The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-29
A RINGING
q PROCLAMATION
From Gov. Waite of Colorado
"Old Blood to the Brides"
Talks Right Out.
''The South and the West Must
Unite or Die"

anu tHe WesU are lQenClcal. a pOllUl-
cal union between these two great
and. if united, dominating sections
of the union, is most desirable. At
present the silver question is the
burning issue of the day. Notwith-
standing the public sentiment of the
nation is largely in favor of the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of six
teen to one; that the act demonetiz-
ing silver was secretly and fraudu-
lently passed; and that since 1873 no
congress has assembled majority of
which in both houses was not pledged
in favor of the free coinage of silver,
the will of the people has been over
ruled by the money power, which for
the past twenty years has controlled
both the old political parties, and
never failed to have in the presiden-
tial chair, president ready to veto
any action of congress in favor of the
free coinage of silver. It is now uni
versally acknowledged that the peo-
pies party is the only political party
in the United States that actually
favors the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of sixteen to one. In view
of the active hostility of both the
democratic and the republican par
ties to silver, there can be no other
logical result than that the silver
sentiment of the whole country must
rally to the standard set by the pop
ulistS.
Possibly the greater portion of the
south may not be willing to associate
themselves with the populists upon
the silver issue alone, and more espe-
cially when it may be feared that the
west is in hostility to the south in
other respects.
But there is no hostility of the west
against the south. That there has
been cannot be denied, but the cause
has passed away, the mists of preju-
dice occasioned by that cause are we'll
nigh dissipated, and there is hardly
a man west of the Mississippi, who
does not in his heart of hearts desire
that 'the dead past bury it's dead"
The financial interests of the south
and west are indissolubly interviewer.
Wall street has for many years been
draining the life blood of both sec
tions. TWENTY-FIVE years ago the
money power of the northeast could
dictate the policy of the government,
but since the centre of population
and political power has left that Sec
tion of the union, the northeast has
accomplished it's ends by strategy
and corruption; it has arrayed the
south and west in unnatural antago-
nism, and plunged them into sup
posed real, but actual sham battle
over the tariff, free trade, force bill,
etc. BY the national bank system it
has concentrated in money centres
all the capital of the nation, and
compelled usurious tribute from the
south and west. Wall street is but
the tool of Lombard street; our rail
roads are owned in good part by for
eign capitalists; and the American
managers, in opposition to their own
good Judgment, are compelled by the
eastern and foreign managers, in or
der to increase their dividends, to
charge for freight "all the traffic will
bear"
The cost Of transported ion and the
interest on money take from agricul-
turists all and more than the margin
Of profit between the cost of produc
ton and the market price of the
product. The south and west are the
great producing sections of the un-
ion, and the transportation question
is vital one to their interests. A
vast net work of rivers and magnif-
cent harbOrs on the ocean and on the
Gulf of Mexico provide an abundance
of water communication. But the
inventions of modern times have
opened up other means of transpor-
tation, with which, except under Pc
culiarly favorable circums tances,
waterways cannot compete; naviga-
tion by rivers and canals has declined
to a secondary position. The Erie
canal alone retains prominence as
factor in the problem of transporter
tion. That canal long since ceased
to convey passengers, but is still an
important channel for freight, and
affords competition that in the sea-
son of navigation compels reasonable
rates of freight. The Erie canal was
built and is owned by the State of
New York; it was not built for the
purpose of speculation, and has new
er been conducted upon the principle
of charging ''all that the traffic will
BEAR" The state of New York has
never owned a canal boat, a steam
tug, or a horse or a mule; it simply
throws open the right of transporta-
tion to all who desire to put on their
own canal boats and men, charging