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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
A VOICE FROM THE EAST,

Boston Man Has Something to Say About
the General Situation.
''It is the president alone who blocks
the way to an agreement being
reached" Thus the Washinton CORE
spondent of the Boston Globe sums the
situation, and adds that the sentiment
in favor of the Wilson bill among the
repealers, except such extremists as
Senators MCPHERSON, Gray, Palmer and
Lodge, is not SO strong as it was two or
three weeks ago. Look at this spectacle
limited at by a democratic correspond
ent Realize it's full significance. Ac-
cording to democratic authority, a
slight compromise would bring about
a repeal of the Sherman law, which is
claimed by the banking interests and
their obedient servant, Mr.. Cleveland.
as the sole or chief cause of our present
distress. In twenty-four hours the SEN
ate would agree to a compromise
whereby the Sherman law could be
wiped out and some fresh financial OK
pediont tried. But stop! The adipose
agent of the gold ring of London and
New York, the most unpatriotic execu-
tive who ever disgraced the nation.
thunders moi" He proposes to go the
"whole hog or none" This phrase,
coarse as it sounds, fits tho case and the
president exactly. This one man, to
have things go his way or not at all,
stands like a colossal porker resisting
the will of the people
The gravity of the case demands
patriotic analysis. Never before in
the history of the nation has such
menace to true democracy and popular
government been known as now ex-
lists in the imperious attitude of this
so-called democratic president Here
he stands. blocking the way to the re-
turn Of prosperity to our country. The
man VINO admitted when first he en-
tered the White house that he knew
nothing of finance but what the bank
ers had told him, now poses IS an infsl-
Hble oracle whose will is the absolute
law Of the land. Such spectacle was
never exhibited by Barnum. II anv
one had predicted it two years ago, he
would have been considered q fl candi-
date for . lunatic asylum.
The house and senate contain . large
majority Of men who believe in the
free coinage Of silver as q eonstitu-
tional right Of tho American people.
These men were elected by free coinage
constituencies They arc on record,
not once, but again and again, a. de-
handing this right; YET such IL the
presidents power of patronage or per-
sonal Intimidation that he has rushed
his repeal bill through the house and
j. now trying, with the aid Of republic.
N votes to force IL through the SON
ate. Not ono nnillfoa Of the sixty-five
il this country want silver demone-
tized-only tho bankers, their
henchmen, and the ex-hangman
and bully at tho executive mansion
Patriots in all parts! Mon who love
our constitution and country. consider
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
Lets &c 1t Alone.

We are everlastingly tired of hearing
that this country must do this, that
and the other to protect our credit
abroad. If the relations of our citi.
zens with each other and our states
with each other must be made subo,-
dinats to our relations with foreign M.
tions, then all talk about American In
dependence is the veriest bosh. The
rise of an aristocratic gang in this
country has reduced us to mere tail
to the European kite. A nations sys-
tenn of finance h the most vital of all ito
Legislative acts. Yet both the democrat.
ic and republican leaders of this nation
proclaim that all our national legisla-
ton on finance must now, and ever
more, depend on European legislation
Such talk is nothing but the rankest
treason. Our relations with foreign
countries should be made subordinate
to our relations with each other The
moment we accept the doctrine that
legislation, on the most vital home
matters, must depend on what the En-
glish parliament may see fit to do about
it, that moment we reduce our country
to a colony of Great Britain, and start
on highway paved with humiliation
and hardships for the great mass of the
people Of this country.-Ottawa (Kan)
Journal
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
NOT MATERIAL.

When Metallism Ia Knocked Out No One
Will Care Who Owns the Mines.
The National Spectator says, refer
ring to our discussion of the nationali-
zation of silver mines:
''The Tribune says it is not disposed
to criticise the idea of Matchmaking
the silver mines. That being true, and
believing as the Tribune must in the
governments sole right to issue money,
why not use its great influence in ed
ucating the people up to the only prin-
ciple that places that right absolutely
in the hands of the government? Now
is the time to perfect the work of edu-
eating the people up to a support of
the principles which we as party pro-
fess to believe"
There is one reason why the Tribune
does not desire to take any time what
ever for educating the people in favor
of Matchmaking of the gold and silver
mines of the country, and that reason
is that we believe a better circulating
medium is a paper currency and that
only kind which will fully meet the
requirements of the vast commerce of
this country, and we want to educate
the people into demanding this, in the
selection of their officials We believe
they demand it now in theory.
Until such time as the people have
selected a congress which will give
them what they demand, we want, if
possible, to prevent any further sur
render by the officials we have to the
foreign combination which is striving
to confscate the fruits of the labor Of
American citizens. Hence we have
but little time for educating people in
favor of mine naturalization at pres
ent, even if we considered that an Inn
portant consideration, which we do
not For, with full paper currency,
comparatively few people will require
coin. either gold or silver, and If any
do, let them have it; that will certain
'ly not injure anybody else. Besides,
with free coinage Of those two metals
at Q ratio Of 1o to l, foreign SPECTATORS
will be compelled to pay b tier prices
for American products which they buy,
until such time at least as they can
stop the use of those two metals in all
parts of the world. II they should
ever do that, we caa then consider
what next to do in this eountry.-Iows
EArmers' Tribune
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
THE BALANCE OF TRADE.

