The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-10
4 STRONG INDICTMENT.
SOME MODERN PROPHESIES FULFILLED
Read and Deny if You Can Then Pass to
Your Neighbour, p1

age price Of cotton in, New York, 10 centa
In 1873 we had "$15. IS per capita; aver.
age price of cotton in New York, II cents.
In 1874 we had $1451 per capita; aver
age price Of cotton in New York, 16 cents
In 1875 we had $14.O4 per capita; aver,
ave price of cotton In New York, Is cents.
In 1876 we had $3.50 per capita; aver
age price Of cotton in New York, IL cents.
In 1877 we had $l1.1S per capita; aver
age price Of cotton in New York. Il cents.
In 1873 we had $1113 per capita; aver
age price of cotton in New York, II cents.
! In 1879 date Of resumption) we had
| $lo65 per capita; average price of cotton
In New York, II cents
In 1892, we had $40 per capita
Now we have less than IS per capita and
the average price of cotton Is about
| cents, with the price of cotton below the
| cost of production.
WHAT is MONEY
Money is the instrument of association,
exchange and transfer, and Of payment.
Nothing Is money until the law stamp IL
place upon it. Paper is the best for use.
"A full legal tender Is the only real mon
| ey-"honest money"-all beside are cur
| rency-when accepted as SUCH
MONEY HAS NO INTRINSIC VALUE.
Attorney General Alderman, in speaking
| or the legal tender act said:
| we repeat money is not substance,
| out an impression Of legal authority-a
| printed legal Decree"
| The theory Of the intrinsic value of mon
| ey has been abandoned by the best writers
| ana speakers-Encyclopedia Britannica
! Metalllc money, while acting as coin Is
Identical with paper money, in respect to
| being destitute Of intrinsic value.-North
| American Review
| An article is determined to be money NV
| reason OF the performance by 1t of certain
| functions, without regard to it's form or
| Observation-Disclosures American Enclyclo-
| pedia.
| WHO GETS IT.
There are 100000 workmen in this
| country adding to it's wealth at the rate Of
| 81 per day, but they get less than 81 EACH
| Who gets the other Sc?
| Labor Is the creator of all capital and
| certainly it should control its own crea-
| ton.
FEW QUESTIONS.
Why has every laborer different view
| of the political situation? /,
| Why have aristocrats and monopolists all
| the same views politically?
| If the tariff were taken off raw material
| and all other material what good would
| 1t do the man who cannot buy any mate
rial?
| Why do farmers whose interests are iden-
| focal vote against each other?
| Why do merchants, mechanics, butchers,
manufacturers and those in other branches
| ~ ~ liSii AdOIIlly "
| collect bills?
Why has the net income of the producers
been gradually lowering for the past 25
| years while the non-producers' income Isl
| growing larger? q ID
| Why are thousands of foreign laborers
| used in our country under contract when
| we have 100000 American citizens seeknsi
| employment?
| GREAT PROSPERITY.
| There are 10000 nlillionaires in the United
| States (r
There are 1000 milionaires in New York.
| Seventy persons in the United States are
| worth $500, 900, 0O0
| Thrty-one thousand people own over one
| half the wealth of the country.
| One hundred persons in the United States
! own S., 600 000,O 900 of wealth.
| Look at that picture, of peace and pros
perity, reader and when you have fully
realized it's import kindly look at this:
! There are 100000 people out Of work in
I the United States.
| There are over 500 600 tramps
Ten thousand children die annually in
the United States from insufficient food or
| clothing.
There were $1,000 homeless children in the
| United States in 1880.
| Out Of 100000 who innabit New York
| City only Is, 900 own homes.
| The last census shows 100000 mortgages
in the United States, or one to every sew
| enth inhabitant.
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| poorly paid that they must accept charity,
| sell their bodies or starve
| This state of things was brought about
| under Republican administration of tWen-
ty years, and maintained and upheld for
! four years after by Democratic adminis-
| tration with no attempt to improve it, thus
| showing that both old parties are run in the
| interest of the money-lender and against
the farmer and laborer.
| 1t is MISREPRESENTATION, not oVerproduc-
| ton. If every family in the United States
had three square meals each day in the
year, the entire farm products of the coun-
try would not supply the home market.
! God in heaven today hears the cry Of
earth'S weary toilers as he heard the bit
| ter cry that arose from the slave fields Of
! Egypt, and he who smote the crown and
pride Of Egypt will smite the modern
| pharoahs who grind the faces of the poor
| When a new party is formed 1t has Of
necessity to be made up of the dissatisfied
| of other parties. Wise men change their
| opinions sometimes, fools never change
reporter on an Eastern paper recently
testified In court that, reporters were paid
| for suppressnig the truth and printing mat
| ter which they know is not true"
| WHAT PLUTOCRATS SAY.
VIM. L. Scott, the great coal baron, says
| that the proper way Of controlling labor is
| to make the laborer eat today what he
| can earn tomorrow" The New York Trib-
une says that the small farmers must sell
| tnelr farms TO land owners and become
| tenants
THEN AND NOW"
| The Iowa Tribune says: will this pass
| for good democratic doctrine? 1t is plank
! In the national Democratic platform of 1856
| we declare: That congress has no power
| to charter national banks; that we believe
| such institutions of deadly hostility to the
| best interests of the country, dangerous
| to our republican institutions and the liber-
| ties of the people and calculated to place
the business of the country within the con-
| troll Of concentrated money power and
| above the laws and the will of the people;
that the separation of the government
| from banking institutions is indispensable
for the safety of the funds and rights of
| the people,
WE DEMAND EQUAL PRIVILEGES FOR
| 9ALLI
The government furnishes money to the
national banks ct 1 per cent, and forbids
the banks to loan the money so furnished
| The government furnishes money on de-
post to banking Corporations without any
interest at all. and the banks are Just
as free to use that money any other de-
| posts. ~ -
The government has furnished money to
railroad companies. OF provided a means
| by which they could obtain money at gov
| eminent expense.
| The government furnishes money to the
Centennial Exposition without charging
| any interest ~
The government furnished money to the