The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-30
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE

POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE
There is but one true standard Of
value and that human labor.
Tho financial question is to the
front and will remain there until it is
settled right. Government money and
plenty of it is the true solution.-Farm-
ers' Tribune.
Let us base our circulating medium
on all the wealth of the nation. In time
Of emergency it cannot forsake us as
does gold. Give it to us and the people
viii have confidence. -Farmer's Trib-
une.
1T is fight to a finish between gold
and silver. Before the war is ended
gold will be demonetized. Not because
We would have it so do we say it, but
because gold domination will work its
own ruin just as slavery did.-Farmers'
Tribune.
Gold continues to roll from Eng
land in an almost interrupted flow.
And yet it is wholly uncertain what
congress will do in the matter of re-
pealing the Sherman law. A little ex-
PLANTATION from the anti-silver side is in
order right here.
NO solution of the money question
that leaves the banking business in the
hands of private corporations will ever
prove satisfactory. Government own
ership of banks is as important as gov
eminent ownership of railroads. Al
bany (Ore.) Populist.
Give us the United States note from
one cent up and let gold and silver take
Its place among the products of the
earth, as our wheat, corn, beef and
pork. We are tired of the people being
robbed for the benefit of English and
American gold-bugs -Jerico (Mo.) OPP
tic.
We not only want larger volume
of money, but we want the machinery
of distribution in our hands also. A
big volume of money under our present
banking system would be manipulated
in the interest of the speculator class,
just as it is now. Nationalize the banks.
National Spectator.
From the trend of events, it would
appear that one may oppose the policy
of the peoples party and yet advocate
its principles A sacrifice of principle
to makeshift policy always results in
loss of popular respect and confidence.
If ship must sink, let it go down with
its flag nailed to the mast.
"A party which is either ashamed or
afraid to advocate it's true principles
need never expect to achieve success.
If it agitates and teaches that which it
does not believe, when it would teach
that which it really does believe, it
must first destroy the results of it's for
mer teachings. Honesty is the best
policy-even in politics.
I'm private letter written recently
the editor of an outspohen no-metallic
populist paper says 81 think most
populist papers favor full legal tender
greenbacks, but they have not become
quite brave enough to advocate it yet"
1t is to be hoped that no populist editor
will become enrolled in Whitelaw
Reid's army of intellectual prosti-
tutes."
The free coinage of silver is de-
manded by the Omaha platform, and
its adoption would bring present relief
and temporary prosperity. The de-
monetization of both gold and silver,
and substitution of legal tender treas
ury notes, would forever settle the
financial problem, and bring to this
nation perpetual prosperity.-Pitts-
burg Kansan.
The entire disuse of silver as a
money metal and the consequent al
most entire loss of it's commercial value
would be an object lesson more potent
In the direction of proving the correct
ness Of the ''fat money" theory than
volumes of written arguments and
years spent in educational work. Leave
silver to its fate and the destruction of
the entire theory of metallism will soon
follow.
History demonstrates the fact that
all great financial disasters have oc-
CURED when we were on a pretended
metallic basis. Such thing as real
metallic basis cannot, in the very ma
ture of things, exist. A full legal ten
der paper money, bottomed on taxes,
when issued in reasonable quantity
by responsible government, never
William Jose (Cal.) Buzz Saw.
There is great deal said about a
"gold standard" and ''silver stand
ard" and double standard" AS a
matter of fact there is not, neither can
there be a commodity STANDARD of
value" The money standard is guam
titive, not intrinsic-of numbers, not of
value. The value of a money unit de-
ponds upon the number of units in cir
culation. If there are three full legal
tender paper units in circulation to one
of gold, prices will be four times as high
as they would be if all the paper money
was destroyed and nothing but the
gold remained. Drop the metallic
humbug and contend for full legal
tender, inconvertible paper money.