The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-25
A RINGING APPEAL

From the National Committee The
South and West must Unite.
WASHINGTON, D. G March 30, '94.
EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE
The last hope for any financial
legislation in the interest of the peo-
pie, during the Fifty-third Congress,
has been destroyed by the Presidents
veto of the Seigniorage Bill.
Nothing, since the extra session of
congress convened, is palmer than
that the concentrated capital of the
East absolutely controls both the
Republican and Democratic parties
The latter has abandoned the inter
ests of the South and the former
those Of the West. For more than
twenty years the Democratic party
of the South has tried to secure favor
able legisla tiOn for that section by
forming an alliance with the East,
but has always been deceived, because
the interests of the two sections are
Numerically opposed to each other.
Again for more than twenty years
the Republican party of the West
has also been striving to secure favor
able legislation for that section by
following their party leaders of the
East, and these states have also been
deceived, because the interests of the
East and West antagonize each other.
The East and South, and the East
and West are drifting farther apart,
while the South and West are drift
ing closer together.
The new political alignment which
is rapidly forging it's way to the front
will unite those sections of our coun-
try whose interests are identical,
which means that the South and
West must unite at the ballot box.
Self preservation will force them to
take this step; and that party which
will bring them together is destined
to shape legislation for the next
quarter Of a century.
The great issue which can unite
these sections is the free and I'M
limited coinage Of both gold and sill
YER, at the ratio of Is to l; all the pa
per money needed in addition thereto
to be issued by the government, with
out the intervention of banks, and
made full legal tender: and the con-
troll and naturalization of all natural
monopolies.
The question who shall issue and
control the volume of money is para
mount to all others. Shall this be
done by the banks and for the banks,
or by the people and for the people?
Before the people of the South and
West can secure favorable legislation
for their sections, they must abandon
the two old parties and organize to
unite at the ballot box. In order to
do that, the South must step out of
the Democratic party and meet the
West half way, and the West must
step out of the Republican party and
meet the South half way. This is no
surrender. but an honorable conces-
sion by each. This is common ground
upon which both can stand, and will
bring them into the Peoples Party
Upon all the great economic ques.
lions now before the people, the Re.
publican and Democratic parties re.
present the "Money Trust" of the
East; while the Peoples Party repre-
sents the toiling millions of all Sec
tions, and particularly the interests
of the South and West. The people
have come to the parting of the
roads; they must either join the Peo-
pies Party for an American Financial
System, or forever become the serfs
and vassals of a foreign Money Trust.
H. e. TAUBENECK.