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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
Intrinsic Value.

The Sterling (Colo.) Populist makes
this point, and it is good one too:
ga dollar, to be real, genuine dollar.
must contain dollar's worth Of intrinsic
value" says Shylock.
Hold on minute.
A Colorado gold dollar contains just
81 cents worth of intrinsic value; 20
nickels contain about 10 cents worth of
intrinsic value; 100 copper cents contain
II cents worth of intrinsic value, or the
three dollars, gold, nickel and copper,
contain Al cents worth of intrinsic value
What makes dollar then?
We answer, and we believe, the au-
thority, the resources and the honor of
our nation, or it's fat.
Why, then, is there not enough money
in circulation to meet the demands and
the necessities of our nation?
Because the fat of Shylock is greater
than the fat of Uncle Sam-at present
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
Self Convicted of COrruptiOn.

There is but little prospect that the
Virginia legislature will make any change
in the election laws of the state. A Pop
ulist member has submitted a bill, but
while the senate committee on elections
have decided to report his bill they rec
ommend that it be not passed. In COM
menting upon this the Virginia Sun, the
leading Populist paper of the state, says:
eve wish to point out to Democratic
members Of the legislature that if they
refuse to enact an honest election law
they are playing into our hands and cut
ting their own threats. AS far as party
advantage goes, we infinitely prefer that
they should refuse to amend the present
Infamous law. They will then stand con-
victed before the world as party of cor
ruption, and the honest rank and file of
the party will no longer hesitate to throw
in their lot with the Populists.'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
OrmatiOn Wanted.

Will some we'll informed philosopher
in finance inform an anxious public how
the money now gorged in the banks is to
''get out" into circulation again? How
many crops of wheat at present prices
will it require to call it out? From what
reserve will the people keep up their
present interest obligations? Eth? Of
what service is your sound basis when it
is SO sound the people can't get it to use:
How, we ask again, is that money to get
into circulation without interest draw
ing notes going back in exchange? Where
does the function of government enter
into this ''sound money" transaction SO
far as benefting the people is concerned:
We ask for information.-Chi Elk
nroSS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
These Are POpulists.

Some confusion exists in the public
mind as to the exact number of Popu-
lists in congress and who they are. New
lands of Nevada was generally supposed
to be Populist, but he denies it. The
Associated Press, in reporting the vote
on the Wilson bill, marked Newlands
and Curtis Of Kansas as Populists. To
prevent future confusion we publish the
full list Of Populist congressman, which
can be relied on as absolutely correct:
Members of the house-Jerry Simpson,
John Davis, William Baker, T. j. Hud-
son, w. A. Harris, Kansas; o. NJ KEN,
w. A. McKeigan, Nebraska; LATE Pence,
John G. Bell, Colorado; q p. Boon. Min
nesota. Members of the senate-W. A.
PETER, Kansas; j. H. Kyle, South Da-
kota; w. V. Allen, Nebraska; William
A. Stewart, John P. Jones, Nevada. All
these are either elected as Populists or
have formally severed their connection
with the old parties and publicly declared
themselves Populists.- Noncomformist
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
The Milk In the COcOanut.

President Ingalls, of the Big Four
railroad made speech last week at
banquet where each plate cost month IS
wages of a laborer, and at which la
boring man, had one appeared, would
have been looked upon as an unclean
beast. At this meeting of course the
subject of how to help the laboring peo
pie was the topic-as it always is among
this class. He took great exceptions to
the Wilson tariff bill and its tendency to-
ward free trade. Mr. Ingalls, has just is
sued $50, 900, 900 gold bonds on his road
to absorb the increased earnings and cut
the wages of all its employees. On the
first of the year, SO some section men
informed me, even their wage of ST.. 10
was cut 20 per cent to SO cents day!
And this is the man and others of his
class who oppose any tendency toward
free trade because it will degrade the
American laborers! And these laborers
still vote the old tickets to save them
selves from beggary!
Lightweight cents a day and then
vote the same old tickets and read the
daily papers that praise Mr. Ingalls,!
Do not the railroad employees realize
that it is the wages withheld from them
that pays the interest on that $50, 000,-
600 of bonds and the great salaries and
kingly splendor which these men enjoy?
And do these laboring men not see why
they are wheedled into voting the old
tickets SO their reign may be perpetual
ed? Do they not see why they have been
educated against government owner
ship Of the railroads? Mr.. Ingalls, op-
poses free trade, not to protect laborers,
for he wants the cheapest of wages, but
because the $500, 900, 900 the govern
ment squanders each year would have
to be paid by direct tax or income tax,
and the mem bers at the banquet have
big property and big incomes. Seer
Coming Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
A POpuliSt Victory.

