The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-05
THE CRISIS NEAR.
Congress Convened in Extra Ses.
sion August 7th Next.
The Destruction of Silver the
Object.


Object.
AT the command of the Money!
Power of Europe and America: sus-
talned by the aristocracies of two
continents; backed up by all the
leading newspapers of the United
States; and enforced by the whole
power of the federal patronage.
Grover Cleveland calls congress to.
gether, to assemble August 7th. The
fateful hour is near at hand. Silver
IS to be opliterated-to be wiped off
the face of the earth. The whole
world is convulsed; the white metal
IS denied access to the mints of
India; that country is rushing into
bankruptcy and revolution: the
Globe is not big enough for the plots
10 the terrible conspirators against
mankind. The only thing that gives
any value to silver, on this side of.
the Atlantic, is the Sherman act.
which provides market, at reduced
rates, for the output of our mines.
Deprived of that support, silver will
be practically valueless, as gold
would be under the same circum-
stances.
And the saddest and the strangest
thing in the world is to see the busi-
ness classes clamoring for measure
winch will wipe out one-half the
metallic money of the planet, and
drive them into universal bank
ruptcy. And the most shameful part
OF the business is to see a democratic
president, elected upon platform
pledged to the equal use of both
gold and silver, using the whole
power OF his patronage to destroy one
or those metals for the enhance
ment of the other.
IL reminds one of the period before
our civil war, when that disgraeeful
lck-spittle politician, James Buchan-
an, employed. in the same way, the
ofhces in his gift, to beat Stephen A.
Douglas, and make the democratic
party the party of human slavery:
just as Cleveland to-day is laboring
to make it the party of the moneyed-
aristocracy. It took the democracy
nearly thirty years to recover from the
effects of Buchanan's course; it will
take them another thirty years to
recover from the effects of Cleye-
lands course.
For how, in Gods name, will the
repeal of the Sherman act help the
country out of it's distress? Our need
is lack of money This is shown in
the appeals made to Carlisle to an
tlcipate the payment of the interest
due on q. S. bonds on July 1st,-some
seven million dollars. And on the
heels of this payment money was
worth IS per cent on call, in New
York, on ample security. And then
the banks of New York issued nine
millions of paper money, called clear
ing-house certificates, which they all
agreed to receive as cash. And it
was but "a drop in the bucket" And
the bankers say they cannot get gold
in Europe, to ship to America, on
any terms! And yet they ask con-
gress to destroy silver and place the
country on a gold basis. And they
propose to demonetize silver in India.
and force three hundred million
more people to struggle for gold.
And sixty-five million people in the
United States are to be brought to a
gold basis also!
If we hated these fools we would
say,-let them repeal the Sherman
act. Let every silver mine be closed
forever, and eight or ten states de-
stroyed;-for then would come revo-
luton, as it came in 1861, and wipe
out the conspirators and change the
face Of the world. But we would
save mankind. And yet, what can
ave do? ''The voice of one crying in
the Wilderness"
But, we repeat, will any one tell us
how the Sherman act will add
single dollar to the currency of the
country? And near at hand is the
demand for vast sums to move the
wheat, corn, cotton to market=
and money worth Is per cent. in
New York!
And yet in the midst of all the up-
roar, the Q. S. silver dollar, worth
intrinsically about Sc cents, is worth
100 cents; while the Mexican dollar
with like amount Of silver in it.
is worth 55 cents. Why? The one
has the fiat of the government upon
it;-the others has not. And the
legal-tender dollar would be worth
100 cents if silver fell to 10 cents on
the dollar;-yes, if it was made of
paper, of leather, of buffalo-chips.
Human government is the biggest
thing in this nation, except God.
Let the devils 60 on with their
,devilishness. The end is near. No
thing is so logical as events. Let
them come. I. D.