The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-03
SOME CURIOUS SUGGESTIONS.

A Missouri Correspondent TellS HOW
He Would Bring Prosperity to the
People.
To the Editor:
1 see you are reported to have said you
do not favor the silver advocacy of the
present as the panacea for the political ills
and financial diseases of the present star
walton times; that you have some other
policy which is so much superior to those
offered by the silverites or the free coinage
of the white metal that you do not propose
to unite with them in the advocacy of the
free coinage of silver.
l would be pleased to hear from you
to the policy you would pursue financially
to heal the wounds and restore prosperity
to our suffering country.
1 have done some thinking upon the sub
ject, and would be glad to have you point
out what defects you may see in my con-
illusions.
First would demonetize gold; pay it to
those who want it in bullion, and that
only.
The government should buy all gold pro-
duced at it's market value with straight
treasury notes, SO the mines would be work
ed and money kept in circulation.
Then would demonetize silver. except in
a subsidiary way for change, buy all of
this metal that is mined, the same as gold,
store it as bullion, let any one that needs
it buy it at purchase price, but destroy it's
monetary power except as small change.
Then issue $500 900 treasury notes 20
be loaned at not to exceed per cent upon
approved security; destroy all banks. and
instead establish United States banks own
ed and operated by the government.
Then the money locked up will immedi-
ately seek investment, giving labor an op-
portunity to get it.
Make it a criminal offense to loan money
upon interest by any one except the United
States government SO if we pay interest
we pay it to ourselves; all others must in
vest it in business enterprises or eat it
up.
| Change our franchise law so that each
person shall pass an examination anu take
out a diploma, like "schOOl marm" be-
| fore they are entitled to vote; their sig
| nature upon the diploma comparing with
| that they sign upon the books as they en-
| ter the stall to vote.
| Let our penitentiaries print all our school
| books, and give them free to our children;
| then intelligence will be the standard and
| not q years.
| Make every man who wants office pass an
| examination for fitness before he is COM
| petent to stand for the SURFACES of the
| people, from the president down. When
| Office.
Take away from all servants of the peo-
pie the appointing power; let the people
decide who shall serve them, from president
to postmaster The latter, with offices OF
like character, to be held for life or good
service and behavior.
This would remove all officers out Of
politics, and make them serve the people as
the regular army does.
Next, take the railroad and telegraph
express, ETC., and run them by the govern
ment making official position one of fit
ness as in the army, and that for life Of
good behavior, but to be politically un
frocked while in the service of the repub
lic so the people would be supreme, ant
not, as now, mere servants of the dema
| gogues.
| I believe to start out on such a campaign
| as this of education we would awaken thu
latent hemmed in energies of an enfeeblet
people, and inaugurate a reign of peac
on earth. Yours truly,
J. A. ROBINSON
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