The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-04
Another Illimitable Fool.


One of the greatest crimes commit
ted by Cleveland was the digging up
of J. Sterling Morton, from obscurity,
and putting him in his cabinet. The
man is colossal ass.
The St. Paul Globe says:
Secretary Morton has a happy
faculty of putting so sharp a point to
his remarks that the wit too dull to
see it feels it. In a recent letter he
comments on the announcement of
Representative Bryan that he retires
from the congressional field because
his party is not with him in his adOra-
tion of silver. The secretary puts the
silver question tersely thus: II can
not see how the American people will
find it easier to secure silver when
they desire it at $1.29 than they can
now at 81 cents an ounce. The great
misfortune among our PopuliSt
friends is that they too often talk
about per capita circulation when
they are thinking of per capita distri-
button. They seem to cOnfOund the
universal desire for more money with
a demand for more money. The form
er seems common to all humanity: the
latter can only be made by those who
have something of value which they
wish to exchange for money. The
man who sells products buys money,
and the man who buys products sells
money, and each man desires the best
of quality. the first in products, the
last in money"
Here is richness for you. He says
there is difference between a desire
for money and demand for money.
Does anybody demand money unless he
desires it? And is there any desire for
money until the party feels demand
for it?
And no man, he says, can have de-
mand for money unless he has some
thing to exchange for it. Let us see.
A. B. is farmer and has thousand
bushels of wheat; and he owes thous-
and dollars of debt. The demonetza-
tion of silver has decreased the price
of his wheat to so cents bushel. He
sells the 1000 bushels for $500, and he
pays $500 on his thousand dollars of
debt. He has nothing else to sell.
Ergo, says Morton, he has got no de-
mand for any more money, although
his creditors are bounding the life out
of him. Oh, thou FOOL The Cabinet
cannot save you from universal con-
tempt, if you once open your mouth.
"Pigmies are pigmies still though
set on Alps"
And this fellow says the American
people are now happy; they can buy
silver for 81 cents an ounce instead of
$1.29 an ounce. Indeed! Coxey's army
should be informed of this, and go to
buying silver, and then broil it and eat
it. They can't take it to the mint and
coin it, for the doors are shut against
it; they can't coin it themselves or
they go to prison, as counterfeiters.
But the silver at $1.29 an ounce
meant dollar wheat, we'll fed work
men, and prosperous world. Silver
at 81 cents an ounce means so cents
wheat and 100000 tramps, living on
thin soup: and the whole world on
the brink of revolution
And the man who buys products,
says Morton, 'desires the best quality
of money" OF course he does. That
is to say, he wants that kind of
scarce, dear, money, that will take
most of the productions of the toiler
in exchange. He wants a dollar so
valuable that it will buy two bushels
of wheat instead of one; and two days
labor of the workman instead of one.
And this is Growers plan; and Ster-
ling Morton's plan; and the Democratic
party's plan; and the Republican
partY's plan: and John Sherman's
plan; and Rothschild's plan, and Wall
streets plan. And it is upheld by the
votes Of the very fellows who have the
wheat and the work to exchange for
Plutocracy's dear; dollar. They howl
against selling wheat and work at
these figures, but they vote for the
men and parties who keep them poor.
Oh! the fools.
The time has been," said Macbeth,
THAT when the brains were out the
man would die. But now they rise,
with forty mortal murders on their
crowns, and'- vote the old party
JlcKetS! !. d.
Where to Stop.
The Hotel Beaufort, on Third street,