The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-27
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE
Gold and silver--both or neither.

Gold and silver--both or neither.
The peoples purity is the only one
In the country that is not on its knees
to the money power. They never turn
their back on an enemy. and kneel
only to their God.-Industrial Union.
The New York papers all repor t
that the vote of the house demonetiz-
ing silver was received with the most
unbounded enthusiasm by every gold
pirate in London.--National Watch
man.
If the United States is to remain
one country, with one flag, then it
must adopt one money. and that one, a
money which is not and cannot become
of value abroad excepting to purchase
American products Political Review.
The constitution of the United
States puts silver on par with gold.
Then why should the democratic party
repeat the crime committed by the re-
publican party and demonetize it?
Why should the owner of a gold mine
get his metal coined tree and be allowed
to put it in circulation. while the silver
mine owner can't even sell his, though
1t has been a legal tender medium of
exchange since the beginning of the
world?-Raleigh IN. c. Progressive
Farmer.
Unless wonderful change comes
over congress before the end of the ses-
next year will be the most one-sided
affairs ever held. There may be more
than one ticket, but there will be only
one platform. Advocate. If
the Advocate proves to be true
prophet the peoples party will be
guilty of vital and fatal error. If
the peoples party is not opposed to
metallism in all it's forms, there is no
room for it upon the stage of political
action.
1t is astonishing what devices the
old fogies will invent sooner than
adopt the plain common-sense plan of
banking by Uncle Sam. The last in
stance is that of Senator Hunton, of
Virginia, who proposes that the Uni
ted States shall guarantee the deposits
In national banks, so that in case of
their failure, depositors may lose moth
ing. 1t would not do for the govern
ment to carry on the banking business
oh, no; but it is perfectly proper for it
to pay the losses of the business New
Nation.
The PittSburg Kansan gives this
rs the essence of populism: Finance
Government legal tender notes the only
money. Land-Occupancy and use the
only title thereto. Transportation
government ownership, with all col
1Atersls that these imply. That plat
form il short and sensible, but it is not
the essence of populism but of the ad-
vanoed thought of the 'Kansan's" edi-
tor. II the party was wise enough to
adopt it, it would march to speedy vic
tory. But the ''policy" of the platform
makers kills progress Rule.
There is one way to stop all this
conspiring against the money of the
people, which republicans, democrats
and populists declare has become the
chief industry of the money lender
That one way is to stop the taking of
interest. According to the Bible, in
terest on money, in any degree, is
usury, and according to the same au-
thority the person who engages in it
commits sin. If it is sin, all the leg
islation on earth cannot make it right
and all the theology on earth cannot
save the man who engages in it.-Ad-
vocate.
Few believe that the distribution of
the mails should be done by any other
than the general government. Many
American cities have their systems of
lighting, owned and operated by the
municipality; most of them have
municipal water works and municipal
sewers. Some of us believe, with Sen
ator Edmunds, in a governmental tele-
graph system; some of us believe in
postal savings banks; some of us be-
Geve in charging the governments
parcels post till we have complete
governmental express system, and
some of us believe that if the govern
ment can operate bankrupt railroads
through receivers, to the advantage of
the stockholders and the public, it can
operate railroads that are not bank
rupt with equal success. All these be-
liefs are socialistic in their nature and
are steps toward complete socialism.
Voice.