The representative., 1893-09-27
ST. PAUL, MINI, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. q, 1898

labOring men Of Minnesota, who be-
long to the peoples party, are every
one of them, peaceful, law-abiding
gentlemen; and the editor who wrote
this atrocious stuff hasn't courage |
enough to throw brick at Il bull |
frog; much less lead gang OF assaS- |
sins to the dreadful game of murder.
And he-knows too that if half the
houses in ST. Paul and Minneapolis
were blown up by dynamite and half
the inhabitants therein, guilty and
innocent, slaughtered, it would not
relieve the people of single Oppres-
sion. In fact it would make their
condition ten times worse than it is.
We were talking with K. of l..
friend, the other day, in Butte, Mon
tana; and he told us that he had just
received letter from labOr-leader
in Chicago, in which he said that the
plutocracy were making desperate eff
forts to get ruffians and criminals to
commit eXcesSes, burn houses, kill
policemen, ETC.; because they knew
that if they did an universal outcry
would go up from all property-hold-
ers, of all classes and parties, for a
standing army and strong govern
ment! And the liberties of the peo-
pie would sink forever under the
hoofs of an armed despotism.
Why then does this alleged alli-
ance-paper publish such stuff? The
answer is plain;-t IS paid to do 1t.
There can be no other reason 1t is
not for home consumption, but for
use abroad. 1t is being quoted in the
east, with delight, by the plutocratic
press, in order to keep law-abiding
citizens from joining the great reform
party. 1t is pointed to as evidence
that we are gang of criminals, assas-
sins, murderers; instead of being, as
we are, the landowners and peaceful
produces, in revolt. at the ballot box,
by constitutional methods, agaisnt
aggressions and usurpations.
And that is one way of ''killing the
dog"
And then there is another way to
kill the dog.
While terrible conflict is raging
between the people and the plunder
ers to determine whether the metallic
money of the world should be re-
duced one-half; and all property
values should be broken down in like
proportion; and every debt should be
doubled in magnitude; whole host
of fellows are clamoring, to the
friends of the prosecuted metal sill
ver-tO lay down their arms and let
gold win the day, because paper
currency is better than either of
them. Every man with a grain of
sense ought to know, and does know,
that if the money-power is able to
defeat us, with all the silver. states
aiding us, it would knock gus into
everlasting smithereens, with both
hands tied behind it's back, if we
tried to make the fight upon pure
greenback non-metallic platform.
But they say, we do not expect sue
cess at once-but let US kill silver
now, and take our chances of killing
gold hereafter! All! Indeed And
kill all the debtors in the meantime;
and entrench gold, behind colossal
Notifications, in possession of the
whole world.
Now some who talk that way are
honest-but others are bought out
right And newspaper are being es-
tablished to preach this nonsense.
They are trying another way to kill
the dog. Butter won't do.
The peoples party platform de-
manded "the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of 16 to l." and
"that the amount of circulating
medium be speedily increased to not
less than $50 per CAPITA
These demands are not inconsist-
ent with each other. They mean
that we are to have all the gold and
silver we can get, and greenbacks
enough to make up the $50 per
capita. There is nothing in that
platform which demands the de-
monetization of gold and silver;-it
is explicitly the other way; and these
men who are raising all this clamor
are doing it to aid the enemy and
break up our forces, and ruin man
kind
But the dog must be killed-nO
matter how much it costs. [. d.
An Illustration.
A grain rObber in New Orleans