1t is generally admitted that the in
come feature of the tariff bill is victory
for the Populists. The Wilson bill prop
er created a deficit and contained nc
provision for making such deficit good.
The Populists pointed out this fact and
insisted that vote for the bill in that
condition was in reality vote for an is
sue of interest bearing bonds. This prop
osition could not be controverted, and the
real situation rapidly spread among the
people who demanded a tax upon in
comes to make up this deficiency.
The Democratic members from the
south and west began to be called to task
by the Populist press in their districts,
which soon forced the Democratic papers
to follow suit, and the result of this Pop
ulist agitation was a fastening of Demo
cratic congressman to support an income
tax amendment. Had the Populists re-
manned quiet the income feature of the
bill would never have been passed or
even suggested. There will be still
greater surprise in store for the people
when that tax becomes operative. It is
INV OoUAA1AoUON w y 4CAN oOOuC pCO,OUV,OO
in revenues, but there is not the least
doubt that it will yield round $780,
100000.
No one has an idea of the unprec-
edented incomes that are being received
in this country. If the amendment of
Mr.. Pence for graduated tax had been
adopted and made operative, it would
bring to the treasury of this country
$500, 900 the first year. It is the fear
of exposing these enormous incomes, far
more than the tax, that these wealthy
plutocrats are fighting, and well they
may. If the people ever succeed in find
ing out the exact truth regarding these
enormous incomes, they will make short
work Of the matter. The Populists of
the country ha~e gained great victory.
Let them pow make the most of it.-Na-
tional Watchman.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
No Trouble, but Lots of Talk.

The federal election laws have been
finally repealed, abolished, washed away,
quashed, Cancelled, extinguished and
jerked off the statute books.
Now let us hope that the tremulous
Democrat, who is such an Internal cow
ard that the fear of 'negro domination
kept him awake of nights, can snore in
perfect tranquility.
Charley Moses told the reporter of the
Washington Post that the federal cleo
ton laws have never given us much
trouble, and l do not think their repeal
will make any difference in the condi-
ton of things in the south"
They were mighty good things to talk
about, though, weren't they, Charley
Tom Watson.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
attend 10 that. l believe in the redemp-

attend 10 that. / believe in the redemp-
ton Of money. All money must be re-
deemed. That is what money is for.
But swapping dollars is no redemption
Money must have better and safer re-
demption than with gold. But it must
be redeemed with value. A money not
SO redeemed is worthless. In the first
place, a government must receive its
money in the government revenues. This
is primary redemption. It is like man
receiving his own paper in payments to
himself.
A money so received in the govern
ment revenues has always been good
money in this country. Such a money
is just as good as the issuing government
and lives and dies with the government
that issues it. It will fight for it's own
life and that of the government. This
is now universally known to be the best
form of war money used by modern ma
tons, when cowardly coin has played
the traitor and left the field. And a
money that can stand the strain of waf
and the shock of arms is surely able to
Let this money, which is receivable in
the revenues of the government, be also
endowed with the quality of legal tender
for all debts, public and private. When
this is done, all men will advertise their
eagerness to redeem it with all the values
they have for sale. Such money will
not rest on the value of the monetary
material, but on the values of all prop
erty which people have for sale-not on
a handful of gold in the hands of rascally
officials or in banks of doubtful solvency
but on all the values in the entire coun-
try that are for sale.
l am not talking at random in this
matter, Mr. Chairman, but l am re-
peating the words Of the old orthodox
leaders of both the old parties now rep
resented in this house. In this matter
of money am better Republican than
the present degenerate specimens we
find on the hastings and sometimes in
the halls of legislation. And l am, too,
on the same platform with the men who
made the greenback, which saved the
country when gold had fled from the
field of danger. Is any man here Dem
ocrat of the old school of jefferson, Mad
ison, Jackson. Monroe and Calhoun;
Then I am with him. If any man here
is a Republican of the school of Chase,
Thaddeus Stevens and E. G. Spaulding
the father of the greenback, then I am
with him.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
THE PRESSURE OF GOLD.
Under 1t Wages and Prices Are Crowded
Down to the Lowest Notch.

