The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
Our Laws Not Made to Accomplish
the Greatest Good For the
Greatest Number.
Nor to Protect the Weak and De.
fenseless Who Need Protection.
But to Rob Them For the Benefit of
the PlutOcratS and Giant
Corporations.
Changed Conditions Imperative or
Utter Ruin and Anarchy In
evitable.
Continued from last sreek,1


The foreign and American CAPT.
talists obtained control of the govern
ment not only through toadism but
through diplomacy. They cunningly
obtained the consent Of the leaders of
the old parties to use the tariff as an
issue to divide the people, by and
through which they have procured
sham political battles between the
masses. In this way they have con-
cealed from the people the villainies
that they have been perpetrating up
on them by and through the demone-
tization of silver. 1t is but fair to
say that the leaders of both of the
old parties have been in this matter
equally culpable and equally connect
ed with the great conspiracy. At
times since the demonetization of sill
yer when the people became restless
under the burden imposed upon them
by their leaders, the latter, in order to
pacify them, at once began to talk
about international conferences and
international monetary agreements,
and to this end, got measures passed
through Congress for the creation of
commissions to cooperate with repre-
sentatives of like character of other
governments. At the time, as we'll as
at all times since the crime of de-
monetization of American silver was
perpetrated these leaders have we'll
known that every effort to remonetize
silver through an international agree
ment would be abOrtive, and it is now
quite clear that such commissions
were created alone to fool the people.
just before the adjournment of the
recent Congress another commission
was provided for, in other words, an
other system of fraud at public ex-
pense, was created in the hope that
the people could again be fooled. 1t
is gratifying, however, to note that
many of the people are beginning to
suspect the honesty of these move
ments and to recognize that they are
onlya part of the strategy of our cum
ming masters. OF course, England will
never consent to the reconciliation
of silver, nor is it necessary for other
governments to consent. AS soon as
we place silver back where it was
placed by the fathers of the country
the whole silver problem will be
solved.
For a number of years before the
war, the shareholders practically gov
erned the country in a most exacting
and arrogant manner, and while some
independent spirits became restless
under their rule, the great mass
tamely submitted to their demands
until it seemed that the patriotism
that had characterized the founders
of the government was retained in
but a small degree by their descend
ants. The two great parties that
dominated the country for a quarter
of century before the rebellion were
governed and controlled by the slave
holding aristocracy. Before the war
the friends of freedom made conces-
sion after concession, were promised
that slavery should De confined to cer-
tain limits, and that measures should
be used to secure it's ultimate extinc-
tiOn, but these promises were made to
the ear and broken to the hope, and
the people tamely submitted to the
control of their leaders until this ar
rogant aristocracy fired on Fort Sump-
ter and aroused the latent PATRIOTS m
of the country. At once the toadyism
of the loyal element vanished and al
most as by magic, million men
sprang to arms. Our present cOndi-
tiOn is in many respects similar to
that under which the country suffered
when the Shareholders rebellion was
inauguratcd. The great industrial
classes are subjugated under the con-
troll of the monied aristocracy and
have heretofore been plant tools of
that monstrous conspiracy. There is
now degree of financial distress in
the United States wholly unparalleled
culturist and the merchant are uni
versally depressed and the PlutOcrat
alone is prosperous and happy and i:
dOmineering and inSolent. Under the
financial policy dictated by that class
the purchasing power of money has
Increased 80 per cent in five years ano
in corresponding ratio, property has
diminished and shrunk in value. The
margins in farm property as we'll as
real estate in cities, is being absorbed
Dy the the uSurer and mOney-lender
Agricultural products of every char
acter are being produced at an actua
loss and there is practically no hmsi
ness conducted In the United State!
at profit, and it is evident that un
less this system is changed almos
universal des titutien and perhaps an
archy will ensue. AS the old parties
before the war promised to do some
thing to check the arrogance and ex
actions of the Shareholder in order t.
allay the dissatisfaction Of the lover
of freedom without any intention o
performance, SO in like manner hav'