The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
THE GOLD STANDARD.

PLUroCRACY IN THE sADDLE-sTART-
LING VIEW OF AMERICA.
To The Representative:
! The Peoples party was born ana ex-
lists today, on account Of the dire necessf-
ty of a change in our political fabrics.
Distress throughout bur broad domain,
produced by bad legislation. Is at the
root Of all our troubles. AS our nation
is sick it requires a physician who can
cure the disease. When the patient is
cured he must not repeat the errors that
caused his illness. What ais the Amer
lean peoples that they are sick, suffering
and dying?
we'll, each individual will give his dag
nosis Of the trouble and have mine: The
greed of q certain class Of our people
against the producers by shaping all leg
islation toward q credit or borrowing
system. At the same time destroying
the real money necessary to DO busi-
ness ON a cash basis ana the free mar
kets Of the country by tariff taxes out
side and forming combines on ehe In
side. Today no article Of household ne
cessity or production OF tho farm. but ie
handled upon q fictitious or rnonopoiised
basis. To such q degree has this gone
on, since the Republican party came into
power, that today we stand upon the
Threshold OF ono Of the bloodiest and
most destructive revolutions ever re-
corded in history. ask that the follow
ing, from the London, England. Echo
REGARDING affairs in the United States, be
carefully read:
"The signs Of the times indicate that
before the sun rises on January l, 1900
the great American nation will groan and
writhe In an agony Of revolution. and the
streets OF all her great cities will be slip
perry with blood hundred drops OF
blood for each gem that flashes on the
necks OF rich and pampered women. and
ten drops Of blood for each tear that has
washed the faces Of the poor. Politics
is 80 rotten that 1t stinks. Every one
knows and no one cares. America is nc
longer q republic. It Is plutocracy
The president Is merely the creation OF
barons; and It 10 the same with the gov.
ernors Of tho states. The poor whine
about the poverty and gnaw their crusta
Of bread, but can always be relied upon
to vote for the rich, nine-tenths Of them
would shoulder their muskets and lay
down their lives In defense Of the right
Of the rich to rob them. A nation such 81
this, In which one million plutocrats ty
ranize over sixty millions Of slaves, vii
either be overthrow by foreign fot
or die Of gangrene. The various labor
organizations neither think together
vote together, nor work together. ant
they have no money to buy votes. law
yers and judges. Soldier police shoe
shoot down laboring people and arr
cheered on in their bloody work by mon
opolies and the clergy. But the dal
will soon come when there will be hor
rible dance to death, lighted UP by burn
ing houses and the music and cries ant
groans and dynamite bombs. Rich idler
amuse themselves at Newport and Tux
edo; poor workers toll ceaselessly in thu
darkness of the mine and the din OF h
mill. Young men and women dawdl
over ice champagne and opera parties
| old men and women pick rotten food GU
| Of the garbage cars; lap dogs are driver
| through Central park to take the DIR
children die of overwork in filthy gar
rets. Piety in the white house is e1
Joying the fruits Of bribery-infidelity ii
| the tenement houses enduring the pun
ishment Of suprlghtness. These are tn
signs Of the times IN America today
signs that point to calamity too dreadful
| to imagine but which nothing can avert.
| PAUL FONTAINE,