The People, As q Government, Have Moth
ing Whatever to Do With 1t.
When the venal gold-bug press urges
money that foreign nations will re-
ceive in the settlement of balances of
trade against this country, did the
reader ever stop to reflect that this
government has nothing whatever to
do with the settlement of such bal
ances? They are purely individual
matters. If American tradesmen and
merchants import foreign goods in ex-
cess of the commodities exported in
exchange, let them foot the bill. It is
not the business of the United States
government to trouble itself about the
obligations incurred any more than it
is to concern itself with the individual
debts of Americans to their own coun-
trymen.
There are other fallacies also con-
nected with this demand for a worlds
of the settlement of balances of trade.
There is no such thing as worlds
money and there is nothing that passes
as such. Balances of trade are now
settled in commodities and in no other
way. The commodity employed may be
gold, but it does not pass as money by
any manner of means American coin
when shipped abroad goes by weight
and at it's commodity value. and is sub
ject to losses which are the result Of
abrasion. It is no argument against
this statement of fact to say that the
commodity value of gold is nearly
equivalent to its coin value, because
this circumstance depends upon condi-
tions which. applied to any other COM
modify whatever, would render it's
value equally stable and uniform, no
matter how limited or how abundant
might be its supply.
Let us suppose, for instance, that the
whole civilized world should agree to
nse the entire possible output of alumni
mum as money metal, and to discard
every other material whatever; what
would be the effect3 As the possible
supply Of this metal is practically un-
limited, the unlimited increase of the
circulating medium would result in q
corresponding cheapening of the dol
lar as compared with commodities and
with all forms Of property; but so long
as the entire product should continue
to be converted into money, it is fact
that cannot be disputed that the COM
modify value Of the metal would ap-
proximate its coin value as closely a.
does that Of gold to-day; SO that the
fact that gold bullion approximates In
price its coin value, depending as IL
does upon arbitrary conditions rather
than upon any inherent property that
it possesses, cannot Be urged as against
the other fact which is equally certain
that it is not - money but rs . com.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25

In days gone by the bankers Aavs
criticised the farmers for NOT remeua,
boring that the day Of settlement was
coming. When the bankers day o1
settlement came it found tbe~ less
able to meet the obligations than weys
the farmers Not one bank in ten was
able to meet its obligations when the
panic struck the country. They haA
not only loaned out their own monov.
but they had loaned out their deposit
ors money also. While they were
abusing other people for going in debt
beyond their ability to pay, they were
Gong the same thing themselveA-
Clay Center Dispatch
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
Money.

The gold dollar is not q commodity
having an intrinsic value, but money
having only statutory value.-Iowa
Reports, Vol 1e, p. 246.
We repeat, money is not a substance,
but an impression Of legal authority, q
printed legal decree. Re-
ports, Vol. IL, p. SIG.
An article is determined to bc money
by reason Of the performance BY it Of
certain functions without regard to It's
form or substance. -Appleton's Ency-
elopedia.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
THE oREENeAck THEORY.

