The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-22
, AN APPEAL
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hold large gold reserve. Gold that
does not come to us in the course
of trade will not. stay when bought
with bonds. twill flow away as soon
as liberated. Two different levels
of international prices cannot be
maintained with the same money
standard.
Will the people OF this country,
then, consent forever to carry on
business and pay debts by con-
stantly-increasing money standard,
in order that the debt-owning and
money-lending classes may obtain
possession of the earnings of Others
TO which they have no right?
A determined fight has been made
in congress by the friends of just
money standard against the enact
ment Of a measure fraught with
more injustice to the people of this
country than any other in its whole
history. 1t is believed that no sever
er blow was ever struck at the
rights and interests of the people,
since the government was establish
ed, than that which subjects them to
the domination of money combina-
tion extending to both sides Of the
Atlantic ocean.
The decree that the people of this
country shall have no money that
does not promise gold on demand,
while the gold itself is nearly all
locked up in the vaults of a few great
treasures and banking firms, ought
to be enough in itself to arouse the
people to sense of the danger that
threatens them. No other question
is of equal Importance. 1t involves
the very existence of the institutions
on which the republic was founded, il
not Of civilization itself.
The contentious of the silver men
in the great debate that has gone on
in both houses of congress during the
extra session have not been answer
ed, nor can they be. No such debate
was ever before heard in any legislat-
i've body Nothing more could be
done by the friends of free bimetal-
lie coinage than has been done, espe-
cially in the senate.
The question now goes back to the
people; it is for them to say whether
they will succumb to the demands OF
power alien to the constitution and
subversive of their rights; whether
they will permit their property to be
tilched from them by being scaled
down to conform to an altered money
standard, while debts and taxes are
spondingly increased, or wheth-
er they will rise in their might and
defend their rights and interests as
becomes free people.
The power to right the wrong is in
the hands of the people if they will
but use it. The lines are clearly
drawn. Shall the money power con-
troll this government? Shall this
country control it's own financial pol
icy, or shall it be subject to the dicta-
tion of foreign nations or of home
and foreign combinations of capital?
Shall the money standard be gold
alone, or the constitutional stand
ard of gold and silver jointly? Shall
our paper currency be issued by in
numer BILE banks and subject to no
regulation but such as their own in
terests dictate, or shall, it be issued
and regulated by the general gov
eminent?
This issue is pre-eminent above all
others and rises above all mere party
considerations. There can be no is
sue but this until this has been final
ly settled and settled rightly. 1t re-
quires no prophet to foresee that
under the single gold standard, and
with the last source of supply of
other money cut off, prices must
continue to fall, Industries stag
nate, and idleness. want, and misery
fill the land. No country every did
flourish and no country ever can
flourish with shrinking volume of
money and falling prices: and with
debts counted only by thousands of
millions, the robbery Of an increas-
ing money standard becomes i'm
measurable; and the longer the rem
edy is postponed, the greater the
injustice and the more difficult it
becomes to right the wrong. The
remedy must be sought at the ballot
box. Vote for no candidate for con-
gress, or for your state legislature,
who cannot be relied upon to work
and vote for the restoration OF the
constitutional standard of money,
with the coinage of both me tails with
out discrimination against either,
and the issue and control of paper
money by the government of the
United States. Retire every repre-
sentative who has been unfaithful to
his trust, and elect only true and