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The representative., 1894-04-11
Do You See 1t Now?

The country is suffering for the want
Of money while hundreds of millions of
dollars are lying in the vaults of the
United States treasury. Instead of doing
something to release this money and get
it into circulation the Wall street cuck-
oos, with Cleveland and Carlisle to do
their bidding, lock up still more money.
Don't you believe it? Then take their
own figures. Here they are taken from the
monthly debt statement issued March l.:
Net increase of the debt during month,
$4O,o64.215.
Cash in the treasury Feb. 1, $737, 12O,-
153
Cash in the treasury March 1, $751;
O75,e34.
While reporting an increase of the
public debt Of $4O,O64,215, they also re-
port that the cash in the treasury has in
creased $49, ,955 ,6S1.
1t business man reported an increase
of his debt of $40, 1864, ,215 while his cash
resources had increased $49, ,955 ,681, or
while having $737, 100, 153 cash on hand
he borrowed another $50,0OO,OOO, his
friends would lock him up in the insane
asylum. But when the great govern
ment of the United States does the same
thing by dictation of gang of heartless
money grabbers, with the distinct pur-
pose OF making money, and gold money
at that, still scarcer and harder to get,
then the fools howl in unison that such
policy embOdies the very acme of po-
itical and financial wisdom National
Advance.
The representative., 1894-04-11
will it be paid? Something must be sent

will it be paid? Something must be sent
out to meet it. What will be sent? Such
products of our country of which we
have surplus will be sent out, and that
balance will be paid
This never occurs in the way that one
might think from the above statement,
because the exchanges about the world
are very complex, and goods might be
sent from New York to Brazil to pay an
apparent balance of trade due in London.
In such case our goods would go to
Brazil, some goods would be sent from
there to London, and our balance would
be paid. No goods are ever deliberately
selected by exporters with this object in
view. Exporters and importers send out
such things as we have surplus of and
bring in such things as they think we
want. They send out to those parts of
the world where they think their goods
will find a sale, and bring in from those
places where they can find goods cheap
that they think we will want If more
goods go out than come back, the rate
of exchange will show this and indicate
profit on imports. Imports will then
be sent. If more goods come in than go
out, again the rate of exchange will show
the fact and suggest that expectation
would be profitable. And SO it goes on
from year to year, from century to cen
tury, if the traders are let alone.
Thus we see that bills of exchange not
only furnish the currency Of internation-
al trade, but also form very delicate
Indicator by which traders know wheth-
or to export or import. The simplicity
and perfection Of this instrument are
simply wonderful.
All international trade is really barter
1t is conducted without money at all
simply by means of book accounts and
bills of exchange. These bills of ex-
change are always private issues and
have no stamp of government nor any
thing of that kind about them, yet they
furnish most perfect medium of inter
national trade, and through their use
billions upon billions Of dollars worth of
exchanges are made all over the world.
&C. j. Buell. in St. Paul Globe.
The representative., 1894-04-11
The New Slavery.

During slavery" days healthy man
who had been taught some trade was
worth about $1,000, or about 12 good
horses. Today there is not mechanic
working for corporation who is worth
one horse. If he dies, his place can be
filled without cent of cost to the en-
ployer, but if one Of the horses dies it is
a loss to the company. See how wonder
fully cheap the men have voted them
selves! Had any one suggested that un
der wage slavery 100 white men would
have less value than one slave, he would
have been hanged, but the facts are here
given, and the white slaves can study it
for themselves. Great is the policy pur-
sued by the Democratic and Republican
parties!-Coming Nation.
The representative., 1894-04-11
ADMINISTRATION POKER.
Carlisle's Little Bluff Shows How the FL
nances of the Government Are Run.