Under 1t Wages and Prices Are Crowded
Down to the Lowest Notch.
Some months ago The Constitution dis
cussed the relations that exist between
wages and prices. It stated that period
of low prices must necessarily have de-
pressing and a demoralizing effect on
wages. This is not new fact. It is as
old as human experience, but its opera
lions have been more clearly set forth
during the past 20 years, or since the de-
monetization Of silver by Germany and
the United States, than ever before.
Since that event prices have been con-
stantly going down in all the gold stand
ard countries. In England and Germany
especially the spectacle of wages follow
ing the downward tendency of prices
has been one Of the most instructive So
cial phenomena of the times. We say
social instead of economic" because
the term in its larger sense admits of
definition that describes the drift of
things where the pressure of the gold
standard is most powerful
There is no such phenomenon of fall
ing wages and prices in France-though
there has been fall therefor the sim
pie reason that the volume of currency
is on bimetallic basis-the silver coin
not being convertible by law into gold
and is large enough to meet the require
ments of all classes and all interests.
Another reason, too, lies in the fact that
the population of France is not increas-
ing. 1t is barely holding its own. And
yet the fact remains that France, pros
porous as her people are, would be in a
more prosperous condition today if the
value of gold-the purchasing power of
the gold dollar-were not constantly in
creasing.
In this country the pressure of the sin
gle gold standard was not severely felt
until after the closing of the Indian
minis to silver made money crisis in
evitable. This, together with the de-
clared policy of Mr.. Carlisle that he
would redeem the silver notes in gold,
only precipitated the ''panic" which is
still with us, and which will continue to
abide with us until silver is made def
mite part of our money of final payment.
The panic of 1878, precisely similar to
the present crisis, was modified and nit
igated, first, by the law practically re-
pealing the resumption act-declaring
that the greenbacks should be reissued as
rapidly as they are redeemed and, sec
ond, by the Bland-Allison act Of 1875
Atlanta Constitution.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
He Joined the Populists.

A dispatch from West Plains, Mo-, says
that Hon. A. H. Livingston, recently an
applicant for the attorneyship for the
western district of Missouri, wired to
Washington asking that his papers in
the case be withdrawn and that he be no
longer considered an applicant for the
position. In card in The Gazette he
renounces his allegiance to the old Dem
ocratic party and casts his future politi-
cal career with the Populists. His action
is causing considerable comment from
his old party assoc iates, who have fought
with him side by side for years.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
Ter. Where the Alliance or Knights OF

