The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-28
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
Gold may be going abroad because
It is scarce, but that is not reasonable.
It is going to pay interest to the money
loaners of Europe Industrial Union.
If populism is running Kansas, what
in the world is the matter with all the
other states whose failures furnish ma
terial for our prosperity column?-Ad-
vocate.
Was it lover production" or s'lazi-
ness that brought about the failure Of
ex-Secretary Foster? No lodging.
We want an answer.-Iowa Farmers
Tribune.
Vol 1, No 1, of the populist papers
that come to this Office is simply won
derful They are the straws that tell
which way the political wind is blow
ing.-Iowa Farmers Tribune.
American farmers make money?
You bet; made it fast during the last
twenty-five years. Why are they kick
ing, then? Because the other fellow
has the money.-Farm, Stock and
Home
Ggious at the ballot-box as he is at the
sacramental board, is an arrant hypo-
critic, and don't care what church it
is that he belongs to.-James B.
Weaver.
We don't hear the plutes talking
30 much lately about 1.-The best finan-
cial system the world ever saw" and
the honest dollar" etc. The whole
business is too near the ragged edge
Exchange.
The goll men tell us that when we
fully remonetize silver, the foreigners
will not loan us any more money. If
that is true it is one of the best argu-
ments for free silver offered yet-In-
dustrial Union.
Free coinage is an assured fact in
the next congress There is majority
of fifty in favor of it. The weight of
the administration, which is against it,
cannot overcome this majority. Iowa
Farmers Tribune
The gold-bugs say it is only ga
process of liquidation going on When
it is finished Rothschilds, Ickelheimer
& Co. will have all the money and the
rest of this country will have all the
experience. -Nonconformist.
The question now disturbing the
administration u.s. will it make matters
better or worse to repeal the Sherman
silver act? And when the cabinet has
decided, then congress will have a word
to say on the subject.
The gold reserve" in the United
States treasury, which it has been re-
garded a sacred duty to keep at $780,
100000, was officially reported June
at S95, 04S, GAO, and three days later had
decreased to rather less than 800, OOO,-
OOO
An insufficient money volume
means paralysis to progression. This
nation is victim to this disease The
patient is buoyed up by the morphine
credit-system, but the end is inevitable
unless the treatment is radically
changed. Missouri World.
During the year ended April 3Oth,
1898, we exported 800, 49s, 900 more gold
than we imported. During the twelve
months previous to that time we ex-
ported 500, sos, 900 more than we inn
ported. few years longer at the
same rate and we will have none; we
can then demonetize the miserable stuff
and have some chance to release our
people from their miserable slavery
Lamar (Mo.) Industrial Union.
Plenty of money in the country,
but; ample demand for goods, but;
plenty of men wanting to work, but;
plenty of employers want to hire, but;
plenty of farmers with bins full of
wheat they want to sell and pay their
debts with, but; plenty of people
want to visit the worlds fair, but, but,
but! The truth is that the whole sys-
tenn, which Dun tries to bolster up, is
like many forest trees, hollow at the
"butt ''-Nonconformist.
If Mr.. Carlisle is really at war with
the president on the finance question
and wishes to step down and out, and
cannot afford to lose his position be-
cause he is poor man and would be
out of a job, let him hand in his res
ignation, start west in wagon with an
old fashioned Pennsylvania wagon bed
on it, and it will be filed with good
100-cent silver dollars before he gets
very far. The people will stand by him
in refusing to be bulldozed by Cleve-
land.-Missouri World
The silver of the world amounts to
only about So, zoo, 900, 900, and if it were
possible to have it all dumped" in the
United States in consequence of free
coinage legislation, it would only
amount to $50 per capita of our popu-
lation. But any sensible man knows
that such a thing as all the silver in
the world being dumped in this
country is an utter impractical ility,
and such argument (?) the veriest non
sense Why didn't the world afflict us
with all it's silver during the eighty
years of free oinage?-Journal of Ag-
riculture.
Immense runs are reported on
banks, especially savings banks,
of Chicago and other places east of us.
Failures of firms engaged in various
kinds of business, as well as banks, are
of daily occurrence. The time will
probably come some time when we
shall in this country adopt the very
sensible and absolutely safe system of
postal or government savings banks.
The present stringencv, which borders