CarltSle'S Little Bluff Shows How the FL.
nances of the Government Are Run.
Some remarkable disclosures of the
relations that exist between the Cleve-
land administration and Wall street
bankers We're made at the recent meet
ing of the chamber of commerce.
Banker Ives, without apparently sus-
pecting that he was stating anything un-
usual, gave an account of Secretary Car
isles dealings with the meeting of bank
ers which was called at his instance to
place the $50 ZOO, 900 loan.
1t appears that the bankers had an i'm
preston, as Mr.. Ives puts it. that no
money could be made by buying the
bonds" and hesitated to subscribe. How
their hesitation was removed we will let
Mr.. Ives tell in his own words:
Finally Mr.. Carlisle said: "Gentlemen. one
thing you can make up your minds to. If this
loan is failure, the Bland bill Will become a
law" and he added some words which justified
those of us who heard him in thinking that if.
through the assistance of New York financiers.
the loan should be saved from failure, we could
at least rely on his earnest opposition to the
bill. You all know what followed.
Now. how does that revelation of the
way business is done between the treas
ury of the United States and the banking
powers that be on Wall street strike the
plain people of this country?
Here we have it distinctly testified that
the administration, in the person Of the
secretary of the treasury, came to Wall
street and conducted a grave financial
transaction on the principle of game of
poker-bluff.
The bankers had the gold, and the ad-
ministration had the veto power. "Pass
over the fifty millions in gold," said Mr..
Carlisle, cor else we will pass the Bland
bill" The bankers were, as Mr.. Ives
tells us, bluffed out of their gold by this
threat. But they did not throw up
their hands until they had obtained
from Mr.. Carlisle an implied promise
that the Bland bill should be vetoed if it
got through congress.
Hence, in the words again of Mr.. Ives
they feel justified, ''hy the implied prom
ise of Mr. Carlisle that he would use his
influence against the bill, in expecting a
veto.
Such is the Democratic party's finan-
cial policy in the year 1S94-a game of
poker with Wall street, with the curren-
cy Of the country for chips and the veto
power of the president as it's highest card
to bluff on. And this is the party of
Jackson, whose pretended principles and
boasted traditions are in favor of treas
ury independent Of the banking power!-
New York Recorder.
The representative., 1894-04-11
Work For ThunderbOlts.

During speech before the silver con-
vention at Des Moines Ignatius Donnelly
said the demonetization of silver was a
colossal conspiracy and crime-the
greatest ever perpetrated against the hu-
man family" AS in the case of one
Thomas Of Bremerhaven, he said he wish
ed the Lord would interfere more fire.
quently with the schemes of men. With a
few we'll selected thunderbolts he thought
some good could be done in Washington.
Humanity stands today" said Mr.. Don
nelly, with a lot of Internal bankers on
its neck. These bankers are the lineal
descendants of those Christ drove out of
the temple. They are using means which
must eventually destroy liberty in this
country. It is the two old parties that
are responsible for the condition of the
country"
The representative., 1894-04-11
The Presidents Veto.

Even casual reading of President
Cleveland's veto of the Bland seignior-
age bill should satisfy any unpreju-
diced mind that the rejection of the
measure has been Influenced by the
presidents hostility to silver as a money
metal and by his allegiance to the power
which has afflicted this country with a
standard of values that enables the few
to absorb the possessions of the many.
President Clevelands structures upon
the verbal construction and intent of
the bill are admittedly incidental and
were obviously injected into the veto
message to divert the reader from the
sole governing motive for his action. The
bill was framed and approved by able
men, and its phraseology was clear
enough to the members Of both houses
of congress and was questioned only by
captious critics who were enemies Of the
measure and on the hunt for even the
most trivial objections. It's construc-
ton had nothing to do with the veto.
The presidents real reason is expressed
in this sentence of the message: I'm my
JuuS luclU. SOullu ullduCO uOcS JlOU GULL
mend a further infusion of silver into
our currency at this time unaccompanied
by further adequate provision for the
maintenance of our treasury for safe
gold reserve" The adequate provi-
sion" referred to is the issue of interest
bearing bonds, which is the desideratum
Of the money power, as an essential pre-
requisite to the investiture of private cor
porations with the prerogative of issuing
and controlling the circulating medium
of the United States.-Denver News.
The representative., 1894-04-11
High Toned Democrats,

In the same issue of the Atlanta Jour-
nal (Hoke's) which announced that Sen
ator Colquitt was lying dead in Wash
ington it is stated that Governor North.
en- ''has been closeted all the morning
with prominent Georgians, not all of
whom are residents of Atlanta"
In other words, they were scrambling
for the dead mans shoes before he was
even buried.
The gentlemen who were doing this are
those high toned Democrats who de-
nounce Populists for wanting Office
Tom Watson's Peoples Party Paper.
The representative., 1894-04-11
A POPULIST PROCLAMATION
Chairman Taubeneck Declares the Wore
'Populist" Will Be the RaIlying Cry.