der. Where the Alliance or Knights OF
Labor are strongest we are in the best
condition. We march side by side and
are particularly adapted for the work in
the towns and cities. Some opposed the
work because they feared it would make
the money question paramount or lead
to a single silver plank party, some be-
cause of the military features of the
plan, some through prejudice, some be-
cause they favor no scheme they do not
originate, and some because they are
hired to prevent the organization of the
Peoples Party.
These objections have all been ex-
planned away, and those who feared we
would abandon the Omaha platform
have seen their folly, while the preju-
diced, who for personal reasons opposed
the legion. have seen the folly of no Or
ganization. Wherever we are at work
the results have been good. Harmony
has been restored, recruits have been
gathered by scores and the vote increased
and the education Of the people advanc-
ed. Those who feared the military plan
would wreck us find it the simplest in
the world. They find that we advocate
settling the issues at the ballot box,
while all the warlike talk and all the
real indications of lawlessness and an
archy are exhibited by the sordid gang
who represent the wealth of this nation.
We have submitted to tyranny worse
than Charles l ever perpetrated. We
have seen law trampled under foot, hon
est labor muzzled by judicial hirelings.
sturdy miners hunted down and muir
dered in the mountains Of Idaho, and
men shot down like dogs at Homestead.
More people have been evicted and driv-
en- out of doors than in the most terrible
year Of. Ireland's history. Legislative
bodies meet simply to obey the bidding
of corporate power and congress has be-
come scene of barter and bribery such
as the world has never seen, and yet we
march peacefully on, though we listen on
the way to the walls of the starving mil
lions and see the homeless poor without
shelter.
There should be recruiting station in
every precinct in the United States. We
cannot win this fight without this strong
array. The national committee has fur
nished the plan. Let us all gladly unite
and not throw away this golden oppor.
tunity. We are losing precious time.
Next spring you will be too busy, and
next fall it will be too late. Now is the
accepted time. If you wait and find
fault, the juggernaut will roll over you.
I close this with quotation from the
great speech of Senator Jones, delivered
at the special session: 1.-The people may
be for time defeated, but they will
ultimately triumph, provided they dc
not wait too long before engaging in the
final struggle. The people will now
rouse themselves as they were never
reused before" If they do not, and not
in a hundred ways, but in one solid pha
lanx, free government will end at the
beginning Of 1900 and tyranny and op
preston be enthroned during the cen
fury. PAUL VAN DERvoORT.
Omaha.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07
just Like a Prairie Fire.

The fight up in Oregon is waxing hot.
The Pops are challenging the joint NOM
nation of the gold party Democratic
and Republican wings) to public de-
bates. So far the old party fellows re-
fuse to debate. 1t is ever thus. The
old party men prefer to lie low and say
nothing.
There is something about the deceit,
duplicity and cowardice of old party
men that makes Populist feel like
reaching for baseball bat.
The people are fast learning to under
stand their tactics.
The Populists will sweep Oregon like
q prairie fre.-Denver Road.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07

Bank note paper must be suppressed
and the issue of the circulating medium
restored to the nation to which it be-
longs. Banking establishments are more
dangerous than standing armies.-Thom-
az jefferson.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-20
PENNSYLVANIA R ABROAD.

The Standard Railway of America.
PROTECTED THROUGHOUT BY Tna
Interlocking Switch and Block signal Sys
tenn.
PHILADELPHIA, WILMINtirON s.
BALTIMORE RAILROAD
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-20

