The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-17
OUR GOOD TIMES.
HOW THEY ARE BOOMING.

HOW THEY ARE BOOMING.
The daily press that is paid to deceive
the people in the interest of politicians
and monopoly puts big head lines over
every advance" in wages and small head
lines over the cuts in wages. I can show
hundred cuts to one raise and yet peo-
pie think that prosperity is coming. The
men who lived ages ago thought the
kings would give them liberty, too. They
were foolish. Our people are wise!-The
Coming Nation.
And upon the same subject the Denver,
COL, Road says, in explanation of the
Carnegie rise in wages:
When Carnegie raised his scale of
wages 10 per cent, we suspected the pres
ence Of a Senagambian in the wood pile
but failing in loctaing said negro, we
simpy ascribed it to politics-cheap thun-
der for Mckinley or some other sound
money" schemer.
1t now transpires that the Amaiga-
mated Iron Workers are to meet next
month and this fact was known to the
iron men and the other fact was also
known that the men proposed toregain the
25 per cent cut made since 1893 or get up
strike that would make Rome howl.
In order to head off the union, the iron
men just raised wages 10 per cent and
now the mills are running night and day
NOT to fill orders, but to pile up stock.
The object of all this is to order a
lockout sometime this summer and be
in shape to starve out the men. The
good, kind, non-partisan newspapers
owned by the trusts-most of them will
keep this side of the question very dark.
P1,t urofoh nd n what foil
you does not come to pass. Starving men
are poor cattle to enforce strike. The
lockout" game will be worked for all
there is in it from now on.
The Coming Nation has this to say:
The president of the Colorado Security
Company" sounds big, don't it, IS miss
ing. Several thousand farmers will lose
their farms, says dispatch. This is a
bully system Several thousand men lose
their property because they are forced to
deal with rascals when they are forced to
borrow money. This president is one
who helped redeem" Colorado from the
awful Populists He was loud in denun-
citation of the anarchy and lawlessness of
Populism. He proclaimed it would ruin
the nation for the government to loan
money direct to the people, as it does to
from him the opportunities to steal the
homes of several thousand farmers. Vote
the old party tickets, farmers. 1t would
never do to have any other system than
that which produces fruits like "The Col
orado Security CO..
And in the Chicago Times-Herald of a
recent date we find the following:
Dernberg, Click & Horner, doing bust
ness in State street as the Leader" have
failed This great dry goods enterprise,
occupying nearly half the Palmer House
block, is now closed and in the possession
of creditors who hold chattel mortgages
for $230,000. 1t is expected the inven-
tory will show stock worth $450,000, and
the firm hopes to make an adjustment and
to resume business in short time.
This misfortune which would have
come earlier but for the recent revival Of
business, was caused by the pressure of
Eastern firms for money. 1t was rumored
in New York few days ago that the firm
had lost money during the panic and was
endeavOring to increase its capital to
carry the business over the summer sea-
son. This caused a rush. Manufacturers
presented the bills due and bills on time
and for three days the great concern
oCOOu li1O oCO1 III. uC o1lCS III mOuCllS
had earned good surplus, but the scram-
bic to get cash made big inroads into the
balance and, on the very eve of undoubted
stability and success, the three men found
themselves unable to pay the demands
Here we have good dry goods firm,
occupying nearly half the Palmer House
Block in Chicago, going to the wall while
the newspapers are bowling good times
with wonderful unanimity.
The truth is the conditions are simply
horrible, and the demonstration of silver
is the root of the trouble