The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-08
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

party fought?
What promising concern the
democratic party has been!
Courage, mulishness and Cleveland
ism are much alike in manifestation.
Manhood or money must rule
America. Which shall it be? This is
the political issue which confronts
Americans.
Bankers predict better times, to
stave off the rising tide of distrust
Mrs. Darlington tried to sweep back
the rising tide of the Atlantic Ocean.
"A million men have been thrown
out of employment during the last
three months, according to the Brad
streets reports, which are first-class au-
thority. Peoples Press
Editor Rosewater, of the Omaha
Bee, national republican committeeman
for Nebraska. prophecies republican
defeat by 10, 900 votes, as result of the
railroads debating the republican nom
nations in that state.
The populists are making things
lively in Iowa and Virginia The re-
publicans and democrats are demoral-
lied in both states, and the people are
coming to the new party by thousands.
Watch the returns, November Z.
He controls whose counsel is fol-
lowed. Secretaries of the treasury take
counsel with usurers, spectators and
bankers. The capitalistic class is con-
suited frequently. The labor element
and debtor class, never.-People's Press.
Why is it not paternalism for the
government to loan money to the banks,
to grant franchises to corporations, to
control interstate commerce and all
lines of communication? Paternalism
to the few and injustice to the many
Paola Times.
Any party that will be guilty OF
issuing more United States bonds ought
to be buried so deep that it will be diff
11cult to find even on resurrection
morn; and it will be if the American
people are not completely lost to all
sense of justice. Clay Center Dispatch.
Every proposition for a compromise
on the silver question that has been
proposed by the gold advocates includes
a proposition to issue more interest
bearing bonds and permits national
banks to issue ten per cent. more cur
rency. What more evidence do honest
people need to establish the infamy of
the Wall street gang in congress?-
Clay Center Dispatch.
-"Why," exclaimed a republican
orator in this county, do populists de-
mand that silver be coined at the ratio
of 16 to if we can maintain it at any
parity by giving it full legal tender, -
Because all United States bonds are
payable in coin of that weight and fine
ness; because all debts were contracted
on that basis; because the populists are
honest and want to pay their debts in
the money of the contract. -Paola
Times.
Hundreds of tons of reform litera-
ture are being sold weekly now. Twenty
years ago there was only weak, timid
voice here and there raised in protest
There is more reform literature pur-
chased now in one week than in ten
years before 1890 She's comm, and
comm fast. What is true here is also
true in Europe The dawn of an uni
versal brotherhood can be plainly seen.
When you can see these results, double
your exertions. Nation.
"A subscriber in Alabama gives the
following encouraging news from the
south: II am glad to be able to say to
you that our cause is growing in this
state. / think we will have no troub
to carry it for the peoples party next
year. Those who voted for Grover last
year are sick. They realize now that
there is no difference in the two old
parties. May God help you to carry
the truth to the homes of the people
through your paper" -Junction City
Tribune.
II don't know what is wrong with
30 many of our leaders that they are so
short-sighted ON the silver question.
Free coinage of silver at the present
time means the destruction of our par
ty." Thus writes our incorruptible
standard bearer, Taubeneck, in a recent
private letter to the editor Would
that more of our leaders might see as
clearly the danger to our party from
this silver agitation as does the chair
man of our national committee Thorn
aston (Me.) Peoples Cause.
The old theory that gold and silver
gave us natural, automatic control of
the money volume has become obsolete
under the rule and practice of the gold
basis conspirators By the demonetiza-
ton of silver they have learned the
people how to regulate the volume of
metal money by legislation, and they
will not be slow in applying the new
plan of control to a treasury note sys-
tenn Of money. If silver is to be dis
earded. then gold must be demonetized.
--Shelbyville Qll.) Peoples Paper
The cry already comes from the
south and west for the demonstration
Of gold" If the plans of the mono
metallists are fully carried out, the cry
for tho demonstration of gold will
swell chorus that will astound the
advocates of the gold standard. Gov
eminent banks and inconvertible paper
money will be the demands of the Inn
mediate future. Aristotle said: Gold,
silver and other metals are products OF
the mine. Money is the product of the
Jaw. Henry R. Legate, in New Ma
ton
Instead OF issuing greenbacks, the
government issues bonds. These bonds