Let All Money BE Referred to the AbstrssA
Ideal Unit Of Account, the Figure 4.
Demonetize gold, silver, and all me-
tallic currency to the extent that in
stead of its holding the first place n
importance, it shall be subordinate.
Instead of gold being the sta ndsrd
Of value, the value shall be computed
by higher, the highest standard fixed
by the government. Why il not gov
eminent competent to fix q value on
money as well as 1t is in measures and
weights?
An inch must measure SO many lines;
foot, yard, and bushel measure 30
many Of these inches. Why? Because
that is the standard which government
has created. No other authority could
create it and its fat is sufficient to A.
fix a penalty to infringement upon it
either to increase or to diminish It.
Why is not the same authority COM
petent to create q money standard as
well as measure and weight stan
dard?
The answer is because we must ''con-
form to the standard of the world ("
But there is no standard Of the world.
In one country gold il the standard, in
another silver is. In some countries at
one time gold has been the standard,
and at another time silver has been.
We are told on tho highest authority
that in India at one time, silver being
the only legal tender. if man owed
the value of a single rupee, if he had
ESQ, 1000 In gold, his estate would have
to be sacrificed if he could not raise
the silver. Gold was worth no more to
save him from ruin than SO much. old
leather.
Where, then. is the propriety of "a
worlds standard" when there il no
such standard? Even our gold coins
are not legal tender anywhere in the
world but here. If we take them
abroad they are put into the scales,
and all we can get for them is what tho
nation we are indebted to chooses to
give us for them.
The true greenback theory, then, is
to rest satisfied with nothing short of
the reducing of gold and silver to SUBJ
ordinate positions in the market and
make their value to be gagged by pre-
cisely tho same standard, no matter
what it is Lot the government erect
its own standard and bring all COM
modities to it, gold, silver and all BY
this means We shall escape from slavery
to those who can control the gold, and
who control all of our interests, max
ing us rich one year and poor at their
pleasure. But say some, this is too
big job; the theory is good, but we
cannot carry it out"
The ocean telegraph had never been
laid. it ono end had never been laid
first The last rail around the CONT
mont had never been laid II the first
had not been.
And so, in this financial reform, the
world will never DO freed from its
slavery to tho money power 90 long as
it is conceded that the Rothschilds, the
Barings and such mon shall dictate to
the world what shall bo their money.
Let the United States take the in
itiative in this worlds reform; lst us.
as a nation, demonstrate that We can
get along without gold. and one nation
after another will fall into line, and
the golden god before whom all nations
have worshippod for centuries shall
fall. and with it's fall one great source
of human misery will DO abolished
Chicago Express.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
ENGLAND'S MANY INTERESTS.

They VIII Not BE Allowed to Retsrd the
Final Emancipation of Humanity.
Many Of us have laughed at and
ridiculed the labor agitation going on
in the United States from the sand-lots
of San Francisco to the Atlantic. But
now there is grave need of prompt and
effective action. England's many in
terests demand it.-London Times,
Sept. Z, 1879.
This was said fourteen years ago,
when the labor movement began first
to be noticed. What do "England's
many interests" think of it now? We
know you have been using your prompt
and effective methods all these inter-
vening years Your bribery and cor
rupting methods have left train of
stain and woe adown all these years
The hunger and want and poverty and
crime that covers our fair land to-day
attest the damnable British methods
of perjury and bribery on the men
elected to serve the American people,
Our people have to-day reached your
European level Crime goes clothed in
puppies and fine linens, while honest
toll lives in shanties and goes clothed
in rags. o, we know your methods
We feel the keen blade of the assassin
of our liberties. But know We yet, that
there is future. There is a newer
and purer life being being born to-day
that will spurn your gold. All your
methods of subduing other people and
making them pay tribute to your hell
ish aristocracy will fail The time is
not far in the future when Americans
will again throw OF the British yoke
and pay no more tributes on the pro-
duction and distribution of the prod
ucts of their own labor. Bring all your
gold and all your Hessians, but it will
avail you naught. And when that
second declaration is given to the world,
it means q new heaven and new earth,
and the power Of oppression. the power
Of living in luxury on the toll of others
will be lost forever. 1t will sound the
death knell of capitalism The people
will own and operate their own rail-
roads and factories and no longer pay
dividends or interest to British or
American schemsrs who have bribed
and bullied laws into their own inter-
ests. No longer will men pay tribute
for the privilege Of living on this planet
to q set of robbeys who havelaid claim
to the land. Thee things are coming!
1t don't make any difference about En-
glands many interests. You will be
taught that Americans have some in
terests in America yet and that the love
Of liberty is not dead yet in the sons of
the noble sires Of 1910. That they vet
know what oppression means. Coming
Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
Why Take . Back Seat.

