The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-29
CARLLSLES TRASH.


eyes are opened.
CARLISLES TRASH
That dishonest, drunken old knave,
John G. Carlisle. after having been
sued, in Cincinnati, for his wine bill
in house Of prostitution. is now try
ing to wheedle and humbug the minds
of his countrymen to their own ruin
in the interest of foreign money-lend-
ers. He is making speeches through
out the South at meetings engineered
by bankers. Here is one of his pro-
found utterances:
II deny that there is any such thing
as a distinct "Debtor class" in this
country, for while nearly every one
owes some debts, large or small, near
ly every one has also some debts owing
to him; in other words, he is both
debtor and creditor"
This is rank fraud.
"A farmer owes 5000; his farm, his
stock, his crop, everything is mort
gagged to the eye-lids; but his neighbor
owes him Is cents for chicken; there
fore he is creditor to the extent Of
that Is cents; and therefore he does
not belong to the debtor class; and
ergo there is no debtor class!! This
is tom-foolery run into rat hole.
Why does not this statesmanlike
patron of bawds argue that there is
neither night nor day because twice
in the twenty-four hours there is a
period Of twilight when you cannot
say whether it is night or day? We saw
streets in New England cities where
every house was occupied by it's own
er, living upon the interest OF his in
vestments; and we can show you roads
in Minnesota where every farm, for
miles, is mortgaged; and therefore we
argue that Connecticut is creditor
community and Minnesota a debtor
community. Oh no; says Carlisle;
that isn't true; there can't be a
debtor or creditor community; for
here in a Connecticut town is a rag
picker who owes for his stick and
basket; and there in the Red River
Valley is banker lending out money!
And this is the pernicious, vicious
kind of stuff a member of the Cabinet
dispenses!
And then he says:
One of the most effective arguments
made by the advocates of free coin
age, in some parts Of the country at
least, is that the people are in debt,
and that it is the duty Of the govern
ment to relieve them by such legisla-
tion as will enable them to procure
cheap money for the purpose of dis
charging their obligations, and in sup
port of this argument the most eXag-
gerated statements are made as to
the depressed and suffering condition
Of our farmers, wage-earners, and 9TH
er producing classes. This argument
comedies that under the proposed sys-
tenn Of free coinage at the ratio Of 16
to all the various kinds of currency
in use by the people. including the sill
yer dollar itself, would be worth less
than it is now, for, of course, il this
! is not to be the result money would
be no cheaper than 1t is now. II it is
a crime to lend money to man who
wants to borrow it.or to sell property on
credit to a man who wants to purchase
~, 6uO uoS AO AVdOJ AOACy w pay AOA
| it, let the perpetrators be properly
whole country in confusion and disas
| ter and immediate the innocent and
guilty alike in order to punish the real
| offenders"
Observe the demagogue in all this.
Who ever pretended that it was a
crime to lend money, or to sell prop
erty to the man who wants to buy:
All the Peoples Party ever asked was
that the laws against usury should be
enforced as all other laws are or ought
to be. And instead of Directing tt
the sale Of property they have simply
protested against the concentration
of the homes of the many poor in thu
domains of the wealthy few.
| Neither has anyone ever asked TO
the free coinage OF silver on thu
ground that it would make chea]
money, except so far as an abundan
supply Of money would lessen its pur
chasing power, by causing rise in TIN
price of all other forms Of property
Does Mr.. Carlisle think it a crime t,
raise the price Of wheat and cottpl
and labor? We all know that If silve
is allowed free access to the minis il
would be worth at once as mucl
as gold, for no man would sci
it for less than he could change it in
legal tender dollars for; so there
would be no money cheaper than an
other money. But If 1t be crime t.
enable man to pay debt in cur
rency cheaper than the kind he borrow
ed, how much more Of q crime is it t.
compel him to pay that debt in mon
ey dearer than the kind he borrowed
In the former case the change help
the poor; in the latter case it help
the rich. Carlisle and his damnabl
gang demands the latter, in the in
forests of wealth; the Peoples Part
ask that the monetary conditions
which endured for 5000 years be no
changed in the interest Of either ricl
or poor.
NEWS-FOR FREE SILVER.