The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-19
TERRIBLE EXHIBIT.
Save the American Home. Some
Astonishing Facts and
Figures.
I. e. DEAN in June Arena.

Figures.
I. e. DEAN in June Arena.
No man has bought a home and in
Cured debt who has not been COM
PEELED to pay in money of more value
than he contracted to pay. No mer-
chant has bought without danger of
selling for less than he pays. Manu-
facturers have sold their manufac-
tured goods on continually shrink
ing market, and to protect them
selves against loss have formed COM
bines and trusts to control prices by
limiting the production.
Laborers have repeatedly struck
against reduction of wages, only to
be locked out and turnedzon the road
as tramps.
Our courts are fast becoming simply an
neaes Of great corporations. Individual
interests have no show of justice be-
fore legislatures or courts, when in
conflict with combines or trusts.
This condition of things has at
tracted the attention of some grand
men of this and other countries, and
has resulted in developing others
who are looming up in the great field
of individual effort and unselfish de-
vOtiOn to the interests of humanity.
These men have called other men to-
gether for consultation, and as a
result we have formed in this coun-
try great industrial organizations,
all fast agreeing on certain demands
which will result in reversing the
downward tendency Of prices, and
setting the wheels in motion in the
other direction.
This movement has inspired the
farmer with new courage and the
mechanic with renewed hope. Four
millions of men are to-day members
of organizati ons who are demanding
some or all of the following laws:
1. An increase of the volume of
full legal-tender money to $50 per
capita.
2. The unlimited free coinage of
silver.
3. The sub-treasury and farm-lOan
plan.
4. A graduated income tax.
5. Postal savings banks.
6. Ownership of railroads, tele-
graphs and telephones by govern
ment.
7. The land for the people.
These men are fast getting togeth-
er, and then we shall have prosperity
for the producer. Oyer a million vot-
ed at the election of 1892 for these
avowed objects; and were the cleo
tion to be held again, to-day, four
times that number would be record
ed for these principles.
An increase in the volume of mon
ey to $50 per capita, and the enact
ment of the other demands, as laws,
would safely double the prices of la
Dor and all the products of labor.
Last fall, while delivering an ad-
dress in Cattaraugus county, I made
the above expression when a farmer
in the audience took exception to the
statement, and said that if the pri-
ces of labor, and all the products of
labor advanced equally from the
adoption of our demands, no one
would be benefited.
I asked him if he would object to
a practical illustration of the truth
of my statement. He said. Most GER
tainly not. q had already been told
that there was mortgage of $1,000
on his farm.) I asked him if he
would tell me how many pounds
of butter, wool, cheese and other
farm products he had sold from his
farm, and the price received for same.
1 also asked him to mention in such
statement the percentage of gross
products that would be required to
maintain and keep up the farm bull
dings.
He stated that he had sold
5000 lbs. Butter @ zoe. 81 200
80 fat calves q S. each. .... $50
20 fat pigs " So ..... 100
30 fat lambs " .... $50
| 1923 lbs. wool" Is cts. ......... 500