The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-11

again, and then it was up in 1898 and
they they buriediit' again. and it was up in
l a@in and the they buried It again have eX
my candid opinion that it has life enough
to last anotheriyear. daughter and ap-
plause.l Wfy,ididn't you bury it once
well and be done with it? Renewed
| laughter.). Because no tomb was
ever made SO strong that it
could imprison righteous cause:
silver question, because 1t effects the PEG
pie. They cam settle it until they settle
It right, and they are not making any
eHort TO settle 1t right, and II you talk
TO the Republicans now on the money
question you will find they defend the gold
standard today with an argument they
could not use until after 1896. They have
fought for the gold standard more than
tWenty-yearsJ and yet they don't use to-
day the argument that they used prior to
1885. You ask them why it is they be-
neVe the gold standard viii he permanent,
and they will tell you because of the in
creased production of gold has now made
II unnecessary to use silver. why my
friends, you would suppose when you
hear them talking about the increased
production of gold that they promised in
their last platform to discover gold In the
klondike, If entrusted with power, but
they did not. They SAID In 1896 that we
had money enough; that We didn't need
any more, and now they base their en-
tire argument on the ground that, now
that we nave more, we nave enough,
even if We didn't have in 1896 daughter
and applause; but what does their argu-
ment prove, why. if the discovery of gold
which gives US more money is good
thing, 1t proves that the more money we
have the better times, and all they can
claim is that an unexpected increase IN
the production of gold has given US an
advantage that we expected from the use
of both gold and silver. That is all they
can claim. (Applause.)
No congress is empowered with super
vision over interstate commerce and has
right to protect the people from mo- /
nopoliSts engaged In interstate commerce,
and my suggestion is that we snail, by
act of congress, say that no corporation
organized in any state shall do business
outside of that state until 1t has received &
permission from congress or somebody
created by congress. and that that per
mission shall be given upon proof, first, 4
that there is no water in the stock; that
it is an honest corporation, engaged in
honest business. (ApplauSe) And, sec 4
ond, upon proof that it has not attempted
In past and is not now attempting TO
mOnopolize any branch of business or the
production of any article of merchandise
and then make all the transactions of the
corporation publicly stated reports. be-
ieve this will make monopoly impossl-
BILE, but if 1t don't, then, having eStab-
lished the system. you can add CONDITION
after condition until you do make mo-
1T can be destroyed, and if it is bad it
must be destroyed, and the only question
is whether you are willing to destroy It,
or whether you love the Republican party
more than you hate trust.
DISCUSSION -IMPERIALIsM.
But there is another question. A ques-
ton that perhaps you will feel more in
terested in than you are in either or those
about which ! have talked. Not because
one is necessarily greater than another, 4
but because you have thought about the
money question and talked about it TO
some extent You have thought and talked
about the trust question, but on the ques-
ton of Imperialism and Its attending
question of militariSm you have not
thought SO much and you may not have
made UP your minds. / want to talk to
you little while bout this subject and
/ do not apologize for discussing this
question. The Republican party is at
tempting to change the whole character
of our nation without asking the people
what they think about it. When did the
people authorize an imperial poliey2ss In
1896, when they elected a@president? No;
at that time they was no thought of such
thing, when did they authorize 1t? In
1898? No; that was the last election of
members of congress and the last cleo
ton of legislatures that elected senator's,
and yet the people did not vote on i'm
perialism in 1898 because the treaty with
Spain was not signed until a month after
the election. The Republican party had
no policy 1t had not proposed a policy
and when the people voted In 1898 they did
not vote for an imperial policy, because
they could not be assumed to favor a
thing about which they had never heard,
and yet the Republican party is attempt
ing now to commit this great nation to a
policy upon which the people of the coun-
try have never spoken They may deny
the eopIe of the country who have never
spoken. They may deny to the people of
the Philippine islands right to voice
in their own government, but will they
deny to the people of this country right
to a voice in the determination of a ques-
ton than which none greater ever came
before the American people? (Applause)
EFFECT OF WAR.
There Is a proverb which runs like
this: The wise man foreseeth the evil
and hideth himself, but the foolish pass
volve us In every financial disturbance oc-
Those who studied the money question
in 1896 foresaw the danger threatened by
the gold standard, and pointed out that
its permanent estab 1lisl2 would in
curing In Europe but the bankers were
for the most part blind To- to the warning
the increased production of gold, a few
victories won by the Beers in South AZ