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

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consider your duty as a citizen You go
to Republican banquet today. and whoAe
name do you hear spoken of in terms Of
unity The name Of IA Aienandel amlspn
today Republican, go back to the days
of Lincoln. go back to the Republican
eonyenton Of 1856 and yo ~ Will f1nd mat mat
appealed to all the people who wanted
to- carry the government back to the
| principles. of Washington and Jefferson
not Hamilton. (Applause)
In the organization of the Republican
party Republicans invoked the name and
| the words Of Thomas Jefferson but now
Republicans tell you that Thomas Jeffer-
| son was an old demagogue, and that his
bitterest enemy, Alexander Hamilton, was
| the. greatest statesman of that early
period
LINCOLN PRAISED JEFFERSON.
In 1859 Abraham Lincoln was invited to
attend a banquet given by the Republic
cans of Boston on Jeffersons birthday.
Think of it, Republicans celebrating JEFF
ferson's birthday! But they did 1t in -Bos-
| he sent letter of regret, and in that
| letter he praised Jefferson with words as
| fiattering as any l ever used. In that
! letter he said that the Republican party
| believed in the man and the dollar, but
| that in case of-confiict they believed In
the man before the dollar (Applause)
! That was Abraham Lincoln Republican,
ism, and in one of his early messages he
warned his countrymen against the ap
| preach of monarchy and what fright tened
| him? He said that there was an attempt
! to put capital upon an equal footing with,
| if not above, labor, in the structure of
/ government, and in that attempt he saw
| the danger Of returning to monarchy, and
warned his countrymen OF that danger.
What do you see today? A mere attempt
! to put capital upon an equal footing with
labor in the structure of government?
/ No Every Republican policy today puts
capital above labor in the structure of
| government, and gives to wealth priority
| over humanity everywhere. (Great APP
/ plause)
j summer, and as soon as he landed the
/ newspaper men found him and asked him
about his trip; and here IS part OF the
interview, and / would not have dared
to read it to YOU 1t is so bad, If hadn t
found it in a Republican paper daughter
and applause), but here it is In the Times
| Herald of Chicago:
"Senator Hanna has never before been
| in England and he was asked for his I'M
preston of the form of government there.
Their political system Is very gooo one
said he as good as ours ana perhaps pet
| ter.
Abraham Lincoln signed the law. that
gave the country a greenback ana the
Republican party IS now attempting to
retire the greenback and take the gov
eminent out of the business of issuing
| paper money, and while they are prepar-
/ ing to create a paper money trust more
! potent for evil than all the other trusts
combined they prate about their efforts
| to destroy the trusts. Why, il they We're
In earnest about destroying the trusts,
would they thus create this new and
powerful trust? Is it not strange that q
man can be so deeply dyed republican
that he cannot see the danger OF turning
over our paper money to private IN
dividuals? When the national banks OF
| this nation have the undisputed right TO
increase the currency and to retire the
| currency Then the volume of paper
money will be fixed not by the people or
the peoples representatives, but by men
who will fix it for the advancement OF
their own self-nterest. That IS the plan
OF the Republican party The Republican
plan contemplates a gold standard for
legal tender money and bank paper for
turn us over to the tender mercies Of for
eign fnanciers and our national bank
currency to the mercy Of the domestic
financiers. (Applause)
MONEY QUESTION STILL LIVES.
Sometimes 1 have people ask me why
ter and applause) My friends l don't
drop it because believe 1t is a conspir-
acy against the life of the producer in
Sss WV {h sia say ay0P The It mSasy ausg
ton is dead That doesn't frighfen me.
They have buried the question so often
that little thing of a funeral doesn't
nv opponent For congress S. in 1882 said
that you would never hear Of the silver
question arter tndt eleCIlOn, out 1t was
UP again in 1893. and the president called
congress together to repeal the Sherman
law, and buried it again, and when they
] repealed the Sherman law they said:
NOW that settles it; you will never hear
of this money question again. But it
was up in 1894, and had to be buried
again. 1t was up In 1896, and had to be
buried again, and then even the Repub-
licans will remember that 1t was up in
1885, daughter and applause.) But they
said they buried 1t then But it was up