The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
THE MONEY METALS
Are Insignificant Compared With
the Results of Mans Industry.
SCRAPE OFF THE BARNACLES.

were m1neQ during 1894, or the coin
age value of So, 1000, 600, but of the
commercial value Of less than half
that sum. Here is silver product a
little in excess of the value of $40. 600, :,
OOO; but The average annual value on
the corn crop Of the United States
during the past five years has been
$615, 600, 900; of the wheat crop 1921
100000; Of the oat crop $213,00O, 900;
the potatoe crop, over 500, 600 600; the
barley crop, $50, 0OO.O 600; and the hay
crop, 46S,000,000. Then there is the
live stock product, which aggregates
fully $1.500, 000, 600, and the cotton, to-
bacco and various other crops of which
we have no statistics at hand, but the
total of which alone is many times
that of the silver crop.-Minneapoli
Tribune.
This extract illustrates the relation
which the money-metals hold to the
great crops of this country. Here we
have six products,-corn, wheat, oats,
potatoes, barley and hay, aggregating
81, q 100000, against $64,OOO,OOO, the
we of the silver yield; and yet the
A,duct of this white metal, while less
|1lan One-thirtieth of these six crops,
lin conjunction with gold, dominates
and controls them all. And remem-
Der that besides these six articles of
agricultural growth there are cotton,
wool, flax, rye and a number of others.
to say nothing of cattle. sheep, horses,
hogs, etc. What would be thought of
little fellow, or two little fellows,
who would rise in an assemblage of
hundreds of giants and say-"True it
is we are smaller in size than any Of
you, and weigh much less; and man.
kind can neither eat us, nor drink US,
nor make houses or tools, or clothes or
weapons of either of us, and yet,
through the virtue of an ancient sup
erstition, dating back to prehistoric
ages, we, useless little skalawags, claim
the right to rule you all and deter
mine your value!"
Would not the giants throw such
pretenders into the ditch? Would they
not at least appoint committee to
inquire into the origin and value OF
that prehistoric superstition?
Is it not time for mankind to do
some profound thinking on this SUBJ
ject of money?
There was time, two or three hun
dred years ago, when it was the uni
versal opinion Of the human family
that the world was full OF witches.
They caused sickness and death
among the people, they killed the do
nestle animals, they rode on broom
sticks O. nights, and held dreadful rev.
els with the devil, like those seen by
Tam O'Shanter. The text of the
Bible, ''see that thou suffer no witch
to live" was regarded as proof posi-
tive of the existence of witches, and
as prescribing the duty of the good
citizens to exterminate them; and
thousands of old men and women, we're
sent to cruel and bloody deaths in con-
sequence Of this sentiment.
The world has risen above all that
kind of nonsense; and none today be-
lieve in witchcraft, except the most
rude and ignorant. And we suppose
that fifty years from now the belief in
our present metallic money system
will be regarded very much as we now
look upon the ancient belief in witch
craft. Men will ask each other, as
they examine our gold and silver coins
in their museums, SIS it possible that
our ancestors once believed that the
exchange of the vast products Of their
boundless fields and incessant indus
try could not be made except by the
help of two, out of scores of metals.
under superstition whose origin was
lost in the shadows Of the primeval
world?" And when the student of
history reads the awful record Of
crimes and suffering and suicides
caused by that cruel and bloody super
stition, he will be in doubt whether to
laugh over the follies or weep over the
miseries of mankind.
The great issue of the present and
the future is-how to get clear of this
metallic delusion, and fill the void by
governmental measures of values, to
be used solely to facilitate exchanges
of the products Of mans labor; and to
OC ISSuCO III SuOA QudHOlUlOo as w Gil.
able all business to be transacted on a
cash basis;-and thus end that Gorgon
that is devouring the world-interest.
1t will be battle of wise philan-
thropy against vested interests, to the
tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
They have now banded together the
public press to support the work of
destruction; they will yet mass and
arm and pay armies for the same dead
ly work.
But we cannot think God will desert
his people, having brought us thus far
on the career of magnificent develop
ment. There is "a soul Of goodness in
things evil" there is an innate good
ness in things evil" there is an in
nate goodness around this visible
world,-shown in it's infinite adjust
ments for the delight and happiness
of it's creatures.
1t is certain that il the money-lend-
ers Of the world rule the world it will
end in chaos. They have destroyed
ever country where they have long
held sway. Look at the Russian boor:
the HindoO ryot; look at ancient
Rome and Greece; look at all modern
Europe, with the Rothschilds presid-
ing over it's destinies. If this western
continent had not furnished an omen