The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
HE WANTS TO KNOW.
PRIVATE DALZELL ALL MIXED
UP ON THE MONEY
QUESTION.
He Is OF the Opinion That Our
Statesmen are Also Woefully
Ignorant or Very Crooked.
SOME KNOTTY QUESTIONS ron
GOLDBUGS TO ANSWER.

OOluG ANO1IY QUESTIONS ron
GOLDBUGS TO ANSWER.
Especial Correspondence
want to know-the statesman Of
either party is not in sight or hearing
yet who can reply want to know
what more use there is for maintain
ing a gold reserve of $1OO,OO 900, or,
say. 200 tons Of gold in the treasury
than to maintain" that much hay there.
The people could use a few tons Of it
just now to very good advantage! With
Mr.. Carlisle's report before me, the cor
rectness Of which is undoubted, want
to know, also, why the national banks
that used to have out more than $780,
100000 notes now have scarcely any in
free circulation, and locked up and cir
culating, all told, but $207 100000. Have
they degenerated merely into pawn and
shaving shops and abandoned the pur-
pose and pretext of their organization
completely? l don't pretend to KNOW
just want to know, you know, why they
have locked up 81 800 200. 900 Of the price
OF the bread of the poor and o. the mon
strous mountain of money owned by the
nation, as the secretary shows, $780,
900 ,O0O-I want to know how long it will
be until these cormorants and ghouls
reach out and claw into their vaults the
5000 zoo, 900 more that is felt now outside
to do the business of the country.
am even so silly as to want to know why
the secretary complains that when these
banks break the depositors lose their
money or have to wait so long for set
Element with the ubiquitous and iniquit-
Gus receivers.
And want to know why the treasury
boards 5000 tons Of silver-and 1t has
more, counting bullion-to redeem sill
yer certificates with gold. l sort OF
don't see why!
Nor would 1 mind knowing, while my
brainful informant is on the stand, why
the average earnings of national banks
for Is years past are 10. 5 per cent, why
they are rapidly retiring from the BUSH
ness of issuing their own currency and
gobbling up and hiding all other kinds.
l see they don't disdain specie, even
boarding this wicked silver, which seems
to have no friends except the poor, who
have neither silver nor gold-and
want to know why they have 1887 ,OOO,-
600 of this specie also tied up IN their
napkin, l want to know why 1t is that,
with the exception Of France only, the
United States has more money than any
other nation on EARTH more good money
than all nations, excepting three only.
put together have, more money, SIX
times more, than at any period OF the
war, three times more than the entire
volume in the prosperous sixties, seven
ties and early eighties, that times are SO
hard and money so hard to get. sup
pose ought to know, but l have not
bit more sense than senator or con-
gresham, not bit pore, repeat, sR
don't know how or why these thlI
and do really want to know,
man who has brains enough to 3 ~
| is my candidate for president!f
want to know more hsHthat-why
issuing bonds and increasing national
debt will relieve the present financial
stringency so long as Wall street can
rake the gold out Of the treasury as fast
as the bonds put 1t In?
And while our nation last year pro-
duced one-third Of all the precious met
| ais produced in the whole world, want
to know why the dickens we coined so
little of it, only 5000, 900, while we pro-
duced more than $10O,000,00O.
l do know little, not much, 1t IS
| true, but 1 am quite sure l do know
| that fine words will butter no parsnlps,
| and that all of our congressional palaver
| and folderol about the silver standard,
| the condition of the treasury and all that
~ tho
| we shall all catch sparrows. l know,
| but II our senator's or congressman,
| whom we lately commissioned with p.
| d. a.. don't find these things out and
| find a way, or make it, to unlock the
| natio's monetary sources, we'll turn them
| all out and try new deal. Napoleon,
| looking down on his great army, SAID:
"Oh. how many soldiers, but not one
| man" And so, looking on all this crowd
| of noisy politicians, when body wants
| to know a thing or two, like do 50
| badly now, every red nosed son OF gun
| Of them ali sends fellow to some other
| man. and when we find him he doesn't
| know beans, so none OF US knows what's
| the matter or the remedy, and so still
keeping wanting to know, you know.
| They tell us poor groundlings that
these things are too high for US, and
| Ilat we must, INC tu0 cuoCAaohoA 40 nv
| Grecian story, not lift out eyes above the
last. We sometimes feel like perpetrat-
ing the diabolical pun Of wishing to see
the last of their tribe, but that would ~e
horrible so we shall not say anything so
| profane. These misery magicians, or
magical misers, or financial fakirs.
which you please, for l don't know
which, actually take the silver before our
blessed eyes and tell us 1t is not money
at all, only merchandise, and then they
iusgle with 1t bit and throw 1t away
as Hamlet discards poor Yoricks skull!
They argue astutely and learnedly that
God made gold. but that silver came
from Montana, and that like all terres-
trial products, has the trail of the SER
nent over it ALL" We miserable clowns
know that we can buy as big bowl Of
SOUP, pay as much rent and wipe out az
much debt with five silver dollars as We
can for five gold dollars, but they laugh
at us and tell us that is not so, and. by
POUNDS, l begin to half believe them
for devil the cent Of silver can we lay our
hands on any more since they degraded
It to the level Of lead and pewter. Yet
we are so silly as even yet to want to
know IL 1t is worth nothing why they have
raked it all in and locked 1t up In their
vaults.
l am almost mixed up about It, You
might as well kill a dog as to give him
bad name, but after these chaps have