nomination. The president desired to
suitably recognize his services. aud ten
dered him the Russian mission.
The Hon. Clifton r. breckenridge, who
is to succeed Andrew ID. White as minis
ter to Russia was born at Lexington, KY,
on Nov. %, 1S46, and is now in his 4Sth
year. He is described personally as liv-
ing portrait of his distinguished father
He was not yet Is years old whom the war
OF secession broke out, but he enlisted as
a private In the Confederate army, and
served until the end of the struggle.
In 1870 he settled at Pine Bluff, Ark,
as cotton planter and commission mer-
chant, to which callings he devoted his
entire attention for dozen years. In
1889 he was elected to congress from the
Second district of the state, and still con-
tinues to represent that constituency, al
though his service was interrupted in the
fall of 1890 by his seat being declared va
cant. This result was reached after one
OF the most memorable contests in the po-
htcal history Of the country.
At the election in November, 1888, Mr..
Breckinridge was credited with receiving
1887 votes, and his Republican opponent,
John NJ. Clayton, with 17,0l1. Mr.. Clay
ton contested Breckinridge's right to the
seat on the ground of fraud, but before
the contest was completed he was brut-
ally murdered. The direct responsibility
of the crime has not yet been definitely
fixed, and probably never will be- Other
murders followed in the wake.of this one,
and In no case has justice overtaken the
criminal
The judges and others charged with the
frauds In the election were acquitted by
the state courts, and Mr.. Breckenridge
and his counsel insisted that this finding
should bind the house and be accepted by
congress as proof that fraud did not exist.
The majority Of the committee on cleo
tions, however, took different view Of
the subject, and on Sept. 8, 1890, Mr..
Breckinridge was unseated. In November
OF the same year, however, Breckenridge
was reelected, At the beginning of the
second session of the fifty-first congress,
Mr.. Breckinridge resumed his service in
the house, after losing his salary for sixty
days only. This year he has not been SO
successful, the Democratic nomination
having been secured by Judge John S.
Little, who defeated Mr.. Breckenridge at
the primaries by decided vote.
1t is believed that the Russian mission
will be advanced to an embassy at no dis
tant day, thus makiug Mr.. Breckenridge
an ambassador.
Andrew ID. White, the retiring minis
ter, has had his resignation on file in the
state department for many months, like
the other ministers who held over from
the last administration. He is diplo-
matist Of much ability besides having an
enyiable reputation as a llterateur. He
resigned the presidency of Cornell uni
versity to accept the appointment of min
lister to Germany April 2, 1879 In the
Hau nf oil d, inta /,
Obliged to surrender this Office on account
of i'll health. He was appointed minister
to Russia by President Harrison July 90.
1892, and has been very fortunate and
successful in his relations with the Rus
sim government.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-20
NUGGETS OF NEWS

The cruiser Columbia has been ordered
TO Bluefields to protect American inter.
ests there.
An earthquake shock split the earth
open Mt Little Chute, Wis, for several
hundred feet.
Hervy rains have extinguishsd the for.
est fires which have been raging in Wis
consin for several days.
James Clark, farmer, residing three
miles south Of Oswego. N. Y, was killed
by vicious bull. The whole of his chest
and abdomen were crushed.
United States Ambassador Bayard and
Mrs. Bayard were guests of the Duke and
Duchess of Devonshire at a dinner and
ball mt Devonshire House, London, last
night TO the Prince of Wales.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-20
Double killing In West virginia.

HUNTINGTON, July 2o.-on Mill creek, a
stream thirty-flve miles south Of this city,
double killing occurred, the particulars
OF which has just reached this city. Pearl
and John Thomson and their cousins,
Sam and Wade Thomson, Jr, were at u
dance several months ago, when Sam
Thomson was stabbed in the course of n
general row. He imagined that John
Thomson had committed the act, but sub
sequently learned that Pearl Thomson
was the one. They all met on the creek
and began general fusilade. On one side
were Sam and John Thomson, brothers,
and James Huff, a cousin. On the other
side we're Pearl Thomson, John Thomson
and Wade Thomson, Jr., all young men
In the shooting Sam killed Pearl and John
shot Wade fatally, he having since died.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-20
TWENTY YEARS FOR LEGA
Tho Young Anarchist who Attempted {,
XIII Premier Crispi sentenoed.

ROME, July 20-The trial of Paola Lega,
known to his associates as "Marat," the
anarchist who during the afternoon OF
June 10 attempted to take the life OF
Premier Crispi by shooting at him with a
revolver, took place here yesterday and
Lega was sentenced to twenty years. sol
itary confinement. When sentence was
pronounced he called for cheers for ah
archy.
The premier, 1t was remembered, was
driving from his residence to the chamber
OF deputies, on the day mentioned, when,
at tho corner of the Via Gregorian and
Via Capolecasa, Lega who had been lott
ering on the sidewalk, suddenly drew q
revolver and fired at him, without effect.
Lega said that he aimed at Crispi, who
represented the state, and he was not
sorry for what he had done.
1t was stated some time after Lega's ar
rest that Councillor Arnold had ascer.
tained that Lega and Cesario Santo, the
murderer of President Carnot, were In
Marseilles at the same time, and it is be-
heved that the two men were aware OF
each others plans
Lega is said to have been born In Lugo
Romagna, but he asserts that he was
born in Marseilles. The prisoner has
served on the staff of several anarchist
newspapers published in France.