Why must the United States always
take q back seat in the progress OF
civilization? Why must European M.
tions be always ahead Of us in the con.
veniences Of life, such rs government
post ONCE savings banks? In England
every post ofhce Is q government
bank in which . workingman can de-
post his savings up 70 e250 and receive
interest for tho same There tho post
Office runs the telegraph and the e.
press business. kilograms can be seht
all over Europe for about ten cents per
message. Parcels can be sent any
where by post for three cents peY
pound, and ~ . consequence an enou.
nous business Is done between city
firms and country customers One Arra
in Manchester, England, docs business
with 10000 customers through the
post, and ships two tons Of goods dailv.
Think what parcel post would d ~
usl-San Diego Vidette
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25

Shall we stop coming silver when
we have but half as much silver per
capita and but little over half as much
Of all kinds Of money - France has?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25

f0Ds stay Laws
In the New York Sun is an interview
with an officer of the Eastern Loan Co,
who states that the loan companies Of
New York and Boston have decided -
call in all western and southern mort
cages and refuse to renew all farm
mortgages south and west on account
Of the growth of the farmers alliances
and peoples party. Now wish 70 cah
attention to the fact that without the
direct aid and cooperation of the farm
ers of the south and west the eastern
shylock cannot forec,ose a mortgage
in your state, as it will require the aid
and assistance of your own state and
county courts and sheriffs 10 do -
and it will be the act Of your
own people, BY their consent
and cooperation and not by tho act Of
an eastern court or by the aid Of the
people of the east, that q farmer IN the
south OF west is dispossessed and turned
out OF his home or ruined by the east
ern Shylock. We honor and applaud
the Irish patriots, led by Parnell, that
taught the Irish people to resist evio-
tions and hold their farms despite En-.
glish law, and 70 bid successful defiance
to English law and police and military
yet we, in free America ~ not only Do
not resist injustice, but the men in the
south and west lend all the aid of state
and county law, local hirelings and Of.
ticials TO it's execution Why not law
fully, by the act Of your legislature,
repeal or suspend all laws to foreeloss
mortgages or sell ont at sheriff's sale =
farmers homestead, or by force of pub
lie opinion such call by your sheriff or
consta BILE w A, A. Carey.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
P0pulist Year.


This is a good year for populista In
Nebraska they are nearly certain to
elect their candidate for supreme
Judge. Hon. Silas A. Holcomb, and
probably all the regents of the state
university, and most of their county
ticketA In Kansas everything il going
populist It is the same in Colorado
In Virginia, the popdlist state ticket
headed by that able campaigner,
4 R. Cooke. 10 away ahead in the
prospects for election. Even in rock
ribbed Iowa there IL chance to elect
the state ticket and it il certain that
there will be strong force Of sble
popnlists in the next legislature From
every voting place in the land, where
IN election i held this. year, come un--
mistakable signs Of unprecedented
gains for the peoples cause. Even j.
8 Garrison admits that the grand
young party of the, people is likely to
elect president in 1905 Iowa Farm.
srs' Tribune ~
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25
rAN,CS AND pANIC9.

A Panic Must Occur ~ Soon - Bank nes
serves Absorb All the Money In Circulap
ton.
The working classes have suffered
from republican panics and democratic
panics. The old parties have cried fos
two generations: ELECT ms to Office
and we will make the times prosper.
GUS" And the working classes have
turned from one party to another with,
out securing relief. At intervals Of
from ten to twenty years a financial
panic sweeps over the world and wipes
out the accumulation of years, enrich
ing the creditor class Tor non-pro-
ducers) and leaving the debtor class
Tor producers) helpless or worse Oh
than they ever were. The old parties
have not tried to grapple with this
problem. They have usually attrib-
uted panics to wrong causes, and have
always strenuously opposed the only
means by which panies may
be averted-ths issuing Of paper
money by the government in snt
hcient quantity to facilitate exchanged
and the establishment of government
loan and savings banks These 10
forms will not be forwarded by the old
parties As we'll expect grapes to grow
on thistles rs reform from parties that
have outlived their usefulness and are
chiefly instrumental in maintaining
the present condition Of things II
would be folly, therefore, for working
men to vote the republican ticket Sim
ply because tho democratic party is In
power. Such course would only b
voting for a change Of masters, and not
q change of the system. Vote against
both of the old parties They have
been the tools of the money power -
long that they don't know the mean
ing of common honesty. Vote for the
labor candidates if you want reform.
Don't shift from one old party TO an
other old party, for you will only ~
peat the old story. Cleveland Citizen
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
Why They Disliked Him.

Sir William Frazer records sug'
gestive story about IL keeper Mt the
Geological Gardens. He had been en-,
ployed on account of his supposed
fondness for animals, but was soon
found to have incurred the enmity OF
his charges. Their enmity was not
shown at once. but presently became
universal and strongly pronounced.
1t was suspected that while outwardly
treating them with kindness he must
secretly hurt or annoy them. He de-
MED having done anything of the sort,
and his general manner seemed to bear
out his protestations. A watch was
set upon him, with q curious result.
II appeared that. he never spoke to
the animals, and for that reason alone
his presence was intolerable to them.
Youths Companion.