The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-15
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE
Gold suits the rich man, while the
poor one wants some silver and some
gold
The country will call the gold
standard advocates to account in fu.
ture elections
The enslavement of the people ID
coming on gradually through Cleve'
lands obstinate manner.
The man who upholds Ceveland's
policy is selfish, sordid and void Of
feeling for the poorer classes.
Why don't gold money" with the
stamp of the United States upon it.
circulate in foreign countries?-Pio-
neer Exponent
ALI efforts for the continuance Of q
financial system based upon individual
ownership of the materials used as
money are economically unsound and
must fail We demand a currency
based on the honor and dignity of the
nation-the naturalization of credit -
Granite Falls (Minn) Reform Advo-
cate.
Boards of trade, banking associa-
tions, big corporations, are all moving
heaven and earth to get gold stand
ard. But have you ever heard of a
single one, of the ten millions of labor
ing men in this country asking for it.
There are many bad men and fools
among them. but none bad enough for
that Industrial Union.
<orC ord To~oe ho~o
for years asserted and proved that the
law makes the money, and that the
government stamp was as good on
paper as on gold Now let the sena-
tors get away from the metal basis
altogether and demand dollar based
on a hundred cents worth of national
credit, and they will be progressive
populists. Reform Advocate.
If the people do have to accept a
compromise on the financial question
the fight will not be at an end. No
question is settled till settled right;
and we believe that majority of the
voters of this country think it right to
legislate with view to promoting the
general welfare, instead of legislating
to enhance the fortunes of the bloated
aristocracy of the world at the expense
of the toiling millions of
Agriculture.
Government takes letter from
one point to another for two cents.
An express company takes one on the
same train, has it's own car. pays no
more for its transportation than gov
eminent does for it's mail car, does not
pay its employe as much as govern
ment does, and charges you twenty-five
cents. See result; in the near future
government will do all the express
business in the interest of the people.
Industrial Union.
The land plank of the peoples
party has never been satisfactory to a
large number of populists 1t ought
to be revised, and the very best revis-
ion possible would, in our opinion, read
something like this: The land, includ-
ing all natural resources of wealth, is
the heritage of all the people and
should not be held for speculative pur-
poses. We. therefore, declare for the
adoption of graduated acreage tax,
and that all land now held by corpora
tions in excess of their actual needs be
reclaimed by the government. Just
think it ovcr.-Granite Falls Mimi
Reform Advocate.
"A national bank, so far as it's issu-
ing feature is concerned, is nothing
more nor less than loan agent for the
government The government is the
money lender and it's rate is one per
cent. The bank loans to the people
and charges a commission of per
cent. up per year. If it loans at Q per
cent a month, as it does in some states,
the commission is "a per cent per year.
Why not relieve this expensive loan
agent and employ a new loan agent?
One agent in a county on a salary of
81, 200 per annum can do the work of
loaning 5000, OO0 A shade over one
half of one per cent. per annum COM
mission will pay him. Missouri World.