The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-07

The VETERAN REFORMER CIV FS
SOME GOOD ADVICE-HE DISCUSSES
"PEOPLE's MONEY" AND ENDORSES
IT STRONGLY.
Editor Representative:
am a constant reader of The Repre-
sentative and admire it very much. I
look upon it as the leading reform paper
in the United States. It's editorials are
the most convincing and the hardest hit
tiers of any Of our reform press. But this
is not what we started out to say, but
while we are here a duty prompts us to
add every Peoples party man in our state
should be proud Of The Representative
and push it's circulation until it's lists
should contain one hundred thousand
paid up subscribers before the first of
Jan. 90, mostly in this state. At the
same time do all you can for your own
local paper. If the above suggestions
are carried out the Peoples Party will
carry Minnesota at the next election
hands down.
The financial discussion of the old
parties in their press and rostrum on the
free coinage of silver, 16 to 1, is an edu-
Gator and knocks their old oft-repeated
thread-bare fad that money has to have
a commercial value equal to what is
stamped on it's face, into cooked hat"
These discussions among and between
our old opponents, pro and con, reach all
classes and prove conclusively that the
impress of one dollar placed there by the
authority of the soverigns of this ma
ton on so cents worth of silver bullion
makes OF equal to gold at a ratio of Is or.
or pounds to one, is an admission that we
were right on the money question all the
time; and this will give us such an i'm
petus in our future campaigns as we
could not have attained single handed
|. through our organization with the ex-
penditure of five hundred thousand dol
lars. The bluff of calling us crazy luna
tics and fools will not count in the next
campaign. The people will begin to in
quire if the fools are not in the other
parties. The silver leaders meant evil
to our party but good is sure to be the re-
suit
But have sidetracked and wandered
long ways from what started to say.
What did start to say was that have
pies Money" by Ignatius Donnelly. AS
an educator I have never found it's
equal. It's style is that of dialogue be-
tween a well-to-do farmer of Illinois and
a banker of Chicago on train from
Chicago to California. Both were on
their way to look after their sever
al business interests in California;
they were by accident placed in the
same section of the sleeper; got acQuaint-
etd; talked business and finally finance;
the farmer argued from the same sensi-
BILE standpoint that we financial reform
ers have talked from for the last twenty
years, while the banker used the argu-
ments all gold-bug orators and news
papers have applied for the same length
of time. The dialogue begins in the
morning as soon as breakfast is over and
lasts until they retire each day, until
they arrive at or near San Francisco,
whence it ends. Both sides of the ques-
ton are handled with degree of ability
that leaves the Horr-Harvey discussion
SO far in the shade that their long-wind-
ed efforts appear like child's play. The
book is very aptly illustrated; so that af-
ter reading, the illustration fixes the
subject so wildly upon the readers mind
he can never forget the matter under
discussion. No Peoples Party man can
do better service for the cause than to
purchase one or more copies of this book
read them and keep them going from one
neighbor to another.
A. H. NELSON.