Chairman Taubeneck Declares the Word
"Populist" Will Be the RaIlying Cry.
The following proclamation addressed
to the people of the United States has
been issued:
The president in vetoing the seigniorage bill
has brushed every pretense of the old parties
aside. The Apache warfare of cunning and
ambush is no longer necessary. The agent Of
the gold combination proclaims that the SOL
diers who serve under him, whether Republic
ans or Democrats, must boldly assert their 10y
atty to the money kings. In the future the peo-
pie can take their choice either aid in strength
ening the chains of money contraction by vot-
ing for candidates to serve in the ranks of the
Republican and Democratic parties, or unite be-
fore it is too late with the Popuists for liberty,
equal rights and an American financial system.
The policy of the veto message means the de-
struction Of all enterprise, the issuing of bonds
to pay the current expenses of the government.
and that national banks are to obtain money
from the government at per cent. The only
compromise offered in the veto message is the
suggestion that the United States might be al
lowed to coin and use the S55, ,OOO 600 seignorage
In the treasury if unlimited authority be grant
ed by congress to issue bonds and perpetually
mortgage the resources of the United States to
the money power.
Such terms to fallen foe in open war would
shock every principle of humanity, but when
the money power, through its agents, tells the
people OF the United States that they shall not
coin and use their own money without subju-
eating themselves and posterity to a bondhold-
Ing oligarchy, it is evidence sufficient to show
the contempt concentrated wealth has for the
rights of man.
In the coming campaign the word "Populis,''
will be the rallying cry Of the masses against
the classes. The sneers of the liveried soldiers
and collared subjects of the money power"
who have brought desolation, hunger and want
to their homes will encourage and inspire ev-
cry loyal citizen to espouse the cause of liberty
human rights and an American financial sys-
tenn. H. TAuRENECK
Cnalrman National Committee of Peoples
The representative., 1894-04-11
The Better Wav.

Chauncey Depew made a speech the
other day in which he showed up the
honesty of the railroad companies and
their methods of carrying out contracts
made to maintain rates. 1t was a virtu-
al acknowledgment that any and all Of
the great trunk lines resorted to every
means, honorable or dishonorable, to get
business, and that the present methods
were ruinous and demoralizing. The
great Chauncey thought the way to cure
this was to make the roads put up for
felt of $4,000 each to maintain rates.
The better way would be for the gov
ernment to assume control of the roads
and run them for the benefit of the whole
people.-Journal of the Knights Of La
bOr
The representative., 1894-04-11
Supreme Folly.

In an editorial on the Restoration of
Bimetallism" the San Francisco Examin-
er calls attention to ''a few silent facts
which practically illustrate and empha-
size the disastrous effects of the demone-
tization of silver-an act of supreme fol-
ly which is not now defended by any
one except by the creditor capitalists
who have profited by the enhancement
Of the purchasing power of their bonds,
by their representatives in the govern
ments and by few shallow writers and
politicians who are ignorant of none
tary science and blind to the industrial
conditions now prevailing throughout
the world
The representative., 1894-04-11
Practical Free Coinage.

Let congress pass bill to the effect
that any one having silver bullion may
deposit it with the United States treas
urer and receive therefor it's market
value, less the cost of coinage, in silver
certificates redeemable in silver dollars.
That would be free coinage. The gov
ernment would not have to pay gold for
silver, and if those certificates would
pass at par with greenbacks and gold
certificates then one would know that
one could maintain a double standard
And certainly the silver owners would
be willing to receive in return for their
silver certificates the same as they gave
the government for them.-W. A. Walden
in Chicago Record
The representative., 1894-04-11
Will Carry Oregon.

A correspondent of The Journal of the
Knights Of Labor, writing from Fort
Stevens, Or, says: 81 often see many
misleading editorials in eastern papers to
the effect that the Peoples Party is dead
in Oregon. want to say to our eastern
friends that we have doubled our strength
in Oregon and intend to carry the state
for the Peoples Party next June. This
precinct gave Weaver but seven votes,
and we now have a club of 40 active
workers. A pretty healthy corpse for
the Demo Reps to bury!"
The representative., 1894-04-11
Convincing Argument.

One of the "big," aristocratic, gold
basis dailies in this city is in fair way
to acquire a bit of sense from the logic
of events. When it can't meet note
for $500 when due and then pays in little
dribs because it can do no better, it calls
to mind the pride that goeth before a
great big tumble. It's a tumble the
rankest Of them will tumble to sooner or
later. People after awhile get tired of
being guyed for misfortunes that are di-
rect result of others conspiracy, and
these goldbug, nobbish sheets have been
laying the mine. Chicago Express.
The representative., 1894-04-11
Senator Stewards Political Status.

