The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-17
the whole operative class of Pittsburg,
Ohio and Michigan next time" So mote
It be!

It be!
It used to be that seldom read cur
rency article in the leading papers
without getting angry and saying, .sThat
must be answered" Now they are SO
lost to fact. decency, logic and common
sense that they are seldom worth MOTTO
ing. The fact is that the camps of true
and false money have got past parleying.
They confront each other in battle ar
ray. The only question now is which
has the heavier artillery-the votes
Professor M. V. Rork writes from
Umatilla county, Or, giving a sad &C
count of conditions there-wheat IS
sents bushel, interest from 20 to 60 per
cent. Merchants can get only notes
from their most prosperous customers.
'The assessor reports 81 1000 indebted
ness to every voter in the county, and
The Oregonian bowls for the militia"
Governor Pennoyer, as we all know,
is good one and is fighting hard for
Peoples Party ideas.
Powderly is getting redhot in his K.
Of L. journal. He speaks Of the COM
binations of capital as more remorseless
and cruel than any Of the tabled ogres,
demons or genii and adds that ''while
the world has been in pain over the
bringing forth of these monsters it has
been lulled by canting tales of individual
liberty, while being swiftly changed to
links, cogs. wheels and springs in pro-
ducing machines" As Powderly man
ages to keep on the crest of the wave of
wageworkers' opinion, that wave must
be running pretty high.
Quite wonderful is the progress of
ment ownership of the leading industries.
The upshot will be that the nationalists
and social Democrats will realize at least
half their expectations. The industries
Of widest reach will certainly be alb
sorbed by government, while the others
will be run by private corporations.
It is always funny to hear the devil
quoting Scripture. Here is that prince
Of Wall street gamblers, Henry Clews,
saying that government should own the
coal mines and giving these reasons:
Nearly every ton that comes to market is
loaded with tax that isimposed upon it by the
necessity of paying somebody interest on the
par bonds that were sold from 80 per cent all
the way down to 30 to raise money to pay
schemers' prices for coal mines and form COM
panies and worthless branch railroads. Over
the great anthracite deposits of Pennsylvania
has been erected during the slow years rick
ETY. mass of corruption, reckless financiering
insolvency and ultimate conspiracy against the
rights of the public.
There is mucA talk about cutting down
the soldiers pensions. To cut down the
pensions we all pay to the money mon
gers by paying the soldiers pensions in
silver dollars would be horse of an
other color and would set the ''honest
money" fellows wild. But the soldiers
would not kick. The daddy dollar is
good enough for them.
If it is true, as alleged, that 80 per
cent of the stock of the Nicaragua Canal
company Eyes, or 10per cent? is owned by
Englishmen, there is another big reason
for all true Americans to insist on hav-
ing nothing to do with the scheme ex-
cept on the plan of an entire surrender
of it at present cost to the United States.
A British sculptor has on exhibition a
striking group Of statuary entitled ''The
Struggle For Work" The scene is laid
at one of those awful places like the Lon
don docks, where work tickets" are flung
out to the crowd for the lucky ones to
catch. These tickets entitle the holder
to days work. In this group stalwart,
barefooted man holds aloft ticket he has
caught and looks down triumphantly but
pityingly upon an old man clinging TO
him who has reached for it and failed.
On the other side is a slim STRIPPING, who
in his eagerness is climbing on the for
tunate man. A woman kneeling on the
ground under their feet is protecting
her baby in the scramble. Shame on a
wealthy nation that allows such pictures
to be true!
This land is still full of conservative
compromisers like Senator Hoar. In
April, 1868, his sort were firing cannon
in Washington. Like our tariff and cur
rency thinkers, they had everything
straight-had the country saved The
glorious institution of slavery had been
re-established by the Lecompton bill.
Three years later the war came.
In 1905 Abijah Garrison, father of
William Lloyd Garrison, writing from
Granville, N. S., that he intends to re-
move to the United States, does not
complain that land is not cheap, but
says. From want of circulating cash
this country will long lay bound in ex-
treme difficulties and perpetual law
SUITS"
In 1861, when the war opened, 5000
banks all over the country failed because
they were founded on the southern state
stocks 1t is fact have never seen no
ticed that these bonds were largely on a
negro basis. If slavery had been abol-
ished peaceably, those stocks would have
been almost equally invalidated.
Just now we are hearing of rebellion
again in the Tennessee mines. Is it any
wonder? This is the way the convicts
are treated, and the free workers do not
fare much better: When a convict gang
fails to do its Amounted task no matter