The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-10
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
When prices go up it means that
money has gone down.
Put the government in the hands
of its friends. and it is then safe.
-Pliny attributed the ruin of Italy
to the lack of an abundant supply of
money"
"A contraction of currency means
falling prices; falling prices means ruin
to our merchants.
Hume says that ''the disasters of
the dark ages were caused by decreas-
ing money and falling prices
Tie Central Labor union of Chicago
has decided to work on Sundays and see
the worlds fair on Saturday. Accord
ing to that the Sunday-closers did not
gain as much as they lost.
The Oregon legislature memoralizes
congress to issue $50, 900, 900 legal tender
notes, Wall street demands the issuing
of $50, 600, 900 worth of interest bearing
bonds. Watch and see which wins
Commonwealth.
The secretary is calling frantically
for gold in order to avoid paying out
silver according to the terms of the con-
tract. The moneyed men of this coun-
try are above the laws of the land and
the terms of their own contracts.
The value of gold and silver as
money metals is derived entirely from
law. This law may be wise or unwise;
that has nothing to do with the fact.
Thirty-odd years ago the law made
negroes property, and strong black
man sold for $1,000. Emancipation
came, and the darkey is worth no more
than white man.-People's Party
Paper.
Dead issues will have less potency
in the campaign of 1896. New issues
are rushing to the front and demand
ing settlement. They will not down,
and cannot be ignored. Reason and
logical argument will take the place
of appeals to prejudice and passion.
True craftsmanship will take the place
OF the spoils system in politics, which
will lead the way to higher and
grander civilization. Will this change
come through bloody or peaceful
revolution? 1t is for the people to de-
cide.-Shelbyville Qll.) Peoples Paper.
Labor strikes all over the country;
the courts taking hand against labor
and defeat inevitable. Labor has
brought. this condition of affairs upon
itself by following the advice of the
political cappers in it's ranks who were
always advising workmen to keep out
of politics and vote their preferences
straight. Organized labor will soon
get lesson that will impress it upon
the minds of even the most stupid that
by not taking independent political
action in the interest of labor they have
been digging their own graves.-Alma
Kan News.
Gold money always hides itself
from view in cases of rebellion. foreign
invasion or serious trouble and green
backs are called in to do the business
of the country in the emergency. 1t is
| notable, also, that the emergency
money" always fills the bill, and that
happy, prosperous times ensue. A
money that SO nicely takes the place Of
''goody-goody gold" in times of dire ex-
tremity, should fill the bill even more
perfectly in times of peace. Nobody
wants as an exclusive medium of ex-
change metal that hides its head
when you sorely need it.-Indepen-
dent.
When it comes to the necessity of .
treasurer of a government having to
dicker with handful of men in order
to relieve seeming financial embar-
0f &c -
radically wrong. A half dozen men
greater than a nation-think of it! A
nation dependent upon the mercies Of
handful of men-think of that. Oh.
for a Lincoln, with justice enough in
his heart and backbone sufficient to ex-
ercise little of that power (the sole
right to exercise which this govern
ment has reserved to itself of making
money of it's own! Away with the
money of a few schemers! Give us g.
money of the whole people!-Emporia
(Kan.) Tidings
The newspaper talk about the ship
ments of gold will be interesting read
ing for the curious antiquaries in the
days when the gold basis stupidity will
occupy place in the limbo of exploded
superstitions. The world will yet be-
come wise enough to wonder how q
presumably sane people should have
tolerated system which made its in
dustrial prosperity dependent upon the
presence or absence of yellow metal.
In that day there will be increasing
wonder, when it is remembered that
this presumably sane people tolerated
this system while they were quite aware
that the plentifulness and scarcity Of
gold was manipulated by few sharp
ers bent on flching from the people
their earnings. Of Knights Of
Labor.