Senator Stewart of Nevada has written
to the Washington Post protesting
against being classed any longer as Re
publican. He says:
II left the Republican party more than
two years ago because that party was in
favor of the single gold standard in the
interest Of banks and bondholders. To
be classed as a Republican is to be class
ed on all financial questions as Cleve-
land Democrat. I am neither. am a
Populist and belong to the only party
that is unequivocally opposed to the sub
lection of the people of the United States
to the rule of banks and bondholders.
The representative., 1894-04-11
Debs q Splendid Populist.

Eugene V. Debs' public declaration of
his adherence to the Peoples Party is
having a good effect among railroad men.
Mr. Debs is, without exception, the most
popular man connected with railroad
organizations, and he is receiving solid
boom for governor of Indiana. He'll
make splendid run if nominated
Cleveland Citizen.
The morning call., 1894-09-18
DEATH IN THE PRISON.
Edward Wilkinson Expires Suddenly
in the Drunk Cell.

There was mild sensation in the Civ
Prison shortly after midday yester day.
Doorkeeper Smith was standing In front
of the cell occupied by male DRINKS, and
observed one of them standing with his
two hands holding the bars. The man
looked i'll, and Smith asked what was the
matter with him. Before the mar could
answer he staggered back and fell into the
arms of a feliOw-lnmate. Word was sent
to the Receiving Hospital, and when the
doctor reached the prison he found the
man was dead.
AL the inmates were taken out of the
cell, and they answered to their names on
the register. BY this means Ii was learned
that the dead man was Edward Wilkinson,
26 years OF age, native of California and
drummer by occupation. He was ar
rested on Sixth street about o'clock
yesterday by Policemen Coleman and
Clancy and was on the verge OF delirium
tremens. He was taken with other prison.
ers in the van FROM the Southern station
to the prison at 6 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and was so violent that the handouts
had to be put on him. He was respect
ably dressed. The body was removed to
the MOrgue.
At late hour last evening several
friends OF the deceased visited the Morgue
and positively identified the remains as
those of Z. 5. Wilkinson. The deceased
was born in Sacramento, where his father
now resides. He had not been EN- ployed
as commercial traveller for several years,
and of late had been drinking heavily
About one week ago he obtained employ
ment as a city solicitor for the grocery
firm of Hager Bros on the corner of Hyde
and Turk streets, hat was unable to per-
form the work, owing to his dissOlute hab-
it's. When arrested he had slight attack
of deliiium tremens, but the autopsy re-
veaied the cause of death as pneumonia
The relatives of the deceased have been
notified and will doubtless take charge of
the remains
The morning call., 1894-09-18
COIN GONE WRONG.
A Lawyer After Some ILL
Gotten Money.
A Green Goods Man Undertakes to
Pay for His Defense With His
Victims Gold.

George E. Colwell Esq. was plaintiff in a
somewhat peculiar suit in Justice DUNES
court yesterday
CoIwell is an attorney who defended the
man Mr.. Brandt and his companion in
crime when charged by Mrs. Dwar of
Tacoma with beating her ont of several
hundred dollars on a green-goods game.
The rather sensational circumstances Of
Mrs. Dwai's visit to the city in response to
a circular inviting her to come and trade
good money for counterfeit will be remem-
bered; how she carried her good money in
a satchel, and now Brandt offered to carry
the satchel during a streetcar ride which
was to carry them to the place of business
of the alleged cOunterfeiters, and how they
ran away with the satchel, the woman fol-
lowed, screaming, and the men were al
rested.
On the trial, under the advice of Mr..
ColwelI, Brandt turned States evidence
and was let off, while his companion was
convicted. In his evidence he testified
that the money taken from them and still
held by the Chief of Police did not be-
long to him. When the case was over and
the problem of settling with his attorney
was before him he SAID: "Pll just give
you an order for $500 of that money held
by the Chief"
Chief Crowley refused to give the money
up when the lawyer demanded it ami
pointed TO Brandts evidence at the trial,
In which he admitted the money did not
belong to him.
Then Colwell brought suit and the case
came To trial yesterday. Cnlwell was sick
and not present, but was represented by
counsel Il was shown that Brandt had
the money when arrested, and Mrs. Dwar
not putting In claim for it his counsel
held that it was prima facie his money.
District Attorney Barnes, representing
Chief Crowley, produced Brandt's evil
dence in the former trial in answer. and
desired to know how he could pay away
money which. under oath, he had admit
ted did not belong to him.
Chief Crowley declares that the money
has no owner; hat 1t was given to Brandt
for an unlawful purpose and was not his,
but was taken from him by the police
when he was arrested, and that be (the
ChieD stands ready to turn it into the city
treasury or any other custodian which the
court shall decide upon.
The Judge has taken the matter under
Amusement. Mrs. Dwar went back to
Tacoma and has not been heard from.
The morning call., 1894-09-18
JAMES BOWLES' MONEY.
Miss Holden Says 1t Was Given Her
Internationally.

