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

p 1ss Sf o Sss New 1 .aaa een
age price of cotton in New York, II cents
In 1874 we had $1A51 per capita; aver
age price Of cotton in New York, 16 cents
In 1875 we had $14.04 per capita; aver
ave price Of cotton in New York, 10 cents
In 1876 we had $3.50 per capita; aver.
| age price OF cotton in New York, II cents
In 1877 we had s11.1s per capita; aver
| age price of cotton in New York, II cents
In 1873 we had $1l13 per capita: aver
! age price of cotton in New York, IL cents
! In 1879 date Of resumption) we had
$10.65 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 7
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
| OF the legal tender act, said:
| we repeat money is not a substance
but an impression Of legal authority-a
| printed legal decree"
| 1.-The theory Of the intrinsic value or mon,
| ey has been abandoned by the best writer's
and speakers.-Encyclopedi Britannica
| Metallic 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 by
reason OF the performance by 1t Of certain
| iunctlons, without regard to its form or
substance. -Appleton's 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.
A FEW QUESTIONS.
| Why has every laborer a 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
it 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
| VI SoAAAiiSA &c III tnSlT lndDlllCy TO
| 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? r. II
| Why thousands Of foreign laborers,,
used in our country under contract, when
we have 100000 American citizens seekinsl
employment?
GREAT PROSPERITY.
! There are 10000 millionaires in the United
| States. 80 A.
There are 1000 naillionares in New York.
Seventy persons in the United States are
| worth 81, 100 100000. ~
Thirty-one thousand people own over one
half the wealth of the country.
One hundred persons in the United States
own $4,000 900 of wealth.
Look at that picture Of peace and pros
perity reader, and when you have fully
| realized its 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 inhabit New York
City only 1900 own homes.
The last census shows 100000 mortga ges
In the United States, or one to every sew
enth inhabitant.
In New York 10000 working women are so
| poorly paid that they must accept charity
sell their bodies or starve.
This state Of things was brought about
| under a Republican administration of tWen-
| ty years, and maintained and upheld for
! four years after by Democratic admins
tration with no attempt to improve 1t, thus
showing that both old parties are run in the
| interest of the money-lender and against
| the farmer and laborer.
| 1t is rndercOnsumption, 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 he heard the bit
ter cry that arose from the slave fields Of
pride Of Egypt will smte the modern
| pharoahs who grind the faces Of the poor"
When new party is formed 1t has Of
necessity to be made up of the dissatisfied
of other parties. Wise change their
! opinions sometimes, fools never change
A 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
their farms to land owners and become
| tenants"
THEN AND NOW"
The Iowa Tribune says: will this pass
for good democratic doctrine? It is a plank
in the national Democratic platform of 1885,
| 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
oALLI
The government furnishes money to the
national banks ct per cent, and forbids
the banks to loan the money so furnished
to farmers on real estate mortgages.
| 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 as any other de-
posts. lhi -
The government has furnished money to
railroad companies. or, 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 ~