The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
THE EAST
WANTS FREE.SILVER AND PRO.
TECTION.
The Demands of the American
People.

Philadelphia American.
1t will be admitted by all that the
American people will not knowingly
support policy that is detrimental
to their interests. That they can be
so blinded for time as to give their
support to policy damaging to them
selves, few will deny; but nothing is
more certain than that in the end
they will discover the policy which is
best adapted to conserve their inter
ests. When they have awakened to
the fact that they have been support.
ing false policy, and when they have
discovered their true policy, nothing
is more certain than that they will
throw over their old leaders who led
them astray, and install new men in
their places, pledged to carry out the
policy they demand,
The American people have been led
astray by scheming aliens and those
with alien interests. We have seen
the people support policy which de-
stroyed their financial and paralyzed
their industrial independence. We
have seen them support policy
which destroyed silver as a money
metal, thus cutting prices in half,
doubling the burden Of debtors, and
destroying the energy Of the producing
classes-a policy which strengthens
the hands of concentrated capital and
permits both foreign and domestic
monOpolists to crush them. They
have made themselves the tools Of
selfish and designing aliens: blindly
they have followed the policy which
aliens put forth, convinced by plau-
sible arguments, based on false prom
ises, that they were acting for their
own good,
There is evidence on every side
that the American people are about
to awaken to the danger of their posi-
tion. They are awakened to the fact
that they have been misled, and we
believe they will soon declare for a
policy American from end to end-a
policy that will save the American ma
tion from the financial and indus trial
dependence which stareS it in the
face, and liberate the American citi-
zen from the grasp of concentrated
capital, both at home and abroad.
The American people have found, or
are about to find, that foreign and
domestic mOnOpOlistS, aliens and
those with alien interests, have en-
deavored to enslave them, by destroy
ing silver as a money metal. by en-
deavOring to overthrow our tariff
which protects us against foreign
monopolists and by giving full sway
to domestic monopolies, combines and
trusts. The people are therefore de-
manding in voice that will increase
in broadness and force until the de-
mand is unmistakeable:
/. The restoration of silver to it's
place as money side by side with gold
at the ratio of 16 to l. 2. The preser-
vation OF true protective system,
aimed to protect American labor
against underpaid European and
Asatic labor, the producer from the
aggressiOns and the consumer from
the eXtOrtiOns Of foreign monopolists,
but which will not shelter domestic
trusts and combinations; 3. LegiSla-
tion that Will check and destroy
domestic mnnopolies, and enforce
penalties against dishonest Overcapi-
talizatiOn of corporations.
Ihe American people have found or
will soon find this to be the policy
which their welfare demands, and
nothing can prevent its ultimate in
auguration. No presidential candi-
date can be elected in 1896 who is not
unequivocally pledged, both per-
sOnally and by his record, to support
this policy.