality-cannot succeed
against temperate arguments and ap-
| PealS for simple justice, when the peo-
| pie have time to fairly weigh the argu-
nents and form deliberate judgment.
There was great unrest and dissatis-
faction in 1896 throughout the country,
resulting from falling prices and
shrinking values. The Republican
party promised that If they were en-
trusted with power all this would be
changed and that prosperity should
succeed existing conditions. Mr.. Nc
Kinley and the gold press now assure
the country that we have prosperity.
There Is quite a boom in stock specu-
lations in Wall street, but Wall street
is not the country, as we believe. A
great famine and short crop of wheat
all over the world, except in the Unit
ed States naturally raised the price
of wheat while these conditions last
ed, and the beneficent effects of this
temporary advance in the price of a
single article, which was so marked in
the short period it continued, is likely
to stimulate a desire for a return to
that condition permanently and an ex-
tension Of 1t to all other products. This
is our purpose and was our purpose in
1896, when the Republican party de-
nounced any effort to increase prices
as a crime
WAR MAKES GOOD TIMES.
How do you account for the activ-
ity in business?"
There has been necessarily an in
creased demand for labor within the
! last few months, as the result of the
withdrawal Of large numbers of Amer
lean citizens from the ordinary walks
of life to be employed in the army,
whose places had to be filed There
| has also been an increased activity in
and demand for all products which
were necessary to the maintenance and
| support of large army. But all these
conditions are in the very nature of
things temporary, and all of us know
that they must pass away with the end
OF the conditions which brought them
Into life Making due allowance for the
1nf1uence of these three causes on the
present condition of the country, there
Is today as much dissatisfaction and as
much cause for it as there was in 1896.
No relief was or is to be expected I'M
der Republican management, except
such as comes by famine abroad and
war at home. A condition of constant
ly falling general prices is everywhere
recognized as condition of distress
and hard times, and speculation ex-
element in Wall street does not change
this. We believe that a small volume
of money forces prices down, hence we
have urged the coinage Of our silver
as well as of our gold-not only to
check this grinding fall in prices, but
to promote steadily advancing prices''
CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Then you think the Chicago plat
| form is gaining ground?"
81 most certainly do. In the elections
of last year the principles of that plat
form were not the leading and exclu-
sive issues in all sections Of the coun-
try. These were partially obscured in
many states and districts. The ques-
t1on Of bimetallism, the Republican
effort to retire the greenbacks and to
confer upon the national banks the alb
| solute control of the volume of paper
money, and to surrender the country
to the trusts, were, in many sections,
| for the time being, lost sight of in the
excitement Of the war and it's result
ing questions; and in others they were
sidetracked by efforts to substitute To-
! cal issues in their stead. The result
was a great loss of interest and a large
| falling off in the vote, with apparently
| unfavorable results to the Democra tic
party. In Colorado, where national is
sues were at the front and dominant,
| the interest in the election was in
| tense, the vote large and our majority
overwhelming. In states where it was
stated, whether truly or not, that there
was an intention on the part Of the
Democratic managers to sidetrack the
great issue, with the purpose of ulti-
pateiy bringing the party in national
convention back to the practice Of
shuffiing and evasion, so long persisted
in by the Republicans, the interest was
not great, the vote was not full, and
the results were not conclusive. There
| was. however, one great and valuable
result-all reasonable men are now sat
isfed that stradding and lodging are
not popular. The next Democratic ma
tional convention will speak out again
In the same clear, unequivocal terms,
and In the same manner and In the
same lines that it did in 1885, Of this
there is no doubt, the assertions of the
Republican gold press, with whom the
wish is father to the thought, to the
contrary Notwithstanding"