The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-18
Il STRONG INDICTMENT.
SOME MODERN PROPHESIES FULFILLED
Read and Deny if You Can Then Pass to
Your Neighbour,

age price of cotton in New York, 10 cents
IN 1873 we had $l5.45 per capita; aver
| age price of cotton in New York. II cents,
In 1874 we had $14.51 per capita; aver
| age price of cotton in New York, 16 cents
IN 1870 we had $1404 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 1871 we had s111S per capita; aver
! age price of cotton in New York. u cents.
| In 1873 we had $11.13 per capita; aver
| age price of cotton in New York, II cents.
o. IN 1879 date of resumption we had
| $l0.65 per capita; average price of cotton
| IN New York, II cents.
In 1892. we had $40 per capita.
|. Now we have less than s. per CAPITA and
ene average price of cotton is about I
| cents, with the price of cotton below tho
cost of production.
WHAT IS MONEY.
| Money is the instrument of association
| eAchahge and transfer, and of payment
Nothing is money until the law STAMP is
pace upon it. Paper is the best for use.
| Iuil legal tender is the only real mon
| ey-'honest money'-all beside are cur
| rency-when accepted as SUCH
1 MONEY HAS NO INTRINSIC VALUE.
| Attorney General Akerman. in speak king
| OF the legal tender act, said:
| we repeat money is not a substance
| OUT an impression of legal authority-a
| printed legal decree"
me theory OF the intrinsic value of mon
| ey mas been abandoned by the best writer's
| ana speakers.-Encyclopedi Britannica
| Metallic money, while acting as coin is
| Identical with paper money, in respect to
| oelng destitute of intrinsic value-North
! American Review
An article is determined TO he noonay h,,
reason of the performance by it of certain
| functions, without regard to its form or
| supstance-Appleton's American Enclyclo-
| pedia.
| WHO GETS 1T.
| 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 it's 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 (politcaly)?
II the tariff We're taken off raw material
ana 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?
WY 90 merchants, mechanics butchers
manufacturers and those in other branches
OF commerce complain of their inability to
collect bills?
Why has the net income of the producers
been gradually lowering for the past 25
years while the non-producers' income is
growing larger?
Why are thousands of foreign laborers
| used in our country under contract, when
we have 100000 American citizens seeking
employment?
GREAT PROSPERITY.
n
States
There are 1000 millionaires in New York
Seventy persons in the United States are
worth 81, 700, 100000.
Ihirty-one thousand people own over one
half the wealth of the country
One hundred persons in the United States
own s., 1000, 900 900 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 5000, 900 people out of work in
the United States.
There over 100000 tramps
Ten thousand children die annually in
the United States from insufficient food or
clothing.
There We're 1000 homeless children in the
United States in 1880.
Out of 100000 who lnhabit New York
City only 5000 own homes
The last census shows 1900, 900 mortga ges
in the United States, or one to every sew
enth iuhabitant.
In New York 40,00O 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 TWEEN
ty years and maintained and upheld for
four years after by Democratic admins
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.
II ion nnf
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
earths 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 new party is formed it 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
their 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
The government furnishes money to the
national banks ct l per cent, and forbids
the banks to loan the money so furnished
to farmers real estate mortgages.
The government furnishes money 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.
The government has furnished money to
railroad companies, or provided means
by which they could obtain money at gov
eminent expense.