The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-01

POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.


Cleveland, contraction, calamity.
Cleveland thinks he needs the gold
esse. Perhaps he does
The money that must be redeemed
+ some other money. is no money-it
h promise TO pay.
Silver was demonetized by fraud,
and why do these honorable men re-
fuse to restore us our property?
The epublicans of Virginia have
10 ticket The Abraham Lincoln re-
Pablicans are with the populists
Party hacks complain of the peo-
ple's talking too much nowadays All
right; well think more and understand
better.
The dems and repubs are taking
the advice of the alliance-"on essen
tials, unity"-the essentials are ''orfis.
Coming CrisiA
America owes about $50, 600, 600, 900,
payable in gold There is about $780,
900. 900 in gold in the United States,
and about IS, 500, 600, 600 in the world
Peoples PresA
food clothes and soft hands have
ceased to be signs Of fitness to hold Of
Aee. Workingmen, farmers and arti-
sans at coming elections will supplant
ne kid-gloved gentry.
Cleveland II the best abused man
II the country. but his party stands by
him. Out Of 211 democratic congress-
men only % refuse to bow to his sover-
oign will.-People's Press
1t must DO exceedingly gratifying
10 Mr.. Cleveland to know that every
step he has taken so far is just what
Mr.. Harrison would have done had he
been reelected. He cannot even hold
congress in session only by the fealty
Of republican senator's -Nonconform-
1T
in a recent letter to DR.. C. C. Nell
son. of Ohio. Senator Stewart declared
himself to be a populist Senator Stew
art has so declared to Us, and hence we
shall class him as populist senator
number four. There are other sena-
TORS whose constituents would be much
better pleased Il they would come out
in the Same manly way.-National
Waterman.
Want and oppression Of tho poor
BY the rich; unnecessary burdens laid
upon labor BY the money power acting
through corporate organisation: tho
oppression OF labor-all this wo know
sxista And for any person or any
newspaper to attempt to cover il up
and to divert the peoples attention
from it, is to make that person or that
paper equally guilty with those that
cause it Turn on the light-Weekly
Union.
The farmers arc selling crops Al
less than tho cost of production and
hence have no profit" with which to
purchase the manufactures of our cit
les, and still people wonder why We
have stagnation in business It takes
money to effect exchanges and if there
BE no money to this end demand goes
unsatisied and supply unconsumed.
Give us government issue of money On
approved security at cost-National
Advance.
If the people permit the fundhold-
ing class to continue to fix the measure
BY which labor's products arc sold, it
will be safe to say that it will never
take less toll and its products to pay a
dollar Of the mortgage. interest, taxes
and other fixed charges than it does
now, and judging by the general fall
OF prices in the past it will. in tho
future, take little more "elbow
grease" to keep their chins above tho
water.-Missouri World.
Repeal of the Sherman law would
mean loss Of hope, reign of terror.
reputation and confscation. To de-
feat such repeal" is only to prevent 80
much greater evils than We now have.
Even though we prevent repeal" it is
NO time to shout, for night il already
on us: and hunger. suffering. bank
Tuptcy and crime sit fercely at tho
door and haunt the windows Love of
home and patriotic American manhood
now stands on guard. Looming Crisis.
The stringency in money matter.
during the present panic has probably
been noticed and its effect felt by all
engaged in life Of toll All will read
lily agree as to the cause of this state
Of affairs-in fact there is but one cause
TO which it can be ascribed, and that is
the absence of sufficient medium of
exchange with which to conduct tho
business Of a naturally progressive
people. To supply this acknowledged
deficiency is the mission Of the new
party-a work which should receive
the encouragement and cooperation of
all who believe in equality and justice.
Missouri World. al
When BY reason OF legislation in
the interest Of bondholders the green
back became "depreciatadH4 Is forty
cents on the dollar, the finger of scorn
was pointed at it until man felt like
apologizing to himself for owning ono
Of them. When tho people became
wiser, they knew that the greenback
was all right; that gold had gone up to
e25o. So to-day tho dishonest" fifty
cent silver dollar, at its intrinsic value,
h not deprecated; it will buy just as
much wheat, just as much cotton, just
% much merchandise of any kind as it
ever would. But the gold dollar has
again appreciated. and as before tho
people are the suffererA-Repres~nta-
Tive
That Honest Dollar.
This prating about IAN honest dol
lar, and "a stable currency" il all