The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-01
FREE SILVER.
senator Cameron Writes in Favor Of
the White Metal


senator Cameron Writes In Favor Of
the White Metal.
| WASHINGTON, D. c., July 26-The fol.
lowing are extracts from a letter of Sen.
ator Cameron to the Republican league
convention:
| No party and no party leader has eve,
approved OF the single gold standard. Mo-
one American in a hundred believes in it
we are more unanimous in hostility to il
than we are on any other question of poll,
| tics. A vast majority in all parties agre,
| mat the single gold standard has been
| is and will be. national disaster of thu
worst kind. What is still more strange
almost the whole world sympathizes will
| us. Nine-tenths of mankind are hostile t,
| the single gold standard. Over 5OOOO,OO
are unanimous against it. Most of thu
great European nations and their govern
| ments dislike it. South America object
| to it. The whole of Asia knows only sill
yer, and India, which contains fve-sixth,
| of all the subjects of the British crown
| is as hostile to it ourselves. Yet tn,
| bankers of London have said that we mus
submit, and we have submitted
The task before us is to restore norma
activity to our industries; to break dowr
| the barriers of sectionalism; to check tn,
increasing tension between rich and poor
| to relieve agriculture and to save the small
FARMER and manufacturer-in a word, ia
smooth away the threatening dangers of
social dlscontent. The Republican party
alone has power to do this and to carry ON
| our society for at least one more genera ton
| without further disaster. You have only ia
! adopt platform of four words and to TAKE
your stand on it firmly, courageously, with
honest determination to be true to it
| The party has always maintained the ma.
| tional principle of a high tariff. You,
whose deepest and best interests depend
| upon it's success. have alone the power ia
add, Free silver -
| Now, on the other hand stands the PEG.
pie, the common, ordinary people, the pro,
| ducers of everything necessary, useful and
ornamental to human existence, happiness!
and progress. Their crop is good absos
| lutely necessary as l have said, to human
| existence and happiness, and not dollars
not superfiuous money metal If these
producers could exchange their goods d
| rectly, the occupation of the former elias!
would be like the latter, work or starveH
The gold to the gold bug would be so MUCK
| dirt But the vastness and complexity OF
! modern civilization renders common me-
alum OF exchange an absolute necessity
hence, also, control of this medium OF
| exchange is virtually control of all pro.
duction and productive forces Every DO.
| litical economist understands this axiom
| atlc truth. But common people have not
hitherto. But now we are having an oh.
Ject lesson OF money monopoly. Now every
wheel of industry is blocked by cornerine
and manipulating our medium of exchange
go starving, naked, and descend into crime
and degradation because our statesmen are
kneeling to the god of gold Here the peo-
| pie, the producers, with the Peoples party
as the organized embodiment of the princiA
pie of protest against this gold money
monopoly takes it's stand. Here and now
the common people, the farmer the la
borer, the small business man, the man Of
every avocation, in touch with and de-
pendent on the people, the philanthropist
Of nyrnr Cto Sc
sinew, the brain and Drawn, the staid mid
| die class of the nation, comes and plants
the banner of humanity and civilization
over against he cohorts of gold The Peo-
pies party is the organized embodiment of
the peoples cause; the army to do battle
for the producer the laborer against the
| money monopolist; to raise man and man.
mood, male and female aloft to honor and
glory; to dethrone gold and to elevate
mind. We deny the contention of the old
parties that gold is better nobler, than
humanity. We deny that property is more
sacred than life. We reject as infamous
the contention that property must be pro.
tected at all hazards even if it does be.
long to j. j. HILL Vanderbilt & Co. We
assert, and will maintain with our lives
and our fortunes if necessary, that the pro.
lection of the lives and liberty of all law.
abiding citizens is of more Importance thar
the preservation of gold, vested rights OF
corporate property. We stand for man
for humanity for civilization, for human
progress, for equal and exact Justice
though the heavens fall. We demand thai
this government shall answer the object OF
it's existence, Establish Justice and PRO
mote the general welfare" AS at pres.
ent administered the government does MOI
establish justice between man and man
1t does not promote the general welfare
but the welfare of a few gold bugs and
English lords. The old party leaders arr
not patriots but traitors to the people
We want congress and administration
that will serve the people, and not few
gold bugs and railroad magnates. There
are only two parties now-the people
against the plutocrats, the man against thu
dollar the producer against the profigat<
offspring of the legaliZed robber. The two
armies crystallizing, forming in d.
visions and brigades and taking positions
for the coming battle Yes! the grandest
for human liberty and freedom. 1t will be
bloodless, we hope but it will whip and
capture the great enemy of humanity to.
day-gold-and break it's scepter forever.
We are come to crisis in human history,
No earthly power can stop the hand Of
events the dial plate of time. All
can do is to get into harmony with the
movements of nature. But our old party
leaders don't know this commotion vet.
thing is as of old. They will wake up
next November and find some statesmen
out of jobs. Lincoln said: you can fool
all of the people some of the time and
some of the people all of the time. but not
all the people all the time"
DIR. C. JOHNSON.
New London, Mimi
Good for Crookston.
To the Editor: