The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-10
VOL. III. NO. so. WHOLE NO. 1O2.

now submit, with scarcely murmur,
to the most degrading conditions
which may be imposed upon them.
This may be seen in the fact that last
summer at Chicago the president, who
Is commander in chief Of the
army, abdicated his Constitutional
rights and turned the command of
the army over to five general man.
ayers Of railroads, who directed Gen.
Miles what to do, with as much aus
terity and pOmposity as Napoleon
commanded the charge of the old
guard at Waterloo. In this way
many good men in Chicago were
ruthlessly murdered, the masses of
the indus trious classes in that city
subjugated, and despotism inaug-
urated over them and above and out
side of the constitution as fully and
effectually as any despot in the past
ages turned freemen into slaves. In
stead of this high-handed action, per-
petrated by reasonable executive,
receiving the merited rebuke that it
should, it received the approval and
endorsement of the metropolitan
press of the country as we'll as of mil
lions of laboring men, who hugged the
chain and debased themselves before
the gaze of an outraged civilization.
1t is needless to say that such an act
perpetrated in the best days of the
Roman republic by one of it's rulers
would have resulted in having such
tyrant precipitated head foremost
from the Tarpean rock. For this act
of treachery to American institutions
and American freedom, Grover Cleve-
land and his Attorney General should
have been impeached and removed
from the offices which :hey thus dis
graced, but instead of melting out
such merited punishment their action
was practically endorsed by Congress.
while recently Attorney General Olney
has been invited to deliver an address
before that Democratic organization
the Iriquois club Of Chicago, and the
Chamber of Commerce of the city of
Duluth not only at the time endorsed
these acts but quite recently, by a
practically unanimous vote OF that Or
ganization, endorsed the proposition
of Grover Cleveland, the tool of the
money-power, to issue $500, 100000 of
gold bonds with which to fund and
burn up the greenbacks now in circu-
lation so as to confine the legal tender
looked that this Chamber of Com
merce, in other words, this Republi-
can club, recommended the repeal Of
the Sherman law in the fall of 1898
under the pretense that such measure
would improve the condition Of the
people: and further, it will not be
overlooked that while that PROPOSE
tion was being debated before the
Chamber of Commerce, Charles A.
TOwne denounced the friends of sill
yer coinage as fanatics and urgently
demanded the adoption by that body
of a resolution in favor of uncOndi-
| tional repeal. This implacable foe of
silver coinage, and advocate of the
| gold standard was, at the election in
'94 elected by the votes of the ind ustrial
classes of this city to represent this
district in Congress. Our Republican
institutions have been menaced by
two vast cOnspiracies since the fOrma-
tion of our constitution. The first
was a slave-holding aristocracy and
the other monied plutOcracy. The
first, more, bold attacked the govern
ment by actual war, but the latter
more cowardly and treacherous, has
sought to and has SO far accomplished
it's purposes through diplomacy, cum
ers depended upon themselves, were
their own masters, while the pluto
Gratis who are now actually ruling Oul
country are foreigners. There are
many elements of analogy between
the two. The shareholders used such
names as abolitionist, negro worship
er, negro-stealer ETC., which phrase.
were used by their tools, by an6
through which the masses were de
tered from honestly and intelligent
ly examining the foundation upor
which the inhuman institution o.
slavery rested. For a quarter of j;
century before the civil war, tht
name of abolitionist was term fO
all that was vile and despicable in &
citizen, and largely through this, tht
institution was preserved until it wa:
overthrown by the mailed hand O
war. The STAKEHOLDER was far mor'
humane than the mOney-pOwer. The
Shareholder furnished food, clothing
and in fact the general necessaries O
life to his human chattels, and while
he robbed them of their labor, such la
Dor became part of the aggregate
wealth of the country, and the cottol
and other crops thus produced contri
buted largely to our export trade
thus freeing the country in a measur
from foreign indebtedness. Indeed
the constitution framed by the SO
called southern confederacy was, witt
the exception of the povision therein
for the perpetuation of slavery, a sub
stantial duplicate of the contribution
of the United States and no unreaSon
able concessions were made therein
in favor of aggregated wealth, Will
the monied aristocrats of Europe VIII
are now and have been for numbe
of years our rulers, have contribute
. nothing to our wealth, but on tn
contrary have through the manipula
tion of our finances, caused Seriou
depreciation in the value of propert
and wages through which they hav
reduced far greater number of pee
. pie to system of wage slavery tina
, were freed by our great civil war. l
is a conservative estimate that sine
the repeal of the Bland coinage bi
', by the Reed Congress of 1890, the rea
and personal property of the people c
the United States has shrunk i
value to the extent of over eightee
billions of dollars, sum three time
as great as the estimated value of a
, the property belonging to the peopl
: of the thirteen colonies at the clos
l Of the revolution, while the grea
bulk of the industrial classes hay
, been brought down to the most abjet
poverty, millions of whom are til
recipients Of public and priYat
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