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

true is sufficient to point out the
principle. In every branch of indus
try monopoly is working sthe same
evil. In our news columns to-day is |
found the announcement of the form
alton Of a tanners trust with a cap
ital of 1925 200, 600; the type-founders
have formed trust: the other day |
it was the manufacturers of. type
writing machines. The trust is ey-
erywhere, in every branch of indus
try and the effect of these immense
combinations of capital is to crush |
out the individual and to currupt
legislation. Laws affecting the cir
culatiOn of the country and the tar
if (whose operation no man eScapesN
are invariably in the interest of cap
ital and against the interests of la
Dor, and these laws have been pro-
cured by the improper influence of
money. They have created money
monopoly and industrial monopoly
until the wealth produced by labor is,
under the operation of these unjust
class laws, transferred from the pro-
ducer's possession. The monopolists
get it all, except a bare living for the
laborer, precisely as they do in Ire
land. We think our correspondent
will see that the organizat ion of labor
unions, although an excellent and
we'll advised means of meeting tenn
porary trouble, are yet superficial
and not adapted to meet the real
forces which are crushing Amer
lean labor into state of dependence
upon capital.
The only remedy which will restore
American labor to it's estate is the
intelligent and patriotic use Of the
ballot. We earnestly commend every
working man to careful study of
economic Questions. To this end
we invite their attention to an ex-
tended list of books treating almost
every phase of social and financial,
problems, which appears on anothef
page, and especially we direct their
attention to the declara ton of prin-
ciples of the peoples party in the last
number of the REPRESENTATIVE,
and invite perusal of it in COMPARE
son with the platforms of other polit-
ical parties.
A democratic member of the last
Minnesota senate, writes us as fol-
lows: mo. of your paper to hand;
herewith enclosed find my endorse
ment of your views. If the demo-
cratic party does not redeem it's
pledges before two years you can count
me with you two years from now
that is at the next election" The
democratic party forced the tariff
upon the people against the vigorous
protest of the populists in order to
divert public attention from the
financial problem, the one vital issue
which Outweighs every other ques-
tion in it's influence upon the well
fare of the people. Concerning the
tariff the democrats said in their
platform:
''We denOunce the republican pro-
lection as a fraud, robbery of the
great majority of the American people
for the benefit of the few. We
denOunce the Mckinley tariff enacted
by the 51St congress as the culminat-
ing atrOcity of class legislation
and we promise it's repeal as one of
the beneticent results that will fol-
low the action of the people in in
trusting power to the democratic
party"
That is unequivocal enough. They
denounce protection as robbery and
promise to repeal the Mckinley law.
1t is therefore their plain duty not
only to promptly repeal the Mckinley
law, but to enact in it's stead tariff
law that will so far reduce the pres
ent duty as to eliminate wholly the
protective feature.
The last republican congress earned
unenviable distinction as the "bil-
lion dollar" congress. So the people
turned the rascals OUT and put the
democrats in power and the appro-
priatiOns of the democratic congress
were greater than those of the pre-
ceding republican congress. 1t is
pretty evident from these facts that |
this has grown to be billion dollar
government, and the government de-
ponds upon the tariff to furnish the
money for it's expenses. Moreover,
while the democractic masses want
free trade the leaders who shape the
policy of the democratic party are
wholly in sympathy with the power
full money interests of the country,
and are ultra protectionists. 1t is
therefore safe to predict that the
democrats will not redeem their |
pledges in this regard, and that the
present bene6ciaries of our tariff !,
laws will continue to rob the great |
of the American people"
Col. VIM. r. Morrison, the father of
the horizontal tariff bill'' and
near friend of President Cleveland |
says, with much explicitness, in a
recent interview with a Washington