Mary A. Holden, the claimant to the
estate of James Bowles, the pioneer book
seller, yesterday filed answers to the inter-
ventions in her several suits against the
banks in which Bowles' money was de-
posted. The banks are the Hum boldt
Savings and Loan Society. the San Fran
cisco Savings Union and the German Saw
ings and Loan Society. In all there is
about $3.50 deposited in them.
Miss II olden claims that several months
before Bowles died lie gave her this prop
erty absolutely. but the banks would not
pay il over until the courts had deter
mined that she was legally entitled to 1t.
Soon after she began suit against them
J. NJ. Chase, M. Kenny and Grace Seley
FLED lDierventiOns il the suits, they claim
ing as heirs the old booksellers estate.
Iu her answers filed yesterday Miss
Holden says the gift of the money TO her
was not in any way conditional, but thai
Blwles mentioned all three parties favor
ably to her. and said if she chose she could
give them $500 apiece. She adds that at
the proper time she will consider the re-
quest. but asks that they take nothing as
iuterVelOrs
The morning call., 1894-09-18
Protests and Petitions.

Protests of propsrty-owners on South
Broderick street and members of the
Richmond Improvement Club were fled
yesterday against the proposed changing
of the names of South Broderick street and
OF Point Lobos avenue.
The Richmond Improvement Club has
petitioned for the stationing of an engine
and hose company 10 the Richmond dis
trct.
Adolph Sutro petitions that the align
ment of Point Lobos road be defined by
therefor.
Preperty-owners protest against chang
ing the grade of Sunnyside avenue, be-
tween Baker and Congo streets.
The morning call., 1894-09-18
TWO SUDDEN DEATHS.
An Aged Druggist and a Laborer
Breathe Their Last.

William Pickering. an aged druggist,
was found dead Ia a chair yesterday morn
ing at his place of business, 1882 Stockton
street. About 7:30 o'clock lady entered
the store with prescription which she
intended having filed. and not being
waited upon aft-r reasonable time had
elapsed, approached the rear of the store.
The druggist was seated in a chair be-
hind the counter. where he could see Gus
toners entering, but an effort to arouse
him convinced the lady that he was dead.
The gas was still burning in the store and
it was evident that he died some time
during the night. The body was removed
to the Morgue, where an autopsy was per-
formed. Death was found to have re-
suited from stomach troubles. The de-
ceased was a native of England, 70 years
of age, and had made arrangements to re-
tire from business and spend the remain
der of his days in the Croker Home for
Old People. He was possessed of means
and gave his clerk bill of sale of the
store as a reward for past services.
About the same hour John Towards.
laborer, Go years of age, was found dead
in bed in lodging house al ga Sacra-
mento street. A nickel and kuife were
the only articles found in the pockets.
The autopsy showed that death had been
caused By a complicated disarrangement
OF the liver
The morning call., 1894-09-18
Sent to the Preston School.

Alphonse Belcher and Richard Nolan,
the two boys who broke into Vette's gro
cery-stnre at an early hour on Friday
morning and robbed the till, appeared in.
,lndee Joacbimsen's court yesterday. The
charge of burglary was reduced to petty
LARCENY and they were sent to the Preston
School of Industry at lone, Cal. Belcher
Is 16 wears of age and Nolan 10.
The morning call., 1894-09-18

Clarke and for $4,000 damages. Clarke
was given ten days in which to amend his
compl lint. 1t was suggested by the court
that the only way to do this was to give
an account of his property, a thing which
Clarke has persistently refused to do.