The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
was demonetized, have paid that debt

In NOGncf WOrQS, ne muSL make MS
creditor a present of 1000 bushels Of
wheat, the product of good many
acres of land, and good many days Of
toll in summers heat and winters
cold. What does that drab-tailed old
Tory ghost say to that? Has he not
come back from the grave to preach
submission to tyrants, just as he did
in 1776? Then. because the patriots
would not submit, the Wheelocks and
Piles of that age formed armed bands
and burned the patriots houses and
killed them and their families; until
at last, when, at Yorktown, England's
power was crushed, Gust as we are try
ing to crush it out now, the people
rose up and drove the whining pack
Of servile Anglo-maniacs out Of the
country, as they ought to drive out
the same breed of cattle now.
But the ghostly old slab-sides con-
tinues:
Haven't you yet learned that price
is inevitably cheapened as the cost of
making falls? Mayn't it be part of
the reason of the fall that you can
produce ten-fold what your fathers
labor could, with less labor? But, set
ting that aside, is it only the price Of
your produce that has fallen? Do you
buy nothing? Do you yet spin the
yarn and weave the cloth for your
selves and families? Do the wives still
sit up till midnight, plying the needle
to make your garments? Have you
forgotten what you paid for what you
could buy with the proceeds of your
crops even so short time ago as after
the war the man spoke to you about
just now? Are your woolens more
costly than when you got so cents a
pound for wool? Were your shoes
cheaper to you then than now? Will
not the bushel of wheat buy more
yards of calico than in the days you
mourn? When you who 90 borrowing,
and sorrowing as you 60, does the
mOney-lender ask you the same annual
charge for the use of the money that
he did? Be candid with yourselves,
selves, nor let other do it. There is
not one law for YOU and another for
others. In the long run, the law of
compensation obtains it's own.
II 1.-THE price is inevitably cheap
ened as the cost of making falls why
has gold risen in value? A score of
new inventions, in mining, have re.
duced the cost of production until it
takes but twenty-five cents of labor
to create gold dollar; and yet gold
has risen nearly so per cent in value
in the last twenty years.
And if the farmers can produce ten
fold what they could twenty years ago
land the statement is not true), has
not the consuming population in
creased in still greater proportion?
Look at the great cities with their
millions of Inhabitants, who must be
fed by the farmers toll; look at the
vast population engaged in manufac-
lures, in mining, in transportation, in
commerce. But the advent of new
inventions has not increased the yield
of the farmers fields. Aquarter section
of land does not produce ten-fold the
crop it did twenty years ago. In the
older settled parts of the state it does
not produce as much. They had plows
in the time of the Pharoahs, and
drags and seeders forty years ago.
There is some saving in the cost of
harvesting, by not hiring so many
men, but against this must be set the
price of the self-binders, which has
ruined many man. But the saving
of the wages of few men, for few
days, in the harvest field, will not JUS
tify the reduction in the price of
| wheat from one dollar to forty or
fifty cents per bushel.
And then old knee-breeches reminds
the farmers that their wives don t
have to spin the yarn and weave the
cloth, etc. Are the farmers pnriahs
that they are to be denied participa-
tion in the splendid civilization Of the
last hundred years, unless they will
| agree to raise wheat for nothing?
Who made this magnificent progress
the steam engine, the telegraph, the
spinning jenny, the sewing machine,
railroads, steamships, etc., etc. Was
it the Plutocrats? No; never did an
idea come out of all their heads put
| together that was worth six pence tC
| the human race. This civilization
sprang from the bosom of God himself
| and was darted into the minds of his
creatures, for his own great purpose.
He does not intend that mankind
shall 60 backwards; he means they
shall 60 forward; and this resurrected
Tory of the Globe cannot reverse his
intentions. And when he points to
the cheapness of goods we point him
to the cheapness of men;-the millions
out of employment, living on charity;
full of fermenting discomfort, ready
to break out into violence. And if
cheapness is the great aim of states
manship we point him to Russia,
where the peasant lives on Al cents a
month; to the farmers of India work
ing for 10 cents day; to the mechan-
les of China toiling for six cents day.
This Is what these devils would like
to bring American labor to, and for
this they summon up the ghosts Of
the dead Wheelocks to supplement
the lies of the living Piles.
And this scamp intimates that the
price of money, the interest on it, has
decreased with the price of wheat and
calico. This is not true. From 40 to
100 per cent is being paid today, in
parts of Minnesota, for the use Of
money, secured by chattel mortgages
on horses, cows, furniture. machinery,
and even wheat. The very fact that
a dollar will now buy two bushels Of
wheat where it formerly bought but
one, shows that Piles is an exaggerat-
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